Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

368 mfiguiere 2026-04-20 14:28:28 UTC qwen.ai Llama Share 202

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is an early preview of a proprietary model with stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along with improved agentic coding. It achieves top scores on six major coding benchmarks and is available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

270 thomasp85 2026-04-20 13:28:28 UTC opensource.posit.co Llama Share 62

ggsql is a new data visualization tool that uses SQL syntax to create rich, structured visualizations, making it easy for SQL users to create custom plots. The tool is designed to be powerful, ergonomic, and safe, with a focus on integrating with AI agents and code-based reporting tools, and is currently available in alpha release.

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

588 Liriel 2026-04-20 08:28:28 UTC awesomeagents.ai Llama Share 316

A Carnegie Mellon University study found 6 million fake GitHub stars across 18,617 repositories, with AI/LLM repos being the largest non-malicious category. The study's tool, StarScout, identified fake stars distributed by roughly 301,000 accounts.

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

375 meetpateltech 2026-04-20 16:28:28 UTC kimi.com Llama Share 181

Kimi K2.6 is a state-of-the-art open-sourced model featuring long-horizon execution, agent swarm capabilities, and strong improvements in coding tasks. It demonstrates exceptional reliability, instruction following, and out-of-distribution generalization, setting a new bar for open-sourced models in agentic workflows.

We accepted surveillance as default

157 speckx 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC vivianvoss.net Full Share 69

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026

134 luu 2026-04-20 12:28:28 UTC mastodon.social Llama Share 82

Someone wrote a unit test for @servo 10 years ago with a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026, now the CI is broken. Maintainers suggest using system time or a library like TimeCop to make tests more robust.

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

41 conductor 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC sr.ht Llama Share 2

Kefir is an independent C17/C23 compiler developed by Jevgenij Protopopov, validated with 100 software projects and targeting x86_64 architecture.

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

213 Someone 2026-04-20 10:28:28 UTC earthquake.usgs.gov Full Share 90

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Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

362 kevcampb 2026-04-20 12:28:28 UTC letsdatascience.com Full Share 82

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WebUSB Extension for Firefox

134 tuananh 2026-04-20 12:28:28 UTC github.com/arcanenibble Llama Share 107

To use the extension, install the native stub program on your computer and a browser extension. The native stub requires a specific operating system and kernel version.

Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring

0 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Bloom is a platform that generates on-brand marketing assets in seconds, helping small businesses avoid template-like designs. It raised ~$1M from YC and notable investors, aiming to build a Brand OS system.

Sauna effect on heart rate

288 kyriakosel 2026-04-20 14:28:28 UTC tryterra.co Llama Share 166

Saunas have a therapeutic effect and promote cardiovascular health by stimulating the heart and increasing blood volume. Sauna use is linked to better same-day recovery, with lower nighttime heart rates and increased activity.

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

161 FiddlerClamp 2026-04-20 16:28:28 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 183

Deezer reports a surge in AI-generated music uploads, with 60,000 tracks daily, but 85% are detected as fraudulent. The company will no longer store hi-res AI tracks and labels them for transparency.

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

21 hasheddan 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 4

AES-128 is safe against quantum computers due to the difficulty of parallelizing Grover's algorithm, making it impractical to break with current technology. Experts, including NIST, agree that AES-128 remains secure for decades to come, and no key size changes are necessary as part of the post-quantum transition.

Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)

28 aragonite 2026-04-20 16:28:28 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 6

Chernobyl's last wedding

37 1659447091 2026-04-20 15:28:28 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 9

Iryna Stetsenko and her fiancé Serhiy Lobanov got married in Pripyat on April 26, 1986, unaware of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They were evacuated three days later due to radiation exposure.

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)

56 alongub 2026-04-20 15:28:28 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 17

Self-hosting breaks down when customers modify software settings, making it hard to debug issues. A better model allows developers to operate software in customers' environments while maintaining control.

The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)

63 AFF87 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC princeton.edu Full Share 18

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

221 feigewalnuss 2026-04-20 08:28:28 UTC flyingpenguin.com Llama Share 257

The user discusses the security risks of current agent gateways, comparing them to the insecure MS-DOS era, and proposes a safer architecture for agents. The user's own project, Wirken, uses separate processes, hardened containers, and a hash-chained audit database to provide a more secure agent gateway.

At long last, InfoWars is ours

401 HotGarbage 2026-04-20 17:28:28 UTC theonion.com Llama Share 150

The writer, who had night terrors as a child, is now bringing their dark vision to life by controlling InfoWars.com. They envision a twisted digital platform where visitors sacrifice themselves to delusion and misery.

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

687 ramonga 2026-04-20 14:28:28 UTC theolivepress.es Llama Share 586

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Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

13 krupitskas 2026-04-20 18:28:28 UTC krupitskas.com Llama Share 2

Culling is a crucial optimization technique in game development that reduces unnecessary work by skipping objects, triangles, or lights that are not visible to the player. Various culling techniques, including distance, frustum, occlusion, and meshlet culling, can be combined and layered to achieve the best results, with the goal of being conservative with correctness and aggressive with wasted work.

I'm never buying another Kindle

166 mikhael 2026-04-20 16:28:28 UTC androidauthority.com Llama Share 136

The author is leaving the Kindle ecosystem due to Amazon's shift from prioritizing ownership to control, citing forced obsolescence, invasive telemetry, and a focus on the storefront over the library.

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

112 startages 2026-04-20 15:28:28 UTC surfacedby.com Full Share 20

What nginx logs actually prove about AI traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, plus why Google's AI crawlers leave a different signal than the others.

Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

129 breve 2026-04-20 07:28:28 UTC newatlas.com Llama Share 23

Engineers at Rice University developed a device called Meta-NFS that concentrates microwave energy to cure conductive ink without damaging the surface underneath. This breakthrough enables the creation of smart implants, ingestible electronics, and soft robots with deeply integrated electronics.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

389 Palmik 2026-04-20 10:28:28 UTC axios.com Llama Share 274

The NSA is using Anthropic's powerful model Mythos Preview despite the Pentagon's feud with the company over security concerns. The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's concerns, with Anthropic's tools being used more widely within the department.

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

109 alegd 2026-04-20 14:28:28 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 109

To start a P2P crowdshipping marketplace, focus on a niche market, such as a specific route or item, and manually match people or incentivize one side to join without the other. Options include paying drivers to make deliveries, being the supply side yourself, or using an agency model, but be aware of the potential risks and challenges, such as competition from established businesses and ...

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

154 janandonly 2026-04-20 05:28:28 UTC discovermagazine.com Llama Share 27

Researchers found a massive underground city of 5.6 million ground-nesting bees at East Lawn Cemetery in New York. The bees, a native species, pollinate crops like apples and blueberries, and their large population rivals that of honeybees.

Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war

46 andsoitis 2026-04-20 18:56:28 UTC economist.com Full Share 29

T war may end up teaching America many lessons. One that it has learned the hard way is the woeful economics of using traditional weaponry against cheap Iranian drones. “The dynamics of the world have changed,” says Emil Michael, a former Silicon Valley executive who is now a senior official in the Pentagon. “You don’t want to spend a $1m missile to take out a $50,000 drone.”

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

207 ndr 2026-04-20 03:28:28 UTC thelibre.news Llama Share 67

The user built a custom camera system called Lampone using a large lens, a fake sensor made of semi-transparent material, and a Fresnel lens to achieve a very thin depth of field. The system has some limitations, including a large minimum focusing distance, structural instability, and significant light loss, but the user is planning to improve it in future iterations.