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Mario and Earendil

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earendil/
19•doppp•4h ago

Comments

aikinai•1h ago
Oh… not what I expected this to be about.
swiftcoder•1h ago
From browsing the Earendil website, I'm honestly not sure if this is a software startup or a cult...
jfengel•1h ago
There seems to be a pattern associated with grabbing names from Tolkien.
bossyTeacher•41m ago
Palantir, Anduril...

The Dark Lord minions are really busy lately.

FrustratedMonky•1h ago
So, is Earendil, just Pi?
jfengel•1h ago
I was really hoping for some kind of Nintendo/Silmarillion crossover.

This is good too, I guess.

JimDabell•1h ago
Same news here with 76 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687533

Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
551•grepsedawk•4h ago•125 comments

Veracrypt project update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
558•super256•6h ago•174 comments

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091
35•chrsw•1h ago•4 comments

I've sold out

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/
192•doppp•4h ago•118 comments

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-...
168•ra•4h ago•228 comments

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
1368•Ryan5453•19h ago•697 comments

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw4W9V57SKs&t=5716s
241•tetrisgm•7h ago•83 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led
55•surprisetalk•23h ago•11 comments

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversia...
57•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•4 comments

Lunar Flyby

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
816•kipi•22h ago•198 comments

Explore union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/
52•0x00C0FFEE•3d ago•28 comments

Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

https://rumproarious.com/2026/04/04/your-file-system-is-already-a-graph-database/
61•alxndr•2d ago•22 comments

Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)

https://indraneelpatil.github.io/blog/2026/robot-vacuum/
60•indraneelpatil•2d ago•16 comments

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
11•surprisetalk•2h ago•7 comments

Protect your shed

https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/
206•baely•10h ago•59 comments

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
754•be7a•19h ago•553 comments

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
566•zixuanlimit•21h ago•229 comments

Native Americans had dice 12k years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/native-americans-dice-games-probability-study-rcna26...
93•delichon•4d ago•42 comments

Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slightly-safer-vibecoding-by-adopting.html
135•transpute•5d ago•77 comments

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
430•speckx•20h ago•101 comments

How to get better at guitar

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
390•jwworth•2d ago•192 comments

The Harvard Library Passport

https://fi-le.net/stamps/
6•fi-le•2d ago•0 comments

S3 Files

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
330•werner•17h ago•97 comments

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-sc...
364•1659447091•2d ago•60 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/
239•frasermarlow•16h ago•47 comments

Mario and Earendil

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earendil/
19•doppp•4h ago•7 comments

Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games

https://blog.farzon.org/2026/04/binary-obfuscation-that-doesnt-kill-lto.html
113•noztol•2d ago•55 comments

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
361•ilreb•23h ago•111 comments

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

https://github.com/linebender/xilem
126•Levitating•13h ago•59 comments

A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

https://printed.analogcamera.space/
133•thomasjb•5d ago•21 comments