Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.
Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
Article URL: https://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776796 Points: 61 # Comments: 18
'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/15/arc-raiders-players-stopped-shooting-started-talking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776723 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges
Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.…
Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
Article URL: https://warped3.substack.com/p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped-windows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776667 Points: 25 # Comments: 7
Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)
Article URL: https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776557 Points: 38 # Comments: 8
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a ...
Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding
Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.
Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London
Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…
Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776035 Points: 106 # Comments: 102
Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users
Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the ven...
Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless
Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…
My AI-Assisted Workflow
Article URL: https://www.maiobarbero.dev/articles/ai-assisted-workflow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775653 Points: 42 # Comments: 24
Claude may require identity verification in some cases
Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775633 Points: 29 # Comments: 7
Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send
Article URL: https://github.com/steipete/wacli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775628 Points: 112 # Comments: 85
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out
The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…
MDalgorithms (AI Healthcare) – Hiring Growth Marketer – Remote – $80K-$140K
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mdalgorithms-inc/jobs/LVODKN7-growth-marketer-for-a-rapidly-growing-consumer-ai-healthcare-startup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775606 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exer...
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt
Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…
Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
Article URL: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414237496/en/Amazon-to-Acquire-Globalstar-and-Expand-Amazon-Leo-Satellite-Network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775183 Points: 73 # Comments: 37