I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it(ca98am79.medium.com)
1043 points by ca98am79 | 558 comments
Medium post by Mike Carson describing how he acquired the defunct Friendster domain for $30k and his plans for it.
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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code(techtrenches.dev)
1039 points by milkglass | 713 comments
Substack essay comparing the West's loss of defense manufacturing capacity to declining junior software engineer hiring and the erosion of coding skills.
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it(koshyjohn.com)
785 points by koshyjohn | 556 comments
Blog post by Koshy John arguing engineers should use AI to augment their thinking rather than outsource it, distinguishing real leverage from self-inflicted irrelevance.
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below(twitter.com)
747 points by jeremyccrane | 880 comments
An X (Twitter) article by @lifeof_jer describing how an AI coding agent destroyed their production database and then confessed to it.
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0(asahilinux.org)
590 points by elisaado | 283 comments
Asahi Linux blog progress report marking the release of Linux 7.0 and updates on Linux support for Apple Silicon Macs.
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation(anchor.host)
533 points by jamesponddotco | 212 comments
Anchor Hosting blog post describing how GoDaddy transferred control of a client's domain to a stranger without requiring any documentation.
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race(bbc.com)
460 points by berkeleyjunk | 301 comments
BBC Sport article reporting Sabastian Sawe running the first sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race, at the 2026 London Marathon.
Self-updating screenshots(interblah.net)
426 points by bjhess | 70 comments
Blog post on self-updating screenshots that failed to load, showing a Ruby NoMethodError traceback from the Vanilla-rb wiki software instead.
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities(openai.com)
332 points by kmdupree | 172 comments
OpenAI research post explaining that SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and no longer measures frontier coding ability, recommending SWE-bench Pro instead.
Clay PCB Tutorial(feministhackerspaces.cargo.site)
226 points by j0r0b0 | 138 comments
Meetings are forcing functions(mooreds.com)
167 points by zdw | 105 comments
Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0(dillo-browser.org)
152 points by rodarima | 24 comments
When the cheap one is the cool one(arun.is)
148 points by ddrmaxgt37 | 86 comments
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1(eblong.com)
131 points by PLenz | 28 comments
Chernobyl wildlife forty years on(bbc.com)
123 points by reconnecting | 71 comments
FreeBSD Device Drivers Book(github.com)
115 points by myth_drannon | 27 comments
Voice Modems(computer.rip)
63 points by K7PJP | 8 comments
MoQ Boy(moq.dev)
59 points by mmcclure | 7 comments
The fastest Linux timestamps(hmpcabral.com)
49 points by hmpc | 12 comments
![Screenshot of archive.fosdem.org: QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025)](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/26/1e9c9334-356f-477b-a0b5-afe2476bf31c.jpg)
APL is more French than English(jsoftware.com)
35 points by tosh | 13 comments
Reviving BrowserID in 2026(wakamoleguy.com)
23 points by wakamoleguy | 6 comments
![Screenshot of mastodon.catgirl.cloud: Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/26/c6333bae-73de-491c-9a0f-f68fce472c47.jpg)
My Homemade PBX (2002)(wandel.ca)
15 points by rickcarlino | 2 comments