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When generative AI makes mistakes, are they the same as human errors? (springer.com)

×0.98 | 1 points by camilochs 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
System design reviewer – Need feedback (design-reviewer.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com)

×0.95 | 1 points by julivparikh 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Started using Linux terminal on Android. Now I can do things no app store allows (makeuseof.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by thunderbong 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)

×0.91 | 1 points by steveharing1 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameStop is looking to buy eBay, report says. Both stocks are soaring (msn.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by OrvalWintermute 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LA's levitating amoeba: a new kind of museum (economist.com)

×0.89 | 1 points by andsoitis 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Raises Mac Mini's Starting Price to $799 After AI Frenzy Drains Supply (bloomberg.com)

×0.90 | 1 points by helsinkiandrew 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics (weblog.lol)

×0.88 | 1 points by danieltanfh95 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Herbert Simon in 1979: on AI and robotics [video] (youtube.com)

×0.82 | 1 points by clickglue 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (economist.com)

×3.00 65 | 3 points by bookofjoe 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Earning the Right to Have an Opinion on AI in the SDLC (sashankav.substack.com)

×0.84 | 1 points by ColinEberhardt 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spirit Airlines shutting down after rescue talks collapse (bbc.com)

×1.97 | 2 points by berkeleyjunk 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantization for Modern AI Systems (70-page free eBook) (pawankjha.substack.com)

×0.82 | 1 points by pawanjha25 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What do you think is missing in most expense tracking apps? (google.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by enjoyingtime 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3x Enemies Aggro Mod – Elden Ring Multiplayer Scaled Up to the Max

×0.75 | 1 points by alansaber 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (cnn.com)

×1.64 | 2 points by teleforce 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multiple Hetzner Issues (hetzner.com)

×0.70 | 1 points by teekert 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines (arstechnica.com)

×1.69 | 2 points by ndsipa_pomu 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dokkimi: Test every part of your app without code changes (dokkimi.com)

×0.73 | 1 points by pugio 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A New Mental Model for Work in the AI Age (dalehurley.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by dalemhurley 30 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heavy metal predators: diverse elemental enrichment across weapons of scorpions (royalsocietypublishing.org)

×0.73 | 1 points by bookofjoe 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)

×0.72 | 1 points by andsoitis 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Toggles – open-source feature flags for everyone (tinytown.studio)

×0.71 | 1 points by aliezsid 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Droast – A Dockerfile linter that roasts you for your bad practices (github.com/immanuwell)

×0.72 | 1 points by immanuwell 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK court orders Samsung to pay China's ZTE a $392M lump sump after patent trial (reuters.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by teleforce 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (economist.com)

×2.52 54 | 3 points by andsoitis 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FreeBSD 15.1-BETA1 Now Available (freebsd.org)

×0.70 | 1 points by vermaden 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exposing ZFS volumes over the network via NVMe-oF (xata.io)

×1.61 | 2 points by mebcitto 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Differences Between miniKanren and Prolog (minikanren.org)

×0.68 | 1 points by tosh 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where in the World Is All That Gold Stored? (nytimes.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by bookofjoe 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Monster That Slays Arctic Subsea Cables: Icebergs (subseacables.blogspot.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ubuntu back up, In Saturday after DDoS attacks

×0.69 | 1 points by relunsec 45 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (ladybird.org)

×0.67 | 1 points by exploraz 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
µKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming (2013) [pdf] (webyrd.net)

×0.68 | 1 points by tosh 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Architecting AI Compute (Part 1) (pawankjha.substack.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by pawanjha25 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Real Tesla Multimilionaire is P85 with 1.800.000 km under the belt (evclinic.eu)

×0.64 | 1 points by taubek 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
List of Unsolved Problems in Physics (wikipedia.org)

×0.66 | 1 points by chistev 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Ppa.launchpad.net" Is Down (canonical.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by gslin 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform (qualcomm.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Galleria-Fication of Everything and the Armani Strategy (jovono.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by ejz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Shipped my first iOS app. No downloads. How to get the first download? (apple.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by agenticfutureai 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Try npx -y sharedmemory/MCP-server

