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Roblox has games again

Roblox is making a subtle but notable change. After swapping the word "game" for "experience" all over its website and mobile apps in 2021 while the Epic Games v. Apple trial was taking place, Roblox ...

The Verge • Apr 13, 2026 • Jay Peters
Technology Apr 13, 2026

Roblox will need age verification to make sure you’re at least 9 years old

Roblox is about to make a big change to how you can access games on its platform: If you want to play any game that's in...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Servo is now available on crates.io

Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

Article URL: https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_7ca4e268-4a68-42fb-9042-f9d8604ebd7f.html Comments URL: h...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The 4 Best Water Filter Pitchers (2026): PFAS, Microplastics

Water filters promise the moon—but only some back up their claims. Here are the best filtered-water pitchers for those...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/thermify_heathub_raspberry_pi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Galactic Algorithm

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477505...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. ...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Did Neuralink make the wrong bet?

Elon Musk promised Neuralink would bring superhuman abilities and minds merged with AI. Then he fueled a runaway hype tr...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Point Cloud Allemansrätten

Article URL: https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/point-cloud-allemansr%C3%A4tten/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem

Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED ...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Microsoft’s new Xbox Gamepad Cursor adds a virtual mouse to handhelds

Microsoft has started testing its own virtual mouse cursor inside its Xbox mode for Windows-based handhelds. The new Gam...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the proc...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

Article URL: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Sam Altman reportedly targeted in second attack

Sam Altman was seemingly targeted by a second attack on Sunday morning, with two suspects arrested following a shooting ...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Huawei beats Apple and Samsung with new wide foldable

Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect ratio, but it loo...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749126001880 Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business

Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space.

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Programming Used to Be Free

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/programming-used-to-be-free/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The AI Layoff Trap

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748123 Points: 9 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind

Article URL: https://www.viktorcessan.com/the-economics-of-software-teams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rsdk7i/anybody_here_talking_about_the_massive/ Comments U...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

A Canonical Generalization of OBDD

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05537 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747595 Points: 5 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Kindle users in uproar re: latest update, old devices now unusable: 'Fuck You '

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/tech/kindle-to-cease-support-for-old-devices-causing-user-uproar/ Comments U...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website

Article URL: https://haunt.madebywindmill.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747248 Points: 7 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

Article URL: https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-the-ai-loser-may-end Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610 Points: 5 # C...

Technology Apr 13, 2026

State of Homelab 2026

Article URL: https://mrlokans.work/posts/state-of-homelab-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774...