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Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage

Article URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/15/reminder-enable-zram-on-your-linux-system-to-optimize-ram-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828151 Points: 6 # Comments:...

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Technology Apr 19, 2026

Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite

Article URL: https://aliens.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828149 Points: 12 # Comments: 5

Technology Apr 19, 2026

CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity

Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/why-do-thousands-of-ceos-believe-ai-not-having-impact-productivity-employment-...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

OpenAI’s existential questions

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential p...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/cpp-26-reflection-safety-async/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket

Today's launch of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin's reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial su...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/swiss-authorities-want-to-reduce-dependency-on-microsoft/91280532 Co...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

Article URL: https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

Article URL: https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked

Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/errant-upper-stage-spoils-blue-origins-success-in-reusing-new-glenn-...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science

Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-is-winning-its-war-against-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

The 12-month window

A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many joking...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

Article URL: https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826852 Points: 5 ...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@jdm_/116429380667467307 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478268...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

Article URL: https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and th...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 m...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Six Levels of Dark Mode

Article URL: https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not. ...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Uber's AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ubers-anthropic-ai-push-hits-223109852.html Comments...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

Faceoff is a TUI app written in Python to follow live NHL games and browse standings and stats. I got the inspiration f...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips

Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-prod...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine

Article URL: https://scheatkode.com/blog/019d463d-38b3-7e63-80fd-6ed97bd8815e/hot-wiring-the-lisp-machine/ Comments URL...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Show HN: Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No

Google has expanded its Personal Intelligence feature so that Gemini can now access your Google Photos face data, Gmail...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of ...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians

Article URL: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-declares-us-ties-now-a-weakness-in-address-to-canadians/...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playin...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-after-blizzar...

Technology Apr 19, 2026

Claude Brain

Article URL: https://github.com/memvid/claude-brain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825158 Points:...