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I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

https://leblancfg.com/intensity-pad-founder-story....
89 points
75 comments

Startup's new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/113672...
3 points
2 comments

Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta

https://femtechdesigndesk.substack.com/p/your-peri...
392 points
264 comments

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
146 points
42 comments

Lessons from Building an OTel Normalizer for GenAI

https://www.groundcover.com/blog/otel-normalizer-g...
4 points
0 comments

On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/on-the-stand-elo...
68 points
5 comments

Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude...
85 points
60 comments

Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-cherno...
158 points
103 comments

AI optimism is waning

https://bayeslord.substack.com/p/ai-optimism-is-wa...
6 points
0 comments

Pennsylvania is updating its voter registration system but won't reveal progress

https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/04/28/d...
9 points
1 comments

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-com...
283 points
217 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal...
171 points
170 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur...
792 points
560 comments

The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligenc...
114 points
133 comments

US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sup...
255 points
158 comments

PyWry: Cross-Platform Rendering Engine in Python

https://deeleeramone.github.io/PyWry/
43 points
16 comments

Both Codex and Claude got worse this week. Across every plan I retested

https://desktopcommander.app/best-value-ai/
7 points
9 comments

Tiled Words 6 Month Update

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/six-months-o...
66 points
39 comments

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

https://www.systalyze.com/utilyze
124 points
28 comments

When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
168 points
116 comments

Knee surgery for cartilage damage does not benefit patients, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/29/kn...
8 points
1 comments

Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings

https://github.com/garritfra/cell
124 points
49 comments

The predictable failure of the QDay Prize

https://algassert.com/post/2601
57 points
4 comments

U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP

https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-debt-tops-100-of-g...
155 points
211 comments

Raspberry Pi Connect may control Windows soon

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-p...
3 points
0 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
483 points
74 comments

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions

https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
17 points
1 comments

Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished

item?id=47961574
9 points
3 comments

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcement...
253 points
103 comments

Infrasound exposure is linked to aversive responding, negative appraisal

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-ne...
26 points
2 comments