China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

84 yakkomajuri 2026-04-27 18:58:40 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 36

China's state planner asked Meta to withdraw its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots, citing laws and regulations. The deal faced scrutiny from China and Washington, with lawmakers in the US prohibiting American investors from backing Chinese AI companies directly.

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

551 helsinkiandrew 2026-04-27 13:58:40 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 482

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Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards

87 Hanqaqa 2026-04-27 17:58:40 UTC github.com/hanqaqa Llama Share 6

The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.

“Why not just use Lean?”

202 ibobev 2026-04-27 14:58:40 UTC lawrencecpaulson.github.io Llama Share 117

The author discusses the formalisation of mathematics and the rise of Lean, but notes that it's not the first system to achieve this. They mention AUTOMATH, which was developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and other systems like HOL Light and Isabelle/HOL. The author argues that Lean's success is partly due to its user community and the abandonment of "constructive proofs".

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

138 pvtmert 2026-04-27 15:58:40 UTC eclecticlight.co Llama Share 112

Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.

GitHub is having issues now

213 SenHeng 2026-04-27 17:58:40 UTC githubstatus.com Llama Share 75

Subscribe to GitHub status updates via email and/or text message for degraded search and service disruptions. Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region at specific URLs.

United Wizards of the Coast

128 d4mi3n 2026-04-27 18:58:40 UTC unitedwizardsofthecoast.com Llama Share 80

Arena workers unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA, seeking better treatment and working conditions. They call on WOTC leadership to voluntarily recognize the union and engage in collective bargaining.

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

101 haunter 2026-04-27 17:58:40 UTC zsnes.com Llama Share 20

SUPER ZSNES is a re-written SNES emulator with GPU power, offering features like fast forward, save states, and high resolution graphics. It's still in development with some games supported, but has emulation bugs and performance issues.

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

349 Oravys 2026-04-27 09:58:40 UTC app.oravys.com Llama Share 130

A data breach at Mercor exposed 40,000 contractors' voice biometrics and ID documents. Attackers can use this data to clone voices and commit crimes like bank verification bypass and vishing.

Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult

14 Vigier 2026-04-27 17:58:40 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 2

The rise of mail-order magic in the US at the turn of the 20th century was fueled by improvements in postal networks and the emergence of a colossal mail-order industry. This led to the proliferation of occult correspondence courses that offered spiritual knowledge and self-help, often with a focus on rational self-improvement and Stoic self-regulation.

The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering

28 merlinq 2026-04-27 17:58:40 UTC atempleton.bearblog.dev Llama Share 10

RF engineering is experiencing a resurgence due to growing demand from industries such as space, 5G, and automotive, driven by a shortage of engineers who can work at the hardware level. The supply side is broken, with 73% of EE employers unable to fill positions within six months, and companies are investing in university partnerships to build their own talent pipeline.

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

368 frizlab 2026-04-27 16:58:40 UTC github.blog Llama Share 292

GitHub Copilot will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, with a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits for each plan. Credits will be consumed based on token usage, and users can purchase additional usage if needed.

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

256 GodelNumbering 2026-04-27 12:58:40 UTC github.com/dirac-run Llama Share 96

Dirac is an open-source coding agent that improves accuracy and reduces costs by 64.8% with tightly curated context. It achieves 100% accuracy on complex refactoring tasks at a fraction of the cost of other leading agents.

Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

30 metadat 2026-04-27 16:58:40 UTC deepmind.google Llama Share 3

Decoupled DiLoCo is a new AI training architecture that allows for flexible and resilient training across globally distributed data centers. It achieves this by dividing training runs into decoupled "islands" of compute with asynchronous data flow, reducing communication delays and hardware failures.

Men who stare at walls

312 aselimov3 2026-04-27 11:58:40 UTC alexselimov.com Llama Share 160

User tried Simple Lucas' focus routine, staring at a wall to recover focus, and found it effective but hard. They attribute their lack of focus to information overload and use wall staring with parasympathetic activation and mind blanking to improve productivity.

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

121 varun_ch 2026-04-27 15:58:40 UTC muffin.ink Llama Share 49

Scratch's approach to SVG sanitization has been ineffective due to numerous vulnerabilities discovered over the years. Despite multiple fixes, new security issues continue to arise.

