Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

1537 Ryan5453 2026-04-07 18:09:34 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 834

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and software, many of which were previously unknown to developers. The model's capabilities are being shared with industry partners to help fix these vulnerabilities and improve cybersecurity.

Lunar Flyby

964 kipi 2026-04-07 15:03:18 UTC nasa.gov Full Share 247

The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions no human has ever seen before—including a rare in-space solar eclipse. Released Tuesday, April 7, 2026, the photos were taken on April 6 during the crew’s seven‑hour pass over the lunar far side, marking humanity’s return to the Moon’s vicinity.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

845 be7a 2026-04-07 18:18:36 UTC www-cdn.anthropic.com Llama Share 656

Claude Mythos Preview is a large language model from Anthropic with powerful capabilities in areas like software engineering and cybersecurity. It has demonstrated a striking leap in cyber capabilities but is not being released for general availability due to potential risks.

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

786 sam-bee 2026-04-07 11:07:44 UTC sam-burns.com Llama Share 238

User made a heavy laptop stand with a raw concrete surface, 2 USB ports, and a plant pot, inspired by brutalist architecture. It features exposed rebar, rusted metal, and moss for a weathered look, with a deliberate hole and damaged power cable for added urban decay effect.

Are We Idiocracy Yet?

637 jdiiufccuskal 2026-04-07 09:57:39 UTC idiocracy.wtf Llama Share 546

In a dystopian future, the US has become a chaotic, entertainment-driven society where politics, education, and healthcare have been severely compromised. Corporations have replaced institutions, and people are increasingly desensitized to violence and absurdity.

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

617 zixuanlimit 2026-04-07 16:32:15 UTC z.ai Llama Share 262

GLM-5.1 is a next-generation model with stronger coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. It sustains optimization over long horizons, handling complex problems with better judgment and staying productive over longer sessions.

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

604 g-b-r 2026-04-07 22:41:02 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 2028

US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling a US ultimatum to surrender or face destruction. The agreement allows for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a two-week suspension of US bombing and attack on Iran.

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat

487 speckx 2026-04-07 17:23:43 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 130

A statue of Magawa, a hero rat who sniffed out over 100 landmines in Cambodia, was unveiled in Siem Reap on April 4. Magawa was awarded a gold medal for his life-saving work and cleared 141,000 square meters of land during his five-year career.

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

438 henrygarner 2026-04-07 10:25:12 UTC juxt.pro Llama Share 201

Researchers found a 57-year-old bug in the Apollo Guidance Computer's gyro control code that could have caused a lunar mission failure. The bug, a resource lock leak, was discovered using a behavioural specification language and was previously undetected despite extensive scrutiny of the code.

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

415 shintoist 2026-04-07 13:23:05 UTC jola.dev Llama Share 209

The user is moving away from Cloudflare due to concerns about dependence on a single company and is switching to Bunny.net, a European CDN service with competitive features and performance. They are setting up Bunny.net's CDN for their website with default settings and custom cache headers for optimal performance.

DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]

396 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 19:14:32 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 154

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

385 ilreb 2026-04-07 14:07:34 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 112

Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum roadmap to achieve full security by 2029, including authentication. This is due to recent breakthroughs in quantum computing that have pulled forward the timeline for Q-Day.

S3 Files

378 werner 2026-04-07 19:44:01 UTC allthingsdistributed.com Llama Share 118

Amazon S3 Files integrates EFS into S3, allowing data to be accessed as a network-attached file system. This feature addresses data friction by providing a unified interface for file and object storage, making data more accessible and valuable.

Every GPU That Mattered

330 jonbaer 2026-04-07 08:38:17 UTC sheets.works Full Share 207

49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

327 sweis 2026-04-07 18:11:31 UTC red.anthropic.com Llama Share 56

Anthropic has announced Claude Mythos Preview, a general-purpose language model capable of computer security tasks. The model has been used to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in various software systems, including operating systems and web browsers.

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

315 pulisse 2026-04-07 15:47:16 UTC sciencealert.com Llama Share 123

An abandoned conservation project in Costa Rica, which involved dumping 1,000 truckloads of orange peel, has turned a barren pasture into a thriving forest with a 176% increase in above-ground biomass. The project's success could inspire similar conservation efforts that combine waste management and land regeneration.

