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4 hours ago
Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
Sahand tells the BBC World Service he sends satellite internet terminals into Iran to help show "the real picture"....
4 HOURS AGO
MIKHAEL
Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels
20 HOURS AGO
MOOSIA
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
4 DAYS AGO
NATEB2022
Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
3 DAYS AGO
PRISMATIC
Little Magazines Are Back
12 HOURS AGO
GEOX
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
2 DAYS AGO
INDIGODADDY
DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
5 HOURS AGO
ROBOTLAUNCH
Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?
12 HOURS AGO
MOMENTMAKER
Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
3 DAYS AGO
REIKONOMUSHA
Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
7 HOURS AGO
BREVE
Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
3 DAYS AGO
SAMBIGEARA
Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
21 HOURS AGO
ANKITG12
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
7 HOURS AGO
BREVE
Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
14 HOURS AGO
NICKVEC
Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
3 DAYS AGO
SAMBIGEARA
Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
bazlightyear
2 hours ago
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not what most people would have predicted. Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from Chinese startup Moonshot
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dabinat
12 hours ago
Dav2d
dav2d is the fastest AV2 decoder on all platforms :) Targeted to be small, portable and very fast; similar to dav1d, but for AV2....
andsoitis
9 hours ago
Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract...
SeenNotHeard
2 days ago
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
A list and history of San Francisco's many humorously similar street names, which are liable to confuse both locals and out-of-towners....
richardboegli
9 hours ago
This Month in Ladybird - April 2026
Inline PDF viewer powered by pdf.js, GTK4 frontend, browsing history, speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JS compilation, async DNS, CSS anchor positioning, and more....
wglb
3 days ago
The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models
IBM’s most expansive model release to date covers new language, vision, speech, embedding, and guardian models — tailored for enterprise workloads. ...
RubyGuy
12 hours ago
Do_not_track
A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications....
unignorant
6 hours ago
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses....
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
BSTRhino
a day ago
A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games
We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours....
RohanAdwankar
3 hours ago
Open source does not imply open community
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP ...
mahimai
8 hours ago
Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers
Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖 - mahimairaja/voiceai...
herbertl
4 days ago
The USB Situation
I write this from the latest MacBook Pro. I've been running this as my primary machine for almost a month. When I'm not grinding out the latest soon-to-be-relea...
fagnerbrack
16 hours ago
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Conversational large language models are fine-tuned for both instruction-following and safety, resulting in models that obey benign requests but refuse harmful ones. While this refusal behav...
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13 hours ago
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
Roblox is facing over 140 federal lawsuits accusing it of failing to prevent child exploitation, and last month settled with Alabama and West Virginia....
steveharing1
17 hours ago
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems 🖼 Generate web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · vide...
KnuthIsGod
13 hours ago
Modern C++ Programming: Busato
Modern C++ Programming Course (C++03/11/14/17/20/23/26) - federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming...