hacker news

Thursday, Apr 30, 2026

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Where the goblins came from

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478 points

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5 hours ago

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246 comments

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Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

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164 points

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embedding-shape

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2 days ago

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26 comments

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Zed 1.0

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1788 points

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17 hours ago

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575 comments

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The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

simonwillison.net

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205 points

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6 hours ago

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92 comments

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Craig Venter has died

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212 points

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6 hours ago

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37 comments

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Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

scottaaronson.blog

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38 points

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an hour ago

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22 comments

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Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs

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116 points

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5 hours ago

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79 comments

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Copy Fail

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881 points

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14 hours ago

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332 comments

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Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

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76 points

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5 hours ago

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11 comments

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Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

pure-systems.org

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91 points

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5 hours ago

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59 comments

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Cursor Camp

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878 points

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16 hours ago

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137 comments

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London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

amusingplanet.com

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40 points

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a day ago

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15 comments

13.

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted

scienceblog.com

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13 points

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2 days ago

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2 comments

14.

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

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326 points

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16 hours ago

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76 comments

15.

OpenTrafficMap

opentrafficmap.org

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236 points

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12 hours ago

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55 comments

16.

Monad Tutorials Timeline

wiki.haskell.org

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24 points

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4 hours ago

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3 comments

17.

Mike: open-source legal AI

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79 points

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7 hours ago

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27 comments

18.

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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1099 points

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13 hours ago

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468 comments

19.

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

amandahinton.com

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60 points

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2 days ago

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9 comments

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Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

jointhefreeworld.org

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213 points

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a day ago

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108 comments

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Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

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43 points

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7 hours ago

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103 comments

22.

Laws of UX

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252 points

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15 hours ago

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35 comments

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An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

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241 points

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17 hours ago

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108 comments

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Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

devblogs.microsoft.com

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55 points

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2 days ago

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23 comments

25.

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

ycombinator.com

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10 hours ago

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0 comments

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A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust

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30 points

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6 hours ago

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1 comment

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Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

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87 points

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10 hours ago

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69 comments

28.

We need a federation of forges

blog.tangled.org

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561 points

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18 hours ago

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348 comments

29.

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

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114 points

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18 hours ago

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56 comments

30.

DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

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51 points

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giuliomagnifico

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2 days ago

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3 comments