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

291 frasermarlow 2026-04-07 20:42:37 UTC middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app Full Share 70

An interactive map of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with events from across the legendarium plotted as markers. The base map image is sourced from the internet and is used here for fan/educational purposes. We do not claim copyright over the map artwork. Map artwork is not owned by this project and is used for fan/educational purposes only.

Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

265 speckx 2026-04-07 15:54:16 UTC rajnandan.com Llama Share 212

AI makes it easy to produce polished work but not necessarily meaningful work. The real edge is using AI to strip away average output and applying human judgment to direction, specificity, and consequence.

Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

251 Zm44 2026-04-07 11:12:17 UTC locker.dev Llama Share 207

Locker is a self-hosted file storage platform that allows you to upload, organize, and share files from your own infrastructure. It supports local storage, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Vercel Blob with a single environment variable.

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

247 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 13:55:14 UTC scottlawsonbc.com Llama Share 72

The user spent 10 years developing an audio-reactive LED strip visualizer that uses the mel scale to model human perception of sound and gamma correction to model human perception of light, resulting in a highly engaging and musical visualization. The project has gained over 2,800 GitHub stars and has been used by thousands of people to create unique installations and experiences in ...

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

233 MediaSquirrel 2026-04-07 19:37:05 UTC github.com/mattmireles Llama Share 28

Gemma is a toolkit for fine-tuning on text, images, and audio on Apple Silicon Macs without renting an H100 or copying data locally. It supports domain-specific ASR, vision, and document understanding, and can be used for private, on-device pipelines.

Generative art over the years

231 evakhoury 2026-04-07 14:25:23 UTC blog.veitheller.de Llama Share 70

The user has been making generative art since 2016, starting as a programming exercise and evolving into a personal journey of self-expression and discovery. Through experimentation and learning various algorithms and techniques, the user has developed a "vocabulary" of creative tools that inform their artistic decisions and help them convey a personal aesthetic.

AI may be making us think and write more alike

231 giuliomagnifico 2026-04-07 11:29:02 UTC dornsife.usc.edu Llama Share 246

USC researchers warn that AI chatbots are homogenizing human thought and reducing cognitive diversity, which is crucial for creativity and problem-solving. They suggest incorporating real-world diversity into AI training sets to preserve human cognitive diversity and improve chatbots' reasoning abilities.

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

230 gmac 2026-04-07 16:33:57 UTC printervention.app Llama Share 98

The user acquired a Canon SELPHY photo printer from a friend and set up a Manjaro machine to print from it. They then created a web app called printerface.app to make the printer accessible to Mac users.

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

230 timbilt 2026-04-07 13:39:15 UTC infoq.com Llama Share 61

Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed for managing concurrent agents in containers across local and remote compute. It enables developers to run isolated, concurrent processes with shared workspaces and distinct agent lifecycles.

Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

222 sh1mmer 2026-04-07 15:04:23 UTC github.com/anthropics Full Share 305

I have tried logging in multiple times with my Google account, but the login fails every time with the same OAuth timeout error. This completely blocks me from using Claude Code. Claude Code should complete the Google login flow successfully and sign me into the app without timing out.

Happy Map

206 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 13:55:11 UTC pudding.cool Full Share 32

100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

189 kouosi 2026-04-07 10:16:38 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 29

Pijul is a free, open-source version control system based on a theory of patches, offering simplicity and scalability. It preserves order and guarantees strong merge properties, modeling conflicts as standard cases.

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

184 nelson687 2026-04-07 10:08:25 UTC tubesoundquiz.com Full Share 60

Can you identify London Underground lines just by their sound? 10 questions, 10 lines. How well do you know the Tube?

Blackholing My Email

180 semyonsh 2026-04-07 08:42:05 UTC johnsto.co.uk Llama Share 35

In 2002, a unique series of events led to my email address [email protected] being blackholed to prevent our broadband account from being terminated due to excessive spam. The account was eventually removed and is now non-existent, but it's unclear if it still receives email worms.

Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

177 TheWiggles 2026-04-07 00:48:01 UTC github.com/solod-dev Llama Share 49

So is a subset of Go that translates to C with zero runtime and manual memory management. It supports Go syntax, type safety, and tooling for systems programming in C.

