The Most WIRED Watches at Watches and Wonders 2026
Forget worldly woes for a few minutes and gawk at these spectacular and mind-bogglingly spendy timepieces we saw in Geneva.
The secrets of the Shinkansen
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060 Points: 92 # Comments: 80
Distributed DuckDB Instance
Article URL: https://github.com/citguru/openduck Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761997 Points: 67 # Comments: 14
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres
Article URL: https://github.com/lasect/pg_6502 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761723 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Article URL: https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761625 Points: 41 # Comments: 11
Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page
Many creators have already switched from Adobe Premiere to DaVinci Resolve, and now the developer, Blackmagic Design, is going after Lightroom and Photoshop. The Australian company just unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 in beta at the NAB 2026 broadcast convention with a brand new page called Photo des...
TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components
Article URL: https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761609 Points: 64 # Comments: 46
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760925 Points: 51 # Comments: 9
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure
Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch us...
A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
Article URL: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764 Points: 89 # Comments: 36
DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor
Article URL: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529 Points: 158 # Comments: 38
Never lose anything again with these Find My accessories
There’s a robust ecosystem of Find My accessories on the market nowadays, across various different designs and form factors. Here are some of the most popular options. more…
An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility
Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
Article URL: https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709 Points: 158 # Comments: 88
Dope Thief’s Brian Tyree Henry joins upcoming Apple Original Films feature
Apple TV confirmed today that Brian Tyree Henry, who recently starred alongside Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent, Elite Squad) on Dope Thief, is joining a new feature film from Apple Original Films. Here are the details. more…
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
The votes are in: AI will hurt elections and relationships
Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years...
Daniel Moreno-Gama is facing federal charges for attacking Sam Altman’s home and OpenAI’s HQ
Daniel Moreno-Gama is now facing federal charges after allegedly traveling from Texas to California with the intent to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. On April 10th, he was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and attempting to break into OpenAI's headquarters. A...
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759420 Points: 409 # Comments: 371
Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronache/post/Wha... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759416 Points: 25 # Comments: 20