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The predictable failure of the QDay Prize
12 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1
Article URL: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911644 Points: 24 # Comments: 0
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
45 points, 49 comments on Hacker News
Clay PCB Tutorial
117 points, 78 comments on Hacker News
Our principles
Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.
Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
Article URL: https://thermodynamicsbook.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911013 Points: 39 # Comments: 13
Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine
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Swissing a table
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GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup
Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910546 Points: 153 # Comments: 71
Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
142 points, 98 comments on Hacker News
Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Things C++26 define_static_array can't do
20 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
The fastest Linux timestamps
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QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]
Article URL: https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5479-raiders-of-the-lost-hard-drive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909945 Points: 23 # Comments: 0
The Secret Life of NaN
26 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909226 Points: 30 # Comments: 0
Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology
Hey HN, JSS(JumpstartSignal) is a free, ESG-filtered daily stock screener. I built it after some really badly-timed quantum computing stock buys, so I felt I needed to learn more about systematic, longer-horizon approaches and the underlying technicals instead of chasing themes. Three things about it that might be of interest: 1. Methodology is fully documented at https://jumpstartsignal.com/how-it-works/ 5-stage pipeline, 54 signals tested individually plus 1,836 combinations evaluated, walk-forward validation across 25 hold periods. Nothing hand-tuned to a single backtest window. 2. Many wins, misses, and losses are published as case studies e.g. https://jumpstartsignal.com/case-studies/nvda/ walks through the 32 times the system flagged NVDA starting at $5.44 in 2018. https://jumpstartsignal.com/case-studies/sedg/ shows a -49% loss, and https://jumpstartsignal.com/case-studies/tsla/ explains why the system never flagged Tesla (it passed Stages 1 and 2 on 207 days but only peaked at
Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software
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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
Article URL: https://statecharts.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 Points: 75 # Comments: 12
I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up
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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
Article URL: https://www.edenai.co Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908433 Points: 76 # Comments: 41
APL is more French than English
Article URL: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908166 Points: 24 # Comments: 13
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908139 Points: 41 # Comments: 4
Self-updating screenshots
219 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelligence-health Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908047 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
I have officially retired from Emacs
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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
Article URL: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879 Points: 566 # Comments: 325
AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
Article URL: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907543 Points: 35 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning
Wouldn't be nice to press (find-file) and instead of a file path, give it a GitHub URL, and then just browse the repo in Dired? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907388 Points: 5 # Comments: 5
Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar
78 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
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