Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

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Mercedes-Benz admits touch-sensitive controls were a mistake, will offer physical buttons in future models. The brand will blend screens with physical controls, listening to customer feedback for direct access to specific functions.

Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad

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Echo is wrong about security through obscurity being redundant, as it can still provide an additional layer of security by making it harder for attackers to find vulnerabilities. Obscurity can be an effective deterrent, as it increases the time and money attackers must spend to find and exploit vulnerabilities.

Alert-Driven Monitoring

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Teams should focus on setting up alerts as the core of infrastructure monitoring, not just building dashboards. Alerts should be actionable and teams must enforce a zero-tolerance policy on false alarms to prevent alert fatigue.

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

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Someone on the Phish Facebook group reposted a TikTok overdub. Vanessa Bayer and Paul Rudd at a lunch table, losing their minds to a song while their coworkers stare. The original was Fleetwood Mac. Whoever made it swapped in “Down With Disease.” That move is Phish fans in miniature. Someone cared enough about the song and the bit that they rebuilt a piece of pop culture around the band. ...

Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB

Dirty Writes are allowed by the SQL standard but no major database allows it. A thought experiment using a bowling alley illustrates the issue with Dirty Writes in concurrent transactions.

Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web

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The SHARP model requires sufficient disk space and RAM, so it uses the hosted model by default. Uploading the ONNX file directly may not work due to the separate .onnx.data sidecar.

What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It?

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Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case

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Rust is a viable choice for microcontroller firmware development due to its comparable memory footprint and execution speed to C. Rust's Ariel OS provides a portable system runtime with a smaller footprint than traditional bare-metal C stacks.

I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

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The user sorted a jar of screws by type, thread, and length with help from ChatGPT. They also implemented a caching strategy for their website using Cloudflare Workers and Claude's assistance.

Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

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Stanford Medicine research found individual brain patterns differ from group averages in children's brain scans. Analyzing individual brains provides insights into cognitive differences and may help develop better therapies for conditions like ADHD.

Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Porsche Penske Motorsport will show a historic Apple-inspired livery at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Laguna Seca. The design celebrates 75 years of Porsche Motorsport and 50 years of Apple's founding.

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

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Ian Duncan, a Mercury engineer, discusses how Haskell helps maintain a large and complex codebase by encoding operational knowledge into types, making the safe path easy and the wrong thing difficult. He shares lessons learned from Mercury's experience with Haskell, including the importance of containing mutation, encoding incantations in types, and using durable execution frameworks like ...

Business Owners Are Worst Clients

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You analyzed client terminations at your digital marketing agency and found that business owners who are also clients tend to be more volatile and confrontational. They often threaten legal action and are less likely to use a non-confrontational approach to problem-solving.

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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Ladybird browser made significant improvements in April, including faster JS-to-JS calls, improved HTML parsing, and enhanced UI features. The browser also fixed various bugs and added new features, such as a new Linux frontend, improved caching, and better performance on various websites.

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

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The author spent six years developing a custom mapping experience for the Apple Watch, culminating in Pedometer++ 8's watchOS mapping support.

Dav2d

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Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Haskell: Debugging

To debug Haskell programs, use tools like GHC's -prof option, the trace function, or libraries like Hugs.Observe and Hat, which provide stack traces, tracing, and debugging capabilities, or use Hat's alternative Hoed for untransformed libraries.

Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades

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The user migrated their website from SiteGround to Bluehost due to cost savings but experienced poor uptime and support. They then moved away from WordPress to a markdown-first publishing setup called Yapress for better control and flexibility.

Do_not_track

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Users can opt out of telemetry data collection by setting a standard environment variable. This variable should be checked by tools that collect telemetry or make non-essential network requests.

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

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The Windows Insider Program is improving with more transparency, control, and fewer disruptions, including changes to the navigation, Feedback Hub, and Windows Update. New features and improvements are being rolled out, such as unified updates, improved pause controls, and reduced AI presence, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.

Coffee doesn't just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects

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Researchers at Texas A&M found that compounds in coffee may activate a receptor called NR4A1, which helps protect the body from stress and damage. This could explain coffee's health benefits, including reduced risk of chronic disease and longer life.

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

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Neanderthals in central Germany 125,000 years ago extracted fat from bones by crushing and heating them, indicating complex resource management. This discovery pushes back the timeline for this behavior by tens of thousands of years, showing Neanderthals were adaptable and efficient in their food strategies.

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs

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Utah's new law targets VPN use for age verification, holding websites responsible for identifying users. The law is technically flawed and may negatively impact non-technical users relying on commercial VPN services.

Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work

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Utilyze measures GPU efficiency by reading performance counters directly. It provides an estimate of how far you can push utilization given a workload, model, and hardware.

Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

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A hotel in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, has remained closed since late 2025 due to an investigation into its operator's business model, which allegedly ties visa acquisition for Chinese investors to facility purchases. At least 24 facilities acquired by the operator are now shut or out of business.

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Global battery demand is surging, with 14 million end-of-life batteries expected by 2040. Europe is positioning itself to lead the circular battery economy with innovation and policy support.

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

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The user created Acai.sh, a tool for writing and tracking feature specs, to improve software development and collaboration. It uses a feature.yaml format and ACIDs (Acceptance Criteria IDs) to reference requirements in code and tests.

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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User is trying to apply a suggestion to a GitHub conversation but is encountering various errors such as no code changes, deleted lines, and pull request queue. The suggestion cannot be applied at this time due to these restrictions.

Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK

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A critical soundness vulnerability was found in dusk-plonk, a PLONK implementation powering Dusk Network's ~$60M market cap. The vulnerability allowed a malicious prover to forge verifying proofs for arbitrary false statements, bypassing every constraint in the transaction circuit.

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

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The agent harness runs outside the sandbox for multi-user agents, allowing shared skills and memories in a database, and uses virtualization to route tool calls to the sandbox or database. This approach keeps the API surface the same as the model was trained on and avoids the need for custom tools like memory_read.