Top 29 stories from Hacker News. Top 10 include comment highlights. Compiled at 20:14 UTC.
747 points by ramonga · 643 comments
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emtel: One of the most frustrating things about HN is that people seem so unaware of how idiosyncratic their preferences are. If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wi...
twilo: If a battery can do 1000 cycles and remain above 80% capacity it is exempt from this, which is exactly what Apple implemented a few years ago. Low cost phones will be most affected.
konschubert: Aren't today's phone batteries already replaceable with commercially available tools? I can walk into a non-apple store with my iPhone and walk out with a replaced battery 20 minutes later. This isn't even what drives obsolesce of phones, it's software updates.
cmos: What if we regulate batteries even more? i.e. what if, in some magical perfect world, the world get's together and agrees on batteries for phones like how we agree on AA,AAA,D,C batteries? Even more though..
631 points by Liriel · 326 comments
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
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mauvehaus: Can anyone explain why on earth VC's are making actual investment decisions based on imaginary internet points? This would be like an NFL team drafting a quarterback based on how many instagram followers they have rather than a relevant metric like pass completion, or god forbid,...
whatisthiseven: I don't think I have ever used stars in making a decision to use a library and I don't understand why anyone would. Here are the things I look at in order: * last commit date. Newer is better * age. old is best if still updating.
gobdovan: These kinds of articles make you feel like there are specific, actionable problems that just need an adjustment and then they disappear. However, the system is much worse than you'd expect.
donatj: I run a tiny site that basically gave a point-at-able definition to an existing adhoc standard. As part of the effort I have a list of software and libraries following the standard on the homepage.
456 points by HotGarbage · 191 comments
Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else...
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pogue: Seems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it. That sale was scuttled by a bankruptcy court. Now, The Onion has re-emerged with a new plan: licensing the website from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site. On Monday, Mr.
dlev_pika: Thank you, Tetrahedron - you are the best possible end for that shit peddling, abusive scum that is AJ.
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burkaman: This is not final and still has to be approved by a judge (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo...)
424 points by meetpateltech · 216 comments
Kimi K2.6 advances open-source coding, featuring long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, agent swarms, proactive agents, and the Claw Groups research preview.
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simonw: Accessed via OpenRouter, this one decided to wrap the SVG pelican in HTML with controls for the animation speed: https://gisthost.github.io/?ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669e94... Transcript and HTML here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669...
game_the0ry: There is some humor in the fact that china (of all countries) is pioneering possibly the world's most important tech via open source, while we (US) are doing the exact opposite.
dogscatstrees: This kimi website, it looks like a stylesheet from the 90's. They could learn a thing or two about typeface design. Steve Jobs would be incensed at this.
elfbargpt: I've always been surprised Kimi doesn't get more attention than it does. It's always stood out to me in terms of creativity, quality... has been my favorite model for awhile (but I'm far from an authority)
418 points by mfiguiere · 223 comments
Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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fr3on: The irony of this announcement is in the name: Max-Preview is proprietary, cloud-only. The Qwen models that actually matter — the ones running on real hardware people own — are the open weights series. I run the 32B and 72B variants locally on dual A4000s.
alex7o: Ok I find it funny that people compare models and are like, opus 4.7 is SOTA and is much better etc, but I have used glm 5.1 (I assume this comes form them training on both opus and codex) for things opus couldn't do and have seen it make better code, haven't tried the qwen max s...
ninjahawk1: The way to develop in this space seems to be to give away free stuff, get your name out there, then make everything proprietary. I hope they still continue releasing open weights. The day no one releases open weights is a sad day for humanity.
seanw265: Kimi K2.6 also released today. I think it's fair to compare the two models. Qwen appears to be much more expensive: - Qwen: $1.3 in / $7.8 out - Kimi: $0.95 in / $4 out -- The announcement posts only share two overlapping benchmark results.
