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X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/x-is-shutting-down-communities-because-of-low-usage-and-lots-of-spam/
12•pier25•3h ago

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bathory•1h ago
X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face
xnorswap•1h ago
I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.

I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
544•rd•1h ago•219 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
293•mfiguiere•1h ago•171 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
452•tosh•5h ago•218 comments

Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8000-employees/
114•Vaslo•47m ago•47 comments

Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo
19•codezero•33m ago•7 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
61•wielebny•2h ago•44 comments

Incident with multple GitHub services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
129•bwannasek•3h ago•61 comments

Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
242•pavel_lishin•2h ago•168 comments

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offer...
309•robtherobber•3h ago•104 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
885•bumbledraven•14h ago•445 comments

A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
84•sarusso•2d ago•43 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
420•tobr•2d ago•123 comments

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
192•russellthehippo•7h ago•26 comments

Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus

https://semiengineering.com/advanced-packaging-limits-come-into-focus/
8•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/
20•tenphi•7h ago•3 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
805•cdrnsf•23h ago•180 comments

If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so
236•momentmaker•3h ago•439 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
106•tosh•10h ago•34 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
874•danpinto•1d ago•263 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
257•maxloh•17h ago•90 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•7h ago

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability...
76•sohkamyung•2d ago•11 comments

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-p...
349•mentalgear•7h ago•121 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2083•Kaibeezy•1d ago•713 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
172•zdw•14h ago•114 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
116•debesyla•2d ago•46 comments

Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/
6•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/23/hairdryer-used-trick-weather-sensor-34000-polymar...
198•zdw•2h ago•195 comments

People Do Not Yearn for Automation

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
39•icco•2h ago•19 comments

The end of responsive images

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-end-of-responsive-images/
44•OuterVale•6h ago•17 comments