How Complex is my Code?

170 speckx 2026-04-07 10:44:55 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 45

Measuring code complexity for humans is challenging as it involves understanding the mental effort required to comprehend the code, which can be influenced by factors such as familiarity with patterns, working memory load, and coherence. Various metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, and linguistic complexity measures can provide insights, but ultimately, the cognitive ...

Bitcoin and quantum computing

169 nehan 2026-04-07 20:56:23 UTC nehanarula.org Llama Share 138

Bitcoin's signatures are vulnerable to a potential quantum computer, requiring upgrades to its code and wallets to remain secure. The uncertainty lies in the timeline and how to address this, with a non-trivial chance of Bitcoin being broken if a CRQC appears before it's upgraded.

Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures

165 roxolotl 2026-04-07 02:09:45 UTC andreyor.st Llama Share 21

The user created a library called fennel-cljlib that brought Clojure features to the Lua runtime, but it had performance issues due to its copy-on-write approach. They then created a new library called immutable.fnl with a Persistent HAMT implementation, which improved performance and allowed for the development of a Clojure-to-Fennel compiler called ClojureFnl.

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world

163 intofarlands 2026-04-07 12:12:15 UTC intofarlands.com Full Share 31

Welcome to the Atlas of Arda, a project aimed at celebrating Tolkien's incredible work through hand-drawn cartography, artwork and illustrations that act as a reference to dive deeper into the beautiful world Tolkien created.

A whole civilization might die tonight

146 hedayet 2026-04-07 17:31:41 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 95

President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a "whole civilization" dying if a ceasefire deal isn't reached by Tuesday night. Trump's comments have sparked concerns of war crimes and calls for his impeachment or removal from office.

Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?

146 konschubert 2026-04-07 13:50:27 UTC has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de Llama Share 229

Decoupling in a gas-dominated electricity market occurs when enough renewable generation pushes gas off the margin, causing electricity prices to no longer track gas prices. This happens when actual electricity prices trade more than 20% below the gas-implied level.

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

140 Levitating 2026-04-07 23:36:15 UTC github.com/linebender Llama Share 89

Masonry is a Rust crate for building native GUIs, while Xilem is a high-level reactive framework inspired by React and SwiftUI. Xilem is recommended for new users due to its ease of use and minimal hassle.

Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents

139 manzt 2026-04-07 17:47:46 UTC github.com/marimo-team Full Share 34

The skill declares its own allowed-tools, but Claude Code may still prompt you to approve each Bash call. To avoid repeated prompts, copy the absolute paths to the scripts from the installed skill and add them to your .claude/settings.json (project-level) or ~/.claude/settings.json (global):

John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz

136 luu 2026-04-07 05:58:01 UTC americanjazzmusicsociety.com Llama Share 23

Physicist Stephon Alexander draws parallels between Albert Einstein and John Coltrane's work, citing Coltrane's "Circle of Fifths" drawing as a geometric principle. Coltrane's music is seen as a blend of science, spirituality, and mathematics, with some interpreting it as a connection to Islamic traditions.

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

125 ductionist 2026-04-07 05:12:25 UTC midi.guide Llama Share 19

MIDI Guide, a comprehensive MIDI dataset, was created from an abandoned app project and has grown to over 300 instruments from 98 manufacturers. The project's community-driven growth and use in various hardware and software projects has made it a valuable resource for musicians and synth enthusiasts.

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

122 DamnInteresting 2026-04-07 15:07:45 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 56

LG's rollable phone, the Rollable, was a complex device with a motorized screen that expanded 40% larger. It was overengineered, expensive, and fragile, likely contributing to its failure to launch and the demise of LG's smartphone division.

Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026

120 mindracer 2026-04-07 12:05:23 UTC carbonbrief.org Llama Share 130

UK avoided £1bn in gas imports in March 2026 due to record wind and solar output. Wind and solar generated 11 TWh of electricity, a 28% increase and a new record.

Tofolli gates are all you need

119 ibobev 2026-04-07 09:40:57 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 42

Landauer's principle sets a lower bound on erasing one bit of information, but reversible circuits can still provide practical efficiency gains. Reversible circuits like the Toffoli gate can be used to compute any Boolean function, including NAND, but may require more input and output.

