Claude Design

440 meetpateltech 2026-04-17 16:01:24 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 268

Claude Design is a new product that lets users collaborate with Claude to create visual work like designs, prototypes, and presentations. It's available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with access included in their plans.

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

248 aray07 2026-04-17 16:01:24 UTC claudecodecamp.com Llama Share 132

Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4.7 tokenizer uses 1.3-1.45x more tokens than 4.6. This results in a 20-30% higher per-session cost for a small but real improvement in instruction following.

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)

454 ColinWright 2026-04-17 13:01:24 UTC hex.ooo Llama Share 170

A series of characters ask a computer, Multivac, about the possibility of reversing entropy and extending the life of the universe, but it responds with "insufficient data for a meaningful answer." As the universe runs down, a cosmic computer, AC, eventually learns how to reverse entropy, but there is no one left to answer the question.

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

115 speckx 2026-04-17 15:01:24 UTC thehistoryblog.com Llama Share 44

A 13-year-old in Berlin discovered a 2,300-year-old bronze coin from ancient Troy, now on display at the PETRI Museum. The coin likely traveled along ancient trade routes, possibly kept as a charm or offering to the dead, rather than used for a business transaction.

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

82 mooreds 2026-04-17 16:01:24 UTC risky.biz Llama Share 18

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new policy to prioritize only important vulnerabilities in the US National Vulnerability Database due to budget constraints. This decision is expected to impact the cybersecurity industry, with some companies relying on NIST's data for their vulnerability scanners and dashboards.

Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage

80 zdw 2026-04-17 15:01:24 UTC blog.healthchecks.io Llama Share 44

Healthchecks.io migrated from a managed to a self-hosted object storage, initially using OVHcloud and then UpCloud, but both had performance and reliability issues. The team now uses Versity S3 Gateway with a Btrfs filesystem on a dedicated server, which has improved performance and reliability, but requires additional backup and redundancy measures.

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

341 hn_acker 2026-04-17 15:01:24 UTC lawfaremedia.org Llama Share 98

The US needs to clamp down on the collection and sale of geolocation data to protect national security and privacy, as seen in the case of Webloc, a tool used by US and foreign authorities to track individuals. A new report highlights the risks of AI-powered hacking, as a single hacker used AI models to breach nine Mexican government organizations and steal hundreds of millions of citizen records.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

0 2026-04-17 17:02:24 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Kyber is building an AI-native document platform for enterprises, transforming regulatory document workflows and aiming for seamless AI template generation. They seek a hands-on Head of Engineering with expertise in AI systems, system design, and accountability to lead their engineering team.

Iceye Open Data

57 marklit 2026-04-17 15:01:24 UTC iceye.com Llama Share 8

Browse ICEYE open data on an interactive map, filtering by location, imaging mode, and date. Access and download datasets through STAC browser or AWS Registry of Open Data.

Designing the Transport Typeface

31 speckx 2026-04-17 15:01:24 UTC thamesandhudson.com Llama Share 5

Margaret Calvert is a renowned designer who created ultra-legible typeface and pictograms for the UK's national road network, railway stations, and NHS. Her career spans graphic design and education, influencing a generation of designers.

Claude Opus 4.7

1920 meetpateltech 2026-04-16 18:01:24 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1401

Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement over Opus 4.6 with better vision, more tasteful and creative task completion, and improved cybersecurity capabilities. It handles complex tasks with rigor and consistency, and is available today across all Claude products and APIs.

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

18 seanieb 2026-04-17 17:01:24 UTC github.com/paniclock Llama Share 4

PanicLock is a macOS utility that instantly locks the screen and disables Touch ID with a single click or laptop lid closure. It requires a one-time admin password setup to install a privileged helper tool.

NASA Force

59 LorenDB 2026-04-17 16:01:24 UTC nasaforce.gov Llama Share 75

NASA Force is a hiring initiative for exceptional technologists to join NASA for 1-2 years, solving complex challenges in air and space. You'll work on real missions, take a systems approach, and contribute to advancing human spaceflight and scientific discovery.

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

53 cpan22 2026-04-17 11:01:24 UTC stagereview.app Llama Share 50

Stage is a platform for fast-moving teams that breaks down pull requests into structured chapters. It provides a unified dashboard to review pull requests with context and chapters at a glance.

The Utopia of the Family Computer

66 surprisetalk 2026-04-17 14:01:24 UTC mudmapmagazine.com Llama Share 29

The internet was once a bounded tool, accessed at specific times and places, with a designated space and schedule. It was a shared practice, organized around a family computer desk, but this idea has gradually disappeared with the rise of continuous connectivity and individual devices.

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

14 mcookly 2026-04-17 16:01:24 UTC gregorio-project.github.io Llama Share 5

Gregorio is free software for engraving Gregorian chant scores, licensed under GPLv3. It's a tool for creating beautiful scores, with documentation available on its website and GitHub.

