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Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608495 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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Technology Apr 2, 2026

Artemis II, NASA's most daring mission in generations, launches to the Moon

Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday. ...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data

After investors appealed to the governor, California again delayed the deadline for venture firms to disclose the demogr...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1raiz8v/zombocom_was_stolen_by_hacker_put_up_for_sale_and/ C...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Montana referendum to outlaw corporate campaign contributions [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608130 Po...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Cash App launches ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for P2P pay transfers

Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals.

Technology Apr 1, 2026

A new C++ back end for ocamlc

Article URL: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058 Poin...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code

Article URL: https://www.afterpack.dev/blog/claude-code-source-leak Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

Article URL: https://sentence2ipv6.tib3rius.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607923 Points: 7 ...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

"Special 301" Comments on Nintendo Game Piracy in Asia and Latin America (1994)

Article URL: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/8aa9a6fb-1593-47ce-bdf0-aa79abdcb0e6 Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack

Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of dollars and is already on track to be th...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission

NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years,...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates C...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Open source CAD for Windows 2000 (SolveSpace)

Article URL: https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1036 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

Article URL: http://techkettle.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-windows-equivalents-of-most-used.html Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away

Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/33727-swappacom-for-grapheneos-compatible-devices-stay-away Comments URL:...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers's ...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China

Passengers in Baidu's robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours.

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)

I kept deleting and redownloading Instagram because I couldn't stop watching Reels but needed the app for DMs. Tried sc...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inspectmind-ai/jobs/jQNra64-software-engineer-build-the-world-s-best...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times

Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.

Technology Apr 1, 2026

A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build something that looks like a mood board or a digi...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

HN: I simulated a real cancer case and predicted why some tumors didn't respond

Article URL: https://github.com/ResakaGit/RESONANCE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606120 Points:...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Startup funding shatters all records in Q1

The record quarterly fundraise was largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also i...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites

Article URL: https://www.elizabethspiers.com/the-anti-intellectualism-of-silicon-valley-elites/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans

A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy? ...

Technology Apr 1, 2026

Samsung’s Best OLED TV Is $300 Off

The gorgeous Samsung S95F QD-OLED is on super sale ahead of the newest models hitting stores.