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Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream. The post Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie
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Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Article URL: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268 Points: 28 # Comments: 16
Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader
15 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/TcEa3b5-head-of-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808047 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
Article URL: https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807809 Points: 36 # Comments: 13
Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
Article URL: https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807619 Points: 58 # Comments: 42
Spending 3 months coding by hand
Article URL: https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807583 Points: 124 # Comments: 123
Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box
Article URL: https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807503 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Practical Antiforgery in Software Design
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Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you'll have better insight into the overall health of the platform. The post Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
NASA Force
Article URL: https://nasaforce.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209 Points: 82 # Comments: 100
Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
Article URL: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807006 Points: 301 # Comments: 171
The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant
Article URL: https://gregorio-project.github.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806899 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
Slop Cop
Article URL: https://awnist.com/slop-cop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806845 Points: 54 # Comments: 30
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806777 Points: 98 # Comments: 23
Claude Design
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725 Points: 501 # Comments: 325
Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806484 Points: 127 # Comments: 49
Iceye Open Data
Article URL: https://www.iceye.com/open-data-initiative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806440 Points: 68 # Comments: 11
Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Article URL: https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806348 Points: 90 # Comments: 47
Ban the sale of precise geolocation
377 points, 117 comments on Hacker News
Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
115 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
What Are Skiplists Good For?
32 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
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Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched
Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHammer (requires GitHub sign-in), RedSun, and UnDefend, all of which were released as zero-days by a researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (
Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)
20 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Introducing the Agent Readiness score. Is your site agent-ready?
The Agent Readiness score can help site owners understand how well their websites support AI agents. Here we explore new standards, share Radar data, and detail how we made Cloudflare’s docs the most agent-friendly on the web.
tangled newsletter 01 — hello
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Shared Dictionaries: compression that keeps up with the agentic web
Today, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek of our support for shared compression dictionaries, show you how it improves page load times, and reveal when you’ll be able to try the beta yourself.
Introducing Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI
We are launching Flagship, a native feature flag service built on Cloudflare’s global network to eliminate the latency of third-party providers. By using KV and Durable Objects, Flagship allows for sub-millisecond flag evaluation.
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