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Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
407 points
230 comments

Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements

item?id=47587597
72 points
65 comments

Nematophagous Fungus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematophagous_fungus
46 points
10 comments

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

https://github.com/coast-guard/coasts
98 points
39 comments

The AI Marketing BS Index

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/bs/
105 points
22 comments

The Document Foundation ejects its core developers

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-it...
110 points
60 comments

Seeing like a spreadsheet

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-the-spreadsheet-reshap...
130 points
42 comments

Japanese X is now America's favorite corner of the internet

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/01...
51 points
8 comments

First lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/worlds-first-lab-gro...
10 points
2 comments

VHDL's Crown Jewel

https://www.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/vhdls-crown-jew...
149 points
63 comments

BurgerDisk News

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/03/...
15 points
1 comments

Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner

https://freek.dev/3064-scotty-a-beautiful-ssh-task...
66 points
30 comments

Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]

https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downlo...
53 points
32 comments

Proton Meet, Talk in total privacy

https://meet.proton.me/
21 points
1 comments

Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/03/analyzing-g...
41 points
15 comments

Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua

https://loreline.app/en/docs/technical-overview/
73 points
21 comments

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advic...
790 points
615 comments

Forth VM and compiler written in C++ and Scryer Prolog

https://github.com/no382001/forth-vm
35 points
0 comments

ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover

https://old.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1rai...
75 points
35 comments

NASA: Artemis II Real time tracking with multiple views

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
10 points
0 comments

Oracle slashes 30k jobs

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-3...
909 points
843 comments

Bird brains (2023)

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
339 points
219 comments

Super Micro Computer Investors Look for Exits

https://catenaa.com/markets/equities/super-micro-c...
41 points
25 comments

Escaping the Ogallala Trap

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping-the-ogal...
13 points
14 comments

Old code never dies: why legacy software is often safer than new code

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/04/02/old-code-neve...
4 points
0 comments

Safe ways to do things in bash (2023)

https://github.com/anordal/shellharden/blob/master...
33 points
1 comments

Comparing C/C++ unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)

https://hereket.com/posts/cpp-unity-compile-inksca...
12 points
5 comments

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie

https://apnews.com/article/cleveland-salt-mine-win...
68 points
50 comments

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/...
322 points
240 comments

New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IPv6-IPv4-Lega...
120 points
181 comments