The End of Eleventy

93 ValentineC 2026-04-12 02:23:17 UTC brennan.day Llama Share 42

The Font Awesome team has launched a Kickstarter for Build Awesome, a rebranded version of the static site generator 11ty, which has already reached its funding goal, but many 11ty developers are concerned about the project's direction and potential impact on the open-source community. The rebranding effort has been met with skepticism, with some developers questioning the need for a paid ...

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

944 dominicq 2026-04-11 17:23:17 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 256

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.

Excellence Is a Habit

17 mooreds 2026-04-12 04:23:17 UTC flyingbarron.com Llama Share 1

NASA's success in returning to the Moon is a testament to decades of retained institutional learning, simulations, and test infrastructure. The key to resilience is repetition, simulation, and humility, built long before it's needed, not just when everything works.

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

300 Anon84 2026-04-11 19:23:17 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 84

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.

How Complex is my Code?

72 speckx 2026-04-11 23:23:17 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 10

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 ...

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

179 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:23:17 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 90

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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

17 Jimmc414 2026-04-12 05:08:17 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 1

A US appeals court ruled a 158-year-old ban on home distilling unconstitutional, citing it as an improper tax measure. The decision allows individuals to distill spirits at home for personal use or as a hobby.

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

171 krackers 2026-04-11 21:23:17 UTC khronokernel.com Llama Share 120

You worked as a Mac Admin Intern and researched Apple Silicon Virtual Machines limitations. You found the limitation is implemented in the closed-source XNU kernel, not userspace, and can be overridden by setting hv_apple_isa_vm_quota in the kernel.

Dark Castle

157 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:23:17 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 19

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.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

108 kouosi 2026-04-11 20:23:17 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 20

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.

The Brainrot Industrial Complex

8 jibone 2026-04-12 04:32:17 UTC jshamsul.com Prefix Share 0

There is perhaps no better term to describe the condition of modern society than the internet slang: “brainrot.” A phrase often used jokingly by the younger digital native generation to describe that familiar state where the mind feels dulled, overstimulated, unable to hold a single thought for long. The term is often said in humour, but beneath the joke lies something real. There are ...

Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm

11 techbelly 2026-04-12 03:23:17 UTC whitebeard.blog Llama Share 0

The user implemented a Z-machine emulator in Elm, a pure language, to run Infocom text adventure games. The emulator uses Elm's persistent data structures to achieve performance and is now available as a library for building interactive fiction players.

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

227 zdw 2026-04-11 16:23:17 UTC v68k.org Llama Share 60

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs 68K Mac applications in an emulator. It launches directly into an application without a startup phase on POSIX-like systems.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

249 seekdeep 2026-04-11 13:23:17 UTC cirruslabs.org Llama Share 123

Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI to build tooling for agentic engineers, extending its mission of making engineers more effective. Cirrus Labs will relicense its tools under a permissive license and stop charging licensing fees.

How to build a `Git diff` driver

101 zdw 2026-04-11 18:23:17 UTC jvt.me Llama Share 10

User plans to blog about creating external commands for git diff, specifically for OpenAPI specs with oasdiff. They will expose more information in output and handle 7 git diff arguments, including /dev/null for created/deleted files.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

199 codetheweb 2026-04-11 14:23:17 UTC notes.brooklynzelenka.com Llama Share 61

The user created a library called surelock to prevent deadlocks in Rust by using a linear scope token called MutexKey that threads through every acquisition and provides a compile-time witness of the current lock state. The library uses a physical-world analogy where the MutexKey is like a key that is consumed and re-emitted at each lock acquisition, and it also supports incremental ...

US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached

14 chirau 2026-04-12 04:50:17 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 2

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Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

405 vidluther 2026-04-11 06:23:17 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 225

User created pardonned.com to verify claims and easily access pardons data, using Playwright, SQLite, and Astro. They plan to extend the site with analysis and comparison tools to break down pardon composition by President and visualize changes in pardon numbers.

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

13 1659447091 2026-04-12 02:23:17 UTC electronicspecifier.com Llama Share 1

Dentsu Lab's Project Humanity translates muscle signals and brainwaves into digital expression for people with physical disabilities. Their technology allows users to interact with software and access virtual spaces like the Metaverse.

Simplest Hash Functions

8 ibobev 2026-04-12 03:23:17 UTC purplesyringa.moe Prefix Share 3

What came to your mind when you read “hash functions” in the title? If you’re pragmatic, you probably remembered SHA-256 or MD5. Those are cryptographic hash functions, and they work fast and well for arbitrary inputs, even if they are supplied by malicious actors. Or at least they’re designed to. That’s the exact opposite of what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the cheapest, ...

Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

9 quuxplusone 2026-04-12 02:23:17 UTC softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org Prefix Share 0

This is a collection of design documents, source code, and other materials concerning the birth, development, standardization, and use of the C++ programming language. First ANSI X3J16 technical meeting (Somerset, NJ) [see group photograph, courtesy of Andrew Koenig]; templates accepted (Seattle, WA); exceptions accepted (Palo Alto, CA); first Borland C++ release First ISO WG21 meeting (Lund, ...

The Soul of an Old Machine

41 mskalski 2026-04-11 23:23:17 UTC skalski.dev Llama Share 9

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.

What is a property?

65 alpaylan 2026-04-11 20:23:17 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 19

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.

Used Graphify to turn incidents into a queryable knowledge graph

8 hamzmu 2026-04-12 02:23:17 UTC github.com/rootly-ai-labs Prefix Share 1

Built on graphify, a tool inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea — instead of rediscovering knowledge from scratch on every query, have an LLM build a persistent, structured knowledge graph that grows richer over time. Graphify takes any folder of files and turns it into a queryable graph with communities, connections, and confidence scores. This fork points it at the Rootly API. ...

Method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans

4 jawiggins 2026-04-12 05:07:17 UTC nature.com Prefix Share 0

Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front of them were the results of Lu’s latest attempt to turn back time for ageing retinal nerve cells. If it worked, the method he was using could help to restore eyesight to older adults with glaucoma, an age-related condition that damages the optic nerve. And perhaps some ...

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

91 tanelpoder 2026-04-11 17:23:17 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 23

A Postgres database can handle job queues, but maintaining a healthy queue table depends on the behavior of other transactions running on the same instance. The health of the queue table is affected by competing query traffic on the primary, which can prevent autovacuum from cleaning up dead tuples.

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

277 marvinborner 2026-04-11 07:23:17 UTC 2swap.github.io Llama Share 31

A weak solution to Connect 4 was developed using a language that describes perfect play for a small subset of nodes and a small opening tree. This solution uses no search during runtime and fits in about 150 kilobytes.

Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

23 duguyue100 2026-04-12 00:23:17 UTC github.com/duguyue100 Llama Share 9

User created OpenCode, a customizable terminal file manager inspired by Midnight Commander and NVim-Tree. It allows users to create files and directories with smart create feature and can be downloaded with a pre-built binary installer.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

286 coolwulf 2026-04-11 17:23:17 UTC flight-viz.com Full Share 57

Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI

11 mfrw 2026-04-12 02:23:17 UTC nullprogram.com Llama Share 2

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.