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How tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fixing-the-roads-turnpikes
4•hhs•3h ago

Comments

testing22321•1h ago
The article is based on the strawman that there are only two options.

Tolls - everything is peachy.

No tolls - everything is bad bad bad.

Everywhere in the world with good roads and no tolls knows this is a clear logical fallacy.

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
1088•rd•7h ago•751 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
643•tosh•11h ago•318 comments

Show HN: Tolaria – open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria
93•lucaronin•3h ago•30 comments

U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-predi...
216•paulpauper•3h ago•93 comments

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

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
151•wielebny•8h ago•90 comments

TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/
54•mji•4h ago•2 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
571•mfiguiere•8h ago•432 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
995•bumbledraven•21h ago•487 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/
743•pavel_lishin•8h ago•507 comments

Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents

https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault
70•dangtony98•1d ago•25 comments

My phone replaced a brass plug

https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/
81•valzevul•9h ago•13 comments

UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub

https://biobank.rocher.lc
69•Cynddl•11h ago•17 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
505•tobr•2d ago•143 comments

Incident with multple GitHub services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
207•bwannasek•9h ago•102 comments

Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/
86•bookofjoe•7h ago•13 comments

A programmable watch you can actually wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
141•sarusso•2d ago•75 comments

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

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
231•russellthehippo•13h ago•55 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...
357•robtherobber•9h ago•122 comments

I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/
50•tenphi•13h ago•14 comments

Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus

https://semiengineering.com/advanced-packaging-limits-come-into-focus/
28•PaulHoule•2d ago•5 comments

Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo
174•codezero•6h ago•145 comments

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

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
308•maxloh•23h ago•105 comments

Using the internet like it's 1999

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/
98•joshuablais•5h ago•64 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2146•Kaibeezy•1d ago•734 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
139•tosh•16h ago•39 comments

WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009580.html
103•zx2c4•2d ago•7 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
153•debesyla•3d ago•51 comments

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability...
97•sohkamyung•2d ago•15 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
432•momentmaker•9h ago•792 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...
847•cdrnsf•1d ago•183 comments