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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-b...

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

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Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

http://amasci.com/static/electrostatic1.html

This 'miracle tree' can filter more than 98% of microplastics from tap water

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/climate/moringa-mir...

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/

California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate

https://kmph.com/news/local/california-high-speed-...

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/from_a_mass...

Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/fde-optional-...

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril

Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent

https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/...

Using Rust to Build a $1 Handheld Gaming Console

https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dol...

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special...

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/f...

Building a Hamiltonian Path Puzzle

https://www.4rknova.com//blog/2026/04/24/number-tr...

Should we just skip code review now?

https://xata.io/blog/ai-codes-humans-engineer

QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025)

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fos...

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/

Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jN2OCOfLs

Nvidia executive: AI is more expensive than paying human workers

https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-co...

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/we-consc...

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-cod...

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

Back Up and Running

https://blog.tindie.com/2026/04/back-up-and-runnin...

It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-sid...

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

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

Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries

https://www.mpie.de/5151287/short-circuit-solid-st...

MoQ Boy

https://moq.dev/blog/moq-boy/

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/