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April 3, 2026

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Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to discover multiple remotely exploitable heap buffer overflows in the Linux kernel, including one that remained hidden for 23 years. The AI mode...

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Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

NASA's Artemis II mission successfully performed a translunar injection burn, sending four astronauts on a free-return trajectory around the Moon for the first time since 1972. The Orion spacecraft's ...

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Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs

Oracle has filed thousands of H-1B visa petitions while simultaneously conducting mass layoffs, sparking debate about labor practices and immigration policies in the tech industry. The news has genera...

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Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M

A licensing firm has dramatically increased H.264 streaming fees from $100,000 to as much as $4.5 million annually, potentially impacting streaming services and content providers. This massive price h...

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SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

The article advocates for using SSH certificates instead of traditional SSH keys for improved security and manageability. It explains how certificate-based authentication eliminates key distribution p...

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Slap: Functional Concatenative Language... with a Borrow Checker?

Slap is a new functional concatenative programming language that combines stack-based tacit programming with Rust-like linear types for memory safety. It offers both concise APL-style glyph syntax and...

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Adobe wrote to my hosts file

A developer discovered Adobe software writing entries to their system's hosts file without explicit permission, raising concerns about software overreach and potential security risks. This behavior is...

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Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

This article explores the push-pull algorithm behind Signals, a reactive programming concept used in modern frontend frameworks like Solid and Vue. It explains how Signals create a system where derive...

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The Design of AI Memory Systems

The article explores the design and importance of AI memory systems, arguing that long context windows alone are insufficient for effective agent memory due to performance biases. The author shares pe...

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Why Nobody Can Verify What Booted Your Server

The article highlights a critical gap in enterprise security infrastructure: while Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are ubiquitous in servers and cloud VMs for measured boot, there's no public database...

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Rails on the BEAM

A new project called QuickBEAM enables running Rails applications on the BEAM (Erlang VM) using JavaScript, providing Erlang's famous fault tolerance and concurrency model to web applications. When a ...

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Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports

Anthropic has acquired biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, marking a significant expansion into biotechnology applications. The acquisition represents a strategic move by ...

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Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman notes a significant shift in AI-generated security reports, from low-quality 'AI slop' to now producing legitimate, high-quality reports used across open sou...

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Quoting Willy Tarreau

Willy Tarreau, lead developer of HAProxy, reports a dramatic increase in kernel security vulnerability reports from 2-3 per week two years ago to 5-10 per day currently, largely driven by AI-generated...

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Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

NASA's Artemis II crew captured a stunning image of Earth during their mission, showcasing our planet from deep space perspective. The photo has generated significant discussion within the tech and sp...

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Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

TinyGo, a Go compiler for embedded systems and WebAssembly, has gained attention with 104 points on Hacker News. It enables Go developers to target microcontrollers and web browsers with efficient, lo...

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Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

Apfel is a free, open-source AI tool that leverages Apple's native ML frameworks to run locally on Mac computers without requiring cloud services. The project gained significant attention on Hacker Ne...

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Lisette — Rust syntax, Go runtime

Lisette is a new programming language that combines Rust's syntax with Go's runtime, offering features like algebraic data types, pattern matching, and Hindley-Milner type system while maintaining ful...

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Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix

Tix is a new type checker and LSP for the Nix language that aims to provide TypeScript-like development experience with strong type inference and annotations. It uses algebraic subtyping with negation...

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A CSS Engine in OCaml

Thomas Gazagnaire has developed Cascade, a comprehensive CSS engine written in OCaml that parses, generates, optimizes, and diffs CSS. The 30,000-line library supports modern CSS features including @l...

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Tesla’s Texas factory workforce reportedly shrunk 22% in 2025

Tesla's Texas factory workforce reportedly decreased by 22% in 2025, dropping from 21,191 to 16,506 employees. This significant reduction coincides with the company's second consecutive year of declin...

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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era

Moonbounce has raised $12 million to develop an AI control engine that translates content moderation policies into consistent and predictable AI behavior. The company, founded by a former Facebook ins...

