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5221ENG

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

83 points, 22 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsbbc.comApr 16
5222ENG

George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-rise-of-ai-slop.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800765 Points: 26 # Comments: 14

Hacker Newsopenculture.comApr 16
5223ENG

Everything we like is a psyop

33 points, 9 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newstechcrunch.comApr 16
5224ENG

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

74 points, 14 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newstheguardian.comApr 16
5225ENG

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

69 points, 13 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comApr 16
5226ENG

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

69 points, 5 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsropensci.orgApr 16
5227ENG

The beginning of scarcity in AI

Article URL: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799322 Points: 43 # Comments: 66

Hacker Newstomtunguz.comApr 16
5228ENG

Okay, what actually uses Rust

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Lobstersblog.goose.loveApr 16
5229ENG

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799120 Points: 118 # Comments: 92

Hacker Newsjoanwestenberg.comApr 16
5230ENG

Sir-Bench – benchmark for security incident response agents

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12040 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798875 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Hacker Newsarxiv.orgApr 16
5231ENG

Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements

19 points, 1 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsmorwenn.github.ioApr 16
5232ENG

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

87 points, 18 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsclojure.orgApr 16
5233ENG

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

51 points, 12 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsopenai.comApr 16
5234ENG

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

Article URL: https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798176 Points: 48 # Comments: 19

Hacker Newsnews.play.dateApr 16
5235ENG

The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse

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Lobstersblog.matthewbrunelle.comApr 16
5236ENG

Clojure: The Documentary

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Lobstersyoutube.comApr 16
5237ENG

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

33 points, 2 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsvlad.websiteApr 16
5238ENG

Tech Note: Sidenotes

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Lobstersunbreaking.orgApr 16
5239ENG

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

101 points, 26 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsandroid-developers.googleblog.comApr 16
5240ENG

How a subsea cable is repaired

40 points, 8 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsonesteppower.comApr 16
5241ENG

I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it

88 points, 15 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsthelibre.newsApr 16
5242SEC

Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that's targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. "PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections," Cisco Talos

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comApr 16
5243ENG

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830 Points: 18 # Comments: 1

Hacker Newssimonwillison.netApr 16
5244ENG

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

60 points, 57 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsstagereview.appApr 16
5245ENG

Stop using JWTs

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Lobstersgist.github.comApr 16
5246ENG

Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newseng.basement.studioApr 16
5247ENG

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

27 points, 12 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comApr 16

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