After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites

92 datadrivenangel 2026-04-06 23:25:49 UTC blog.ericgoldman.org Llama Share 48

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.

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

114 l1n 2026-04-06 22:25:49 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 47

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

223 MattHart88 2026-04-06 20:25:49 UTC github.com/matthartman Llama Share 100

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.

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

809 adrianhon 2026-04-06 11:25:49 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 292

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.

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

200 benswerd 2026-04-06 17:25:49 UTC freestyle.sh Full Share 114

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

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

319 thadt 2026-04-06 16:25:49 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 138

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.

Porting Go's strings package to C

23 ingve 2026-04-06 23:25:49 UTC antonz.org Llama Share 3

The author ported Go's bytes and strings packages to C, using allocators for memory management. The C versions outperformed Go in most benchmarks, sometimes by 2-4x.

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

210 player_piano 2026-04-06 16:25:49 UTC govauctions.app Llama Share 64

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.

Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

44 kitfunso 2026-04-06 22:25:49 UTC github.com/kitfunso Llama Share 13

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.

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

742 StanAngeloff 2026-04-06 14:25:49 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 461

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.

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

259 Bender 2026-04-06 14:25:49 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 131

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.

What being ripped off taught me

328 doctorhandshake 2026-04-06 13:25:49 UTC belief.horse Llama Share 182

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.

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

206 ibobev 2026-04-06 14:25:49 UTC stephendiehl.com Llama Share 146

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.

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

99 flinner 2026-04-06 16:25:49 UTC showbiz411.com Llama Share 110

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.

HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

0 2026-04-06 21:25:49 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.

Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go

126 whalesalad 2026-04-06 15:25:49 UTC github.com/anzellai GoogleT5 Share 44

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

45 factorialboy 2026-04-06 20:25:49 UTC shapemachine.xyz Full Share 15

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

Agent Reading Test

46 kaycebasques 2026-04-06 19:25:49 UTC agentreadingtest.com Llama Share 15

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 ...

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

386 akyuu 2026-04-06 18:25:49 UTC wesnoth.org Llama Share 95

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.

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

17 noone_youknow 2026-04-06 21:25:49 UTC github.com/roscopeco Llama Share 5

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.

Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

24 4RH1T3CT0R 2026-04-06 21:25:49 UTC github.com/4rh1t3ct0r7 Llama Share 4

A TrueType font was used to render 3D graphics by embedding a DDA raycasting engine in the font file and using font-variation-settings to pass coordinates to the font. A custom compiler was written to generate TrueType hinting assembly from a custom DSL, which was then injected into a .ttf file to create the TTF-DOOM game.

The Last Quiet Thing

150 coinfused 2026-04-06 13:25:49 UTC terrygodier.com Llama Share 88

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.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

466 drob518 2026-04-06 19:25:49 UTC bramcohen.com Llama Share 403

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.

Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

46 lazarkap 2026-04-06 22:25:49 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 23

You're struggling to find a marketing co-founder due to risk concerns and lack of revenue. You're looking for advice on how others have successfully brought on a marketing co-founder.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

51 jruohonen 2026-04-06 17:25:49 UTC nxdomain.no Llama Share 5

The author has been running a greytrapping experiment on their mail server since 2007, which has grown to over 22 million spamtraps, surpassing the population of Norway. The author shares their experience and insights on running a mail server, greylisting, and greytrapping, and hopes to encourage others to set up their own mail services using tools like OpenBSD and PF.

SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines

24 tosh 2026-04-06 19:25:49 UTC som-st.github.io Llama Share 0

SOM is a virtual machine with various implementations and optimizations, used for teaching and research in object-oriented programming. It has been used in several universities and has been the basis for other projects such as Resilient Smalltalk and OOVM.

Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

21 edumucelli 2026-04-06 19:25:49 UTC docking.cc Llama Share 5

Docking is a customizable, open-source Linux dock application written in Python. It offers a modular widget system, cross-desktop environment support, and extensibility.

The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

37 chermanowicz 2026-04-06 23:25:49 UTC garymarcus.substack.com Llama Share 6

A solo founder created a $1.8B company in 2 months using AI, but Medvi's success is marred by a class action lawsuit for violating California's anti-spam law. Medvi's business model is questionable, with potential compliance and data handling issues.

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed

240 rglullis 2026-04-06 18:25:49 UTC osnews.com Llama Share 115

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect Creative Cloud installation. They use this method due to Chrome blocking Local Network Access.

France pulls last gold held in US

561 teleforce 2026-04-06 08:25:49 UTC mining.com Llama Share 304

The Bank of France repatriated 129 tonnes of gold from New York to Paris, generating a 13 billion euro capital gain due to rising gold prices. France's gold reserves remain at 2,437 tonnes, now entirely held in Paris, with 134 tonnes to be upgraded by 2028.