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Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry's Mod

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/facepunch-la...

Scientists Create First-Ever 'Smell Map'

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/scientists-create-fir...

Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/yemen-says-oil...

Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents

https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop

Bugs Rust won't catch

https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation...

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-pal...

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/

Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D

https://simdrive.xyz/

VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI

https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/intel-a...

Auto Polo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_polo

Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac

https://github.com/cashapp/hermit

OpenX32: Open Linux kernel for Behringer X32 mixer

https://github.com/OpenMixerProject/OpenX32

GitHub Actions is the weakest link

https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/28/github-actions-is-th...

Uncle Bob: It's Over

https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1srfq...

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-...

NOAA forecaster on how this year's El Niño could shatter records

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/o...

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

https://interfaze.ai/blog/introducing-structured-o...

Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed

https://github.com/upenn/web-scroll-video

Can You Find the Comet?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-ga...

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

https://lovable.dev/blog/hunting-networking-bugs-i...

How ChatGPT serves ads

https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-her...

Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016)

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/tennessees-most-h...

Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

https://github.com/trycua/cua

DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

https://www.eetimes.com/what-the-dram-crunch-teach...

Music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks (2023)

https://journalofcognition.org/articles/10.5334/jo...