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“Why not just use Lean?”

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Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

SUPER ZSNES - A GPU-powered SNES emulator rewritten from scratch with hi-res Mode 7, per-game enhancements, and a modernized classic UI.

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Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

Google’s new distributed architecture keeps AI training runs on track across distant data centers, with exceptional efficiency – even when hardware fails.

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United Wizards of the Coast

MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.

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The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

I've worked in the aerospace industry for the past 8 years, and for most of that time I felt like I could confidently say that RF engineering felt like it wa...

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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

Rejected by governments from Kenya to Brazil, the Sam Altman-backed biometric project is finding a second life in corporate America. Inside the controversial pivot to verify the human race.

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The woes of sanitizing SVGs

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Men who stare at walls

I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity. The routine was basically: Don’t use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work. When you start to feel mentally drained, sit and stare at a wall for x minutes to recover focus. I’ve been trying it, and it’s a very effective (but hard) routine., I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity. The routine was basically: Don’t use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work. When you start to feel mentally drained, sit and stare at a wall for x minutes to recover focus. I’ve been trying it, and it’s a very effective (but hard) routine.

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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

Advanced bio-acoustic analysis for HR, relationships, and personal insights. Trust Your Intuition. Verify It.,Lapsus$ stole 4TB of biometric data from Mercor in April 2026, including voice samples and ID documents from 40,000 AI contractors. Practical steps to check if your voice is being misused.

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Networking changes coming in macOS 27

We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.

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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.

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Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI have agreed to drop the software giant’s exclusive right to sell the startup’s AI models, opening the door for the ChatGPT maker to pursue deals with cloud-computing rivals like Amazon.com Inc.

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Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

Missed communication, lack of sociotechnical system understanding, and more.

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Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult

What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotten history and (still living) world of mail-order magic.

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Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

Researchers identify wrecks at the bottom of the sea from as far back as fifth century BC, from Europe and beyond

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China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

China said Monday it has decided to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots.,China said Monday it has decided to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots.

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Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

Easily dive into different PCB KiCad designs of the most popular microcontroller devboards - Hanqaqa/Easyduino

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Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore. Contribute to pgbackrest/pgbackrest development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively parallel operations, AST manipulation and many many other optimizations. https://dirac.run/ - dirac-run/dirac

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Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

A fully featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) and Pico 2 (RP2350). Official Discord: https://discord.gg/RCyqxAQ5xS - WeebLabs/DSPi

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On this day

The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

“Why not just use Lean?”

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

United Wizards of the Coast

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

Men who stare at walls

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision

Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult

Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

On this day

The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.

The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.

Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.

South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.This marked the end of Apartheid.

Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to the Chernobyl disaster.

John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.

Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.

Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.

World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

World War II: German troops enter Athens.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.

The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.

Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.

First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn).

Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.

The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.

The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world

Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

A Spanish-Imperial army defeats French-Venetian army in the battle of Bicocca. The battle marks the end of dominance of Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield and is one of the first where firearms play a decisive role.

Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.

Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.

First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.

On this day

The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.

The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.

Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.

South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.This marked the end of Apartheid.

Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.