"The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"

117 bundie 2026-04-07 12:27:59 UTC twitter.com/thebobpony Full Share 72

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

116 rryan 2026-04-07 15:07:38 UTC blog.zacka.io Llama Share 26

The key to building complex systems quickly is to subtract unnecessary requirements and complexity, rather than trying to optimize within existing constraints. By shifting performance from physical complexity into software and computation, teams can make products "software defined" and iterate faster, often with dramatic improvements in efficiency and performance.

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

113 jxmorris12 2026-04-07 17:34:13 UTC perfectlynormal.co.uk Llama Share 31

KL-divergence measures how much a model Q differs from the true distribution P. It's the difference between the expected surprise of your model and the expected surprise of the correct model.

Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

110 hasheddan 2026-04-07 19:16:10 UTC github.com/lauriewired Llama Share 23

Tailslayer is a C++ library that reduces tail latency in RAM reads by replicating data across multiple DRAM channels with uncorrelated refresh schedules. It uses hedged reads to allow work to be performed on the first responding result.

Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

107 crcastle 2026-04-07 01:42:40 UTC judoscale.com Llama Share 45

Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focusing on stability and security, but recent updates suggest new features are still being released. Developers are confused about Heroku's future and want clarity on whether the platform is entering maintenance mode or continuing to evolve.

Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf]

105 JackeJR 2026-04-07 14:41:08 UTC cis.upenn.edu Llama Share 24

Researchers developed a formal model of file synchronizer behavior using Quviq QuickCheck, a testing framework that generates random test cases. The model was used to test Dropbox, Google Drive, and ownCloud, exposing unexpected behavior in two out of three systems, including situations where data could be lost.

Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons

105 Firfi 2026-04-07 13:15:41 UTC loskutoff.com Llama Share 77

The author created a formal model of the Dungeons & Dragons game using a 6,000-line Quint spec, which was later expanded to include combat mechanics and interactions, and used a model-based testing (MBT) approach to validate the implementation against the spec. The MBT pipeline found and fixed several bugs in the implementation, including issues with spell slots, damage calculations, and ...

IPv6 is the only way forward

104 quaintdev 2026-04-07 19:22:58 UTC ankshilp.in Llama Share 338

India and China have limited IPv4 addresses, forcing them to use NAT, while the US has excess. Switching to IPv6 is necessary for India to overcome this issue.

Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go

101 Sean-Der 2026-04-07 12:01:51 UTC github.com/pion Llama Share 17

WebRTC is used for real-time media streaming in web applications like Google Meet and Zoom. Handoff allows moving WebRTC sessions to a process controlled by the user for recording, sending, and modifying media.

You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)

97 goodoldneon 2026-04-07 13:34:33 UTC inngest.com Llama Share 61

JavaScript promises cannot be cancelled directly, but a promise that never resolves can be used to interrupt a function without throwing exceptions or using generators. This technique, used in the Inngest TypeScript SDK, allows for reliable interruption of async workflow functions while maintaining native async/await syntax.

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

96 sprado 2026-04-07 09:51:28 UTC sergioprado.blog Llama Share 26

Video game console security has evolved over the years, with early consoles having little to no protection, and later consoles implementing various security measures such as code signing and cryptographic verification, but still being vulnerable to exploits and hacks. Despite these efforts, console vendors have learned that technical mitigations alone are not enough, and have added service ...

Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

95 1659447091 2026-04-07 22:20:22 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 42

A former Meta employee is being investigated for allegedly downloading 30,000 private Facebook images using a designed program to bypass security checks. The employee was fired and arrested in November 2025, and is currently on bail.

A blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

89 speckx 2026-04-07 14:24:30 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 16

Matthew Shifrin, a blind Massachusetts man, created Bricks for the Blind to provide accessible Lego instructions in braille for the visually impaired. His nonprofit has created instructions for over 540 Lego sets and inspired the Lego Group to introduce audio and braille instructions for their sets.

What is a property?

89 alpaylan 2026-04-07 12:16:27 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 26

Property-Based Testing involves combining properties and generators to find bugs, but the traditional model of independent generators and properties is often inadequate due to complex system interactions. A better approach is to use dependent generators that can run computations related to the property, allowing for more accurate and efficient testing.

