Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

37 sparkling 2026-04-12 16:34:33 UTC eualternative.eu Llama Share 5

Building a SaaS product in 2026 without AWS, Azure, or GCP is possible and practical due to strong EU options for each layer of the SaaS stack. EU providers like Hetzner, Scaleway, Mollie, Bunny.net, and others offer comparable or cheaper services with lower operational burden.

Bring Back Idiomatic Design

158 phil294 2026-04-12 12:55:33 UTC essays.johnloeber.com Llama Share 80

The user misses the consistency in design of the desktop software era and believes that homogeneous interfaces are essential for user experience, citing the example of a checkbox being a standard design idiom. They argue that the lack of design idioms in modern web applications has led to frustration and a "guessing game" for users, and suggest that following established design patterns and ...

Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)

78 Rochus 2026-04-12 13:55:33 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Llama Share 9

The user successfully ported the Oberon system to Raspberry Pi 3b and other models, making it available for download. The system now boots and runs on QEMU and real hardware, with plans to debug and migrate the network driver.

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

223 mpweiher 2026-04-12 13:55:33 UTC the-independent.com Llama Share 88

The Independent reports on various topics including climate change and reproductive rights without paywalls. Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewable energy sources.

JVM Options Explorer

118 0x54MUR41 2026-04-12 10:55:33 UTC chriswhocodes.com Llama Share 57

The input specifies options for Java Heap allocation and class loading, including aliasing, prefetching, and locking. It also sets thresholds for using malloc or mmap for memory allocation.

Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

269 littlecranky67 2026-04-12 12:55:33 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 113

You experienced TLS errors with a Cloudflare-hosted Docker image due to a blocked IP for a Spanish football match. This caused your GitLab pipelines to fail during the match.

Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)

23 wallflower 2026-04-12 14:55:33 UTC researchgate.net Full Share 17

AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

272 gHeadphone 2026-04-12 09:55:33 UTC thealgorithmicbridge.com Llama Share 460

People are increasingly frustrated with the impact of technology, particularly AI, on their lives and are turning to violence against those associated with it. This is a result of feeling desperate and powerless against the effects of technological advancements.

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

116 _Microft 2026-04-12 08:55:33 UTC phyphox.org Llama Share 23

The phyphox team received the Ars legendi-faculty award in 2020 for developing phyphox, an app for academic teaching and physics classes. They also received the teaching award in 2019 from the AG Physikalische Praktika of the German Physical Society.

Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

293 lsdmtme 2026-04-12 05:55:33 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 212

Anthropic silently changed Claude Code's prompt cache TTL default from 1 hour to 5 minutes in early March 2026. This caused a 20-32% increase in cache creation costs and quota consumption for subscription users.

Happy Map

117 surprisetalk 2026-04-12 10:55:33 UTC pudding.cool Full Share 19

100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

A Tour of Oodi

55 zdw 2026-04-12 09:55:33 UTC blinry.org Llama Share 16

Oodi is an innovative library in Helsinki with a giant screen, recording studios, and a makerspace. It offers various spaces for reading, working, gaming, and relaxation with a vast collection of books and modern amenities.

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

584 tradertef 2026-04-12 06:55:33 UTC stevehanov.ca Llama Share 342

The author, a successful bootstrapper, shares their playbook for running a lean startup with minimal costs. They use a single VPS, statically compiled binaries, and local GPU hardware for AI tasks.

The Physics of GPS

47 maouida 2026-04-12 11:55:33 UTC perthirtysix.com Llama Share 9

GPS uses satellites to measure time delays, which are converted into distances, and multiple satellites intersect to pinpoint a location. The system accounts for clock errors, gravitational time dilation, and other factors to achieve high accuracy, with modern receivers using multiple satellites and techniques to minimize errors.

