Wed, Apr 29, 2026
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
Online age verification is the hill to die on
Cursor Camp
Tangled – We need a federation of forges
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Mistral Medium 3.5
FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
OpenTrafficMap
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years
Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell
Laws of UX
Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]
Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world
Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts
I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."
> Be Alexandra Elbakyan
At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL
DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design
The end of "Just ask Sarah"
"People who don't use AI will be left behind"
U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results
Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day
Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today
ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop
California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate
Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker
Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
Blaster Beam (Musical Instrument)
Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
news.ycombinator.com