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

48 milkglass 2026-04-27 15:58:40 UTC learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev Llama Share 13

The Engineering Manager created a new CX team to improve customer experience, but it didn't align with the existing tribe's challenges and structure. The team's dashboard wasn't used by CX, but instead by the product manager.

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

363 c0l0 2026-04-27 10:58:40 UTC github.com/pgbackrest Llama Share 190

pgBackRest is a reliable PostgreSQL backup and restore solution that scales up to large databases and workloads. It supports parallel processing, compression, and block-level backups for efficient data storage and retrieval.

Our principles

30 tosh 2026-04-27 18:58:40 UTC openai.com Llama Share 37

OpenAI aims to democratize AI, empowering people to achieve their goals and live more fulfilling lives. They prioritize minimizing harm, promoting resilience, and adapting to an uncertain future to ensure AI benefits all of humanity.

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

217 BoingBoomTschak 2026-04-27 09:58:40 UTC github.com/weeblabs Llama Share 56

The DSPi transforms a Raspberry Pi Pico into a digital audio processor with features like room correction, active crossovers, and parametric EQ. It acts as a USB sound card with onboard DSP engine.

Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

7 1659447091 2026-04-27 18:58:40 UTC theguardian.com Prefix Share 0

Spanish archaeologists exploring the bay that curves between the southern port of Algeciras and the Rock of Gibraltar have documented the wrecks of more than 30 ships that came to grief near the Pillars of Hercules between the fifth century BC and the second world war. Over the millennia, the bay, which sits at the north end of the strait of Gibraltar that separates Europe from Africa, has ...

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

166 JeanKage 2026-04-27 10:58:40 UTC fda.gov Full Share 68

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Flipdiscs

503 skogstokig 2026-04-27 03:58:40 UTC flipdisc.io Llama Share 83

The user built a large interactive wall art using flipdiscs, a display type that utilizes electromagnetic pulses to flip small discs between two colors, and paired it with an Nvidia Orin Nano for processing power. The user created a library for using flipdisc screens in Node.js and built a reliable interface for the display using an expo app, allowing users to control and customize the display.

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

46 ManyaGhobadi 2026-04-27 14:58:40 UTC systalyze.com Llama Share 10

The world is facing an AI compute crisis due to rising electricity demand, long lead times for GPUs, and increasing rental contract pricing, making optimization a top priority for enterprises. A new tool called Utilyze measures true GPU utilization by tracking actual compute throughput and memory bandwidth, providing accurate and real-time insights to help identify performance bottlenecks and ...

Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live)

68 donjoe 2026-04-27 14:58:40 UTC svtplay.se Llama Share 7

lgarna vandrar samma leder i tusen år för att nå rika betesmarker. Följ årets åttonde säsong av älgvandringen på SVT Play.

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

200 amai 2026-04-27 08:58:40 UTC quarkdown.com Full Share 52

No boilerplate Versatile Whether you are writing a research paper, a quick report, a company-wide wiki, class notes, or preparing interactive slides for your next talk, there's only one line you need.

Managing the Unmanaged Switch

52 luu 2026-04-27 13:58:40 UTC watchmysys.com Llama Share 24

The TL-SG108 is an 8 port Gigabit Ethernet switch based on the Realtek RTL8370N chip, which can be upgraded to a managed switch by replacing the 4Mbit SPI flash with a 32Mbit one. The switch's MAC address and serial number can be modified to avoid conflicts.

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

57 walmsles 2026-04-27 13:58:40 UTC github.com/serverless-dna Llama Share 23

Tendril is a self-extending agentic sandbox that discovers and builds tools autonomously. It uses a Strands agent with three bootstrap tools to rule them all.

US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data

145 unethical_ban 2026-04-27 15:58:40 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 105

A geofence warrant was used to catch a suspect in a 2019 bank robbery, but critics say it violates the Constitution and puts personal data at risk. The Supreme Court will examine the use of geofence warrants in a case involving a Jamaican immigrant's conviction.

Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings

72 garritfra 2026-04-27 11:58:40 UTC github.com/garritfra Llama Share 33

The library opens various file formats including CSV, TSV, and native .cell files. It tracks ODF formula compliance and saves CSV files with flattened formula values.