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Hugo's New CSS Powers
Article URL: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2026/04/hugos-new-css-powers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618120 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Cursor 3
Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084 Points: 54 # Comments: 39
Attorney General Pam Bondi Out at DOJ
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/02/g-s1-115077/trump-bondi-attorney-general-departure Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617787 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
144 points, 64 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI Acquires TBPN
140 points, 123 comments on Hacker News
Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it
8 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses
Article URL: https://futuresearch.ai/spacex-ipo-valuation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617027 Points: 82 # Comments: 111
Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had
Article URL: https://slicker.me/sqlite/features.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616704 Points: 86 # Comments: 16
EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS
Article URL: https://maciekpalmowski.dev/blog/emdash-a-fresh-take-on-cms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616622 Points: 38 # Comments: 9
Activating Two Trap Cards at Once, or: A Gentle Response to the Popularity of Vibecoding
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Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361 Points: 564 # Comments: 158
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models
Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
246 points, 75 comments on Hacker News
Euro-Office, ONLYOFFICE, and their licensing dispute
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Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor)
Hello HN, I have been working on a desktop P2P messenger called Kiyeovo for the last ~8 months, and I just published its beta version. Quick backstory: It started out as a CLI application for my Graduate Thesis, where I tried to make the most secure and private messenger application possible. Then, I transformed it into a desktop application, gave it "clearnet" support and added a bunch of features. Short summary: The app runs in 2 completely isolated modes: - fast mode: relay/DCUtR -> lower latency, calls support - anonymous mode: Tor message routing -> slower, anonymous These modes use different protocol IDs, DHT namespaces, pubsub topics and storage scopes so there’s no data crossover between them. Messaging works peer-to-peer when both parties are online, but falls back to DHT "offline buckets" when one of them is not. To ensure robustness, messages are ACK-ed and deleted after being read. Group chats use GossipSub for realtime messaging. Group messages are also saved to offline bu
Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615756 Points: 134 # Comments: 65
Cisco Patches 9.8 CVSS IMC and SSM Flaws Allowing Remote System Compromise
Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw in the Integrated Management Controller (IMC) that, if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20093, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This
Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615490 Points: 383 # Comments: 292
Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615449 Points: 204 # Comments: 87
Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615434 Points: 185 # Comments: 87
I may have solved a long standing problem with Object Oriented systems
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Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002 Points: 292 # Comments: 99
Notes from from Butterick's Practical Typography
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
jj v0.40.0 released
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Ruckus: Racket for iOS
61 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
My Experience as a Rice Farmer
6 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
113 points, 57 comments on Hacker News
LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
1250 points, 573 comments on Hacker News
Why we're rethinking cache for the AI era
The explosion of AI-bot traffic, representing over 10 billion requests per week, has opened up new challenges and opportunities for cache design. We look at some of the ways AI bot traffic differs from humans, how this impacts CDN cache, and some early ideas for how Cloudflare is designing systems to improve both the AI and human experience.
One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking
60 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
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