The End of Eleventy

42 ValentineC 2026-04-12 02:29:35 UTC brennan.day Llama Share 18

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 ...

We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran

36 breve 2026-04-12 02:39:35 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 6

Iran uses AI-generated Lego-style videos as powerful propaganda to show resistance against the US. These clips, often shared by Iranian and Russian state media, feature factual inaccuracies and antisemitic tropes to spread a pro-Iran message.

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

891 dominicq 2026-04-11 17:29:35 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 249

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.

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

257 Anon84 2026-04-11 19:29:35 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 70

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.

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

158 krackers 2026-04-11 21:29:35 UTC khronokernel.com Llama Share 107

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.

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

153 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:29:35 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 77

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How Complex is my Code?

38 speckx 2026-04-11 23:29:35 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 4

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 ...

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

92 kouosi 2026-04-11 20:29:35 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 14

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.

Dark Castle

138 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:29:35 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 18

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.

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

208 zdw 2026-04-11 16:29:35 UTC v68k.org Llama Share 55

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.

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

5 1659447091 2026-04-12 02:29:35 UTC electronicspecifier.com Prefix Share 1

Dentsu Lab’s Project Humanity is building interfaces that translate minute muscle signals and brainwaves into full digital expression – and in December 2025, they put that on a live stage in Amsterdam. There is a quiet assumption embedded in most of the products we build: that the person using them can move their hands. They can swipe, tap, type, click. The entire paradigm of human-computer ...

How to build a `Git diff` driver

88 zdw 2026-04-11 18:29:35 UTC jvt.me Llama Share 7

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.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

239 seekdeep 2026-04-11 13:29:35 UTC cirruslabs.org Llama Share 120

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.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

188 codetheweb 2026-04-11 14:29:35 UTC notes.brooklynzelenka.com Llama Share 58

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 ...

The Soul of an Old Machine

32 mskalski 2026-04-11 22:29:35 UTC skalski.dev Llama Share 7

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.

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

389 vidluther 2026-04-11 06:29:35 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 222

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.

Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions

32 thm 2026-04-12 02:29:35 UTC pewresearch.org Llama Share 17

Most Americans read books, with 75% saying they've read at least one in the past year, mostly in print format. However, digital and audiobooks have gained popularity, with 31% reading e-books and 7% participating in book clubs.

What is a property?

61 alpaylan 2026-04-11 20:29:35 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 17

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.

Building Slogbox

8 zimpenfish 2026-04-12 00:29:35 UTC alexrios.me Prefix Share 1

Go 1.25 shipped runtime/trace.FlightRecorder, a circular buffer for execution traces. The concept is clean: keep recent data in memory, snapshot on demand, throw away what’s old. But runtime/trace captures goroutine scheduling and GC pauses. I wanted the same idea for structured logs. So I built slogbox: a slog.Handler backed by a fixed-size ring buffer. You wire it up like any other handler, ...

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

84 tanelpoder 2026-04-11 16:29:35 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 21

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.

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

262 coolwulf 2026-04-11 17:29:35 UTC flight-viz.com Full Share 55

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

268 marvinborner 2026-04-11 07:29:35 UTC 2swap.github.io Llama Share 30

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

16 duguyue100 2026-04-12 00:29:35 UTC github.com/duguyue100 Llama Share 6

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.

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real

46 anigbrowl 2026-04-11 19:29:35 UTC noirlab.edu Llama Share 7

Astronomers have made the most precise measurement yet of the Universe's expansion rate, confirming a persistent mismatch that could point to new physics. The result, 73.50 kilometers per second per megaparsec, is higher than predicted by the standard model of cosmology.

The Problem That Built an Industry

113 ShaggyHotDog 2026-04-11 14:29:35 UTC ajitem.com Llama Share 37

The 60-year-old infrastructure that handles 4.5 billion flights annually uses Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), an IBM mainframe operating system designed for high-volume transactions. This system, despite being outdated, still outperforms modern alternatives in terms of throughput and latency, making it a testament to the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.

The APL programming language source code (2012)

49 tosh 2026-04-11 18:29:35 UTC computerhistory.org Llama Share 9

Kenneth E Iverson invented APL in 1957 as a mathematical notation, which was later developed into a computer programming language with a unique syntax and array processing capabilities. APL became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for its interactive timesharing capabilities and was used in various applications including scientific, actuarial, statistical, and financial fields.

The Life and Death of the Book Review

20 lermontov 2026-04-11 23:29:35 UTC libertiesjournal.com Llama Share 4

Book reviewing faces serious threats due to Amazon's influence and the decline of professional critics. Mainstream venues for book reviewing are disappearing, leaving a void in cultural authority and critical debate.

In Production

7 surprisetalk 2026-04-12 01:29:35 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Prefix Share 1

About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a separate service, a compiler plugin, or an entire runtime to get durable workflows. You need a SQL file and a thin SDK. Since then we’ve been running it in production, and I figured it’s ...

The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances

240 aphyr 2026-04-11 15:29:35 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 134

Companies are using large language models to divert customer service tickets and make it harder for people to reach humans. This will lead to wasted time arguing with models that lie and make promises they cannot keep.

Filing the corners off my MacBooks

1311 normanvalentine 2026-04-11 03:29:35 UTC kentwalters.com Llama Share 615

User filed off sharp corners of their MacBook for comfort, using a file and sandpaper in increments. They're happy with the result and encourage others to modify their machines for a better user experience.