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The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-wa...

Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Show HN: Mdpdf a 2k line C CLI to convert Markdown to tiny PDFs

https://github.com/schicho/mdpdf

The Vasa

https://psychsafety.com/the-vasa-disaster/

Bitcoin and quantum computing

https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quan...

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

https://tubesoundquiz.com/

JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-jsir-a-high-level...

Blackholing My Email

https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/blackholing-my-emai...

Mario and Earendil

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earend...

Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/microsoft-photodna-s...

A complete GPT language model in ~600 lines of C#, zero dependencies

https://github.com/milanm/AutoGrad-Engine

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/

You Can Just Print an Air Purifier

https://aftermath.site/3d-printing-air-purifier-co...

Margin – Open annotation layer for the internet

https://margin.at/

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064541/

Ask HN: Why Databases Instead of Filesystem?

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Poll: Majority of voters say risks of AI outweigh the benefits

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pol...

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

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

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

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

Claude Managed Agents Overview

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents...

Glasses Got Worse on Purpose

https://worse-on-purpose.beehiiv.com/p/your-glasse...

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

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

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

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

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

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

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

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

Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-st...

Suez Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis

Gemma 4 on iPhone

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

BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/b...

How Costco Won in Japan (2025)

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