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Monday, 20 April 2026
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Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other"
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/05/rational-heroes-sherry-turkle-mit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816536 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
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I’m spending months coding the old way
Article URL: https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807583 Points: 280 # Comments: 271
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The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.
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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime
Article URL: https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774 Points: 56 # Comments: 19
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Why Japan has such good railways
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395 Points: 48 # Comments: 28
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Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-allegations-critics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815269 Points: 54 # Comments: 14
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State of Kdenlive
Article URL: https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118 Points: 96 # Comments: 31
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Amiga Graphics Archive
Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 151 # Comments: 34
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Great white sharks are overheating
The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.
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Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
So during development, at every task I start, I see a line like this: `Own bug file — not malware.` It seems that it's obsessively checking if it's working on malware production. In another situation where I was working on a parser of a HTML document
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America Lost the Mandate of Heaven
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/04/18/america-mandate-of-heaven.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814073 Points: 41 # Comments: 18
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Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG
I found myself reaching for SF Symbols' 'Copy Image As…' quite often during agentic design sessions, so I made a command-line tool that the agent can use by itself. It exports Apple SF Symbols as SVG, PDF, or PNG. The vector paths come directly from
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Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813668 Points: 25 # Comments: 3
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Why is IPv6 so complicated?
Article URL: https://github.com/becarpenter/misc/blob/main/why6why.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813631 Points: 58 # Comments: 87
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Amiga Graphics
Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 19 # Comments: 0