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

83 zdw 2026-04-07 14:13:59 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 19

Mechanical sympathy in software is the practice of creating systems that are sympathetic to their underlying hardware, optimizing performance by following principles such as predictable memory access and the single-writer principle. By applying these principles, developers can create surprisingly performant systems, such as the mechanically-sympathetic LMAX Architecture, which processes ...

Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'

83 tosh 2026-04-07 06:45:08 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 29

Apple is quietly updating some apps with vague update notes suggesting improved functionality. The updates appear on various apps, including Candy Crush and VLC, with unclear commonalities or changes.

The Miller Principle (2007)

82 FelipeCortez 2026-04-07 13:16:36 UTC puredanger.github.io Full Share 52

I had some other principles too but I figured no one would read them…. :)

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

79 rustoo 2026-04-07 10:33:51 UTC bloomberg.com Llama Share 98

Germany's power prices dropped to -€323.96 per megawatt-hour due to high renewable energy and low demand. Easter holiday reduced consumption, causing prices to plummet in Germany and France.

USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000

78 traviswingo 2026-04-07 21:27:03 UTC onedollar.today Llama Share 77

US dollar's real purchasing power erodes in real time based on Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Its value decreases at a rate observed from monthly CPI readings.

DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502

78 Aransentin 2026-04-07 11:10:22 UTC aransentin.github.io Llama Share 17

A superoptimizer is a tool that generates the optimal machine code sequence for a given computational task by exhaustively searching the entire space of possible instruction sequences. The user's superoptimizer implementation for the 6502 microprocessor uses various optimizations such as multithreading, instruction filtering, and state caching to efficiently find optimal programs.

US labor force participation continues to slide

76 toomuchtodo 2026-04-07 19:12:16 UTC restaurant.org Llama Share 31

Labor force participation rates have declined over the past year, with the rate falling to 61.9% in March 2026, the lowest level since November 2021. The steepest declines have been among young people, particularly men under 25, and those 55 or older, with the most educated workers also experiencing a record low participation rate.

The Soul of an Old Machine

74 mskalski 2026-04-07 12:30:49 UTC skalski.dev Llama Share 19

The author has a strong attachment to hardware, often choosing unique devices with characteristics not found in others. They've kept many devices running for years, sometimes with community support, and find it rewarding.

Move Detroit

70 rmason 2026-04-07 21:04:53 UTC movedetroit.com Llama Share 95

Make Detroit Home awards $500,000+ in benefits to 313 Detroiters for business growth, home ownership, and relocation support. Benefits include discounts, industry access, and $15,000 stipends for selected residents.

Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May

68 seam_carver 2026-04-07 17:05:25 UTC reddit.com Full Share 72

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An AI robot in my home

68 kukanani 2026-04-07 13:19:10 UTC allevato.me Llama Share 28

The author has concerns about having a smart robot, Mabu, in their home due to potential surveillance, data misuse, and hacking risks. They mitigate these concerns by controlling the recording feature and regulating interactions between Mabu and their children.

Robots eat cars

67 JMill 2026-04-07 02:50:58 UTC telemetry.endeff.com Llama Share 112

Tesla is converting automotive facilities to robot-production facilities, with plans to manufacture one million Optimus humanoid robots per year. The company's system architecture, which includes centralized compute and zonal controllers, is being adopted by other industries and suppliers.

Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

65 marksully 2026-04-07 09:29:11 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 1

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatens to target OpenAI's Abu Dhabi data center if US attacks its power plants. US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran, saying it will be "Power Plant Day" if the country doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.

Show HN: Unicode Steganography

58 PatrickVuscan 2026-04-07 12:57:25 UTC steganography.patrickvuscan.com Llama Share 14

Steganography methods hide data in normal-looking text, but are detectable by scanners or hex editors. AI deception techniques can fool humans, but may not evade automated scanners.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me

57 simonw 2026-04-07 20:53:59 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 13

Anthropic's Claude Mythos model has strong cyber-security research abilities, finding thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers. The company is releasing it to a restricted set of partners under Project Glasswing to allow them to find and fix vulnerabilities before making it publicly available.

