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I Mean, Why Shouldn't We All Smoke Cigarettes Again?

https://www.thecut.com/article/should-we-start-smoking-cigarettes-again.html
5•robtherobber•1h ago

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MisterTea•51m ago
> Mainly seduced by the smell of a clove cigarette, usually found in the hands of somebody from Park Slope.

For me it was the goth girls at Downtime in the Batcave days. The hipster kids around park slope and Williamsburg were big on American Spirits.

jleyank•28m ago
I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby. It seems to suggest that my wishes < those of whomever is (in this case) fouling the air.

Startup's new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/1136721/this-startups-new-mechanistic-interpretabilit...
1•joozio•46s ago•0 comments

We're in 1905: Why Electricity (Not Dot-Com) Is the Right AI Analogy

https://joereis.substack.com/p/were-in-1905-why-electricity-not
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Highline: Ruby gem for a higher level command-line oriented interface

https://github.com/JEG2/highline
1•thunderbong•4m ago•0 comments

70k students, 1k schools, results in seconds: using AI for assessment

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jodhpur-ai-pilot-transforming-assessments-schools-student...
1•rtcoms•4m ago•0 comments

Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS

https://routerjockey.com/ethernet-commoditizes-everthing-except-eos-arista-nfd40/
1•tonhe•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a zero-tracking news hub to escape doomscrolling at (AGE 17y)

1•blazeeofsun•7m ago•1 comments

Anaconda acquires Outerbounds to rein in the buggy code AI agents keep shipping

https://thenewstack.io/anaconda-ai-outerbounds-python-metaflow/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

https://github.com/kubereboot/kured
1•ankitg12•9m ago•0 comments

OpenAI: WebAssembly and Rust Are Reshaping Data Visualization in BI

https://blog.gopenai.com/dashboard-studio-rs-how-webassembly-and-rust-are-reshaping-data-visualiz...
1•mendyberger•10m ago•0 comments

Prism: Demystifying Retention and Interaction in Mid-Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17074
1•mdp2021•11m ago•0 comments

You probably dont want RLS

https://planetscale.com/blog/rls-sounds-great-until-it-isnt
1•imjosh-dev•12m ago•0 comments

Building a CDC Pipeline, Part 1: PostgreSQL WAL Internals

https://georgioszefkilis.substack.com/p/building-a-cdc-pipeline-part-1-postgresql
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

AI could help human scientists pick promising research topics

https://physicsworld.com/a/ai-could-help-human-scientists-pick-promising-research-topics/
1•zeristor•13m ago•0 comments

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/ai-students-cheating-homework-classrooms.html
2•apparent•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me

https://github.com/carlovalenti/TRiP
1•carlovalenti•15m ago•0 comments

Judge Orders Matt Mullenweg to Explain Missing Messages in WP Engine Dispute

https://www.therepository.email/federal-judge-orders-matt-mullenweg-to-explain-missing-messages-i...
2•docdeek•15m ago•0 comments

The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

https://www.wired.com/story/the-bloomberg-terminal-is-getting-an-ai-makeover-like-it-or-not/
1•01-_-•16m ago•0 comments

Non-Programmer Code Sharing

1•CombatHacker•16m ago•0 comments

Revealing NVIDIA Driver Command Streams for CPU-GPU Runtime Behavior Insight

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26889
1•matt_d•17m ago•0 comments

AI optimism is waning

https://bayeslord.substack.com/p/ai-optimism-is-waning
3•swah•18m ago•0 comments

Guardians: Static verification for AI agent workflows

https://github.com/metareflection/guardians
1•matt_d•18m ago•0 comments

CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
6•ori_b•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a private GitHub in 650 lines of PostgreSQL

https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres
2•calebhwin•21m ago•0 comments

AI Investment Boosted Economic Growth, While Consumers Tapped the Brakes

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/u-s-economy-grew-at-2-rate-in-first-quarter-6e0c18cc
1•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Larkin – Authorization middleware for x402 agent payments

https://larkin.sh
1•mikebom•21m ago•0 comments

Vision agents vs. structured APIs on the same internal tool task

4•FirestarAlpha•22m ago•0 comments

The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
20•the-mitr•22m ago•0 comments

Xatastor: ZFS and NVMe-Of for Postgres Databases

https://xata.io/blog/xatastor-zfs-nvme-of-for-millions-of-postgres-databases
3•tee-es-gee•23m ago•0 comments

Fast GPU Linear Algebra via Compile Time Expression Fusion

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22242
1•matt_d•25m ago•0 comments

American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-richer-dads-spend-more-time
1•ozozozd•25m ago•0 comments