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Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/kitfunso/hippo-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667672 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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NYC Families Need over $125,000 in Income to Live in Any Borough
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/nyc-families-need-over-125-000-in-income-to-live-in-any-borough Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667459 Points: 14 # Comments: 5
Ah, peptides. where to begin?
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ah-peptides-where-begin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667321 Points: 31 # Comments: 14
HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667011 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari
Article URL: https://yaseenghanem.com/recovery-unrestricted-write-access/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666767 Points: 15 # Comments: 10
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A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days
Article URL: https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666488 Points: 92 # Comments: 57
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Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
I built this because I wanted to see how far I could get with a voice-to-text app that used 100% local models so no data left my computer. I've been using a ton for coding and emails. Experimenting with using it as a voice interface for my other agen
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Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting
TrueType fonts have a hinting VM that grid-fits glyphs. It has a stack, storage area, conditionals, function calls, and it turns out it's Turing-complete. So I built a raycasting engine in the hinting bytecode. The glyph "A" in the font has 16 vertic
SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines
Article URL: http://som-st.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665207 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
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The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664912 Points: 416 # Comments: 341
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Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
We’re Ben and Jacob, cofounders of Freestyle ( https://freestyle.sh ). We’re building a cloud for Coding Agents. For the first generation of agents it looked like workflows with minimal tools. 2 years ago we published a package to let AI work in SQL
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AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
Article URL: https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/04/05/itunes-takeover-by-fake-ai-singer-eddie-dalton-now-occupies-eleven-spots-on-chart-despite-not-being-human-or-real-exclusive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662596 Points: 52 # Co
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Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline
Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
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Netflix is expanding into kids’ games with a new standalone app
Netflix says the app gives children access to an "ever-growing" library of games for kids.
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Apple is taking its App Store fight to the Supreme Court — again
Apple plans to ask the Supreme Court to review its App Store fight with Epic Games, as it challenges a ruling limiting its ability to charge fees on external payments.