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"SaaS became chat". This isn't just lazy design

https://metedata.substack.com/p/006-the-chat-bar-isnt-lazy-design
1•young_mete•45s ago•0 comments

Beirut: Now and Then

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/charles-glass/diary
1•mitchbob•1m ago•1 comments

Airwallex is about to take on the payments industry – in the physical world

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/airwallex-is-about-to-take-on-stripe-and-the-rest-of-the-paymen...
1•SilverElfin•3m ago•0 comments

EU Launches Age Verification App

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-launches-age-verification-app
4•robtherobber•4m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card

https://anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-7-system-card
4•adocomplete•4m ago•0 comments

LLM risk spreading misinformation to humans who are least able to identify it

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17737
2•sailingcode•4m ago•1 comments

Our AI agent generates schema-aware, PII-filtered SQL across 700 tables

https://merylldindin.com/thoughts/sql-agent/
1•meryll_dindin•5m ago•0 comments

Two inmates at an Ohio prison built a secret hacking operation from behind bars

https://twitter.com/i/status/2044568738767294652
2•lando2319•6m ago•1 comments

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-183418494...
3•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

The World in 1975 (2007)

https://www.ranprieur.com/misc/1975.html
1•downbad_•7m ago•1 comments

The Case for Doing Real, Hard Things

https://thegrowtheq.com/the-case-for-doing-real-hard-things/
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.7

https://www.anthropic.com/claude/opus
13•AlphaWeaver•7m ago•1 comments

Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/04/11/david-mcwilliams-ireland-has-too-much-money-and-is-...
1•religio•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NoPII – One line of code to protect PII before it hits your LLM

https://www.nopii.co
2•mroling•8m ago•0 comments

Largest study of pregnancy sickness uncovers six new genetic links

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-largest-pregnancy-sickness-uncovers-genetic.html
2•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters

https://e360.yale.edu/features/rusting-rivers
2•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

What Should Smart People Think About UFOs?

https://www.thefp.com/p/what-should-smart-people-think-about
1•bookofjoe•12m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.7

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
43•meetpateltech•13m ago•0 comments

A faster, cheaper Claude Code alternative with automatic provider failover

https://www.surly.dev/articles/how-to-get-95-pct-claude-code-quality-at-half-the-cost-with-hermes...
1•thesurlydev•13m ago•0 comments

Channel Hosting on Prefix.dev

https://prefix.dev/blog/welcome-channel-hosting-on-prefix-dev
1•stinos•13m ago•0 comments

When El Salvador's Prisoners Go Free, She's There to Pick Them Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/americas/sugey-amaya-el-salvador-prisoners.html
1•g2183889•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I've Added Gdbstub to UVM32

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32/tree/main/hosts/host-gdbstub
1•hamid_rostami•15m ago•0 comments

Sperm Whales Speak with a Complex Alphabet and Even Have 'Vowels,' Study Finds

https://gizmodo.com/sperm-whales-speak-with-their-own-unique-alphabet-scientists-found-they-even-...
3•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Dependencies Are Someone Else's Attack Surface

https://quodeq.ai/blog/supply-chain-attack-surface/
1•nicksergeant•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sentinel – LLM browser automation using 10x fewer tokens

https://www.isoldex.ai/
1•isoldex•19m ago•0 comments

The Common AI Provider: LLM and AI Agent Support for Apache Airflow

https://airflow.apache.org/blog/common-ai-provider/
1•jonbaer•19m ago•0 comments

Apple's 'AI coding bootcamp' could help its engineers fix Siri

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/15/apples-ai-coding-bootcamp-could-help-its-engineers-mak...
1•speckx•20m ago•1 comments

A system that maps relationships across mixed data sources

https://github.com/Lumen-Labs/brainapi2
1•Chrisszz•22m ago•0 comments

You Own Your Role, We Own the Outcome

https://pointc.co/you-own-your-role-we-own-the-outcome/
1•benwerd•22m ago•0 comments

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B:Now Open-Source

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2044768734234243427
3•alexellisuk•23m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month

47•absurdwebsite•2h ago
A year ago I posted here about a small experiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162363

I build one absurd web project every month and publish it on https://absurd.website

I kept going.

There are now 48 projects.

The idea is still the same - I build mostly unnecessary web projects that sit somewhere between experiments, jokes, products, and art.

But over time they’ve started moving more toward net art than just experimental web.

Some recent ones:

VandalAds - a banner format you can destroy instead of just viewing Type Therapy - instead of talking affirmations, you type your thoughts to change them Slow Rebranding - branding changes so slowly you don’t notice it Guard Simulator - a crime appears for 15 seconds per day, if you catch it you win

I also started releasing some projects only to members, so not everything is public anymore.

