Weekly news | 2026-04-22
· 12 min read
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- IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
- Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
- FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
- The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
- AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
- North American English Dialects
- Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers
- CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
- Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
- Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick
- €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
- YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
- PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
- Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
- Mozilla Thunderbolt
- The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
- Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
- Ban the sale of precise geolocation
- CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models
- Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
- Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
- Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
- A Python Interpreter Written in Python
- FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
- US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
- Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review
- Human Accelerated Region 1
- NASA Force
- Everything we like is a psyop?
- NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
- Iceye Open Data
- All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
- Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
- How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll
- Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
- College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
- Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
- Modern Common Lisp with FSet
- SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
- The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
- Vercel April 2026 security incident
- Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
- Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
- Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language
- Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
- Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
- Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
- Vercel says internal systems hit in breach
- Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
- The RAM shortage could last years
- It's cool to care (2025)
- Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower
- Metatextual Literacy
- Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
- The Bromine Chokepoint
- Binary GCD
- The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
- Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group