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Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-offers...

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email

F-35 is built for the wrong war

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-...

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-...

Pandas feels clunky coming from R. What about Haskell?

https://mchav.github.io/being-less-clunky/

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-o...

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-colle...

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o

Sex differences in human brain gene expression may shape disease risk

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123725

The Story of Mel (1983)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-...

The PowerShell-Haters Handbook

https://telcontar.net/Misc/rants/PowerShell

Not buying another Kindle

https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-202...

Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?

https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-fo...

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/tu...

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligenc...

Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/crypto-sc...

A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/kubecon-eu-2026-s...

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-suc...

Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields...

I don't want your PRs anymore

https://dpc.pw/posts/i-dont-want-your-prs-anymore/

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard

20000 Gates and 20 MIPS [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/amdahl/history/20000_Gat...

Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)

item?id=47824738

For $700 a Month, Sleeping Pods Make SF More Affordable

https://www.kqed.org/news/12080289/700-a-month-sle...

In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition

https://electrek.co/2026/04/18/in-the-uk-evs-are-c...

Microsoft plans first voluntary employee buyout in company's 51-year history

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-fi...

Kalshi suspends 3 congressional candidates for wagering on their own elections

https://apnews.com/article/prediction-markets-kals...

Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv