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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
Article URL: https://github.com/fabienmillet/WiiFin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759341 Points: 124 # Comments: 55
Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
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Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task
29 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Let's Talk Space Toilets
50 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers
24 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?
28 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758028 Points: 185 # Comments: 231
The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)
95 points, 99 comments on Hacker News
Mathematical Minimalism
20 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Continual Learning with .md
I have a proposal that addresses long-term memory problems for LLMs when new data arrives continuously (cheaply!). The program involves no code, but two Markdown files. For retrieval, there is a semantic filesystem that makes it easy for LLMs to search using shell commands. It is currently a scrappy v1, but it works better than anything I have tried. Curious for any feedback! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757552 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
GitHub Stacked PRs
384 points, 231 comments on Hacker News
Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts
Article URL: https://www.chartography.net/p/ascending-into-the-realm-of-japanese Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757426 Points: 30 # Comments: 1
Just Enough Chimera Linux
Article URL: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/chimera-install-zfs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756876 Points: 38 # Comments: 7
(AMD) Build AI Agents That Run Locally
90 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
DuckLake v1.0 – The Lightweight Lakehouse Format Reaches Production-Readiness
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Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours
95 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
Can we finally use C++ Modules in 2026?
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How to make Firefox builds 17% faster
128 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
30 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store
4 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Austerity Creates Fascism
6 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024)
55 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities
Article URL: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755805 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
'Yes to fields of wheat, no to fields of iron': how Denmark soured on solar
25 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
99 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket
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A Python Interpreter Written in Python
28 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated with specific financial entities, as well as track mouse inputs, log keystrokes, take screenshots, and collect system metadata. "One of the
The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence
58 points, 78 comments on Hacker News
Average Is All You Need
24 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
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