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Elon Musk's X cuts payments to users who post clickbait

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/13/x-cuts-payments-users-post-clickbait-recycle-news
1•mitchbob•29s ago•0 comments

If your random seed is 42 I set your computer on fire (2025)

https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-random-seed-is-42-i-will
1•Tomte•1m ago•0 comments

The Three Realities of AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-elite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer
1•HiroProtagonist•2m ago•0 comments

Why Investing in Wind and Solar to Avoid Gas Shocks Hasn't Added Up for Some

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/climate/europe-energy-crisis-iran-war.html
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/13/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-staff-talk-to-the-boss
1•mitchbob•3m ago•0 comments

Review of Direct Air Capture Systems Powered by Nuclear Energy

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/19/6/1528
1•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

God Tier Party Lentils

https://news.vilf.org/p/god-tier-party-lentils
1•ItsiW•8m ago•0 comments

A Python Interpreter Written in Python

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html
1•xk3•9m ago•0 comments

Hacking My Kobo with KOReader

https://fundor333.com/post/2026/hacking-my-kobo/
1•fundor333•11m ago•0 comments

Web Haptics on Mobile

https://haptics.lochie.me/
1•coinfused•11m ago•0 comments

NetBSD/MacPPC 9.4 Installation on a QEMU Emulated PowerPC Macintosh

http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2026/04/12#macppc_9-4_qemu
1•jaypatelani•12m ago•0 comments

B-trees and database indexes (2024)

https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

BookingCom Data Breach: Unauthorized Access to Booking Information

https://twitter.com/CR1337/status/2043740897008070970
1•CR1337•13m ago•0 comments

Kraken Security Update

https://twitter.com/c7five/status/2043720915330969743
1•serial_dev•13m ago•0 comments

When does generative AI qualify for fair use? (2024) By previous OpenAI employee

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
1•Alifatisk•14m ago•0 comments

AI agent remembers your secrets

https://www.prismor.dev/blog/tool-boundary-redaction-ai-agents
4•noobcoder•14m ago•1 comments

Disputed Boundaries Policy

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/disputed-boundaries-policy/
1•Tomte•15m ago•0 comments

Rust Program Management Board

https://github.com/orgs/rust-lang/projects/69/views/2
1•andrewstetsenko•16m ago•0 comments

Apple Ramps Up MacBook Neo Production to 10M Units Amid Strong Demand

https://www.techpowerup.com/348188/apple-ramps-up-macbook-neo-production-to-10-million-units-amid...
3•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Palantir Stock Continues to Fall. Not Even the President Can Erase the Losses

https://www.barrons.com/articles/palantir-stock-price-president-trump-anthropic-7313031c
6•1vuio0pswjnm7•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Access X, Reddit, Threads and all social media data from a single API

https://www.socialcrawl.dev/
2•magneticbrains•20m ago•2 comments

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tokens

https://repaint.com/blog/picture-is-worth-a-thousand-tokens
2•benshumaker•20m ago•0 comments

Dual national Londoner stranded in Spain by new border rule

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747vj1z0xwo
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

Problems Before the Real Problem: The First Lessons of Apollo 13

https://www.flyingbarron.com/2026/04/problems-before-real-problem-first.html
2•flyingbarron•22m ago•0 comments

Apple Reportedly Testing AI Glasses in Several Frame Styles

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-testing-ai-glasses-in-several-frame-styles/
2•CharlesW•23m ago•0 comments

How to Stop Cops from Using Wi-Fi to "See Through the Walls" of Your Home [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LngDW3t36nc
1•dp-hackernews•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Curation: Share Podcast Recommendation

https://curation-509629088134.us-west1.run.app/
1•arbol•24m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's latest internal memo about beating the competition

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/911118/openai-memo-cro-ai-competition-anthropic
1•pretext•26m ago•0 comments

Mount GitHub repositories as a virtual read-only macOS filesystem

https://github.com/indragiek/GHFS
1•latchkey•27m ago•0 comments

I Rode in a Waymo with a Litigator: Here's What I Learned

https://www.law.com/2026/04/13/i-rode-in-a-waymo-with-a-litigator-heres-what-i-learned/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•30m ago•0 comments
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Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/
95•soheilpro•1h ago

Comments

xnacly•1h ago
> We write a lot of TypeScript at Cloudflare. It’s the lingua franca of software engineering.

This scares me more than Im able to admit, typescript sucks and in my opinion its way worse than the more commonly used lingua franca of computing, which I would attribute to C. At least C can be used to create shared objects i guess?

dewey•1h ago
“Typescript sucks” is not really a great reason.
xnacly•1h ago
Well it does suck for a huge list of reasons but specifically disqualifying for being the lingua franca would be it being controlled by microsoft
rvz•1h ago
Well it does suck, and it isn't really great for implementing performant developer tools, such as parsers, formatters and so on.

