I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

67 ca98am79 2026-04-26 21:24:43 UTC ca98am79.medium.com Llama Share 18

The domain name friendster.com was bought for $7456 in an auction and later sold for $20k in Bitcoin. The new owner created a social network with unique features like phone tapping to connect friends and fading connections to encourage in-person interactions.

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

77 dd23 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC sentinelone.com Llama Share 21

SentinelLABS uncovered a 2005 cyber sabotage framework, fast16, targeting high-precision calculation software with a kernel driver that patches code in memory to tamper with results. The framework was designed for strategic sabotage, introducing small but systematic errors into physical-world calculations.

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

118 berkeleyjunk 2026-04-26 21:24:43 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 73

Sabastian Sawe made history by becoming the first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race, crossing the line in 1:59:30. Tigst Assefa also broke her own women's world record in a women-only field, finishing in 2:15:41.

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

45 1659447091 2026-04-26 21:25:43 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 7

Monarch butterflies are declining due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change, with a 99% chance of extinction by 2080. Conservationists are working to protect the species, using methods like habitat restoration and tracking monarch migrations to increase their chances of survival.

Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

54 pwim 2026-04-26 19:24:43 UTC tokyodev.com Llama Share 14

The author used Magic: The Gathering to improve Japanese fluency by forcing himself to use the language in a real-world environment. This approach helped him transition from a JLPT N2 certification to actual proficiency.

Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)

20 SachitRafa 2026-04-26 21:24:43 UTC github.com/sachitrafa Llama Share 7

YourMemory is a persistent memory layer for AI agents that uses the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to simulate human memory. It supports multiple agents with isolated memories and controlled access to shared context.

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

164 koshyjohn 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC koshyjohn.com Llama Share 140

The future of software engineering will belong to those who use AI to augment their skills, not replace them, by focusing on judgment, clarity, and original thought. Effective engineers will know what to delegate to AI and what to own, turning time savings into better thinking and avoiding the trap of shallow understanding and imitation.

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

215 kmdupree 2026-04-26 14:24:43 UTC openai.com Llama Share 129

SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark for autonomous software engineering, has contamination issues due to publicly available data and flawed test cases, making it unsuitable for measuring model progress. A new benchmark, SWE-bench Pro, is recommended for reporting results due to lower contamination risk and more robust test cases.

Clay PCB Tutorial

175 j0r0b0 2026-04-26 16:24:43 UTC feministhackerspaces.cargo.site Llama Share 111

Researchers at Mz* Baltazar's Lab developed a method to create PCBs from natural clay, using a 3D printed stamp and a low-energy firing process. The project aims to create sustainable and locally sourced hardware, reducing the reliance on conflict minerals and promoting fair trade practices.

MoQ Boy

15 mmcclure 2026-04-26 21:24:43 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 1

The user created a homebrew Twitch Plays Pokemon emulator using MoQ, a cloud-based streaming platform, to save bandwidth and CPU. The emulator uses MoQ's discovery mechanism to find available games and players, demonstrating how to use MoQ for robots and other applications.

XOXO Festival Archive

15 surprisetalk 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC xoxofest.com Full Share 0

From 2012 to 2024, XOXO brought together writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, game developers, coders, cartoonists, and more to share their stories and struggles of living and working online.

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

73 PLenz 2026-04-26 17:24:43 UTC eblong.com Full Share 13

A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.

The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color

75 keiferski 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC barwypowstania.pl Full Share 29

Ręczna, precyzyjna koloryzacja pod okiem historyków oraz varsavianistów pozwoliła wiernie odtworzyć powstańczą Warszawę. Barwy przywrócone postaciom i miejscom ożywiły atmosferę i emocje tamtych dni. Zdjęciom towarzyszą eksponaty ze zbiorów Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego.

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

330 jeremyccrane 2026-04-26 17:24:43 UTC twitter.com/lifeof_jer Full Share 434

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

463 jamesponddotco 2026-04-26 17:24:43 UTC anchor.host Llama Share 182

A GoDaddy employee transferred a 27-year-old domain without validation, and the company's support team failed to resolve the issue for four days. The domain was eventually recovered by a stranger who accidentally received it, highlighting a major security flaw in GoDaddy's transfer process.

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

263 sph 2026-04-26 10:24:43 UTC statecharts.dev Llama Share 76

A statechart is a visual formalism for complex systems that solves state explosion problems in state machines. It's a great communicator and can be used as an exploratory tool for non-developers and QA.

Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics

83 2DcAf 2026-04-26 15:24:43 UTC thermodynamicsbook.com Llama Share 27

This textbook provides a clear introduction to thermodynamics for university students and engineers, covering key concepts with examples and problems. It also includes historical explorations to connect ideas to their origins and impact.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

724 pr337h4m 2026-04-26 01:24:43 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 507

A 23-year-old man named Liam Price used ChatGPT Pro to solve a 60-year-old math problem left by Paul Erdos. The AI's solution, which was posted online, appears to be original and may have broader applications in mathematics.

Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

4 MrBuddyCasino 2026-04-26 21:24:43 UTC tingouw.com Prefix Share 0

I've been working with the RP2350 and no_std Rust for a while now, and I've really come to appreciate how Rust is designed — safe yet surprisingly straightforward. But my latest project needs Wi-Fi and BLE, and the RP2350 doesn't have wireless hardware built in. That meant switching to the ESP32-S3. The ESP32-S3 is a great chip, but here's the catch: most Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ...

Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On

13 reconnecting 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 0

A scientist, Pablo Burraco, discovered a dark-colored tree frog in Chernobyl's exclusion zone, sparking a question about radiation's impact on local wildlife. Research suggests some species may have adapted to radiation, but the evidence is still debated among scientists.

Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection

27 plow-tycoon 2026-04-26 18:24:43 UTC v8.dev Llama Share 4

V8's parallel Scavenger garbage collector reduces main thread young generation garbage collection time by 20-50% across benchmarks. It achieves this by utilizing multiple threads and dynamic work stealing.

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

129 rodarima 2026-04-26 17:24:43 UTC dillo-browser.org Llama Share 22

Dillo 3.3.0 adds new features, configuration options, and bug fixes, including experimental FLTK 1.4 support and a new dilloc program for command-line control. It also introduces page actions, OAuth authentication, and remote control via a UNIX socket.

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)

55 Wingy 2026-04-26 16:24:43 UTC macchaffee.com Llama Share 86

You built a custom deployment system to avoid Kubernetes, but it ended up being complex and hard to maintain. You've essentially recreated Kubernetes without realizing it.

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

573 elisaado 2026-04-26 11:24:43 UTC asahilinux.org Llama Share 263

Linux 7.0 has been released and Asahi progress report includes updates to the Asahi Installer, which now supports UEFI-only installation and firmware updates for ALS and other hardware. The report also covers various hardware improvements, including PMP support, Bluetooth and WiFi coexistence, display controller work, and audio stack progress, as well as upcoming releases and gratitude to supporters.

Sloppy Copies

55 dev_hugepages 2026-04-26 17:24:43 UTC markround.com Llama Share 12

The author's article about a hobby project in Ruby on Rails generated interest and traffic, but also led to suspicious activity and cloning of the app. The author found nearly identical copies of their app with AI-generated content and fake testimonials.

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

391 chiefalchemist 2026-04-26 00:24:43 UTC freakonomics.com Full Share 267

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

191 yak32 2026-04-26 09:24:43 UTC blog.playcanvas.com Llama Share 40

The user created a photorealistic environment using Gaussian Splatting and added physics, lighting, and NPCs to it, achieving a playable game in a browser tab. The user used various open-source tools and libraries, including SuperSplat, splat-transform, and Recast navigation, to create the environment and NPCs, and shared the project publicly on PlayCanvas.

Show HN: Auge Vision from Your Terminal

17 franze 2026-04-26 20:24:43 UTC auge.franzai.com GoogleT5 Share 2

A complex winter scene - perfect for stress-testing classification (snow, hunters, dogs, village, ice skating) the port takes advantage of calcareous sandstonen(kurkar) reefs that createa natural. breakwater and safe haven after 1965 the jaffa port gradually began to sink; after that it was no longer used for cargo. the image was taken from the famous 'black cat

Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design

82 mooreds 2026-04-26 14:24:43 UTC arpitbhayani.me Llama Share 80

Database architecture assumptions are failing due to agentic AI systems that reason their way to queries, write autonomously, and hold connections open, requiring new patterns like soft deletes, append-only logs, and idempotency keys to ensure safety. Traditional database architecture must be redesigned to assume the caller might be wrong, might retry, and might not be watching the results, ...

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

516 _-x-_ 2026-04-26 01:24:43 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 178

Headspace app is silently appearing on iPhone 13 Pro around 1pm EST daily. Reports of similar issue on Reddit suggest it may be a widespread iOS issue.