My Experience as a Rice Farmer

44 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 05:23:17 UTC xd009642.github.io Llama Share 3

The user spent January-July 2025 helping with their wife's family rice farm in rural Japan, learning about the process from preparation to planting. Japan's rice farming system faces challenges due to aging farmers, limited income, and automation, potentially leading to a decline in rural communities.

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

349 MattHart88 2026-04-06 20:23:17 UTC github.com/matthartman Llama Share 155

Ghost Pepper is a free, 100% local macOS app for speech-to-text transcription. It runs entirely on Apple Silicon, requiring Accessibility permission for functionality.

Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

106 TheWiggles 2026-04-07 01:23:17 UTC github.com/solod-dev Llama Share 27

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.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

992 StanAngeloff 2026-04-06 14:23:17 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 555

Claude's performance in complex engineering tasks degraded starting in February due to reduced thinking depth caused by the rollout of thinking content redaction. This led to quality issues, including reduced research effort, increased edit-first behavior, and production of wrong output.

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

257 benswerd 2026-04-06 17:23:17 UTC freestyle.sh Full Share 144

Git, VMs, deployments, and execution — unified infrastructure for code you didn't write. The platform for AI app builders and workflow engines.

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

1256 adrianhon 2026-04-06 11:23:17 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 482

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board after allegations of deception, but was reinstated after a public backlash and pressure from employees. The board's decision to fire Altman was motivated by concerns about his trustworthiness and ability to lead the company.

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

436 thadt 2026-04-06 16:23:17 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 177

The author has changed their position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography due to recent progress in quantum computers, with experts predicting a deadline of 2029, and believes it's now unacceptable to delay the rollout. The author recommends deploying post-quantum key exchange and signatures immediately, and abandoning hybrid classic and post-quantum authentication schemes.

Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos

32 mariuz 2026-04-07 03:23:17 UTC curiousmarc.com Llama Share 5

The Virtual AGC Website is a comprehensive resource for AGC information, featuring recovered and scanned materials from various sources. It offers documentation, videos, and software for those interested in AGC hardware and software, including core memory and DSKY screen emulation.

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

294 Bender 2026-04-06 14:23:17 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 142

Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian, is identified as the elusive hacker UNKN who led ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil. He and another Russian extorted nearly $2 million euros in cyberattacks causing over 35 million euros in economic damage.

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

266 player_piano 2026-04-06 16:23:17 UTC govauctions.app Llama Share 76

Government surplus auctions sell billions of dollars worth of items annually, including vehicles, equipment, and seized assets. GovAuctions aggregates listings from major platforms into one searchable interface, allowing users to browse and bid on deals.

Peptides: where to begin?

116 A_D_E_P_T 2026-04-06 21:23:17 UTC science.org Full Share 147

VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

145 bobsoap 2026-04-07 01:23:17 UTC github.com/netflix Llama Share 42

VOID removes objects from videos along with their interactions, using two transformer checkpoints trained sequentially. It can be run in two passes for higher temporal consistency, with the fastest way to try VOID being the included notebook.

What being ripped off taught me

387 doctorhandshake 2026-04-06 13:23:17 UTC belief.horse Llama Share 198

I was hired to help finish an AR bus tour project in Beijing, but the team was in disarray with no version control, poor coding practices, and unrealistic expectations. They failed to pay me $35k after I worked 24 days straight to fix their project.

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute

226 l1n 2026-04-06 22:23:17 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 97

Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity to power its frontier Claude models. This expansion will help serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide and strengthen American computing infrastructure.

Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

85 kitfunso 2026-04-06 22:23:17 UTC github.com/kitfunso Llama Share 16

Hippo is a shared memory layer across AI agents that captures and consolidates memories, allowing for context to carry over between sessions. It uses a two-speed storage system, decay, retrieval strengthening, and other mechanisms to help agents learn from their experiences.

Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V

60 noone_youknow 2026-04-06 21:23:17 UTC github.com/roscopeco Llama Share 21

Anos is a modern, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines, currently supporting user mode preemptive multitasking on up to 16 CPUs. It has a custom toolchain and supports UEFI boot on real hardware.

