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

6 feigewalnuss 2026-04-20 07:51:18 UTC flyingpenguin.com Prefix Share 0

The sad days of DOS. Any program could peek and poke the kernel, hook interrupts, write anywhere on disk. There was no safety. The fix wasn’t a wrapper, or a different shell. It was a whole different approach to what was being done. The world already had rings, virtual memory, ACLs, separate address spaces. Thirty years of separations that Unix had from the start were ignored, and it finally ...

SDF Public Access Unix System

54 neehao 2026-04-20 05:37:18 UTC sdf.org Full Share 16

join welcome faq status members store tour gopher abuse dialup minecraft social tilde europa webmail gallery usermap irc tutorials telnet git ssh Web Browser SSH For new users WeTTY SSH in browser client ©1987-2065 SDF Public Access UNIX System, Inc. 501(c)(7) (this page was generated using ksh, sed and awk)

Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

33 tibbar 2026-04-20 06:37:18 UTC stripe.dev Full Share 9

Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here.

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

23 prismatic 2026-04-20 06:37:18 UTC vulture.com Llama Share 5

Ben Lerner's new book Transcription is a hybrid work that explores the relationship between life and fiction, featuring an unnamed narrator who interviews his mentor Thomas about fatherhood and technology. The book delves into themes of phone addiction, family dynamics, and the blurring of reality and literature.

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

27 janandonly 2026-04-20 05:37:18 UTC discovermagazine.com Llama Share 2

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.

Vercel April 2026 security incident

725 colesantiago 2026-04-19 14:37:18 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 414

Vercel disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are selling stolen data. The company is investigating and notifying affected customers, advising them to review environment variables and rotate secrets.

Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

44 PaulHoule 2026-04-20 04:37:18 UTC medium.com/@iainmcgin Llama Share 14

Anthropic open-sourced two Rust crates, buffa and connect-rust, for Protocol Buffers and ConnectRPC implementation. The crates provide performance and correctness improvements, including zero-copy message views and monomorphic dispatch.

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

93 twapi 2026-04-20 01:37:18 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 32

Claude Token Counter now compares different models, including Opus 4.7 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5. Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer, increasing token counts by 1.0-1.35x, and costs 40% more due to the same pricing.

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

173 vinhnx 2026-04-19 22:37:18 UTC legalnomads.com Llama Share 69

Fish sauce has a long history, with ancient Greeks and Romans producing garum and liquamen, while Southeast Asians independently developed nuoc mam and nam pla. The origins of fish sauce are unclear, but it remains a crucial condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, with various regional variations and uses.

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

195 walterbell 2026-04-19 20:37:18 UTC ashley.rolfmore.com Llama Share 79

People avoid doing work by trying to create systems to replace human interaction, but the problem is they're not listening properly to others. To listen effectively, one must understand the complexities of human knowledge and experiences, avoiding assumptions and stereotypes.

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

50 pseudolus 2026-04-20 03:37:18 UTC phys.org Full Share 14

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The Bromine Chokepoint

197 crescit_eundo 2026-04-19 18:37:18 UTC warontherocks.com Llama Share 100

A global semiconductor memory supply chain is vulnerable to a bromine shortage due to Israel's reliance on bromine imports and limited conversion capacity outside the country. A disruption would immediately impact global memory production, affecting consumer devices, military systems, and AI infrastructure.

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

218 Brajeshwar 2026-04-19 16:37:18 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 185

Turtle WoW, a popular World of Warcraft private server, is shutting down on May 14 after a cease and desist from Blizzard. The server will close its servers to the final patch and associated social media channels will shut down later this year.

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum

117 akashwadhwani35 2026-04-19 23:37:18 UTC sheets.works Llama Share 35

This website curates 36 mechanical keyboards and switches, providing sound-mapped audio samples from the open-source community. It's a listening museum, not a buying guide, with some entries being proxies or field recordings of the same switch in different host boards.

Knitout and Kniterate 3

21 surprisetalk 2026-04-20 04:37:18 UTC soup.agnescameron.info Llama Share 0

The user made progress on the Material Programming Project, learning 2-bed knitting and making test samples on the Kniterate machine, and also attended a workshop on the Brother ribber. They encountered issues with carrier positioning and binding off, but made progress on updating the JS knitout library to include kniterate-specific functions and creating an annotated guide to the .kcode file format.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

308 pretext 2026-04-19 11:37:18 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 176

Anthropic published system prompts for their chat system, with updates from Claude 3 to Opus 4.7, showing changes in child safety, tool usage, and response style. The new prompt includes tools like Claude in Chrome and a tool search mechanism to resolve ambiguities.