The performance is that bad that the typescript developers are rewriting the language itself in Go. [0]

Tells me everything I need to know about how bad typescript is from a performance stand point.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

braebo•1h ago
That’s the lsp not runtime. Bun runs Typescript very fast. It’s a fantastic language and ecosystem.
skydhash•47m ago
I’ve just checked FFI in bun and it’s marked as experimental. There are great libraries in C/C++ world and FFI is kinda table stakes to use them.
rvz•34m ago
No where did I say "runtime". Even with that it's because of Zig, not TypeScript and that only proves my point even more.
tombert•58m ago
Personally I haven't felt like Typescript has bought me enough over JavaScript to use it in contexts that I don't have to. I have to use TypeScript for work, and it's "fine", but I guess I haven't found that it helps all that much.

I'm not sure why; I guess it's because the web itself is already really flexible that I find that the types don't really buy me a lot since I have to encode that dynamism into it.

To be clear, before I get a lecture on type safety and how wonderful you think types are and how they should be in everything: I know. I like types in most languages. I didn't finish but I was doing a PhD in formal methods, and specifically in techniques to apply type safety to temporal logic. I assure you that I have heard all your reasoning for types before.

steve_adams_86•14m ago
Why do you think it sucks?

I used to dislike JavaScript a lot after learning it and PHP, then using languages like C#. Then TypeScript came along, make JS much easier to live with, but has actually become quite nice in some ways.

If you use deno as your default runtime, it's almost Go-like in its simplicity when you don't need much. Simple scripts, piping commands into the REPL, built-in linting, testing, etc. It's not that bad!

Of course you're welcome to your opinion and we'd likely agree about a lot of what's wrong with it, but I guess I feel a bit more optimistic about TS lately. The runtime is improving, they've got great plans for it, it's actually happening, and LLMs aren't bad at using it either. It's a decent default for me.

8cvor6j844qw_d6•1h ago
> Tell us your hopes and dreams for a Cloudflare-wide CLI

It'd be great if the Wrangler CLI could display the required API token permissions upfront during local dev, so you know exactly what to provision before deploying. Even better if there were something like a `cf permissions check` command that tells you what's missing or unneeded perms with an API key.

kodablah•1h ago
> You can try the technical preview today by running npx cf. Or you can install it globally by running npm install -g cf.

A couple of obvious questions - Is it open source (npmjs side doesn't point to repo)? And in general will it be available as a single binary instead of requiring nodejs tooling to install/use? If so, using recently-acquired Bun or another product/approach?

bakugo•54m ago
I can't find any repository, either, but the package is listed as MIT-licensed and includes source maps, so I assume it will be published soon.
kodama-lens•1h ago
I'm happy that there will be more tooling, but the reason for that (and the target audience) should not be ai agents. It should be a good experience for humans!

Tools should be tested and quality assured. Something that was utterly missing for cloudflare's unusable v5 terraform provider. Quality over quantity with a ux that has humans in mind!

marcusestes•1h ago
Making a good experience for AI agents also makes a good experience for the humans that are tasked with the management of their agents.
climike•52m ago
Exactly! Number of turns, average tokens to achieve a task using your CLI, as well as average number of characters being returned per CLI command alongside other metrics: all important to both users and agents! I am working on allowing to accurately capture this at www.cliwatch.com! Feel free to request an example eval suite for a list of tasks you want to achieve with your CLI
bensmoif•1h ago
Oh yes to this! I spent yesterday morning working this out when it smacked me in the face
queuep•1h ago
I’ve used a lot of cloudflare functionality with Claude and their API. Worked very good
latchkey•1h ago
I just wish they'd fix billing notifications. The ux makes it impossible to set it up. Been complaining about that on X, got a couple people saying they would look into it, even one that gave me his email address. Pure silence.
benatkin•1h ago
> Right now, cf provides commands for just a small subset of Cloudflare products.

Why didn't they vibe code support for more? With this on the heels of EmDash, and this being a technical preview, it feels inconsistent.

risyachka•47m ago
> Tell us your hopes and dreams for a Cloudflare-wide CLI

Please call it flare.

dcre•41m ago
Wonderful post and I will be taking inspiration from it. Surprised not to see TypeSpec https://typespec.io/ mentioned, which is a TypeScript-like schema language that I like to describe as "what if OpenAPI was good". I'm guessing they considered it and decided building their own would be both simpler and more flexible. The cost of BYO has come down a lot thanks to agents.
thegagne•32m ago
Love TypeSpec, agree it makes writing OpenAPI really easy.

But I’ve moved to using https://aep.dev style APIs as much as possible (sometimes written with TypeSpec), because the consistency allows you to use prebaked aepcli or very easily write your own since everything behaves like know “resources” with a consistent pattern.

Also Terraform works out of the box, with no needing to write a provider.

cordwainersmith•36m ago
Finally. Jumping between wrangler, the dashboard, and raw API calls has been annoying for a while. I'm keen on the local explorer most, debugging Workers locally has always been clunky. Anyone know how this plays with Terraform-managed infra?
porphyra•22m ago
Ironically, with the advent of AI agents and stuff, we're going back from "checkbox engineering" in GUI webpages to CLI tools. Every time I need to clear cache in cloudflare when I upload a new version of an asset, I have to click through a bunch of things. Would be nice to just message my openclaw agent to do it.
j45•14m ago
Complete CLI coverage is so great to see.
acedTrex•5m ago
Its so depressing that it took widespread LLM psychosis to finally get company leadership to invest in actual CLI tooling.

No, the customers never mattered but the mythical "LLM agent" is vitally important to cater too.