hacker news

Monday, Apr 20, 2026

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GitHub's Fake Star Economy

awesomeagents.ai

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58 points

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an hour ago

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29 comments

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OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

flyingpenguin.com

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62 points

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2 hours ago

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30 comments

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SDF Public Access Unix System

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62 points

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2 days ago

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25 comments

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Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

discovermagazine.com

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44 points

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3 days ago

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5 comments

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Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

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44 points

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5 hours ago

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23 comments

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Vercel April 2026 security incident

bleepingcomputer.com

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739 points

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19 hours ago

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429 comments

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Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

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28 points

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4 days ago

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8 comments

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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

simonwillison.net

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106 points

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9 hours ago

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40 comments

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Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

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50 points

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3 days ago

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19 comments

10.

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

ashley.rolfmore.com

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213 points

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14 hours ago

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95 comments

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A Brief History of Fish Sauce

legalnomads.com

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178 points

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a day ago

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72 comments

12.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

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20 points

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an hour ago

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5 comments

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Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

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58 points

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3 days ago

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15 comments

14.

The Bromine Chokepoint

warontherocks.com

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198 points

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16 hours ago

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103 comments

15.

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

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235 points

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18 hours ago

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196 comments

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I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it

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30 points

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4 days ago

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1 comment

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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

simonwillison.net

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320 points

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a day ago

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181 comments

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A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

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33 points

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6 hours ago

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11 comments

19.

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum

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121 points

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akashwadhwani35

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5 days ago

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37 comments

20.

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

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32 points

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2 hours ago

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10 comments

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How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds

sciencealert.com

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53 points

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3 hours ago

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28 comments

22.

Knitout and Kniterate 3

soup.agnescameron.info

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23 points

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4 days ago

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0 comments

23.

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

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68 points

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11 hours ago

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25 comments

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Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs

allaboutcircuits.com

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26 points

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3 days ago

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11 comments

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Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

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158 points

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10 hours ago

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27 comments

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The RAM shortage could last years

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300 points

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a day ago

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358 comments

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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

sciencedetective.org

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102 points

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14 hours ago

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28 comments

28.

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

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183 points

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11 hours ago

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56 comments

29.

Tracking when Trump chickens out

thetacotracker.com

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23 points

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2 hours ago

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1 comment

30.

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

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89 points

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15 hours ago

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37 comments