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Panipat: The Rise of the Mughals
5 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Math is hard (OpenBSD on VAX)
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Paraloid B-72
135 points, 22 comments on Hacker News
Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing
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Humpback whales are forming super-groups
79 points, 32 comments on Hacker News
FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246 Points: 95 # Comments: 22
Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative
Article URL: https://github.com/justrach/kuri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857964 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
How to Implement an FPS Counter
53 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857509 Points: 64 # Comments: 5
ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter
OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy
Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
Article URL: https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856535 Points: 111 # Comments: 62
Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?
https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046725498592722972 https://xcancel.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/204672549859272297... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565 Points: 217 # Comments: 142
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-says-it-has-option... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-de... (https://archive.ph/c2Tac) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293 Points: 140 # Comments: 201
Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON)
6 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents
Article URL: https://zindex.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854116 Points: 29 # Comments: 11
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
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I don't want your PRs anymore
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Switching from uv to PDM
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The zero-days are numbered
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ChatGPT Images 2.0
Livestream: https://openai.com/live/ System card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/chatgpt-images-2-0/chatg... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835 Points: 351 # Comments: 365
SystemBC C2 Server Reveals 1,570+ Victims in The Gentlemen Ransomware Operation
Threat actors associated with The Gentlemen ransomware‑as‑a‑service (RaaS) operation have been observed attempting to deploy a known proxy malware called SystemBC. According to new research published by Check Point, the command-and-control (C2 or C&C) server linked to SystemBC has led to the discovery of a botnet of more than 1,570 victims. "SystemBC establishes SOCKS5 network tunnels within
Framework Laptop 13 Pro
99 points, 33 comments on Hacker News
Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Alt link: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/exclusive-meta-st... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948 Points: 292 # Comments: 259
Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-to-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-for-ai-training-data/articleshow/130422612.cms?from=mdr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948 Points: 23 # Comments: 5
Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
47 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
75 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM)
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Work with the garage door up
108 points, 84 comments on Hacker News
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