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California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.46 5 #8 | 99 points by Bender 1 hour ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.36 23 #41 | 86 points by ska80 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.17 25 #30 | 118 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.24 75 #86 | 153 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.37 2 #2 | 159 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

×3.14 #1 | 363 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.39 3 #5 | 353 points by akyuu 3 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.75 7 #14 | 113 points by petecooper 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.79 61 | 85 points by gleipnircode 7 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×2.75 19 #33 | 32 points by morpheuskafka 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.14 49 #61 | 144 points by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.53 8 #18 | 830 points by rrreese 12 hours ago | 520 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.47 2 #4 | 206 points by matthieu_bl 3 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.92 28 #37 | 226 points by aphyr 5 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.36 23 #58 | 20 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.87 34 | 19 points by ssiddharth 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×1.93 2 #17 | 25 points by martythemaniak 1 hour ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.80 57 | 197 points by teichmann 12 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine (thetimes.com)

×1.87 7 #46 | 8 points by alephnerd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Mesh – secure private networking: users, nodes, agents, Workers (cloudflare.com)

×6.90 16 #89 | 16 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 53 | 106 points by barratia 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.37 24 | 161 points by wibbily 17 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.16 36 | 251 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.25 10 #64 | 35 points by ckemere 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.19 5 #3 | 396 points by jrm-veris 7 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sony Boss Urges Theaters to Stop 30 Minutes of Trailers and Ads Before Movies (variety.com)

×2.82 33 | 4 points by randycupertino 48 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Diamond Prices at Record-Low Levels (apollo.com)

×1.79 6 | 3 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Claude Code–driven tutor for learning algorithms in Go (github.com/zuzuleinen)

×2.07 25 | 4 points by zuzuleinen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained (bytebytego.com)

×1.70 4 | 3 points by edbentley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding unusual machines in network scans (xn--mbius-jua.band)

×1.81 3 | 3 points by gebgebgeb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Website Is a Video Game (run-labs.com)

×1.66 3 | 3 points by mnewme 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.70 7 #20 | 441 points by tigerlily 10 hours ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Court rules X must give privacy researcher access to personal data (nltimes.nl)

×1.89 11 | 3 points by Kiala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal (wsj.com)

×1.43 1 #63 | 5 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who sent you? – The agent identity crisis (highflame.com)

×1.85 12 | 3 points by jalbrethsen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Electrotech Is the Big Winner in the Iran War (paulkrugman.substack.com)

×1.91 15 | 3 points by dxs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Would You See Changed in Haskell? (haskell.org)

×1.71 8 | 3 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

×1.26 46 | 7 points by mijustin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.88 3 #56 | 34 points by hn_acker 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The cost of building a workflow editor on React Flow (workflowbuilder.io)

×1.26 51 | 7 points by maciek996 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sk.illmd.com, a forum for talking about and showing off agent skills (skillmd.discourse.group)

×1.45 7 | 3 points by 0gs 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClawRun – Deploy and manage AI agents in seconds (github.com/clawrun-sh)

×1.12 11 #11 | 15 points by afshinmeh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.10 10 #75 | 34 points by pvsukale3 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simpler, faster way to unlock 1Password (1password.com)

×1.57 1 #44 | 5 points by doener 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amex Debuts Ace Developer Kit with Registered Agent Protection (americanexpress.com)

×1.96 21 | 3 points by amex_tech 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon acquires Apple's satellite partner (sixcolors.com)

×1.28 4 #60 | 13 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.22 18 #10 | 23 points by rcarmo 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

×1.72 25 #7 | 6 points by surprisetalk 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.14 7 #24 | 1004 points by thebiblelover7 18 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)

×2.40 39 | 7 points by suprnurd 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.65 8 #27 | 781 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A CLI that writes its own integration code (superglue.cloud)

×4.48 57 | 14 points by adinagoerres 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

×1.27 12 #36 | 62 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers (techtrenches.dev)

×5.28 40 | 73 points by forks 22 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.95 10 #15 | 28 points by focom 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)

×0.99 11 #9 | 44 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×2.29 49 | 4 points by paulpauper 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.10 19 | 253 points by ZeidJ 23 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.37 6 #35 | 1130 points by speckx 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.92 11 #42 | 861 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My brother's minesweeper site (minesweeper.org) has been running for 27 years (restlessforge.substack.com)

×1.27 4 #82 | 20 points by restlessforge 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)

×0.94 10 #6 | 90 points by petalmind 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.83 14 #13 | 32 points by firloop 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral (reuters.com)

×9.59 77 | 114 points by lr0 2 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

×0.79 26 #49 | 39 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Talk Space Toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×0.94 9 #12 | 78 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)

×0.88 32 #19 | 28 points by pranabsarkar 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.98 19 #79 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 14 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.26 6 | 102 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (techtinkering.com)

×0.80 14 #22 | 35 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

×4.22 38 | 129 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition (reuters.com)

×8.41 78 | 114 points by markerbrod 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)

×0.94 10 #16 | 71 points by zc2610 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pave – CLI for Managing Path (github.com/microsoft)

×1.57 32 | 3 points by cpendery 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Claude Fly a Plane? (thanks.fish)

×1.88 20 | 100 points by casi 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write better Go integration tests with open source dockertest v4 (github.com/ory)

×1.20 83 | 3 points by pragmaticviber 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps (kelet.ai)

×0.75 2 #31 | 37 points by almogbaku 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)

×6.94 65 | 153 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings (theverge.com)

×4.72 60 | 81 points by temphaaa 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI

×0.52 63 | 3 points by asixicle 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)

×2.92 26 | 115 points by andsoitis 23 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

×1.49 16 #21 | 206 points by zagwdt 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On hacker mindset (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

×1.24 59 #54 | 24 points by jger15 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude.ai down (claude.com)

×3.43 37 | 132 points by rob 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)

×0.83 15 | 15 points by Kathan2651 6 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)

×1.35 25 | 84 points by adulion 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat (nytimes.com)

×7.06 84 | 82 points by doener 2 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)

×1.04 5 #66 | 65 points by armanckeser 9 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)

×3.24 | 330 points by laurex 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.11 21 #28 | 369 points by bumbledraven 20 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???