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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
Article URL: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700 Points: 207 # Comments: 144
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Article URL: https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-written-work-and-teach-life-lessons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818485 Points: 98 # Comments: 101
Hello old new “Projects” directory
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4-bit floating point FP4
Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/17/fp4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817639 Points: 38 # Comments: 24
Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817581 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SDRs to Help Make Construction More Productive
Article URL: https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817473 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
Article URL: https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349 Points: 78 # Comments: 9
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map)
Article URL: https://apps.npr.org/plant-hardiness-garden-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817179 Points: 28 # Comments: 2
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817132 Points: 68 # Comments: 18
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation
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Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
Article URL: https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816960 Points: 215 # Comments: 204
Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th
Article URL: https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-is-discontinuing-kindle-for-pc-on-june-30th Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816878 Points: 91 # Comments: 76
The Secret Life of Circuits
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Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
Article URL: https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816629 Points: 26 # Comments: 10
Fuzix OS
Article URL: https://www.fuzix.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816625 Points: 33 # Comments: 9
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`
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Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
13 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Article URL: https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774 Points: 469 # Comments: 264
Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
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How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust
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Why Japan has such good railways
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395 Points: 209 # Comments: 219
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Article URL: https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/the-quiet-disappearance-of-the-free-range-childhood/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815127 Points: 18 # Comments: 6
State of Kdenlive
Article URL: https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
122 points, 59 comments on Hacker News
Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
So during development, at every task I start, I see a line like this: `Own bug file — not malware.` It seems that it's obsessively checking if it's working on malware production. In another situation where I was working on a parser of a HTML document with JS, it refused because it believed that I was bypassing security measurements. I believe AI has to be supportive in the work that I'm doing. When it's obsessively checking me if I am doing anything wrong or abusing the system, I have the feeling it is controlling me. I understand that we do have guardrails and I also understand that it's very important that people do not abuse this new tech for bad stuff. I pay $200 per month for a max subscription. They already know who I am. Claude knows I work in scraper tech, and it also knows that our clients are the companies we scrape. Now with Opus 4.7, I've had a situation that it refused to continue because I asked to automate the cookie creation with a Chrome extension. In a situation where
$13.74M Hack Shuts Down Sanctioned Grinex Exchange After Intelligence Claims
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it's suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack that bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency involvement. This attack led to the theft of over 1
Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813668 Points: 127 # Comments: 35
What if database branching was easy?
10 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics
4 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Amiga Graphics
Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 134 # Comments: 21
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