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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

Open in hackernews

"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

Comments

OuterVale•40m ago

Unsung is one of the best little blogs around. Well worth checking out the rest of the posts.

ssivark•33m ago

Couldn't help riffing off on a tangent from the title (since the article is about diagramming tools)...

Dylan Beattie has a thought-provoking presentation for anyone who believes that "plain text" is a simple / solid substrate for computing: "There's no such thing as plain text" https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/theres-no-such-thing-as... (you'll find many videos from different conferences)

nullhole•3m ago

I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.