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Plastic film covered in tiny pillars can tear apart viruses on contact

https://theconversation.com/new-plastic-film-cover...

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-...

ChatGPT Recommends the Same 3 Companies to Every B2B Buyer. Until They Specify

https://growtika.com/blog/chatgpt-b2b-persona-reco...

"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2

https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetx...

Corner-Case RCU Implementations

https://people.kernel.org/paulmck/stupid-rcu-trick...

PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue

https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque

'The status quo is unsustainable': scrutiny of Kalshi, Polymarket explodes

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/congress-...

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442...

New Tractor with 12-Valve Cummins and Zero Electronics Goes Back to the Basics

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-...

Casus Belli Engineering

https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/casus-belli-enginee...

Slop Cop

https://awnist.com/slop-cop

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-p...

The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood

https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/the-quiet-disap...

U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working for the CIA, Sources Say

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-dea...

The Stress of Elite Chess Is Wearing Down the Game's Champions

https://thewalrus.ca/the-stress-of-elite-chess-is-...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-wants-...

Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/09/ted...

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/

Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors

https://danielmangum.com/posts/floating-point-cort...

Scientists stunned by 'fundamentally new way' life produces DNA

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists...

Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/914984/godz...

The AI engineering stack we built internally – on the platform we ship

https://blog.cloudflare.com/internal-ai-engineerin...

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

https://victorpoughon.github.io/interval-calculato...

Category Theory Illustrated – Orders

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-...

Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html

PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption

https://hajo.me/blog/2026/02/16/popos-linux-creati...

Show HN: MCPfinder – An MCP server that finds and installs other MCP servers

https://mcpfinder.dev/

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848

Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads

https://www.sidephone.com/

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing...