Weekly news | 2026-04-22
news
- IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
- Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
- FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
- The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
- AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
- North American English Dialects
- Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers
- CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
- Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
- Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick
- €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
- YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
- PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
- Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
- Mozilla Thunderbolt
- The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
- Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
- Ban the sale of precise geolocation
- CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models
- Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
- Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
- Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
- A Python Interpreter Written in Python
- FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
- US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
- Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
- Human Accelerated Region 1
- NASA Force
- Everything we like is a psyop?
- NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
- Iceye Open Data
- All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
- Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
- How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll
- Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
- College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
- Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
- Modern Common Lisp with FSet
- SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
- The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
- Vercel April 2026 security incident
- Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
- Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
- Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language
- Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
- Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
- Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
- Vercel says internal systems hit in breach
- Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
- The RAM shortage could last years
- It's cool to care (2025)
- Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower
- Metatextual Literacy
- Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
- The Bromine Chokepoint
- Binary GCD
- The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
- Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
AI: - Claude Opus 4.7 - Codex for almost everything - Claude Design - GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research
- AWS:
- Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance |
Preview - Bedrock AgentCore Browser OS-level interaction capabilities
- Bedrock Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)
- Bedrock cost allocation by IAM user and role
- Bedrock Data Automation custom vocabulary
- Billing and Cost Management Dashboards Now Supports Scheduled Email Delivery
- Certificate Manager native certificate search
- CloudWatch drop and conditional processing
- CloudWatch new compliance and governance capabilities
- Cost Explorer Natural Language Query capabilities powered by Amazon Q
- Deadline Cloud monitor creation in multiple regions
- EC2 Capacity Manager tag-based dimensions
- EKS EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools
- IoT Greengrass SDK for C, C++, and Rust applications
- IVS Real-Time Streaming redundant ingest
- Lambda expands response streaming support to all commercial AWS Regions
- Location Service contour line density, traffic visualization, and 3D terrain
- Marketplace Discovery API for programmatic access to catalog data
- OpenSearch Serverless Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression
- OpenSearch Service Graviton4 based i8ge instances
- OpenSearch Service Managed Prometheus and agent tracing
- Open Source Smithy-Java client framework |
GA - Private CA customer managed permissions for cross-account sharing
- Quick Sparklines for Inline Trend Visualization in Tables
- RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy
- RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
- RTB Fabric health checks for real-time bidding workloads
- S3 buckets accessible as file systems
- S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate
- S3 new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
- SageMaker HyperPod gang scheduling for distributed training workloads
- SageMaker serverless workflows to Identity Center domains
- SageMaker Unified Studio notebook import/export and developer acceleration
- Timestream for InfluxDB Customer-Defined Maintenance Windows
- Transfer Family IPv6 for connectors and web apps
- Verified Permissions policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates
- WorkSpaces Advisor now available for AI-powered troubleshooting
- WorkSpaces Personal unique DNS names for PrivateLink
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
- Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance |
tooling
- RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update
- Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh
- ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm
- A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks
- Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
- Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
- Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC
blogs
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
- The paper computer
- Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
- Cloudflare Email Service
- Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
- Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
- The Gemini app is now on Mac
- Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
- Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)
- Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming
- Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
- Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
- Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
- Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
- Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)
- What are skiplists good for?
- Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine
- NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
- My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo