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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://web.archive.org/web/20260426040218/https://juraj.bed... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130 Points: 76 # Comments: 19
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
Article URL: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907018 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
Meetings Are Forcing Functions
21 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Reviving BrowserID in 2026
Article URL: https://wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906770 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
When the cheap one is the cool one
82 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
Every day for the past 3 days around 1pm EST the 'Headspace' app has been silently appearing on my iPhone (13 Pro). Automatic downloads are turned off and I've updated to the latest iOS since this started happening. I googled around and found a couple reddit threads with people reporting the exact same thing starting 2 or 3 days ago. There were reports from people on iPhone 12 and iPhone 17 so it doesn't seem device-specific. Anyone else seeing this? Does anyone understand how or why this is happening? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253 Points: 157 # Comments: 82
The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906161 Points: 36 # Comments: 4
Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?
Article URL: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
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Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software
4 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles
Article URL: https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-04-25-deepseek-v4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905768 Points: 34 # Comments: 3
Lute: a standalone runtime for Luau
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It's OK To Use Floating Point for Money
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Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905681 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill
Article URL: https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905304 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905283 Points: 325 # Comments: 152
How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
69 points, 25 comments on Hacker News
USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876 Points: 122 # Comments: 40
Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904224 Points: 89 # Comments: 70
My Homemade PBX
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Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision
32 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Hyper-DERP: C++/io_uring DERP relay - Same throughput as Tailscale's derper, half the cores
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Revocation of X.509 Certificates
21 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
America's Geothermal Breakthrough
Article URL: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-Unlock-a-150-Gigawatt-Energy-Revolution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903945 Points: 53 # Comments: 60
Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets
Article URL: https://getkloak.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903690 Points: 37 # Comments: 35
Three constraints before I build anything
154 points, 24 comments on Hacker News
The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden
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The Mac App Gold Rush in the Age of Vibe Coding
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