Rare concert records going on Internet Archive

95 jrm-veris 2026-04-14 14:39:20 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 35

The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.

What is jj and why should I care?

304 tigerlily 2026-04-14 10:39:20 UTC steveklabnik.github.io Llama Share 237

jj is a simpler and more powerful DVCS than git, combining the best of git and Mercurial. It has a git compatible backend, allowing you to try it without converting others.

DaVinci Resolve – Photo

848 thebiblelover7 2026-04-14 02:39:20 UTC blackmagicdesign.com Llama Share 219

DaVinci Resolve Photo page offers advanced color tools for still photography, including DaVinci color grading and Resolve FX. It supports RAW files from major camera brands and allows for GPU-accelerated processing.

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

616 zdw 2026-04-14 03:39:20 UTC developers.google.com Full Share 359

Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go

9 mc-serious 2026-04-14 14:39:20 UTC github.com/kontext-dev Prefix Share 0

Kontext CLI is an open-source command-line tool that wraps AI coding agents with enterprise-grade identity, credential management, and governance — without changing how developers work. Why we built it: AI coding agents need access to GitHub, Stripe, databases, and dozens of other services. Today, teams copy-paste long-lived API keys into .env files and hope for the best. Kontext replaces ...

NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

70 moigagoo 2026-04-14 11:39:20 UTC nim-lang.org Llama Share 13

NimConf 2026 will be an online event on June 20, 2026, featuring pre-recorded talks and live chat Q&A. Submit talk proposals by May 10, 2026, for a chance to share your Nim-related ideas with the community.

Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

538 rrreese 2026-04-14 08:39:20 UTC rareese.com Llama Share 335

User used Backblaze for 10 years but discovered it stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders without notification. Backblaze's change in policy eroded user's trust, breaking their promise to back up all data.

The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer

29 tekknolagi 2026-04-14 12:39:20 UTC cfallin.org Llama Share 6

The author describes the aegraph, a data structure at the heart of Cranelift's mid-end optimizer, and explains how it was developed to unify code motion, canonicalization, and rewrites in a single framework. The author outlines the process of elaboration, which involves canonicalizing pure operators, putting them into a sea-of-nodes representation, performing rewrites, and then converting ...

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

143 zagwdt 2026-04-14 08:39:20 UTC introspective-diffusion.github.io Llama Share 34

Researchers introduce Introspective Diffusion Language Model (I-DLM) to improve parallel token generation, matching AR model quality and outperforming prior DLMs. I-DLM uses introspective strided decoding to verify generated tokens, achieving 2.9-4.1x higher throughput than LLaDA-2.1-mini and SDAR at high concurrency.

The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets

21 jimt1234 2026-04-14 15:08:20 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 14

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The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

65 remilouf 2026-04-14 10:39:20 UTC thetypicalset.com Llama Share 19

Tool calling with closed-source models is seamless, but with open models, it depends on a wire format the engine must understand, leading to implementation burdens. A shared declarative way to describe wire formats is needed to standardize tool calling across models and engines.

Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

81 rfarley04 2026-04-14 09:39:20 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 42

Franklin Computer Corporation's ads, including one featuring Ralph Archbold as Benjamin Franklin, were memorable but problematic due to copyright infringement on Apple products. The company's clones, such as the ACE 1000, were popular but ultimately led to a lawsuit and the company's shift away from desktop computers.

Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

72 adulion 2026-04-14 09:39:20 UTC ciphercue.com Llama Share 62

CipherCue tracked 7,760 ransomware claims in 2025, a 30.7% increase from 2024. This growth rate is three times faster than the 10.1% increase in worldwide security spending.

Distributed DuckDB Instance

115 citguru 2026-04-14 06:39:20 UTC github.com/citguru Llama Share 26

OpenDuck is an open-source implementation of MotherDuck's ideas for cloud-native DuckDB, offering differential storage, dual execution, and transparent remote databases. It provides an open protocol, backend, and extension for anyone to run, extend, and build on.

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

325 bumbledraven 2026-04-14 00:39:20 UTC kirancodes.me Llama Share 152

A verified implementation of zlib, lean-zip, was found to be vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the Lean runtime. Despite this, the application code had zero memory-related bugs in 105 million fuzzing executions, demonstrating the effectiveness of formal verification in producing robust software.

The exponential curve behind open source backlogs

34 armanckeser 2026-04-14 11:39:20 UTC armanckeser.com Llama Share 20

A queuing theory book explains why open source contributions sit for over a year due to a bottleneck of 200 open PRs on Jellyfin web, causing a 6.7-month average cycle time. Implementing flow controls like PR size limits, review priority, and a weekly triage schedule can help.

Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

82 tie-in 2026-04-14 05:39:20 UTC kirancodes.me Llama Share 37

The author argues that multi-agentic software development is a distributed systems problem that inherits impossibility results from the literature, including the FLP theorem and Lamport's Byzantine Generals theorem. These results imply that consensus is impossible in certain scenarios, and the author suggests that designers should explicitly address these coordination problems rather than ...

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

1083 speckx 2026-04-13 18:39:20 UTC anchor.host Llama Share 304

A trusted WordPress plugin, Countdown Timer Ultimate, was compromised through a supply chain attack. The plugin's wpos-analytics module injected malicious code into wp-config.php, serving SEO spam to Googlebot.

WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

208 throwawayk7h 2026-04-13 23:39:20 UTC github.com/fabienmillet Llama Share 95

WiiFin is a homebrew client for Jellyfin on the Nintendo Wii, providing a console-friendly media experience. It's experimental and still under development, with optional video playback using MPlayer CE.

Nucleus Nouns

5 bewal416 2026-04-14 14:39:20 UTC ben-mini.com Prefix Share 1

You can spend hours building a list for just one app. But the more interesting exercise is weighting the nouns in the app- considering which ones have the most “gravity” from the eyes of the user: You quickly realize that most apps, even the multi-billion dollar ones, revolve around one or two nouns- I like calling these nucleus nouns. Every other noun is a “satellite”. Nucleus nouns are how ...

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Work

32 aphyr 2026-04-14 15:02:20 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 16

The author warns that machine learning (ML) may lead to widespread job displacement, deskilling, and automation bias, potentially exacerbating wealth and power consolidation in the hands of large tech companies. The author fears that ML may not deliver on promises of abundance and instead lead to economic shocks, increased income inequality, and a loss of intellectual inheritance.

MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres

57 adunk 2026-04-14 06:39:20 UTC github.com/lasect Full Share 8

the MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by postgres - lasect/pg_6502

Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts

8 zero-st4rs 2026-04-14 13:39:20 UTC github.com/skinnyjames Prefix Share 1

# counter.rb class Counter < Hokusai::Block style <<~EOF [style] additionStyles { background: rgb(214, 49, 24); cursor: "pointer"; } additionLabel { size: 40; color: rgb(255,255,255); } subtractStyles { background: rgb(0, 85, 170); cursor: "pointer"; } subtractLabel { size: 40; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); } EOF template <<-EOF [template] hblock { ...

A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

61 hhs 2026-04-14 05:39:20 UTC engineering.princeton.edu Llama Share 17

Engineers at Princeton designed soft-rigid hybrid robots that move without motors or external controls using a printable polymer and flexible electronics. The robots can precisely and repeatedly move and return to their original shape without wear or distortion.

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

15 apollinaire 2026-04-14 11:39:20 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 1

In 19th-century Britain, rapid urbanization led to overcrowded churchyards and a body-snatching trade, sparking public fear and outrage. Reformers like George Walker campaigned for change, leading to the 1852 Burial Act and the establishment of suburban garden cemeteries.

Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM

40 light_ideas 2026-04-14 06:39:20 UTC github.com/nyigoro Full Share 17

Most languages make you choose: safety or the web. Lumina doesn't. Lumina is a statically typed, web-native language with HM type inference, algebraic types, and trait-based polymorphism, compiled to JavaScript and WebAssembly. Build reactive UIs, WebGPU workloads, and WASM modules in the same language, with the same type system. - nyigoro/lumina-lang

GitHub Stacked PRs

822 ezekg 2026-04-13 20:39:20 UTC github.github.com Llama Share 452

The gh stack CLI and GitHub UI allow for organized pull requests in an ordered stack, making it easier to review and merge large changes. This approach breaks down big changes into small, focused pull requests that build on each other, improving review quality and team efficiency.

Write less code, be more responsible

137 orhunp_ 2026-04-13 23:39:20 UTC blog.orhun.dev Llama Share 87

The author discusses the challenges of balancing AI-assisted programming with traditional coding, finding a balance between using AI for boring tasks and writing fun parts themselves. They emphasize the importance of responsibility and maintaining quality in AI-generated code.

Design and implementation of DuckDB internals

158 mpweiher 2026-04-14 00:39:20 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 11

A DuckDB-based course, DiDi, covers database system internals for undergraduate students at University of Tübingen. The 15-week course requires basic SQL skills and focuses on DuckDB's relational database system.

Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

417 speckx 2026-04-13 15:39:20 UTC hamvocke.com Llama Share 254

The user is customizing their tmux configuration to make it more comfortable to use. They are changing the prefix key from C-b to C-a and remapping the Caps Lock key to Ctrl.