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We accepted surveillance as default

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-survei...

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

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

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

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

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappea...

Show HN: Trainly – Free 72-hour audit of your AI agent's production traces

https://www.trainlyai.com/audit

Kalshi suspends 3 US congressional candidates for 'political insider trading'

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kalshi-suspends-t...

F-35 is built for the wrong war

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

The PowerShell-Haters Handbook

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

If This Road

https://ifthisroad.com/

Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer

https://twitter.com/aaronjmars/status/204701725127...

ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce

https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/ExboXl/remarkable-kut...

Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artific...

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

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

Middle Eastern News Sites Are U.S. Government Propaganda Ops

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/20/pentagon-middl...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

The RAM shortage could last years

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

Pandas feels clunky coming from R. What about Haskell?

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

Not buying another Kindle

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

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

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

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/

Bitwarden CLI NPM package has been compromised

https://opensourcemalware.com/npm/@bitwarden/cli

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard

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

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv

Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans

https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi...

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

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

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

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

Work with the garage door up

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_gara...

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

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