Doom, Played over Curl

48 creaktive 2026-04-12 10:55:33 UTC github.com/xsawyerx Llama Share 5

This is a Node.js server that streams DOOM frames to the terminal over HTTP with cURL, allowing for real-time gameplay. The server uses a single TCP connection for both keystrokes and frame streaming, with the terminal in raw mode to prevent echoing and line-buffering.

Floyd's Sampling Algorithm

15 ibobev 2026-04-12 14:55:33 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 0

The user discusses Floyd's algorithm for generating a uniformly distributed subset of size k from a set of 1 to n, explaining two ways to understand its correctness. The algorithm can be seen as either incrementally building a permutation and then taking the last k elements, or as a series of swaps that map to the two branches of the algorithm.

Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT

129 smokel 2026-04-12 13:55:33 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 37

User is hoping for the return of TheBigPromptLibrary, a study mode library, and believes it's 100% replicable. They also question the need for specialized apps like listendock.com when OpenAI's Study Mode can be used for similar purposes.

I gave every train in New York an instrument

5 joshuawolk 2026-04-12 15:55:33 UTC trainjazz.com Prefix Share 1

Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years. On the platforms they are hot, screaming, full of complaint. This is the music inside the noise. The harmony moves through a slow chorus. A note is placed precisely where the train happens to be ...

Compute iOS XNU offset from kernel cache

9 tonygo 2026-04-12 13:55:33 UTC blog.reversesociety.co Prefix Share 0

Opa334 recently shared a kernel read and write primitive which is similar to the one used in DarkSword malware. I found that it was a perfect occasion for me to try to make it run on one of my testing devices and actually get my hands dirty with kernel exploration. We always hear about kernel exploitation, but rarely get to walk through what it looks like in practice. Once you have read and ...

We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees

123 em-bee 2026-04-12 12:55:33 UTC blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com Llama Share 117

We're a small software company that makes tools for designers and developers, but our emails often get marked as spam by Gmail due to their own reputation system. We're working to fix this by culling old addresses and slowing down our sends.

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

454 Anon84 2026-04-11 19:55:33 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 111

An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

436 cmaster11 2026-04-12 13:55:33 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 388

Cache_read tokens count at full rate against quota, negating prompt caching benefits. This causes quota exhaustion within 1.5 hours on Pro Max 5x plans.

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

85 zdw 2026-04-12 07:55:33 UTC morethanmoore.substack.com Llama Share 52

Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO, now at Playground Global, is evaluating startups and investing in companies that can shape the industry. He believes the future of compute will be heterogeneous, combining classical, AI, and quantum systems.

The Miller Principle (2007)

58 FelipeCortez 2026-04-12 08:55:33 UTC puredanger.github.io Full Share 45

I had some other principles too but I figured no one would read them…. :)

Tofolli gates are all you need

104 ibobev 2026-04-12 04:55:33 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 31

Landauer's principle sets a lower bound on erasing one bit of information, but reversible circuits can still provide practical efficiency gains. Reversible circuits like the Toffoli gate can be used to compute any Boolean function, including NAND, but may require more input and output.

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

1189 dominicq 2026-04-11 16:55:33 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 318

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

104 miadabdi 2026-04-12 11:55:33 UTC mastodon.social Full Share 67

Attached: 1 image 🗓️ Exactly six weeks ago on Saturday 28 February, #Iran fell victim to a regime-imposed internet blackout that remains in place after 1008 hours, now entering day 43. The censorship measure's harms grow daily, damaging livelihoods and violating Iranians' digital and human rights.

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

244 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:55:33 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 133

Access to this resource has been blocked due to unusual traffic from your network. If you believe this is a mistake, please contact support@zenodo.org with the reference information below.

Dark Castle

226 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:55:33 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 30

Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.

How Complex is my Code?

155 speckx 2026-04-11 23:55:33 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 40

Measuring code complexity for humans is challenging as it involves understanding the mental effort required to comprehend the code, which can be influenced by factors such as familiarity with patterns, working memory load, and coherence. Various metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, and linguistic complexity measures can provide insights, but ultimately, the cognitive ...