I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

370 blkhp19 2026-04-08 15:44:26 UTC bryankeller.github.io Llama Share 70

The author successfully ported Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to the Nintendo Wii by writing a custom bootloader, patching the kernel, and creating drivers for the Wii's hardware. The author overcame various challenges, including hardware incompatibilities, driver development, and debugging, to achieve a fully functional Mac OS X system on the Wii.

Git commands I run before reading any code

1203 grepsedawk 2026-04-08 09:44:26 UTC piechowski.io Llama Share 270

The user runs a series of git commands to get a diagnostic picture of a codebase, including commit history, high-churn files, and contributor rankings. This helps identify high-risk code, potential team issues, and crisis patterns, allowing the user to focus on the most critical areas of the codebase.

Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence

66 chabons 2026-04-08 16:44:26 UTC ai.meta.com Full Share 23

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Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs

146 snowman647 2026-04-08 16:44:26 UTC meta.ai Full Share 101

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

197 surprisetalk 2026-04-08 11:44:26 UTC terrybisson.com Llama Share 67

Aliens made of meat have been discovered and probed, but their existence is being kept secret. The aliens are trying to contact Earth, but officials advise erasing records and pretending they don't exist due to their unusual nature.

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

175 chrsw 2026-04-08 12:44:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 37

MegaTrain is a memory-centric system that efficiently trains large language models on a single GPU by storing parameters in host memory and using GPUs as transient compute engines. It achieves high training throughput through pipelined execution and stateless layer templates.

Veracrypt project update

867 super256 2026-04-08 07:44:26 UTC sourceforge.net Llama Share 313

Microsoft terminated your account used for signing Windows drivers and bootloader without warning, preventing VeraCrypt updates for Windows users. You're considering alternative solutions, such as a signature-independent program, and seeking help from Microsoft and the crypto community.

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

355 ra 2026-04-08 09:44:26 UTC skoda-storyboard.com Llama Share 435

koda developed DuoBell, a bicycle bell that outsmarts noise-cancelling headphones. The bell emits sound at a frequency that ANC algorithms can't process, increasing pedestrian reaction distance by up to 22 meters.

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

200 donohoe 2026-04-08 15:44:26 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 56

Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi's account, affecting Windows updates. VeraCrypt and WireGuard, another VPN client, face similar issues with Microsoft account terminations.

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

411 giuliomagnifico 2026-04-08 12:44:26 UTC cnet.com Llama Share 229

Flock Safety, a surveillance company, has been criticized for its AI-powered license plate cameras and data sharing practices with law enforcement and federal agencies like ICE. Cities and states are pushing back with legislation to limit the use and sharing of Flock data, and individuals can take steps to protect their privacy by being aware of surveillance in their area and advocating for change.

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

58 e-topy 2026-04-08 12:44:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 82

You're looking for a novel and less crowded project to contribute to, having explored various fields like AI, 3D printing, and drones.

Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go

28 rvitorper 2026-04-08 14:44:26 UTC github.com/rvitorper Llama Share 2

go-bt uses a cooperative multitasking model with nodes returning state instantly. It provides a minimalist set of core nodes for creating logical control flow with a custom state.

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

137 surprisetalk 2026-04-08 10:44:26 UTC scottlawsonbc.com Llama Share 40

The user spent 10 years developing an audio-reactive LED strip visualizer that uses the mel scale to model human perception of sound and gamma correction to model human perception of light, resulting in a highly engaging and musical visualization. The project has gained over 2,800 GitHub stars and has been used by thousands of people to create unique installations and experiences in ...

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess

191 pabs3 2026-04-08 13:44:26 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 157

The author discusses the limitations and potential risks of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are prone to confabulation, lying, and making up nonsense, and can be unpredictable and misleading. Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs are far from human-equivalent intelligence and can only excel in specific, narrow tasks, making it difficult to predict their suitability for a given task.

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

32 DamnInteresting 2026-04-08 14:44:26 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 13

LG's rollable phone, the Rollable, was a complex device with a motorized screen that expanded 40% larger. It was overengineered, expensive, and fragile, likely contributing to its failure to launch and the demise of LG's smartphone division.

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

297 tetrisgm 2026-04-08 05:44:26 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 101

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

100 bundie 2026-04-08 06:44:26 UTC blog.railway.com Llama Share 80

Railway migrated from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router, reducing build time from 10+ minutes to under 2 minutes. This change improved iteration speed and allowed for near-instant shipping of frontend changes.

Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

125 alxndr 2026-04-08 09:44:26 UTC rumproarious.com Llama Share 59

The user uses Obsidian with AI to build a personal knowledge base by collecting raw sources into a directory and having an LLM compile them into a wiki of interlinked markdown files. This system serves as a context engineering system, providing the input layer that makes every future LLM interaction better by storing meeting notes, linked decisions, and filed artifacts.

Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map

28 intofarlands 2026-04-08 15:44:26 UTC intofarlands.com Full Share 3

Use the interactive map to explore the Silk Roads, discover new routes, learn what resources and goods are traded, or find an outpost or town to dive into. Black Icon indicates this place has been charted but currently at work to bring it online. Small black dot indicates a significant Silk Road outpost but has yet to be visited by us.

Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing

19 bookofjoe 2026-04-08 14:44:26 UTC rovers.land Full Share 2

follow the curiosity rover across mars, sol by sol, through every photo it has taken since landing in 2012 · by @laurentdelrey

Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route

11 vkatluri 2026-04-08 15:44:26 UTC navimodo.com Full Share 7

💡Click weather markers on the map for detailed forecasts at that specific location and time

Union types in C# 15

87 0x00C0FFEE 2026-04-08 10:44:26 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 100

C# 15 introduces union types with the union keyword, allowing a value to be exactly one of a fixed set of types with compiler-enforced exhaustive pattern matching. This feature provides a closed set of case types, enabling designs that traditional hierarchies can't express and catching missing cases at build time.

Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

65 pruz 2026-04-08 12:44:26 UTC github.com/pcruz1905 Llama Share 17

A proxy is used to inject required HTTP headers and rewrite m3u8 playlists for IPTV/HLS sources. It auto-learns Referer headers and handles token refresh transparently, making it easy to stream content.

Show HN: BAREmail ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

27 Virgo_matt 2026-04-08 15:44:26 UTC github.com/matt-virgo Llama Share 22

BAREMAIL is a minimalist Gmail client for low-bandwidth environments that uses the Gmail API and is under 200KB gzipped. It's a Progressive Web App that can be installed on devices and runs entirely in the browser with no backend server.

A Digital Compute-in-Memory Architecture for NFA Evaluation

5 blakepelton 2026-04-08 16:44:26 UTC dl.acm.org Prefix Share 1

Regular expressions are a powerful descriptive language used to define signatures for network intrusion detection systems (IDS). IDS check all incoming and outgoing packets in a computer network for known malicious signatures. One widely used open-source IDS is SNORT, which provides a community-assembled rule set [1], which we use also in our evaluation. Fig. 1 shows the general structure of ...

Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs

5 dreamsome 2026-04-08 16:44:26 UTC github.com/onesuper Prefix Share 5

tui-use gives agents access to the parts of the terminal that bash can't reach — every REPL, installer, and TUI app built for humans. AI agents can run shell commands, read files, and call APIs. But they stall the moment a program asks for input — because most CLI tools were built for humans, not agents. tui-use fills that gap. Spawn any program in a PTY, observe its screen as plain text, ...

Protect your shed

260 baely 2026-04-08 03:44:26 UTC dylanbutler.dev Llama Share 70

The author's career as an engineer was split between building banking systems at enterprise scale and personal projects in their backyard shed. The enterprise work taught them to engineer at scale, but the personal projects kept them an engineer and allowed them to maintain their curiosity and creativity.

Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)

87 indraneelpatil 2026-04-08 08:44:26 UTC indraneelpatil.github.io Llama Share 38

We built a robot vacuum from scratch with a laptop-based navigation system, using behavior cloning to train a CNN with expert trajectories collected through teleoperation. The robot is capable but not completely autonomous, requiring babysitting and further data collection to improve its navigation and autonomy.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

802 be7a 2026-04-07 18:44:26 UTC www-cdn.anthropic.com Llama Share 600

Claude Mythos Preview is a large language model from Anthropic with powerful capabilities in areas like software engineering and cybersecurity. It has demonstrated a striking leap in cyber capabilities but is not being released for general availability due to potential risks.

Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

86 pavlov 2026-04-08 14:44:26 UTC ft.com Full Share 132

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