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Anodized – catch Rust runtime bugs at compile time

https://docs.rs/anodized/latest/anodized/

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

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

Notice of Obsolescence

https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/04/27/notice-of-obs...

Google told staff it is 'proud' of Pentagon AI contract after internal backlash

https://www.ft.com/content/e2f5f0a7-fa24-430f-b7f8...

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

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

The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so older men can marry more wives (2005)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/14/usa....

Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

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

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

https://nikhiljha.com/posts/vt100/

Parry Parries Again: Reanimating the Famous Paranoid Chatbot (In a Day)

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/blog/pa...

Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design

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

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrin...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10303565/

Max/MSP external for running neural amplifier captures

https://github.com/apresta/neural_tilde

Quirks of Human Anatomy

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

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

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

Using Rust to Build a $1 Handheld Gaming Console

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

Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent

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

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

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

Should we just skip code review now?

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

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

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

Building a Hamiltonian Path Puzzle

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

Sophie Germain and Prime Numbers – James Maynard (Oxford Mathematics) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4zHsdOy54

Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

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

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

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