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Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty
Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725403 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M
18 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Article URL: https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724921 Points: 114 # Comments: 170
A Communist Apple II and Fourteen Years of Not Knowing What You're Testing
12 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
7 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Article URL: https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352 Points: 247 # Comments: 156
Installing Every* Firefox Extension
Article URL: https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724118 Points: 92 # Comments: 14
In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
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PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects
10 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
46 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
Nowhere is safe
Article URL: https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722562 Points: 108 # Comments: 147
Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722333 Points: 210 # Comments: 110
Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery
19 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python
Hi all, Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back 25 years when I was frustrated with using Word for my diploma thesis - it was slow and unstable at that time. I ended up getting pretty hooked on the problem. Right now I’m taking a professional break and decided to finally use the time to push these ideas further, and build MiniWord — a WYSIWYG word processor in Python. My goal is to have a native, non-HTML-based editor that stays simple, fast, and is hackable. So far I am focusing on getting the fundamentals right. What is working yet is: - Real WYSIWYG editing (no HTML layer, no embedded browser) with styles, images and tables. - Clean, simple file format (human-readable, diff-friendly, git-friendly, AI-friendly) - Markdown support - Support for Python-plugins Things that I found: - B-tree structures are perfect for holding rich text data - A simple text-based file format is incredibly useful — you can diff d
Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript
Hello HN users, This is a CAD by code project I have been working on on my free time for more than year now. I built it with 3 goals in mind: - It should be familiar to CAD designers who have used other programs. Same workflow, same terminology. - Reduce the mental effort required to create models as much as possible. This is achieved by: - Provide live rendering and visual guidance as you type. - Allow the user to reference existing edges/faces on the scene instead of having to calculate everything. - Provide interactive mouse helpers for features that are hard to write by code: Only 3 interactive modes for now: Edge trimming, Sketch region extrude, Bezier curve drawing. - Implicit coding whenever possible: e.g: There are sensible defaults for most parameters. The program will automatically fuse intersecting objects together so you do not have to worry about what object needs to be fused with what. I think I have achieved these goals to a good extent. The program is st
OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
Article URL: https://blog.nishantsoni.com/p/ive-seen-a-thousand-openclaw-deploys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721955 Points: 94 # Comments: 108
AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
Article URL: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721953 Points: 146 # Comments: 112
JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware
Article URL: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721946 Points: 133 # Comments: 71
500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network
Cloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.
Autonomy Is Real Now
Article URL: https://steelforfuel.substack.com/p/autonomy-is-real-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721571 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip
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Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work
Eve is an AI agent harness that runs in an isolated Linux sandbox (2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 10GB disk) with a real filesystem, headless Chromium, code execution, and connectors to 1000+ services. You give it a task and it works in the background until it's done. I built this because I wanted OpenClaw without the self-hosting, pointed at actual day-to-day work. I’m thinking less personal assistant and more helpful colleague. Here’s a short demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/00d11bdbe804478e8817710f5f53ac61 The main interface is a web app where you can watch work happen in real time (agents spawning, files being written, use of the CLI). There's also an iMessage integration so you can fire a task asynchronously, put your phone down, and get a reply when it's finished. Under the hood, there's an orchestrator (Claude Opus 4.6) that routes to the right domain-specific model for each subtask: browsing, coding, research, and media generation. For complex tasks it spins up parallel sub-agents tha
Meet Kiki - an array language
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HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X
30 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)
63 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack
39 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
1 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
39 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
20 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
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