People love to work hard

56 zdw 2026-04-07 04:58:29 UTC anildash.com Llama Share 52

People love to work hard when given a worthy mission and autonomy. Poor management and lack of resources lead to demotivation, not a lack of work ethic.

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

54 akagusu 2026-04-07 19:54:06 UTC netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de Llama Share 12

Cells for NetBSD is a lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation system for NetBSD, providing a focused operating model with minimal dependencies and explicit operational boundaries. It offers a practical, end-to-end isolation stack that fits into existing NetBSD administration workflows.

Network Flow Algorithms

53 teleforce 2026-04-07 07:27:14 UTC networkflowalgs.com Llama Share 1

Network flow theory is applied in various fields to model transportation, image segmentation, and other problems. This graduate text presents efficient combinatorial algorithms for network flow problems, including maximum and minimum-cost flows.

Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

51 joemasilotti 2026-04-07 19:18:29 UTC newsletter.masilotti.com Llama Share 8

The author of Ruby Native learned that keeping an API clean across multiple frameworks like ERB, React, and Vue requires a framework-agnostic approach, such as using data attributes in HTML. They achieved this by using a MutationObserver to translate these attributes into native UI, allowing them to support multiple frameworks without breaking others.

RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS

50 akyuu 2026-04-07 21:41:06 UTC redox-os.org Llama Share 6

Akshit Gaur modernized Redox OS's process scheduling subsystem by replacing Round Robin with Deficit Weighted Round Robin, allowing priority assignment.

NanoClaw's architecture is a masterclass in doing less

47 timbilt 2026-04-07 13:41:50 UTC jonno.nz Llama Share 13

NanoClaw replaces a 500,000-line AI assistant framework with 8,000 lines of TypeScript and six dependencies using six architectural bets. It uses the Phantom Token Pattern to securely handle API keys and a two-cursor system for at-most-once delivery of messages.

When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality

47 dogscatstrees 2026-04-07 06:39:11 UTC justsecurity.org Llama Share 63

President Trump's threats to attack Iran's power plants and civilian infrastructure are illegal and amount to war crimes. US military commanders face a daunting task in translating Trump's orders into lawful targets, risking moral and psychic injury for servicemembers and undermining US legitimacy and global standing.

Simplest Hash Functions

45 ibobev 2026-04-07 09:40:08 UTC purplesyringa.moe Llama Share 59

The text discusses non-cryptographic hash functions, specifically the "rapidhash" function, which is simple and fast but prone to collisions. It also explores other hash functions like "foldhash" and "foldmul" that use multiplication to distribute entropy.

Floyd's Sampling Algorithm

42 ibobev 2026-04-07 09:39:44 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 3

The user discusses Floyd's algorithm for generating a uniformly distributed subset of size k from a set of 1 to n, explaining two ways to understand its correctness. The algorithm can be seen as either incrementally building a permutation and then taking the last k elements, or as a series of swaps that map to the two branches of the algorithm.

Hybrid Attention

40 JohannaAlmeida 2026-04-07 13:06:28 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 9

Modified PyTorch's attention to improve inference speed with minimal perplexity loss. Achieved 51x speedup with a hybrid local attention and recurrent architecture on a 25.6M parameter Rust language model.

Stewart Brand on how progress happens

33 bookofjoe 2026-04-07 12:47:02 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 7

Stewart Brand's new book "Maintenance: Of Everything" celebrates learning and fixing things, arguing maintenance drives technological progress. The book draws on historical examples like interchangeable parts and the Industrial Revolution to make its point.

Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf]

29 perfmode 2026-04-07 15:29:35 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 0

Show HN: Finalrun – Spec-driven testing using English and vision for mobile apps

28 ashish004 2026-04-07 14:33:48 UTC github.com/final-run Llama Share 13

FinalRun-agent is a CLI for mobile app testing with AI-driven features. It requires Node.js, CLI, skills, and platform tools setup, and uses YAML specs, environment binding files, and config for testing.

Things I learned from Reddit fashion

27 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 14:35:13 UTC acesounderglass.com Llama Share 15

The author learned to shop for clothes online by using cart reminders for discounts, checking resale platforms like eBay and Poshmark, and assessing brand quality through research and expert opinions. They also discovered that natural fibers like wool and cashmere are generally associated with higher quality, but can be expensive and require special care.

Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail

24 juniormpakou 2026-04-07 03:05:31 UTC reddit.com Full Share 17

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The best tools for sending an email if you go silent

22 alcazar 2026-04-07 13:08:42 UTC blog.alcazarsec.com Llama Share 17

The user is looking for a dead man's switch email tool that sends custom messages or files if someone stops responding, narrowing it down to five options including Google Inactive Account Manager and Alcazar Dead Man's Switch. The user wants a tool that can send separate messages to different people on different schedules, with options like Alcazar Dead Man's Switch and LastSignal being the ...

Who was "Not Even Wrong" first? [2023]

18 bookofjoe 2026-04-07 14:01:41 UTC math.columbia.edu Llama Share 2

Wolfgang Pauli's phrase "It is not even wrong" was used to criticize a young physicist's paper, possibly by Everett in 1957 or by Stueckelberg in the late 1940s. The phrase was used to indicate a paper was not only wrong but also lacked any redeeming value or insight.

Iran Is Not Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It's Running a Toll Booth

18 realpolitik9 2026-04-07 08:33:49 UTC shatterbelt.co Llama Share 17

Iran has established a permission economy at the Strait of Hormuz, allowing ships from certain countries to transit through Iranian territorial waters in exchange for payment and compliance with its rules. The selective blockade has created a sour crude crisis and is being used by Iran to assert its sovereignty over the strait and divide potential adversaries.

More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong

17 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 13:21:57 UTC bookofjoe2.blogspot.com Llama Share 18

You questioned the purpose of bubble wrap's bubble side and flat side, and a company replied that the bubbles should face outwards for protection. The bubbles are on the outside to serve as a shock barrier.

Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI

17 mfrw 2026-04-07 06:20:54 UTC nullprogram.com Llama Share 7

The user created a CMake debugger called dcmake using recent leaps in software engineering productivity and AI assistance, which would have taken a month prior to 2026. dcmake allows interactive debugging of CMake with a GUI interface and supports multiple platforms including macOS, Windows, and Linux.

USCIS.gov sends user/visitor data to Meta and Google

16 sricola 2026-04-07 23:10:38 UTC varlog.in Llama Share 1

This tool analyzes HTML and linked resources with two scan options: standard and deep, with deep scan using a headless browser to catch dynamic scripts. It detects client-side scripts and network requests but cannot detect server-side tracking.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

16 EA-3167 2026-04-07 21:23:12 UTC nature.com Llama Share 2

A researcher created a fake medical condition called bixonimania to test AI chatbots' ability to spread misinformation. The experiment was successful, with major AI systems repeating the invented condition as if it were real, highlighting the risks of relying on AI-generated references without verifying the underlying papers.

AI Won't Replace You, but a Manager Using AI Will

16 PretzelFisch 2026-04-07 10:37:38 UTC yanivpreiss.com Llama Share 10

Managers must bridge the gap between AI and human potential by leading teams effectively and making decisions with AI. They should focus on outcomes, not just output, and create a culture of collective intelligence.

An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View

15 ibobev 2026-04-07 08:48:17 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 0

Michael Van Nuland, a biologist, is studying mycorrhizal fungi in Alaska's tundra to understand their role in storing carbon and resisting climate change. His team is sampling soil across the region to identify rare fungal species and predict their locations globally.

Building Slogbox

14 zimpenfish 2026-04-07 08:23:16 UTC alexrios.me Llama Share 1

slogbox is a Go library that provides a ring buffer for structured logs, allowing for efficient storage and retrieval of recent log records. It includes features such as concurrent reads and writes, snapshotting, and filtering, making it suitable for use cases like health check endpoints, black box recorders, and dev debugging.

Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 298 bytes

13 meribold 2026-04-07 16:14:19 UTC github.com/meribold Llama Share 0

A battery status program for x86-64 Linux laptops is written as a 298-byte ELF executable. It handles different file formats in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 to display battery status, including ampere hours and watt hours.

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess

11 Tomte 2026-04-07 15:42:44 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 0

The author discusses the limitations and potential risks of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are prone to confabulation, lying, and making up nonsense, and can be unpredictable and misleading. Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs are far from human-equivalent intelligence and can only excel in specific, narrow tasks, making it difficult to predict their suitability for a given task.