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Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing

Trump's AI data center initiative is facing major setbacks due to his own tariffs on Chinese imports, which are causing critical delays in obtaining power infrastructure components. Nearly half of pla...

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EV adoption in America: Who's winning, who's losing?

Rising fuel prices due to the Persian Gulf conflict are impacting US EV adoption, with recent policy changes and sales declines creating uncertainty. Analysts are divided on whether high gas prices wi...

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I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux

A tech writer demonstrates how installing Linux on an unsupported Windows 10 laptop can extend its lifespan, challenging Microsoft's forced obsolescence strategy. The article highlights the functional...

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How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech

The Apple Watch Series 4 is credited as a watershed moment that transformed wearable tech from basic fitness tracking to comprehensive health monitoring. Its introduction of ECG and fall detection in ...

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Can JavaScript Escape a CSP Meta Tag Inside an Iframe?

Research confirms that JavaScript in sandboxed iframes cannot bypass CSP meta tags, even through DOM manipulation or navigation to data URIs. This provides a reliable security mechanism for embedding ...

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iNaturalist

iNaturalist, a community science platform for sharing biodiversity observations, received attention on Hacker News with 281 points and 80 comments. The platform enables users to record and identify pl...

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Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

A developer has created Blogosphere, a frontpage aggregator for personal blogs that aims to support the indie web amid social media and AI dominance. The platform fetches recent posts from personal bl...

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April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini

A technical guide published on Hacker News details how to set up Ollama with the Gemma 4 26B model on a Mac mini. The post received significant engagement with 275 points and 110 comments, indicating ...

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Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark

A blog post examines whether Common Lisp can achieve competitive performance with C using idiomatic code, using the nbody benchmark as a case study. The discussion originated from a Twitter debate abo...

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Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

A technical guide demonstrates how to build a dial-up ISP using a Raspberry Pi and telephone line simulator hardware, allowing vintage computers to connect via Wi-Fi to emulate 1990s internet experien...

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Baby’s Second Garbage Collector

This article presents a follow-up to the author's original 'Baby's First Garbage Collector' implementation, describing the evolution of their garbage collection system for the Lone Lisp language. The ...

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800 Rust terminal projects in 3 years

A developer has curated and shared approximately 800 open source Rust CLI projects over three years, highlighting the growing ecosystem of terminal applications built with Rust. The collection showcas...

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The anonymous social app that thinks it can work in Saudi Arabia

Anonymous social app Fizz has unexpectedly gained traction in Saudi Arabia despite the country's strict internet regulations. The app's success in this market raises questions about anonymous social p...

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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC

Anthropic has established a new political action committee to support candidates aligned with its AI policy agenda ahead of the midterm elections. This move represents the AI company's increased engag...

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Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

An Italian court ruled that Netflix's price hikes from 2017-2024 violated consumer protection laws by failing to provide valid justifications in contracts, ordering refunds of up to €500 per subscribe...

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OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a tech-focused talk show with 70k daily viewers, for hundreds of millions despite recently pledging to avoid 'side quests'. The company claims the acquisition aligns with AI ...

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NASA did eventually solve Artemis II’s Outlook glitch

NASA resolved a Microsoft Outlook issue on the Artemis II mission where commander Reid Wiseman experienced problems with the email application on his Surface Pro device. Mission Control remotely acces...

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OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence

OpenAI's AGI deployment CEO Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks due to a neuroimmune condition, with president Greg Brockman temporarily overseeing product leadership. CMO Kate Rouch ...

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Quoting Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg, lead developer of cURL, notes that AI in open source security has shifted from generating low-quality 'slop' to producing a high volume of valuable security reports, requiring signifi...

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There are drastic changes occurring for Kindle Unlimited for Magazines

Amazon is implementing significant changes to its Kindle Unlimited for Magazines service, causing concern among readers about the future availability of digital magazines. The alterations are describe...