Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal(bbc.com)
1485 points by lleims | 1099 comments
BBC News live coverage of the widespread power outage across Spain and Portugal, with the Spanish PM saying the cause is still unknown.
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Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python(runpyxl.com)
932 points by hwpythonner | 250 comments
PyXL project page showing a demo video of a custom hardware processor executing Python achieving 480ns GPIO round-trip versus a MicroPython Pyboard.
I use zip bombs to protect my server(idiallo.com)
904 points by foxfired | 397 comments
Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo explaining how he serves zip bombs to malicious bots and scrapers to protect his server.
Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster(qwenlm.github.io)
808 points by synthwave | 369 comments
Blog post from the Qwen team announcing the Qwen3 family of large language models with hybrid thinking and non-thinking modes.
Migrating away from Rust(deadmoney.gg)
637 points by rc00 | 631 comments
A devlog post from the indie game studio behind Dead Money explaining why they migrated their game project away from Rust.
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding(danfabulich.medium.com)
539 points by dfabulich | 546 comments
Medium essay arguing that a US antitrust ruling forcing Google to stop paying for search placement will cut most funding for all major web browsers.
Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
475 points by zdw | 266 comments
A post on Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog explaining why Windows 7 logons were slower when a solid color desktop background was set.
The 12-bit rainbow palette(iamkate.com)
280 points by rguiscard | 69 comments
Presentation Slides with Markdown(sli.dev)
230 points by sadeshmukh | 82 comments
PhD Timeline(xkcd.com)
150 points by hexmiles | 19 comments
China's Clinical Trial Boom(asimov.press)
137 points by surprisetalk | 72 comments
Reality Check(wheresyoured.at)
104 points by elorant | 68 comments
Is outbound going to die?(rnikhil.com)
89 points by whoami_nr | 88 comments
Relational Graph Transformers(kumo.ai)
61 points by gk1 | 4 comments
Giving Software Away for Free(simonwillison.net)
59 points by raybb | 34 comments
Can LLMs do randomness?(rnikhil.com)
56 points by whoami_nr | 43 comments
Why Momentum Works (2017)(distill.pub)
45 points by vector_spaces | 6 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Reanimation of the original Logic Theorist, the first AI, in IPL-V [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/4/28/b14e0610-eb21-4cd7-b3d3-e898dafe1954.jpg)
What the heck is AEAD again?(ochagavia.nl)
24 points by wofo | 15 comments
On Lisp (1993)(paulgraham.com)
24 points by ibobev | 3 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making a game from scratch using only a guitar [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/4/28/a2e9f75d-a7e3-49c5-9290-bbd5c75fdf84.jpg)