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We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-o...

The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/...

How Costco Won in Japan (2025)

https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-costco-won-in-japa...

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

https://midi.guide/blog/three-hunded-synths-one-ap...

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

https://jola.dev/posts/dropping-cloudflare

Anthropic Detects Third-Party Clients via System Prompt, Not Headers

https://gist.github.com/mrcattusdev/53b046e56b5a01...

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4...

White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgld65x396go

Exposing and Understanding Scrolling Transfer Functions (2012) [pdf]

https://direction.bordeaux.inria.fr/~roussel/publi...

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm

US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/pe...

Google's AI Overviews spew false answers per hour, bombshell study reveals

https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/business/googles-ai-...

Detox may erase 10 years of social media brain damage, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/s...

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

https://sergioprado.blog/breaking-the-console-a-br...

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

https://printervention.app/details

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/mattmireles/gemma-tuner-multimo...

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper

A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-mercury-r...

Gemma 4 on iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-galle...

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bggb7781-collab/...

Verification Is the Next Bottleneck in AI-Assisted Development

https://www.opslane.com/blog/verification-bottlene...

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world

https://www.intofarlands.com/atlasofarda

Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

https://www.ft.com/content/02aefac4-ea62-48db-9326...

First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/first-...

FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-dele...

Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai...

Powell, Bessent discussed Mythos cyber threat with major U.S. banks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/powell-bessent-us-...

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-...