406 points by Palmik · 292 comments
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janalsncm: If you were still looking for evidence that the government designation was political rather technological, here it is. The NSA doesn’t care about day to day temper tantrums of political branches, they have work to do and they will use the best tools available to accomplish that w...
cdrnsf: Of course they're using it. Hypocrisy is one of the few things this administration excels at.
maebert: The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest (I’m Not saying ethical, just brilliant). The commercial gains are one side of course. But consider this: Gets labelled supply chain risk by the pentagon.
giantg2: This is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't get access to a weapon that a company had that it wanted?
396 points by kevcampb · 89 comments
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martinald: Atlassian just goes from misstep to misstep. I still use their products quite often. The amount of P0 bugs I experience is absolutely crazy: - Bitbucket workers are hopelessly out of date (self hosted).
kevcampb: I really wish I could find a better source to link to for this. By default, all free and paid customers are being opted-in to their data being used for AI training. All your Confluence pages, Jira tickets, etc. https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/d...
atomic128: Rumors that Anthropic is in talks to buy Atlassian, presumably for the training data. Data poisoning efforts are underway: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoisonFountain/comments/1sqrq24/atl...
CobrastanJorji: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, everybody else with both having-business-customers and also data-collecting businesses: "We swear that we absolutely will not collect/train our stuff on business customer data." Atlassian: "Yolo!"
302 points by kyriakosel · 169 comments
We analyzed 59,000+ daily records from 256 sauna users to quantify what saunas actually do to your body. Using paired t-tests on same-day wearable data, we foun
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kyriakosel: Author here. Methodology upfront because I'd ask the same things: Data: daily records from wearable users who logged sauna sessions via connected apps. Within-person design — each user is their own control, comparing their own sauna-day nights against their own non-sauna-day nigh...
strangescript: Anecdotal, of course, but the biggest change I ever made in my life was right before bed: take a screaming hot shower with dim lighting. I'd say 95% of the time, I get in bed and just pass out and have no real memory of time passing before falling asleep.
Aurornis: n= traditionally refers to the number of participants, not the number of data points. The headline claim is very misleading for anyone who thought there were 59,000 people in this data set. The absolute difference is also small.
eggy: A delta of 3 bpm on sauna days corresponds to around 4% delta if the baseline is 72 bpm. I've gone from a resting heart rate over a 7-day average of 64 bpm to 58 bpm by jumping 15 min. of rope a day, 4 times a week.
286 points by thomasp85 · 64 comments
Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
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anentropic: Maybe I skim read it too fast, but I did not find any clear description in the blog post or website docs of how this relates to SQL databases I was kind of guessing that it doesn't run in a database, that it's a SQL-like syntax for a visualisation DSL handled by front end chart l...
getnormality: I skimmed the article for an explanation of why this is needed, what problem it solves, and didn't find one I could follow. Is the point that we want to be able to ask for visualizations directly against tables in remote SQL databases, instead of having to first pull the data int...
JHonaker: I applaud the project, and I completely agree that the concepts maps nicely to SQL. The R equivalent of a WITH data prep block followed by the VISUALIZE is pretty much how all my plotting code is structured.
lmeyerov: This is great We reached a similar conclusion for GFQL (oss graph dataframe query language), where we needed an LLM-friendly interface to our visualization & analytics stack, especially without requiring a code sandbox.
233 points by feigewalnuss · 265 comments
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traderj0e: I'm more interested in the MS-DOS part about this than the OpenClaw part. That thing about reworking OSes from the ground up, it seems like we're overdue for that on the desktop side.
repelsteeltje: One could argue that the discussion is once again about tech debt. Both OpenClaw and MSDOS gaining a lot a traction by taking short cuts, ignoring decades of lessons learned and delivering now what might have been ready next year.
saidnooneever: DOS didn't have certain protections because the hardware it targeted did not have those protections. For UNIX on the same machines, they also had no such protections. On 8086 there were no CPU rings, no virtual memory and no other features to help there.
eggy: I ran Minix around 1991 on my Amiga computer. Minix had a smaller attack surface and isolation provided by its microkernel vs. Linux's monolithic kernel. I had the Minix textbook, and it was easier to think about it because of the split along modules. I personally think Minix vs.
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