1. EFF Is Leaving X (www.eff.org)
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
2. LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)
Discover powerful applications such as Little Snitch Mini, Little Snitch, LaunchBar and Micro Snitch.
4. Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation (www.axios.com)
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
5. Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (updates.thunderbird.net)
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
6. The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy (www.thelettersfromleo.com)
7. Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK (dwyer.co.za)
Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages come from the user. This is categorically distinct from hallucinations or missing permissions.
8. Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)
9. How Microsoft Abuses Its Users (lzon.ca)
10. Open Source Security at Astral (astral.sh)
Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.
11. Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)
With Anthropic altering rate limits, we can find other places to spend our money. I have chosen Zed editor with OpenRouter for maximum flexibility.
12. FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)
13. Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (charcuterie.elastiq.ch)
A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.
14. Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban Major New Data Centers (www.gadgetreview.com)
Maine advances the nation's first statewide data center moratorium through 2027, potentially triggering higher AI service costs nationwide.
15. How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU (pizzalegacy.nl)
Reverse engineering the traffic system from Pizza Tycoon (1994): how the original devs drove dozens of cars through a city with almost no CPU budget.
16. Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft (www.unfolder.app)
Unfolder is a 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft.
17. The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)
What Paul Lafargue taught us about work
18. Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt (akshaychugh.xyz)
09 Apr 2026 The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts!
19. Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead (aywren.com)
As of this month, Netflix prices are going up again.
20. Am I German or Autistic? (german.millermanschool.com)
A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.
21. Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal (www.reuters.com)
22. Haunted Paper Toys (ravensblight.com)
23. Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming (www.patater.com)
24. PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)
picoZ80 - RP2350 based drop-in Z80 CPU replacement with WiFi management interface. Cycle-accurate Z80 emulation using PIO for Sharp MZ-700 and other vintage computers.
25. Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (www.bbc.com)
Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".
26. Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes (blog.skypilot.co)
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
27. Funerals Keep Africa Poor (davidoks.blog)
28. Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (www.instantdb.com)
Instant 1.0 is out! This essay shows a bunch of demos, to explain why we think Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. We also cover the architecture that makes all of it work.
29. I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com)
A lightweight build and workflow tool for C/C++. Contribute to randerson112/craft development by creating an account on GitHub.
30. Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)
A visual CSS editor in your browser. Adjust styles with sliders and pickers, and your AI agent writes the changes to source.