After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites

38 datadrivenangel 2026-04-06 23:33:04 UTC blog.ericgoldman.org Llama Share 8

The author signed up for Google AdSense in 2005 to learn about online advertising but now makes minimal money and experiences issues with ad intrusiveness and quality. After 20 years, the author has deleted all domains from AdSense due to these problems and to simplify their blog's classification as non-commercial.

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

210 MattHart88 2026-04-06 20:33:04 UTC github.com/matthartman Llama Share 96

Ghost Pepper is a free, 100% local macOS app for speech-to-text transcription. It runs entirely on Apple Silicon, requiring Accessibility permission for functionality.

Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute

61 l1n 2026-04-06 22:33:04 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 13

Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity to power its frontier Claude models. This expansion will help serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide and strengthen American computing infrastructure.

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

193 benswerd 2026-04-06 16:33:04 UTC freestyle.sh Full Share 109

Git, VMs, deployments, and execution — unified infrastructure for code you didn't write. The platform for AI app builders and workflow engines.

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

712 adrianhon 2026-04-06 11:33:04 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 231

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board after allegations of deception, but was reinstated after a public backlash and pressure from employees. The board's decision to fire Altman was motivated by concerns about his trustworthiness and ability to lead the company.

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

306 thadt 2026-04-06 15:33:04 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 128

The author has changed their position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography due to recent progress in quantum computers, with experts predicting a deadline of 2029, and believes it's now unacceptable to delay the rollout. The author recommends deploying post-quantum key exchange and signatures immediately, and abandoning hybrid classic and post-quantum authentication schemes.

Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

34 kitfunso 2026-04-06 22:33:04 UTC github.com/kitfunso Llama Share 13

Hippo is a shared memory layer across AI agents that captures and consolidates memories, allowing for context to carry over between sessions. It uses a two-speed storage system, decay, retrieval strengthening, and other mechanisms to help agents learn from their experiences.

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

197 player_piano 2026-04-06 16:33:04 UTC govauctions.app Llama Share 63

Government surplus auctions sell billions of dollars worth of items annually, including vehicles, equipment, and seized assets. GovAuctions aggregates listings from major platforms into one searchable interface, allowing users to browse and bid on deals.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

719 StanAngeloff 2026-04-06 14:33:04 UTC github.com/anthropics Llama Share 448

Claude's performance in complex engineering tasks degraded starting in February due to reduced thinking depth caused by the rollout of thinking content redaction. This led to quality issues, including reduced research effort, increased edit-first behavior, and production of wrong output.

Porting Go's strings package to C

10 ingve 2026-04-06 23:33:04 UTC antonz.org Llama Share 1

The author ported Go's bytes and strings packages to C, using allocators for memory management. The C versions outperformed Go in most benchmarks, sometimes by 2-4x.

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

254 Bender 2026-04-06 14:33:04 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 131

Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian, is identified as the elusive hacker UNKN who led ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil. He and another Russian extorted nearly $2 million euros in cyberattacks causing over 35 million euros in economic damage.

What being ripped off taught me

320 doctorhandshake 2026-04-06 13:33:04 UTC belief.horse Llama Share 178

I was hired to help finish an AR bus tour project in Beijing, but the team was in disarray with no version control, poor coding practices, and unrealistic expectations. They failed to pay me $35k after I worked 24 days straight to fix their project.

HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

0 2026-04-06 21:33:04 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

HackerRank is transforming developer hiring with AI agents, seeking a Field Development Engineer to help customers implement a new hiring process. The role requires technical fluency and strong communication skills to bridge product and customer teams.

The anatomy of SMS delivery: from request to carrier

17 Bridgexapi 2026-04-06 22:33:04 UTC blog.bridgexapi.io Full Share 1

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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

200 ibobev 2026-04-06 14:33:04 UTC stephendiehl.com Llama Share 140

The novel "Antimemetics Division" by qntm is a cosmic horror story about a team fighting invisible threats to reality. It explores the concept of information as a substrate of reality and the fragility of human memory and identity.

Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome

43 factorialboy 2026-04-06 20:33:04 UTC shapemachine.xyz Full Share 15

Features Sponsor Tusk is free and open source. If it's useful to you, consider sponsoring its development.

Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go

123 whalesalad 2026-04-06 15:33:04 UTC github.com/anzellai GoogleT5 Share 43

Sky is an experimental programming language that combines go's pragmatism with elm&39's elegance to create a simple, fullstack language. the compiler auto-wires component messages when the naming convention is followed -- no manual forwarding needed in update! the current compiler (v0.7.x) uses any for function parameters and returns. eight compiler source files were refactored to ...

Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game

376 akyuu 2026-04-06 18:33:04 UTC wesnoth.org Llama Share 94

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.

Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V

16 noone_youknow 2026-04-06 21:33:04 UTC github.com/roscopeco Llama Share 5

Anos is a modern, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64 PCs and RISC-V machines, currently supporting user mode preemptive multitasking on up to 16 CPUs. It has a custom toolchain and supports UEFI boot on real hardware.

Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

22 4RH1T3CT0R 2026-04-06 21:33:04 UTC github.com/4rh1t3ct0r7 Llama Share 4

A TrueType font was used to render 3D graphics by embedding a DDA raycasting engine in the font file and using font-variation-settings to pass coordinates to the font. A custom compiler was written to generate TrueType hinting assembly from a custom DSL, which was then injected into a .ttf file to create the TTF-DOOM game.

Agent Reading Test

42 kaycebasques 2026-04-06 19:33:04 UTC agentreadingtest.com Llama Share 10

The Agent Reading Test is a benchmark that evaluates AI coding agents' ability to read web content by giving them realistic documentation tasks and scoring their performance based on canary tokens encountered. The test has 20 points, with each canary token found earning 1 point and correct answers to qualitative questions earning 1 point each, with a typical score range of 14-18 out of 20 for ...

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

84 flinner 2026-04-06 16:33:04 UTC showbiz411.com Llama Share 94

Little created AI singer Eddie Dalton, inventing his look, sound, and videos, and is releasing music through iTunes and YouTube. Despite high chart rankings, Eddie Dalton's sales are low, with only 6,900 tracks sold, raising questions about the authenticity of his success.

The Last Quiet Thing

144 coinfused 2026-04-06 13:33:04 UTC terrygodier.com Llama Share 86

The watch costs twelve dollars and has basic functionality since 1989. It doesn't track health or require maintenance, unlike modern devices that need constant updates and attention.

The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

454 drob518 2026-04-06 18:33:04 UTC bramcohen.com Llama Share 387

The Claude team's source code leak is due to excessive dogfooding, where they're trying to avoid looking at the code's internal workings. This leads to poor quality software, as AI coding tools can't fix issues without human guidance.

Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

35 lazarkap 2026-04-06 22:33:04 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 17

You're struggling to find a marketing co-founder due to risk concerns and lack of revenue. You're looking for advice on how others have successfully brought on a marketing co-founder.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

47 jruohonen 2026-04-06 17:33:04 UTC nxdomain.no Llama Share 5

The author has been running a greytrapping experiment on their mail server since 2007, which has grown to over 22 million spamtraps, surpassing the population of Norway. The author shares their experience and insights on running a mail server, greylisting, and greytrapping, and hopes to encourage others to set up their own mail services using tools like OpenBSD and PF.

Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python

21 edumucelli 2026-04-06 19:33:04 UTC docking.cc Llama Share 5

Docking is a customizable, open-source Linux dock application written in Python. It offers a modular widget system, cross-desktop environment support, and extensibility.

SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines

22 tosh 2026-04-06 19:33:04 UTC som-st.github.io Llama Share 0

SOM is a virtual machine with various implementations and optimizations, used for teaching and research in object-oriented programming. It has been used in several universities and has been the basis for other projects such as Resilient Smalltalk and OOVM.

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed

220 rglullis 2026-04-06 18:33:04 UTC osnews.com Llama Share 104

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect Creative Cloud installation. They use this method due to Chrome blocking Local Network Access.

The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

13 chermanowicz 2026-04-06 23:33:04 UTC garymarcus.substack.com Llama Share 1

A solo founder created a $1.8B company in 2 months using AI, but Medvi's success is marred by a class action lawsuit for violating California's anti-spam law. Medvi's business model is questionable, with potential compliance and data handling issues.