Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

78 sparkling 2026-04-12 16:35:26 UTC eualternative.eu Llama Share 15

Building a SaaS product in 2026 without AWS, Azure, or GCP is possible and practical due to strong EU options for each layer of the SaaS stack. EU providers like Hetzner, Scaleway, Mollie, Bunny.net, and others offer comparable or cheaper services with lower operational burden.

Bring Back Idiomatic Design

174 phil294 2026-04-12 13:16:26 UTC essays.johnloeber.com Llama Share 90

The user misses the consistency in design of the desktop software era and believes that homogeneous interfaces are essential for user experience, citing the example of a checkbox being a standard design idiom. They argue that the lack of design idioms in modern web applications has led to frustration and a "guessing game" for users, and suggest that following established design patterns and ...

Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)

85 Rochus 2026-04-12 13:16:26 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Llama Share 9

The user successfully ported the Oberon system to Raspberry Pi 3b and other models, making it available for download. The system now boots and runs on QEMU and real hardware, with plans to debug and migrate the network driver.

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

249 mpweiher 2026-04-12 14:16:26 UTC the-independent.com Llama Share 100

The Independent reports on various topics including climate change and reproductive rights without paywalls. Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewable energy sources.

Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)

26 wallflower 2026-04-12 15:16:26 UTC researchgate.net Full Share 18

EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

0 2026-04-12 17:03:26 UTC easypost.com Llama Share

EasyPost is a revolutionary software company simplifying shipping. It's an engineering-first company with a diverse team from startups to large tech companies.

JVM Options Explorer

123 0x54MUR41 2026-04-12 11:16:26 UTC chriswhocodes.com Llama Share 58

The input specifies options for Java Heap allocation and class loading, including aliasing, prefetching, and locking. It also sets thresholds for using malloc or mmap for memory allocation.

Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

303 littlecranky67 2026-04-12 13:16:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 129

You experienced TLS errors with a Cloudflare-hosted Docker image due to a blocked IP for a Spanish football match. This caused your GitLab pipelines to fail during the match.

I gave every train in New York an instrument

21 joshuawolk 2026-04-12 16:16:26 UTC trainjazz.com Llama Share 3

Trains form a jazz combo playing a unique, ever-changing piece based on location and time. The music is a portrait of the city, with each note reflecting the surroundings and the trains' routes.

AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

289 gHeadphone 2026-04-12 10:16:26 UTC thealgorithmicbridge.com Llama Share 480

People are increasingly frustrated with the impact of technology, particularly AI, on their lives and are turning to violence against those associated with it. This is a result of feeling desperate and powerless against the effects of technological advancements.

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

124 _Microft 2026-04-12 09:16:26 UTC phyphox.org Llama Share 23

The phyphox team received the Ars legendi-faculty award in 2020 for developing phyphox, an app for academic teaching and physics classes. They also received the teaching award in 2019 from the AG Physikalische Praktika of the German Physical Society.

Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

304 lsdmtme 2026-04-12 06:16:26 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 220

Anthropic silently changed Claude Code's prompt cache TTL default from 1 hour to 5 minutes in early March 2026. This caused a 20-32% increase in cache creation costs and quota consumption for subscription users.

Happy Map

126 surprisetalk 2026-04-12 10:16:26 UTC pudding.cool Full Share 19

100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

A Tour of Oodi

60 zdw 2026-04-12 10:16:26 UTC blinry.org Llama Share 19

Oodi is an innovative library in Helsinki with a giant screen, recording studios, and a makerspace. It offers various spaces for reading, working, gaming, and relaxation with a vast collection of books and modern amenities.

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

601 tradertef 2026-04-12 06:16:26 UTC stevehanov.ca Llama Share 348

The author, a successful bootstrapper, shares their playbook for running a lean startup with minimal costs. They use a single VPS, statically compiled binaries, and local GPU hardware for AI tasks.

The Physics of GPS

51 maouida 2026-04-12 11:16:26 UTC perthirtysix.com Llama Share 9

GPS uses satellites to measure time delays, which are converted into distances, and multiple satellites intersect to pinpoint a location. The system accounts for clock errors, gravitational time dilation, and other factors to achieve high accuracy, with modern receivers using multiple satellites and techniques to minimize errors.

Doom, Played over Curl

51 creaktive 2026-04-12 10:16:26 UTC github.com/xsawyerx Llama Share 5

This is a Node.js server that streams DOOM frames to the terminal over HTTP with cURL, allowing for real-time gameplay. The server uses a single TCP connection for both keystrokes and frame streaming, with the terminal in raw mode to prevent echoing and line-buffering.

Floyd's Sampling Algorithm

18 ibobev 2026-04-12 14:16:26 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 0

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.

We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees

131 em-bee 2026-04-12 13:16:26 UTC blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com Llama Share 119

We're a small software company that makes tools for designers and developers, but our emails often get marked as spam by Gmail due to their own reputation system. We're working to fix this by culling old addresses and slowing down our sends.

Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT

135 smokel 2026-04-12 14:16:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 43

User is hoping for the return of TheBigPromptLibrary, a study mode library, and believes it's 100% replicable. They also question the need for specialized apps like listendock.com when OpenAI's Study Mode can be used for similar purposes.

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

457 Anon84 2026-04-11 20:16:26 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 111

An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

Compute iOS XNU offset from kernel cache

10 tonygo 2026-04-12 14:16:26 UTC blog.reversesociety.co Llama Share 0

The user is documenting a repeatable methodology for extracting struct offsets from stripped kernelcaches without using a debugger, validated against iOS 16.7.12 using Binary Ninja. The methodology involves using decompiled functions, global variables, and syscall implementations to reveal the struct layouts and build paths between objects in the kernel.

The Miller Principle (2007)

62 FelipeCortez 2026-04-12 08:16:26 UTC puredanger.github.io Full Share 46

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

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

88 zdw 2026-04-12 07:16:26 UTC morethanmoore.substack.com Llama Share 52

Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO, now at Playground Global, is evaluating startups and investing in companies that can shape the industry. He believes the future of compute will be heterogeneous, combining classical, AI, and quantum systems.

Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

447 cmaster11 2026-04-12 14:16:26 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 405

Cache_read tokens count at full rate against quota, negating prompt caching benefits. This causes quota exhaustion within 1.5 hours on Pro Max 5x plans.

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

1191 dominicq 2026-04-11 17:16:26 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 318

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

Tofolli gates are all you need

104 ibobev 2026-04-12 04:16:26 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 33

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.

Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

108 miadabdi 2026-04-12 12:16:26 UTC mastodon.social Full Share 73

Attached: 1 image 🗓️ Exactly six weeks ago on Saturday 28 February, #Iran fell victim to a regime-imposed internet blackout that remains in place after 1008 hours, now entering day 43. The censorship measure's harms grow daily, damaging livelihoods and violating Iranians' digital and human rights.

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

245 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:16:26 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 132

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Dark Castle

227 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:16:26 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 30

Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.