Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

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European services offer secure, privacy-compliant solutions with strict regulations for environment and data protection. Made in Europe products prioritize quality, durability, and fair working conditions.

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

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apfel is a CLI tool that exposes Apple's built-in LLM on Macs with Apple Silicon. It provides a way to access the LLM through a terminal, code, or chat, without network calls or API keys.

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini

Google releases Gemma 4 open models

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Build autonomous agents that plan, navigate apps, and complete tasks on your behalf, with native support for function calling. These models were evaluated against a large collection of datasets and metrics to cover different aspects of text generation. See additional benchmarks in model card.

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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The author joined Microsoft's Azure Core team in May 2023 as a senior member, only to find the team planning to port half of Windows to a tiny Linux-running chip. The author was shocked by the team's unrealistic plan and felt it was a "death march."

ESP32-S31: 320MHz 2C RV32IMAFCP+CLIC, 512KB SRAM, GbE, 802.11ax, 61 GPIO

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Espressif Systems announces ESP32-S31, a high-performance SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Ethernet for IoT applications. It features a dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, robust security, and comprehensive connectivity for smart appliances and industrial automation.

NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns

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NHS staff are refusing to work on the Federated Data Platform due to ethical concerns with US-based provider Palantir. The government is under pressure to eject Palantir from NHS systems amid growing dissent over the company's suitability to manage national health data.

What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames

The author analyzes the structure of dataframes and identifies three fundamental operations: Delta (restructuring), Sigma (merging), and Pi (pairing), which can be used to build a dataframe algebra. Category theory provides a framework for understanding these operations and their relationships, allowing for a more principled design of dataframe libraries.

'Fatal decision': EU slammed for caving to US pressure on digital rules

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U.S. President Donald Trump gives a final heave to try and keep under-pressure Prime Minister Viktor OrbΓ‘n in power. Vice-chancellor Andi Babler said his country wants β€œnothing to do with Trump’s policy of chaos and his war.” Madrid is irked by the State Department’s move to investigate the assisted suicide of a 25-year-old Spanish woman.

The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain

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Scientists corrected the popular depiction of Io's "Steeple Mountain" (Dis Mons) after comparing it to actual Junocam data from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The corrected image shows a more realistic shape, with a less steep and more rounded appearance.

Tailscale's new macOS home

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Tailscale's macOS app had an issue where its icon would be hidden in the notch of some MacBooks. A small fix was implemented to notify users when the icon is hidden.

Cursor 3

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Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents, bringing clarity to agent work and a higher level of abstraction. It's faster, cleaner, and more powerful, with a multi-repo layout and seamless handoff between local and cloud agents.

Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief

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Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

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NASA has developed a new toilet system called the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) for astronauts. The system features handles for stability, simultaneous urine and feces processing, and a door for privacy in microgravity environments.

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents

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Qwen3.6-Plus is a significant upgrade to the Qwen series, offering enhanced agentic coding capabilities, improved multimodal reasoning, and a more stable and reliable foundation for developers. The model is now generally available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API and supports various coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development ...

C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was

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Proton's launch blog cites the US CLOUD Act as the primary reason to use Proton Meet instead of Zoom or Google Meet. Proton Meet relies on infrastructure providers LiveKit Cloud to deliver real-time video conferencing. LiveKit Cloud's terms of service are governed by California law, with venue in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County.

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

The author learned from business school that good ideas don't need lies to gain acceptance and that dishonest forecasters are worthless. This principle helped the author predict the Iraq War's failure due to false claims about WMDs and the importance of audit to prevent such errors.

H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means

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Via Licensing has introduced a new tiered fee structure for H.264 streaming licenses, with annual fees ranging from $100,000 to $4.5 million for large platforms. The change affects only new licenses starting in 2026, and existing licensees with active agreements as of 2025 are grandfathered under the old terms.

Vector Meson Dominance

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Vector meson dominance is a concept where photons are slightly contaminated by neutral rho mesons, which are quark-antiquark pairs with spin 1. The neutral rho meson was first predicted in 1959 and later found to be part of an SU(2) gauge field, which is a precursor to gauge theory.

Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

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The user wants a simple system to track installed tools on their development machine. A Makefile-based system with .mk files for each package manager and a script (hm.sh) for interactive installation and management meets this need.

New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

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Two new attacks, GDDRHammer and GeForge, demonstrate how malicious users can gain full root control of a host machine by performing novel Rowhammer attacks on high-performance Nvidia GPU cards. The attacks exploit memory hardware's susceptibility to bit flips, allowing attackers to manipulate GPU page tables and gain access to host CPU memory.

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

LinkedIn scans users' computers for installed software without consent, collecting data on job search activity, religious beliefs, and competitor products. BrowserGate is a campaign to expose this corporate espionage and data breach scandal, seeking funds and public support to hold LinkedIn accountable.

Switzerland hosts 'CERN of semiconductor research'

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Switzerland is fostering an open-source movement with RISC-V, a free ISA that gives universities and chip designers freedom to innovate. This has enabled Swiss researchers to develop advanced, energy-efficient chips for AI and other applications.

Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation

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The ReXGlue project is a recompilation tool for Xbox 360 games, allowing them to run natively on PC with improved performance. It's a platform that enables developers to create native ports of Xbox 360 games, with a goal to make them accessible and moddable.

Maze Algorithms (1997)

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Mazes can be classified into seven categories: Dimension, Hyperdimension, Topology, Tessellation, Routing, Texture, and Focus, with various subcategories and algorithms for creating each type. Algorithms for creating Mazes include Perfect, Braid, Unicursal, Sparseness, 3D, Weave, Crack, Omega, Hypermaze, and Template, each with its own characteristics and methods for generating the Maze.

George Goble has died

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George Harry Goble, a 73-year-old pioneer in computing, passed away on March 18, 2026. He was a founding member of Purdue Engineering Computer Network and made significant contributions to computing and refrigeration technology.

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Internal Engineers (Rust)

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The team is building a Postgres-native alternative to Elasticsearch, and they're open to meeting passionate individuals who share their mission. They're looking for people excited about data systems, search, analytics, Postgres, and Rust to reach out at founders@paradedb.com.

I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz

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The user saved money on SMS costs by using a cheap Android phone and the open-source SMS Gateway for Android app, which charges only the user's mobile plan rate. This setup, either in local or cloud mode, allows the user to send and receive SMS messages without per-message fees, making it ideal for MVPs and startups.

JSON Canvas Spec (2024)

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Nodes are placed in ascending order by z-index, with the last node on top and the first node below others. Node types include text, file, link, group, and canvasColor.