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$8800 house design helps prevent fatal diseases in African children

https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-house-may-help-prevent-multiple-fatal-diseases-african-children
18•gmays•5h ago

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pfannkuchen•29m ago
Is anyone else starting to wonder whether somebody is intentionally raising an army for some future purpose in Africa?

Like the thing preventing “development” in Africa isn’t that too many of their children die early. Or, if it is, can someone enlighten me? I don’t understand how that is the problem with “development” occurring there.

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
437•elffjs•12h ago•461 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
89•Ariarule•3d ago•20 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
51•andsoitis•3d ago•17 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
193•hhh•9h ago•53 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
146•wise_blood•2d ago•42 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
381•alcazar•14h ago•96 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
61•pigeons•3h ago•7 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
37•signor_bosco•4h ago•7 comments

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
188•NaOH•9h ago•116 comments

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
19•rbanffy•3h ago•3 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
176•jamie-simon•10h ago•68 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
140•jxmorris12•3d ago•104 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
70•nreece•2h ago•28 comments

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9
5•zdw•1d ago•0 comments

Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels

https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl
10•pabs3•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/
87•Zta77•6h ago•36 comments

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p
327•calcifer•17h ago•307 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
148•maguay•1d ago•141 comments

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
231•jen729w•1d ago•130 comments

The Overtom Chess Computer Museum

https://tluif.home.xs4all.nl/chescom/Engindex.html
24•semyonsh•2d ago•3 comments

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
14•shankysingh•3h ago•0 comments

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
106•gslin•12h ago•38 comments

You don't want long-lived keys

https://argemma.com/blog/long-lived-keys/
36•kkl•3d ago•19 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1855•impact_sy•1d ago•1437 comments

I'm done making desktop applications (2009)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/
154•claxo•12h ago•176 comments

I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support

https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/
824•y42•12h ago•489 comments

FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)

https://github.com/manankharwar/fusioncore
14•kharwarm•5h ago•6 comments

CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code

https://github.com/delta-hq/cc-canary
51•tejpalv•10h ago•24 comments

SDL Now Supports DOS

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377
240•Jayschwa•12h ago•93 comments

Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness
92•gregpr07•14h ago•45 comments