Weekly news | 2026-04-08
news
- Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
- CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
- TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
- Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
- TruffleRuby
- Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
- Intuiting Pratt Parsing
- Is BGP safe yet?
- The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
- Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
- I quit. The clankers won
- StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)
- AI for American-produced cement and concrete
- Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples
- Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)
- U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
- SpaceX files to go public
- Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera
- Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity
- LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
- Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
- Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
- Google releases Gemma 4 open models
- Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
- Significant raise of reports
- IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
- Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
- Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
- Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
- Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
- Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM
- Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
- Gone (Almost) Phishin'
- The Weather Channel – RetroCast
- 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
- Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
- Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
- What Gödel Discovered (2020)
- New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds
- Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
- Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
- Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
- Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
- OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
- The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
- Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
- Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- Some Unusual Trees
- Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
- The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
- Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
- How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
- The CMS is dead, long live the CMS
- Components of a Coding Agent
- German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
- The most-disliked people in the publishing industry
- Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
- The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites
- When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
- Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
- Bourbon waste could provide next-gen supercapacitor components
- Scientists observe an immune signaling complex forming inside cells
- Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future
- Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)
- France pulls last gold held in US
- The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
- An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
- Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
- Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
- What being ripped off taught me
- Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
- German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
- Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
- The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
- Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
- A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
- One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking
- Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
- Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
- Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
- 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
- Usenet Archives
- Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
- The Last Quiet Thing
- Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
- My Experience as a Rice Farmer
- Every GPU That Mattered
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
- Are We Idiocracy Yet?
- Running out of disk space in production
- Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
- Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion
- 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
- A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
- Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
- Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it
- Lunar Flyby
- AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
AI: - Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model - Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute - System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] - Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities
- AWS:
- Aurora DSQL new connectors .NET and Rust apps
- AWS DevOps Agent is now generally available
- AWS Sustainability Console carbon emissions tracking
- Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available
- Bedrock Guardrails cross-account safeguards |
GA - CloudFront BYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration
- CloudFront SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
- CloudWatch Security Hub CSPM findings with org-wide enablement
- CloudWatch Logs lookup query command
- CloudWatch multi-account and region log centralization based on data source
- CloudWatch OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
- CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)
- CloudWatch PromQL querying with Query Studio Preview
- CloudWatch S3 Express One Zone metrics
- Cluster Insights OpenSearch Service Console and EventBridge events
- Connect tag-based access control for quick responses
- Connect testing and simulation capabilities to chats
- Deadline Cloud configurable job scheduling modes for queues
- Deadline Cloud new fleet scaling configurations for render farms
- Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics for BGP monitoring
- Direct Connect now supports CloudFormation
- ECS Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances
- ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 instance store
- ElastiCache Serverless IPv6 and dual stack connectivity
- End User Messaging Notify
- End User Messaging RCS for Business
- HealthOmics VPC-connected workflows
- Kiro Powers Spark troubleshooting and upgrade agents
- Lightsail compute-optimized instance bundles
- Location Service GrabMaps with enhanced APIs for Southeast Asia
- Managed Microsoft AD Multi-Region replication for Opt-In regions
- Managed Service for Apache Flink Flink 2.2
- Marketplace sellers can now self-serve refunds and agreement cancellations
- OpenSearch Service agentic AI for log analytics
- Oracle Database@AWS sub-millisecond network latency for high performance applications
- Organizations organization paths in API responses
- Partner Revenue Measurement Marketplace Metering for certain Marketplace products
- Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string for certain AWS services
- Private CA utilization metrics in CloudWatch
- RDS for Oracle cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
- RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts
- SageMaker Data Agent charting capabilities and support for materialized views
- SageMaker Data Agent geo-specific inference for Japan and Australia
- SageMaker Data Agent SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor
- SageMaker Unified Studio Observability for AWS Glue jobs via CloudWatch metrics
- Secrets Manager custom input for AWS KMS keys
- Service Availability Updates
- SES Mail Manager enhanced security and email processing
- Transform automated codebase analysis |
GA - Transform new AWS-managed transformations to modernize code at scale
- WorkSpaces Applications improves multi-session fleet management
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell
- Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)
- Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls
- Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
- A new C++ back end for ocamlc
- Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
- Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser
- Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI
- Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
- Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
- Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool
- Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud
- Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B
- Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
- Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool
- Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
- Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V
- VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
blogs
- Chess in SQL
- EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
- Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat
- We intercepted the White House app's network traffic
- DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
- Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT
- Artemis II Launch Day Updates
- Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
- Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
- Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
- Tailscale's new macOS home
- Cursor 3
- The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
- Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
- Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
- I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
- We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
- After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
- Blackholing My Email
- Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app
- SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File