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Meta to cut 10% of jobs to 'offset' Mark Zuckerberg's AI spending

https://www.ft.com/content/fe875f6c-f45c-4dbd-9d18...

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

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

F-35 is built for the wrong war

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

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

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

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generate...

Outrage over Oracles thousands of H-1B requests amid layoffs

https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/us-news/outrage-over...

Why prediction markets are a sure sign that our civilisation is in decay

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-prediction-mark...

Pandas feels clunky coming from R. What about Haskell?

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

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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

Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Big Mistake' as CEO

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/23/tim-cook-appl...

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

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

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

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

Not buying another Kindle

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

The RAM shortage could last years

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

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

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

The Story of Mel (1983)

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

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

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

Why Japan has such good railways

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

A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

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

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard

Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

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

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/

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

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv

Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)

item?id=47824738

Email could have been X.400 times better

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

20000 Gates and 20 MIPS [pdf]

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

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-...

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...

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

https://www.swiss-ai.org