How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds

28 mikhael 2026-04-20 07:37:18 UTC sciencealert.com Llama Share 18

Researchers found distinct gut microbiomes in people with fast and slow gut transit times, linked to various health conditions. Understanding gut transit time may help tailor treatments and dietary advice to individual body rhythms.

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

26 debugga 2026-04-20 03:37:18 UTC github.com/esutcu Llama Share 8

PlanB is a linearized B+-tree IPv6 lookup algorithm with AVX-512 SIMD and a scalar fallback. It is a portable, tested, and permissively licensed library for research, teaching, and production software.

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

64 doener 2026-04-19 23:37:18 UTC swiss-ai.org Llama Share 24

The Swiss AI Initiative was launched in December 2023 with 10m GPU hours and 20m CHF grant for AI research. It brings together 800 researchers for frontier AI research on the Alps supercomputer.

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

153 shivampkumar 2026-04-20 00:37:18 UTC github.com/shivampkumar Llama Share 25

A port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model is available for Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. It replaces CUDA-only libraries with pure-PyTorch alternatives, allowing use without an NVIDIA GPU.

Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs

18 ChuckMcM 2026-04-20 03:37:18 UTC allaboutcircuits.com Llama Share 8

The 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors survived over 60 years due to Motorola's process innovation, cheap packaging, and JEDEC numbering system. They became multi-sourced commodities, still in production from various manufacturers and stocked by major distributors.

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

174 doener 2026-04-19 23:37:18 UTC mxmap.ch Full Share 46

Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners, ASN lookups, and a public Microsoft API endpoint, then classified by provider type with confidence scoring. Disclaimer: DNS records indicate mail routing and authorized senders, not necessarily where data is stored.

The RAM shortage could last years

283 omer_k 2026-04-19 08:37:18 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 319

Memory makers will meet only 60 percent of demand by 2027 due to production shortages. New fabrication capacity won't be online until 2027 or 2028, exacerbating the RAM shortage.

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

93 jruohonen 2026-04-19 19:37:18 UTC sciencedetective.org Llama Share 26

A software detected 18 cases of potential data errors in 600 open-access datasets, with 15 cases posted on PubPeer. The true error rate is likely higher than the estimated 3% due to undetectable errors and less lazy methods of data fabrication.

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

85 Akcium 2026-04-19 19:37:18 UTC cssence.com Llama Share 37

The author discusses six levels of dark mode in CSS, starting with a meta tag that allows browsers to follow user color scheme preferences. They then explore CSS color-scheme declarations, light-dark() color functions, and media queries for maximum customization.

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

70 pizza_man 2026-04-19 19:37:18 UTC github.com/navid-m Full Share 16

Chip8 Emulator. Contribute to navid-m/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

100 lukasec 2026-04-19 20:37:18 UTC browser-use.com Llama Share 45

We launched agent-native signup for Browser Use with no email or OAuth. Agents parse obfuscated math problems, and humans sign up the old way.

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

132 NordStreamYacht 2026-04-19 12:37:18 UTC nanopass.org Full Share 32

The Nanopass Framework is an embedded domain-specific language for creating compilers that focuses on creating small passes and many intermediate representations. Nanopass reduces the boilerplate required to create compilers making them easier to understand and maintain.

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

128 teamchong 2026-04-19 11:37:18 UTC teamchong.github.io Full Share 48

Gemma 4 E2B generating Excalidraw diagrams from text prompts, running entirely in desktop Chrome via WebGPU. KV cache compressed 2.4× using TurboQuant's polar+QJL algorithm reimplemented in WGSL compute shaders. Requires Chrome 134+ on desktop — Safari/iOS not supported.

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

178 Eridanus2 2026-04-19 09:37:18 UTC usenix.org Llama Share 69

A new type of malware called SPEAKE(a)R can covertly turn headphones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. The malware can record human speech of intelligible quality and eavesdrop from nine meters away, posing a significant cyber security threat.