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Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%
16 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Spice simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
18 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
83 points, 22 comments on Hacker News
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
Everything we like is a psyop
33 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
74 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
69 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
69 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
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
Okay, what actually uses Rust
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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
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
Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements
19 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
87 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research
51 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
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
The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse
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Clojure: The Documentary
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Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On
33 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Tech Note: Sidenotes
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
101 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
How a subsea cable is repaired
40 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it
88 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
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
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
Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
60 points, 57 comments on Hacker News
Stop using JWTs
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Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
27 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
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