Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

241 jrm-veris 2026-04-14 14:15:27 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 71

The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.

5NF and Database Design

32 petalmind 2026-04-14 16:23:27 UTC kb.databasedesignbook.com Llama Share 4

The traditional way of teaching fifth normal form (5NF) is confusing and unnecessary, and a more logical approach is to start with business requirements and create a physical table schema using a textbook table design strategy. Two patterns of physical table design follow naturally: the AB-BC-AC triangle and the ABC+D star pattern, both of which are fully normalized and do not require 5NF ...

DaVinci Resolve – Photo

925 thebiblelover7 2026-04-14 03:15:27 UTC blackmagicdesign.com Llama Share 237

DaVinci Resolve Photo page offers advanced color tools for still photography, including DaVinci color grading and Resolve FX. It supports RAW files from major camera brands and allows for GPU-accelerated processing.

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

686 zdw 2026-04-14 03:15:27 UTC developers.google.com Full Share 405

Let's Talk Space Toilets

21 zdw 2026-04-14 16:15:27 UTC mceglowski.substack.com Llama Share 2

NASA has been working on space toilets for decades, with early designs being rudimentary and often causing problems for astronauts, but recent advancements have improved the systems, especially for the International Space Station. However, the challenge of designing a reliable and safe toilet for a Mars mission is significant, requiring consideration of factors like radiation, gravity, and ...

Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?

23 zc2610 2026-04-14 16:15:27 UTC github.com/ginlix-ai Llama Share 9

LangAlpha is a vibe investing agent built to help interpret financial markets and support investment decisions. It runs on a provider-agnostic model layer, abstracting across multiple LLM backends, and supports a three-tier data provider hierarchy.

Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

702 rrreese 2026-04-14 09:15:27 UTC rareese.com Llama Share 421

User used Backblaze for 10 years but discovered it stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders without notification. Backblaze's change in policy eroded user's trust, breaking their promise to back up all data.

Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go

34 mc-serious 2026-04-14 14:15:27 UTC github.com/kontext-dev Llama Share 9

Kontext CLI is an open-source tool that securely manages AI coding agent credentials. It replaces long-lived API keys with short-lived, scoped credentials.

jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

378 tigerlily 2026-04-14 11:15:27 UTC steveklabnik.github.io Llama Share 314

jj is a simpler and more powerful DVCS than git, combining the best of git and Mercurial. It has a git compatible backend, allowing you to try it without converting others.

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

171 zagwdt 2026-04-14 08:15:27 UTC introspective-diffusion.github.io Llama Share 35

Researchers introduce Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) to improve parallel token generation, matching AR model quality and outperforming prior DLMs. I-DLM uses introspective strided decoding to verify generated tokens, achieving 2.9-4.1x higher throughput than LLaDA-2.1-mini and SDAR at high concurrency.

Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery

8 evakhoury 2026-04-14 15:15:27 UTC decomposition.al Prefix Share 0

A zine (pronounced like the last syllable in “magazine”) is “a small-circulation print or online publication that is produced through noncommercial means and is meant to appeal to a niche audience”. This page collects zines created by my students and me, all free to download, print, and distribute! This zine is an introduction to causally ordered message delivery, a fundamental abstraction ...

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work

161 aphyr 2026-04-14 15:15:27 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 109

The author warns that machine learning (ML) may lead to widespread job displacement, deskilling, and automation bias, potentially exacerbating wealth and power consolidation in the hands of large tech companies. The author fears that ML may not deliver on promises of abundance and instead lead to economic shocks, increased income inequality, and a loss of intellectual inheritance.

The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer

42 tekknolagi 2026-04-14 12:15:27 UTC cfallin.org Llama Share 10

The author describes the aegraph, a data structure at the heart of Cranelift's mid-end optimizer, and explains how it was developed to unify code motion, canonicalization, and rewrites in a single framework. The author outlines the process of elaboration, which involves canonicalizing pure operators, putting them into a sea-of-nodes representation, performing rewrites, and then converting ...

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

30 speckx 2026-04-14 16:15:27 UTC adele.pages.casa Llama Share 4

User loves the Fediverse for its open protocol and lack of algorithmic feed, but dislikes heavy clients requiring modern browsers and JavaScript. They created SmolFedi, a lightweight PHP client that generates HTML server-side, supporting multiple accounts and features.

The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

87 remilouf 2026-04-14 10:15:27 UTC thetypicalset.com Llama Share 31

Tool calling with closed-source models is seamless, but with open models, it depends on a wire format the engine must understand, leading to implementation burdens. A shared declarative way to describe wire formats is needed to standardize tool calling across models and engines.

Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

98 rfarley04 2026-04-14 09:15:27 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 57

Franklin Computer Corporation's ads, including one featuring Ralph Archbold as Benjamin Franklin, were memorable but problematic due to copyright infringement on Apple products. The company's clones, such as the ACE 1000, were popular but ultimately led to a lawsuit and the company's shift away from desktop computers.

Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps

13 almogbaku 2026-04-14 16:18:27 UTC kelet.ai Llama Share 2

Kelet is a detective-like AI tool that automatically investigates failures in AI agents and proposes targeted fixes. It reads traces and signals from your agent, clusters failure patterns, and builds root cause hypotheses with evidence.

The exponential curve behind open source backlogs

47 armanckeser 2026-04-14 12:15:27 UTC armanckeser.com Llama Share 32

A queuing theory book explains why open source contributions sit for over a year due to a bottleneck of 200 open PRs on Jellyfin web, causing a 6.7-month average cycle time. Implementing flow controls like PR size limits, review priority, and a weekly triage schedule can help.

The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M

7 PaulHoule 2026-04-14 16:15:27 UTC techtinkering.com Prefix Share 2

Mouse is an interpreted stack orientated language designed by Peter Grogono around 1975. It was designed to be a small but powerful language for microcomputers, similar to Forth, but much simpler. One obvious difference to Forth is that Mouse interprets a stream of characters most of which are only a single character and it relies more on variables rather than rearranging the stack as much. ...

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

348 bumbledraven 2026-04-14 01:15:27 UTC kirancodes.me Llama Share 159

A verified implementation of zlib, lean-zip, was found to be vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the Lean runtime. Despite this, the application code had zero memory-related bugs in 105 million fuzzing executions, demonstrating the effectiveness of formal verification in producing robust software.

Nucleus Nouns

25 bewal416 2026-04-14 14:15:27 UTC ben-mini.com Llama Share 9

Companies should focus on their nucleus nouns, the core nouns that drive their app, to create a strong brand and competitive advantage. By identifying and prioritizing these nouns, companies can build expertise and craft a unique value proposition that sets them apart from competitors.

Distributed DuckDB Instance

129 citguru 2026-04-14 07:15:27 UTC github.com/citguru Llama Share 27

OpenDuck is an open-source implementation of MotherDuck's ideas for cloud-native DuckDB, offering differential storage, dual execution, and transparent remote databases. It provides an open protocol, backend, and extension for anyone to run, extend, and build on.

For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas

91 Brajeshwar 2026-04-14 16:15:27 UTC e360.yale.edu Llama Share 49

Renewables supplied more power to the US than natural gas in March, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. Rising power demand is extending the lives of aging coal power plants, complicating the transition away from fossil fuels.

Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

90 tie-in 2026-04-14 06:15:27 UTC kirancodes.me Llama Share 43

The author argues that multi-agentic software development is a distributed systems problem that inherits impossibility results from the literature, including the FLP theorem and Lamport's Byzantine Generals theorem. These results imply that consensus is impossible in certain scenarios, and the author suggests that designers should explicitly address these coordination problems rather than ...

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

1106 speckx 2026-04-13 18:15:27 UTC anchor.host Llama Share 313

A trusted WordPress plugin, Countdown Timer Ultimate, was compromised through a supply chain attack. The plugin's wpos-analytics module injected malicious code into wp-config.php, serving SEO spam to Googlebot.

WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

223 throwawayk7h 2026-04-14 00:15:27 UTC github.com/fabienmillet Llama Share 105

WiiFin is a homebrew client for Jellyfin on the Nintendo Wii, providing a console-friendly media experience. It's experimental and still under development, with optional video playback using MPlayer CE.

Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts

17 zero-st4rs 2026-04-14 13:15:27 UTC github.com/skinnyjames Llama Share 4

A Counter class is defined in Ruby using Hokusai::Block, allowing for a graphical counter with addition and subtraction buttons. The Counter class is run using Hokusai::Backend with a title, FPS, width, and height.

NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

91 moigagoo 2026-04-14 12:15:27 UTC nim-lang.org Llama Share 24

NimConf 2026 will be an online event on June 20, 2026, featuring pre-recorded talks and live chat Q&A. Submit talk proposals by May 10, 2026, for a chance to share your Nim-related ideas with the community.

A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

74 hhs 2026-04-14 05:15:27 UTC engineering.princeton.edu Llama Share 19

Engineers at Princeton designed soft-rigid hybrid robots that move without motors or external controls using a printable polymer and flexible electronics. The robots can precisely and repeatedly move and return to their original shape without wear or distortion.

GitHub Stacked PRs

847 ezekg 2026-04-13 21:15:27 UTC github.github.com Llama Share 476

The gh stack CLI and GitHub UI allow for organized pull requests in an ordered stack, making it easier to review and merge large changes. This approach breaks down big changes into small, focused pull requests that build on each other, improving review quality and team efficiency.