What I like most is the rhythm: one public project and one private project each month. It forces me to realize ideas instead of leaving them in notes.

The core is still always the idea and concept - not polish, not execution, not even usefulness.

It’s also interesting to see whether people understand the thought inside a project, discover something else in it, or see nothing at all.

I’m still going, and at this point absurd.website has become a big part of my life.

Thanks.

Comments

absurdwebsite•2h ago
Hey, happy to answer any questions about the projects.
0x1ceb00da•1h ago
Is there a free trial for your "half cremation half burial" service. I need to know if it's a good fit for me and my family.
absurdwebsite•1h ago
Not sure you’d come back to review it :)
absurdwebsite•2h ago
... and would love to hear which projects you liked most.
ritzaco•1h ago
I tried and enjoyed the typing one, very slick.

Curious if you have any paying members? Not something I would pay for, but also there didn't seem to be enough information to convince anyone to pay?

absurdwebsite•1h ago
Glad you liked that one :) Yeah, I do have a few paying members.

I’m not trying to optimize for conversion or make a strong sales pitch. The members part is more like a way to put some projects in a "private layer" and see if anyone is curious enough to go deeper.

Payment also kind of brings the projects to life because they play with startup ideas, paying becomes part of the interaction.

hmhrex•1h ago
I love this. Great work. Huge fan of digital experimentation. It's an art form I feel isn't as popular these days. I've had an idea on the backburner for a bit now of doing a digital quarterly with contributions like this. Kind of a digital experiment punk zine. Maybe it's too niche, but I feel like it could be a good time.
absurdwebsite•1h ago
Thanks! That sounds really cool. Feels like this kind of stuff lives in random corners of the internet now, so having a place that collects it would be really interesting.
Esophagus4•58m ago
VandalAds was fun (and subversive!).

I wonder if you’ve hit on something interesting… are interactive ads a thing? I don’t know much about adtech but it seems like it could be a good idea.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered one.

absurdwebsite•53m ago
Glad you liked it :)

Interactive ads exist in some form, but they’re usually quite controlled and safe. What interests me more is the moment when the user actually does something to the ad - even destroys it. Then it becomes an experience, not just a banner, and stay in you memory.

The idea actually comes from a personal experience - when I was younger I spray-painted over a real outdoor ad, and I still remember that ad to this day. Not because it was good, but because I interacted with it. In thhis project I basically playing with that same idea in a digital form.

ethan_smith•5m ago
Interactive ads are actually huge in mobile gaming - they're called "playable ads" and companies like ironSource and Unity Ads have been pushing them for years. They consistently outperform static/video ads on engagement and conversion. Outside of mobile games though, they're surprisingly rare on the web, which is kind of what makes VandalAds feel fresh.
Jimmy0252•55m ago
it was fun
absurdwebsite•52m ago
Thanks.
axeldunkel•50m ago
Great site! I once created muelltonne.de (german for "trashcan") where users could send (spam) mails which they did not like - and got poems or jokes in return that were made from exactly the same letters (plus some remains that could not be used). Reading tweets nowadays cries out for a new enhanced version...
Aany1420•47m ago
This looks cool!
absurdwebsite•38m ago
Thanks.
efilife•47m ago
How much of this HN submission was written by an LLM, and how much influence do they have in your projects?
absurdwebsite•38m ago
I do use LLMs for polishing text or generating some visuals, but the core concept and direction is always mine - otherwise I don’t really see the point of doing this :)
vunderba•8m ago
Nice job. Feedback:

Eyes Dating Site

I used to joke that an Afghan Tinder would just be swiping left or right on pictures of eyes because of the niqab.

Sexy Math

This is sort of a variation on the classic NSFW jigsaw/Rubik’s cube-style puzzle, and of course a number of old ’80s PC games where you revealed a risque picture.

If you want to make this more amusing, you should really include some saucy pictures of actual mathematicians, kind of like a play on the “sexy scientists” calendar in The IT Crowd.

Spot the Differences

There’s a great episode of The Office where Pam distracts Creed, the new acting manager, from destroying the branch by giving him two pictures from corporate and asking him to find the differences. Of course, they’re the same picture.

absurdwebsite•2m ago
Funny how a lot of these ideas already exist in some form - just in slightly different contexts. "Sexy mathematicians" is actually a great direction, didn’t think of that one. Or teachers could upload their own photos and send them as assignments for motivation :))