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Vampire Survivors’ new spinoff switches genres but keeps the good vibes

When Vampire Survivors first exploded onto the scene, it was pretty much all I could think about. The formula of jumping into runs, taking on thousands of enemies, and becoming absurdly overpowered ke...

The Verge • Apr 20, 2026 • Jay Peters
Technology Apr 20, 2026

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI

Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 Comments U...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Huawei beats Samsung and Apple to market with the first wide foldable

Huawei has launched its passport-style foldable in China, ahead of similar devices said to be coming from Apple and Sams...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)

Article URL: https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/tesla-dissimule-des-milliers-d-incidents-de-conduite-autonome-m...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

NASA Artemis Posters

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833092 Points: ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

DJI’s latest power station is proof that good things come in mini packages

As an avid vanlifer, I have to carefully curate everything I carry in order to eke out every square inch of storage I ca...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Lina_Hoshino/status/2046112493320458649 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

Article URL: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969 Point...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

We Love the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2, Especially at $50 Off

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 have the best active noise cancellation on the market, and they very rarely get cheaper.

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

How does HEVC implementation really work these days?

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a sys...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-axios-rep...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad

Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

The Best Hybrid Mattresses for Couples, Back Pain, and More (2026)

By combining foam and springs in carefully tuned layers, hybrids hit the sweet spot between soft and supportive. Here ar...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

GoPro’s new Mission cameras are priced beyond most weekend athletes

GoPro is pricing its new Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro cameras at $599.99 and $699.99, respectively, each discounted by $1...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

There’s New Evidence for How Loneliness Affects Memory in Old Age

A longitudinal study found that loneliness is more closely linked to lapses in immediate and delayed recall than to the ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-brea...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Article URL: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Tracking when Trump chickens out

Article URL: https://www.thetacotracker.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831499 Points: 31 # C...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ Comments URL: https:...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/ Comments UR...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/intels-non-ultra-core-cpus-are-new-silicon-this-year-for-a-change/...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-long-poop-stays-in-your-body-may-impact-your-health-study-finds Comments ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/payment-api-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830575 Poi...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

Article URL: https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830071 Points: 8 ...

Technology Apr 20, 2026

Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Article URL: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...