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Protect your shed
Article URL: https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684514 Points: 86 # Comments: 16
LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server
Article URL: http://acme.com/updates/archive/229.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684506 Points: 39 # Comments: 33
JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript
Article URL: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-jsir-a-high-level-ir-for-javascript/90456 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683376 Points: 39 # Comments: 9
US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire
Article URL: https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-07-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683033 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework
Article URL: https://github.com/linebender/xilem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682719 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Nix security advisory: Privilege escalation via symlink following during FOD output registration
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US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-c... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276 Points: 396 # Comments: 1067
Trump announces two-week ceasefire as Iran says talks to begin
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-ceasefire-deal-trumps-deadline-reopen-strait-hormuz-2026-04-07 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276 Points: 60 # Comments: 88
All of the String types
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RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS
25 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Bitcoin and quantum computing
Article URL: https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681274 Points: 80 # Comments: 53
Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth
An interactive map of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with events from across the legendarium plotted as markers. I have been commuting a fair bit between the East and West coast, and thanks to American Airlines' free onboard WiFi, I was able to vibe-code a full interactive map of Middle-earth right from my economy seat at the back of the bus. It's rather amazing how much an LLM knows about Tolkien's work, and it was fun to delve into many of the nooks and crannies of Tolkien's lore. Some features: - Plot on the map the journey of the main characters in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. - Follow a list of events in the chronological Timeline - Zoom in on the high-def map and explore many of the off-the-main-plotline places - Use the 'measure distances' feature to see how far apart things are. I also had a lot of fun learning about tiling to allow for efficient zooming. If you are anything like me, this should provide a fun companion to reading the books or watching the movies (note th
No-JS web IRC client that uses forms and a persistent HTTP connection
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S3 Files
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launching-s3-files-making-s... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404 Points: 179 # Comments: 52
Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon
About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limited compute budget. I got into it. The problem I had at the time was I had 15,000 hours of audio data in Google Cloud Storage, and there was no way I could fit all the audio onto my local machine, so I built a system to stream data from my GCS to my machine during training. Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh. Then I put it on the shelf. When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4. I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon. One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly. Anywho, given how much interest there is in Gemma 4, and frankly, the fact that you can't really do audio fine-tuning with MLX,
RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
149 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
Article URL: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258 Points: 49 # Comments: 11
Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities
Article URL: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679155 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121 Points: 84 # Comments: 20
Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents
31 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
62 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678573 Points: 80 # Comments: 10
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.
Russian State-Linked APT28 Exploits SOHO Routers in Global DNS Hijacking Campaign
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025. The large-scale exploitation campaign has been codenamed
Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
Article URL: https://printervention.app/details Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677885 Points: 50 # Comments: 12
GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853 Points: 203 # Comments: 58
The Great Nix Flake Check
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Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
Article URL: https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai-and-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677241 Points: 144 # Comments: 122
12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677142 Points: 165 # Comments: 50
Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf]
12 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
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