Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565 Points: 490 # Comments: 245
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All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Article URL: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195 Points: 855 # Comments: 713
Sauna effect on heart rate
Article URL: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184 Points: 338 # Comments: 182
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558 Points: 326 # Comments: 71
Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247 Points: 455 # Comments: 109
NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-axios-reports-2026-04-19/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 Points: 22 # Comments: 7
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831742 Points: 40 # Comments: 28
GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Article URL: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621 Points: 124 # Comments: 81
OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437 Points: 106 # Comments: 83
IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831272 Points: 55 # Comments: 30
Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)
Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/payment-api-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830575 Points: 53 # Comments: 28
A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
Article URL: https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830071 Points: 37 # Comments: 16
Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake
Article URL: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829757 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829178 Points: 26 # Comments: 7
Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
Article URL: https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-usage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828968 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
I ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 (4B parameter image-to-3D model) to run on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. The original requires CUDA with flash_attn, nvdiffrast, and custom sparse convolution kernels: none of which work on Mac. I replaced the CUDA-specific ops with pure-PyTorch alternatives: a ga...
Sudo for Windows
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/sudo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828853 Points: 35 # Comments: 15
Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
Article URL: https://www.swiss-ai.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828444 Points: 35 # Comments: 13
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Related ongoing thread: Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420 Points: 101 # Comments: 31
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
Article URL: https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259 Points: 94 # Comments: 23