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Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)

https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-thin...

Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent

https://jtomschroeder.com/blog/approximating-tanh/

A printing press for biological data

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-printing-press-fo...

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plan...

Show HN: #1 On This Day

https://onthisday-theta.vercel.app

Ask HN: Cyberdecks are cool but do they serve a purpose?

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Show HN: I Reverse Engineered Codex Background Computer Use

https://github.com/actuallyepic/background-compute...

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

https://britannica11.org/

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to...

Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-lo...

Show HN: Claude Code Manager

https://claude.ldlework.com/

Show HN: I built a simple site to reduce tool overload and improve focus

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Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want

https://morgin.ai/articles/even-uncensored-models-...

A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil

https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-history-of-era...

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-you...

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64

The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hershey-electric-railway...

Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (Part 2)

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/04/1...

Show HN: Lilo – a self-hosted, open-source intelligent personal OS

https://github.com/abi/lilo

Trace – a compiled language where every value knows why it has its value

https://github.com/the-pro-coder/trace-lang

How to Attend the Altman vs. Musk Trial

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X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/x-is-shutting-do...

2 Men claimed a record by driving an old 3-wheel car length of Africa

https://apnews.com/article/adventure-car-africa-re...

Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week

https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-re...

Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy

The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)

https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ether...

People Do Not Yearn for Automation

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-b...

We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-are-still-...

Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/