Codex for almost everything

969 mikeevans 2026-04-16 18:01:24 UTC openai.com Llama Share 517

Codex now operates alongside developers, generating images, remembering preferences, and taking on repeatable work, with deeper support for developer workflows and native web integration. The update includes over 90 new plugins, improved automations, and memory features to enhance productivity and collaboration.

Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%

9 PaulHoule 2026-04-17 17:01:24 UTC github.com/dacracot Prefix Share 1

1.0 No effort to using smart alternatives. For example | 9♠︎ | and | 9♣︎ | are both playable on | 10♥︎ |, but nothing but first encounter will choose one over the other. 1.1 Play is the same as 1.0, but deck shuffling can be repeatable via the seed parameter. 1.2 Play changed from {s2g, b2g, b2b, s2b} to {s2g, b2b, b2g, s2b} sequencing. Winning percentage increased from 7.915% to 8.590%. run ...

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

7 binsquare 2026-04-17 17:20:24 UTC github.com/smol-machines Prefix Share 4

Manage and run custom Linux virtual machines locally with: sub-second cold start, cross-platform (macOS, Linux), elastic memory usage. Pack a stateful virtual machine into a single file (.smolmachine) to rehydrate on any supported platform. # install (macOS + Linux) curl -sSL https://smolmachines.com/install.sh | bash # for coding agents — install + discover all commands curl -sSL ...

Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished

7 mellosouls 2026-04-17 17:01:24 UTC bbc.com Prefix Share 1

The US female singer-songwriter made stunning, forward-thinking songs in the 1950s, but was barely known – and aged 50, she disappeared. Now, with a new re-release of her music, she's recognised as a trailblazer. Centring on an edgy, city-dwelling female protagonist unapologetically owning her sexuality, the brilliant song Roving Woman sounds like the work of a millennial musician. ...

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

41 nowflux 2026-04-17 17:01:24 UTC twitter.com/finmoorhouse Full Share 26

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Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)

87 bryanrasmussen 2026-04-17 10:01:24 UTC prologue.blogs.archives.gov Llama Share 16

A photo of Lincoln's funeral procession in New York City revealed a young Teddy Roosevelt and his brother in the window. Another photo, taken by Mathew Brady, is believed to be the first known image of Lincoln at Gettysburg before his famous speech.

FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

117 Mr_Minderbinder 2026-04-17 08:01:24 UTC nongnu.org GoogleT5 Share 59

Fim is a universal image viewer inspired by gnu/linux concepts. it can display in full screen and you control it using the keyboard - e.g. to display more information about an image, use the _info_fmt_str variable! if you know the vi/vim text editor shortcut based usage interface then you appreciate the comfort and speed it gives..........................

Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

210 mpweiher 2026-04-17 09:01:24 UTC iqiipi.com Llama Share 146

Ada is a programming language that was designed in the 1970s for the US Department of Defense and has been consistently described as verbose and arcane, but its design decisions have influenced many modern languages. Despite its lack of popularity, Ada's features such as its package system, generic units, and concurrency model have been rediscovered and implemented in other languages, and its ...

Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

71 WesSouza 2026-04-17 14:01:24 UTC isitagentready.com Llama Share 120

The MCP API Catalog uses OAuth for protected resources and discovery. It recommends publishing a robots.txt and exposing discovery headers on the homepage for AI bot interaction.

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models

201 gregsadetsky 2026-04-17 00:01:24 UTC cadquery.github.io Full Share 53

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models. It lets you describe parts as code, making models easy to version, share, and parameterize - no GUI required.

The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard

28 AusiasTsel 2026-04-17 13:01:24 UTC blogs.lse.ac.uk Llama Share 6

Ausiàs Tsel discusses the challenges of creating a global catalogue of translations due to fragmented metadata across institutions. This results in translations being functionally invisible, especially for smaller languages.

A Python Interpreter Written in Python

125 xk3 2026-04-17 04:01:24 UTC aosabook.org Llama Share 37

The Python interpreter is a virtual machine that executes bytecode, which is an intermediate representation of Python code, by manipulating a stack and jumping to different instructions. The interpreter has a complex structure, including frames, which are collections of information and context for a chunk of code, and a call stack, which stores the frames, and a data stack, which stores the ...

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

309 adityaathalye 2026-04-16 20:01:24 UTC clojure.org Llama Share 95

Clojure is a Lisp dialect that originated from Rich Hickey's idea and has become a key language in the fintech industry. It features persistent data structures, software transactional memory, and a values-first approach to minimize complexity.

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

296 ingve 2026-04-16 19:01:24 UTC android-developers.googleblog.com Llama Share 121

Android CLI is a new tool for Android development that simplifies workflows and improves efficiency with AI-assistance. It's part of a suite of tools including Android skills and the Android Knowledge Base for high-quality app development.