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Notes from the SF Peptide Scene
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/notes-from-the-sf-peptide-scene Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824681 Points: 38 # Comments: 33
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When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
Article URL: https://daverupert.com/2026/04/more-talk-less-grok/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824611 Points: 32 # Comments: 15
Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List
Article URL: https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-overrules-core-committers-to-put-akismet-on-wordpress-7-0s-connectors-screen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824531 Points: 22 # Comments: 18
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Vercel April 2026 security incident
Article URL: https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 144 # Comments: 51
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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913765/adobe-rivals-free-creative-software-app-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824403 Points: 72 # Comments: 38
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Article URL: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821429 Points: 141 # Comments: 43
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Cracks are starting to form on fusion energy’s funding boom
Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably.
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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Article URL: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-whatsapp-5HjdXwr_2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824068 Points: 44 # Comments: 20
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
Article URL: https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823460 Points: 11 # Comments: 8
The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
Article URL: https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822486 Points: 90 # Comments: 35
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Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever
It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market.
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I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers—here’s what a shot day looks like
The laser was used to study the physics of stellar interiors and fusion energy, among other things.
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823362 Points: 19 # Comments: 11
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
I’ve spent roughly the last decade and some change as a software engineer, and recently decided to start a solo consultancy. I’m focused on helping SMEs sort out the messy back-office parts of the business: spreadsheet glue, brittle internal workflow