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

148 flinner 2026-04-06 16:23:17 UTC showbiz411.com Llama Share 232

Little created AI singer Eddie Dalton, inventing his look, sound, and videos, and is releasing music through iTunes and YouTube. Despite high chart rankings, Eddie Dalton's sales are low, with only 6,900 tracks sold, raising questions about the authenticity of his success.

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

239 ibobev 2026-04-06 14:23:17 UTC stephendiehl.com Llama Share 171

The novel "Antimemetics Division" by qntm is a cosmic horror story about a team fighting invisible threats to reality. It explores the concept of information as a substrate of reality and the fragility of human memory and identity.

The Last Quiet Thing

205 coinfused 2026-04-06 13:23:17 UTC terrygodier.com Llama Share 113

The watch costs twelve dollars and has basic functionality since 1989. It doesn't track health or require maintenance, unlike modern devices that need constant updates and attention.

Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go

158 whalesalad 2026-04-06 16:23:17 UTC github.com/anzellai GoogleT5 Share 57

Sky is an experimental programming language that combines go's pragmatism with elm&39's elegance to create a simple, fullstack language. the compiler auto-wires component messages when the naming convention is followed -- no manual forwarding needed in update! the current compiler (v0.7.x) uses any for function parameters and returns. eight compiler source files were refactored to ...

Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome

86 factorialboy 2026-04-06 20:23:17 UTC shapemachine.xyz Full Share 21

Features Sponsor Tusk is free and open source. If it's useful to you, consider sponsoring its development.

Graph-go – zero config, full visibility

22 devGrimm 2026-04-07 02:23:17 UTC github.com/guilherme-grimm Llama Share 2

graph-info is a tool for visualizing and monitoring infrastructure with real-time health monitoring. It auto-discovers infrastructure by connecting to the Docker daemon and Kubernetes.

Linux extreme performance H1 load generator

13 MDA2AV 2026-04-07 03:23:17 UTC gcannon.org Llama Share 5

Glass Cannon is a fast HTTP load generator built on io_uring's batched async I/O. It measures latency with microsecond resolution and tracks every response for exact percentile calculations.

Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'

8 tosh 2026-04-07 06:46:17 UTC macrumors.com Prefix Share 0

Apple appears to be quietly updating some apps, based on curious new update notes that have appeared on the App Store. Over the last week, some app updates have included notes that suggest the update is coming from Apple rather than an app developer. "This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included," reads the description. Some of the ...

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

4 ductionist 2026-04-07 05:23:17 UTC midi.guide Prefix Share 0

MIDI Guide, the open, "comprehensive" MIDI CC & NRPN dataset, has far outgrown its original purpose. Recently, I merged in the work of a first-time contributor, putting MIDI Guide's dataset over 300 instruments. The pull request was a complete reference for the (somewhat idiosyncratic, in my opinion) MIDI CC implementation of a synth I'd never heard of, the RozzBox One V2 ...

HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

0 2026-04-06 21:23:17 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

HackerRank is transforming developer hiring with AI agents, seeking a Field Development Engineer to help customers implement a new hiring process. The role requires technical fluency and strong communication skills to bridge product and customer teams.

Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game

461 akyuu 2026-04-06 18:23:17 UTC wesnoth.org Llama Share 127

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.

After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)

175 datadrivenangel 2026-04-07 00:23:17 UTC blog.ericgoldman.org Llama Share 117

The author signed up for Google AdSense in 2005 to learn about online advertising but now makes minimal money and experiences issues with ad intrusiveness and quality. After 20 years, the author has deleted all domains from AdSense due to these problems and to simplify their blog's classification as non-commercial.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

536 drob518 2026-04-06 19:23:17 UTC bramcohen.com Llama Share 453

The Claude team's source code leak is due to excessive dogfooding, where they're trying to avoid looking at the code's internal workings. This leads to poor quality software, as AI coding tools can't fix issues without human guidance.

Agent Reading Test

63 kaycebasques 2026-04-06 19:23:17 UTC agentreadingtest.com Llama Share 17

The Agent Reading Test is a benchmark that evaluates AI coding agents' ability to read web content by giving them realistic documentation tasks and scoring their performance based on canary tokens encountered. The test has 20 points, with each canary token found earning 1 point and correct answers to qualitative questions earning 1 point each, with a typical score range of 14-18 out of 20 for ...