×0.61 | 1 points by Sharedmemory 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
core.logic (github.com/clojure)

×0.62 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've Been a Public School Teacher for 20 Years. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids (twitter.com/creation247)

×0.59 | 1 points by bilsbie 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SwiftScript: Tree-walking interpreter, library and CLI for Swift (github.com/Cocoanetics)

×0.61 | 1 points by ingve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A navigable map and recommender for 17M music entities (toposonico.com)

×2.24 34 | 3 points by deppep 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore (science.org)

×8.37 90 | 40 points by Metacelsus 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Potato OS (github.com/potato-os)

×0.61 | 1 points by oldfuture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Cults of TDD and GenAI (drewdevault.com)

×2.24 30 | 3 points by pards 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protesters shut down Berkeley Forum event hosting Jeff Dean (dailycal.org)

×2.25 29 | 3 points by meling 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebLLM is a high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com/mlc-ai)

×0.62 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tailwind-merge: Utility function to merge Tailwind CSS classes in JavaScript (github.com/dcastil)

×0.63 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs (technologyreview.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by joozio 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
127³ — Superintelligence, public. DeepSeek V4 Pro (deepseek-v4-pro-127cubed.vercel.app)

×0.63 | 1 points by oroboroslabs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clsx: A tiny (239B) utility for constructing className strings conditionally (github.com/lukeed)

×0.65 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Government Got the Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled (wired.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by ip3c4c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (wsj.com)

×3.16 13 #24 | 12 points by voisin 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Measuring what frontier models know – and how big they are (01.me)

×0.61 | 1 points by schmorptron 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Disagree (2008) (paulgraham.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement (wikimedia.org)

×0.58 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eight Short Studies on Excuses (lesswrong.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by microsoftedging 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)

×1.56 2 #10 | 17 points by patillacode 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChessUnlock – Automating Chess Learning (chessunlock.app)

×0.56 | 1 points by YassineChahdi 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developer Education at Jane Street (janestreet.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by ned1010 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best way to develop games for beginners

×1.29 | 2 points by Jean-Philipe 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spirit Airlines says it's going out of business after 34 years (apnews.com)

×4.18 37 #70 | 6 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why eldest siblings are brainier (economist.com)

×2.04 10 | 3 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rooks Have Returned (wikipedia.org)

×2.11 8 | 3 points by ustad 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs – [un]prompted 2026 (youtube.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pequod – A colour palette for reading and code, rooted in Moby-Dick (github.com/tiagojct)

×0.58 | 1 points by tiagojct 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)

×0.96 #7 | 22 points by pplonski86 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat (wired.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by SockThief 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leading journal finds AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work (phys.org)

×1.34 | 2 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why TUIs are making a comeback (alcidesfonseca.com)

×2.09 2 | 3 points by alcidesfonseca 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICANN opens applications for new top-level domains for the first time since 2012 (theregister.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages (lukeplant.me.uk)

×1.33 | 2 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind (thewalrus.ca)

×2.17 19 #49 | 8 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Gazump" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)

×1.25 | 2 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We migrated 100 services from Nginx to Envoy in one month (qovery.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by ev0xmusic 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bep/gallerydeluxe: Fast Hugo gallery theme/module suitable for lots of images (github.com/bep)

×0.52 | 1 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PgAdmin: The Most Popular PostgreSQL Admin Tool (pgadmin.org)

×1.25 | 2 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some Notes on AI (columbia.edu)

×0.52 | 1 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RAG isn't memory. It's Ctrl+F with embeddings (medium.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by vbcherepanov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Manage Casio G-Shock watches from the browser (github.com/izivkov)

×1.96 | 2 points by 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How GitHub lost its way (substack.substack.com)

×1.98 9 | 3 points by usmansidd 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
clang-format configurator v2 (clang-format-configurator.site)

×0.54 | 1 points by gjvc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple just gave a clue that a big AI acquisition may be in the cards (marketwatch.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by dalvrosa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Nations students are teaching themselves (cbc.ca)

×2.06 11 | 3 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China (reuters.com)

×2.85 12 | 4 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking for Employers for the job fair and hiring with Meeting C++ (meetingcpp.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by dalvrosa 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???