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7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
Article URL: https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091085 Points: 49 # Comments: 13
The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521 Points: 31 # Comments: 7
Java News Roundup: GraalVM, Spring AI, JobRunr, GlassFish, Grails, Groovy, Quarkus Agent MCP
This week's Java roundup for May 4th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 27; the sixth milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; the first milestone release of Grails 8.0; the first alpha release of Groovy 6.0; a point release of JobRunr; maintenance releases of GlassFish, TomEE and Tomcat; an accelerated release train for GraalVM; and a new Quarkus Agent MCP server. By Michael Redlich
Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code
I built adamsreview, a Claude Code plugin that runs deeper, multi-stage PR reviews using parallel sub-agents, validation passes, persistent JSON state, and optional ensemble review via Codex CLI and PR bot comments. On my own PRs, it has been catching dramatically more real bugs than Claude’s built-in /review, /ultrareview, CodeRabbit, Greptile, and Codex’s built-in review, while producing fewer false positives. adamsreview is six Claude Code slash commands packaged as a plugin: review, codex-review, add, promote, walkthrough, and fix. I modeled it after the built-in /review command and extended it meaningfully. You can clear context between review stages because state is stored in JSON artifacts on disk, with built-in scripts for keeping it updated. The walkthrough command uses Claude’s AskUserQuestion feature to walk you through uncertain findings or items needing human review one by one. Then, the fix command dispatches per-fix-group agents and re-reviews the work with Opus, reverti
I'm going back to writing code by hand
Article URL: https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029 Points: 122 # Comments: 52
New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater
50 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
Article URL: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089289 Points: 69 # Comments: 11
PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089263 Points: 108 # Comments: 76
My pastebin clone Vivipara and language musings
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Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer
27 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Article URL: https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091 Points: 165 # Comments: 60
How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?
Article URL: https://dunkels.com/adam/claude-user-space-ip-stack-ping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089049 Points: 23 # Comments: 4
Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Article URL: https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576 Points: 111 # Comments: 63
Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260508-parents-in-ancient-times-felt-less-sleep-deprived-what-our-ancestors-did-differently-on-baby-sleep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088343 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088151 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
Childhood Computing
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Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare
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Tiny-Lua-Compiler: Possibly the smallest Lua compiler ever
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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
310 points, 215 comments on Hacker News
Referer Reality
18 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
the 90 day disclosure policy is dead
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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190 Points: 599 # Comments: 215
Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082 Points: 286 # Comments: 75
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 Points: 71 # Comments: 267
Local AI needs to be the norm
Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821 Points: 266 # Comments: 144
Traces Of Humanity
Article URL: https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085782 Points: 101 # Comments: 14
Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
85 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
Article URL: https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085330 Points: 117 # Comments: 95
YC's Biggest Scandals
Article URL: https://ycombinator.fyi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085314 Points: 165 # Comments: 64
The locals don't know
Article URL: https://www.quarter--mile.com/The-Locals-Dont-Know Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085055 Points: 115 # Comments: 80
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