Weekly news | 2026-04-29
news
- The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
- Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
- Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
- Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
- Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
- America's Geothermal Breakthrough
- Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
- Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
- Mahjong: A Visual Guide
- GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
- Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories
- GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
- The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)
- An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
- The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement
- Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)
- Quirks of Human Anatomy
- Clay PCB Tutorial
- Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
- Trump fires NSF's oversight board
- Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics
- I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
- Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
- Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
- Flipdiscs
- Self-updating screenshots
- TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
- Men who stare at walls
- The Prompt API
- Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
- FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
- “Why not just use Lean?”
- US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data
- Networking changes coming in macOS 27
- China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
- Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
- A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
- It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
- Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
- Is my blue your blue?
- Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
- Ghostty is leaving GitHub
- Your phone is about to stop being yours
- UAE to leave OPEC
- ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
- Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)
- Meetings are forcing functions
- High Performance Git
- GTFOBins
- How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
- Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
- Can You Find the Comet?
- Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
- Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
- UAE Leaves OPEC
- GitHub Actions is the weakest link
- Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
- Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
- FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
AI: - OpenAI Privacy Filter - SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities - Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
- AWS:
- Amazon Aurora serverless Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling
- Amazon Corretto April 2026 Quarterly Updates
- Athena simplifies federated queries with managed connectors
- Backup Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policies
- Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress
- Bedrock AgentCore managed harness |
Preview - Clean Rooms configurable Spark properties for PySpark
- Client VPN native AWS Transit Gateway integration
- CloudWatch Logs Insights JOIN and sub-query commands
- CloudWatch pipelines configuration of processors via AI
- Compute Optimizer +162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes
- Connect +8 metrics to measure and improve AI agent performance
- Connect flow modules now work across all flow types and within other modules
- Connect Outbound Campaigns contact priority ordering
- Connect outbound campaigns now supports hourly segment refresh
- Connect touchtone buffering for AI-powered self-service
- Data Exports cross-account delivery
- Deadline Cloud custom scripting for job submission workflows
- DocumentDB in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0
- EBS volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
- EC2 for SQL Server HA now supports health notifications
- EC2 Managed resource visibility settings
- ECS Managed Instances GPU Health Monitoring and Auto Repair
- EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys
- EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking
- Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis now supports Windows
- EVS Microsoft Windows Server Licensing
- Glue OAuth 2.0 for Snowflake connectivity
- IoT Greengrass non-root installation
- IVS Low-Latency Streaming server-side ad insertion
- Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GA
- Lambda durable functions +16 AWS Regions
- Lambda mount S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files
- Location Service bulk address validation for the US, Canada, Australia, the UK
- Managed Microsoft AD Kerberos Encryption audit event logs
- Managed Microsoft AD Windows functional level 2016
- Marketplace Management Portal bank account deletion
- Marketplace streamlines VAT payment for deemed supply transactions
- MSK Replicator enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication
- MSK Replicator log forwarding for replication visibility
- MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express Brokers
- MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regions
- Network Firewall Managed Rules enhancement Marketplace Partners
- OpenSearch Service rollback for service software updates
- Partner Central Attributed Revenue Dashboard
- Quick integrates with Visier’s Vee agent for workforce intelligence
- Quick multiple owners for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge bases
- Quick permission verification for ACL-enabled knowledge bases
- RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
- Redshift supports UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE for Apache Iceberg tables
- S3 +5 additional checksum algorithms
- S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory
- SageMaker AI optimized generative AI inference recommendations
- SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.5 models
- SageMaker HyperPod automatic Slurm topology management
- SageMaker HyperPod on-demand deep health checks
- SageMaker JumpStart +5 Qwen models
- SageMaker multi-region replication from IAM Identity Center
- SageMaker notebooks and data agent for IdC domains
- SageMaker Unified Studio multiple code spaces within projects for IAM domains
- SageMaker Unified Studio VPC for notebook kernels
- Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud
- Transform landing zone creation in migration workflows
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Issue links now open in a popup
- Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
- Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
- Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
- FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
- EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
- Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad
- Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
- VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI
- Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust
blogs
- EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
- Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
- AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
- 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
- Three constraints before I build anything
- Box to save memory in Rust
- GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
- When the cheap one is the cool one
- The woes of sanitizing SVGs
- The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
- GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
- An update on GitHub availability
- WASM is not quite a stack machine
- I have officially retired from Emacs
- Waymo in Portland
- GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
- AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software