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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Ghostty is leaving GitHub
• (01:41) - Your phone is about to stop being yours
• (03:21) - Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
• (05:00) - Before GitHub
• (06:25) - UAE to leave OPEC
• (07:53) - Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
• (09:13) - GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
• (10:41) - How ChatGPT serves ads
• (11:55) - Bugs Rust won't catch
• (13:18) - Warp is now open-source
• (14:29) - Outro

Your phone is about to stop being yours
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
https://github.com/localsend/localsend
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208

Before GitHub
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921

UAE to leave OPEC
https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933983

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479

How ChatGPT serves ads
https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437

Bugs Rust won't catch
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499

Warp is now open-source
https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
• (01:53) - GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
• (03:15) - Men who stare at walls
• (04:28) - Is my blue your blue?
• (05:39) - 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
• (07:10) - Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
• (08:21) - Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
• (09:45) - Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
• (10:46) - Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
• (12:08) - FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
• (13:20) - Outro

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

Men who stare at walls
https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074

Is my blue your blue?
https://ismy.blue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
https://quarkdown.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919240

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919733

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
• (01:47) - An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
• (03:10) - AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
• (04:37) - Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
• (05:54) - Self-updating screenshots
• (07:02) - SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
• (08:24) - Flipdiscs
• (09:33) - Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
• (11:14) - Three constraints before I build anything
• (12:22) - Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
• (13:43) - Outro

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350

Self-updating screenshots
https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388

Flipdiscs
https://flipdisc.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855

Three constraints before I build anything
https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
• (02:20) - Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
• (03:46) - USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
• (04:51) - The Free Universal Construction Kit
• (05:52) - Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
• (07:09) - Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
• (08:36) - Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
• (10:03) - OpenAI Privacy Filter
• (11:15) - EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
• (12:45) - The Joy of Folding Bikes
• (13:44) - Outro

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876

The Free Universal Construction Kit
https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984

OpenAI Privacy Filter
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130

The Joy of Folding Bikes
https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
• (01:33) - Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
• (02:57) - MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
• (04:30) - Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
• (05:38) - My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
• (06:58) - There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
• (08:24) - The Classic American Diner
• (09:34) - Paraloid B-72
• (10:46) - New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
• (12:30) - Outro

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779

The Classic American Diner
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435

Paraloid B-72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - GPT-5.5
• (01:19) - DeepSeek v4
• (03:06) - Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
• (04:34) - An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
• (05:58) - Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
• (07:15) - US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
• (08:33) - Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
• (10:11) - Incident with multple GitHub services
• (11:18) - Ubuntu 26.04
• (12:41) - MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
• (13:59) - Outro

DeepSeek v4
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882645

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
https://github.com/russellromney/honker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647

Incident with multple GitHub services
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644

Ubuntu 26.04
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:21) - Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
• (01:56) - Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
• (03:11) - We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
• (04:47) - 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
• (06:04) - Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
• (07:28) - I am building a cloud
• (08:36) - Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
• (10:22) - Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
• (12:12) - Website streamed live directly from a model
• (13:13) - Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
• (14:49) - Outro

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867

I am building a cloud
https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393

Website streamed live directly from a model
https://flipbook.page/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Framework Laptop 13 Pro
• (01:34) - Laws of Software Engineering
• (02:40) - ChatGPT Images 2.0
• (03:53) - SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
• (05:19) - Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
• (06:34) - Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
• (07:54) - Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
• (09:06) - Making RAM at Home [video]
• (10:21) - Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
• (11:32) - The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
• (12:48) - Outro

Laws of Software Engineering
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179

ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635

Making RAM at Home [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822978

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634