bing.com
Woot’s Spring Video Game Sale: Save On Switch, PS5, And Xbox Games, Retro Hardware, And Morehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1cecbfd94530a18fb056946b1c4a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Farticles%2Fwoot-spring-video-game-sale-2026%2F1100-6539662%2F&c=10045049075309257265&mkt=en-usWe’ve teased out a few of our favorite picks below, or you can shop everything included in Woot’s Video Game Spring Sale here. Keep in mind that stocks are limited and some items, like the Nintendo ...Apr 29, 2026 8:31 AM
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Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie teamhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945522Received by email tonight about two hours ago:Dear Tindie Community,My name is Gongyu Su, and I am writing on behalf of the new Tindie ownership team.First, we sincerely apologize for the recent downtime and the disruption it caused. We understand that many buyers and community members were left without clear information during the transition, and that this created frustration and concern.Tindie is now owned by EETree LLC, a Washington State company. Our team took over Tindie because we believe it remains an important platform for makers, hardware creators, engineers, and independent sellers around the world. The recent transition was more complex than expected. Tindie runs on an older technical framework with many connected services, and the migration from the previous operating environment to the new one took longer and caused more disruption than anyone wanted.We know this was not the experience the Tindie community deserved.Our immediate focus is to stabilize the platform, resolve Apr 29, 2026 8:16 AM
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A GPT-5.4 bug led to OpenAI banning goblins and raccoonshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944637Someone found this in OpenAI Codex’s system prompt:"Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query."Goblins, gremlins, trolls, ogres - the fantasy quartet, fine. I get it. Perhaps someone asked Codex to write something and got back a Runescape goblin lore deep-dive.But pigeons? Raccoons? These are deployment-environment animals.If not for raccoons, who’d do the garbage collection?RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers, 1990, an actual protocol - with an actual implementation, in Bergen) puts pigeons squarely inside the systems-engineering canon.“Or other animals or creatures” - full anti-creature agenda. Literally a bajillion dollars get set on fire every hour processing these prompts.Turns out there’s a reason for the ban. Back in 5.4, GPT developed a goblin obsession and there are reddit threads full of users whose ChatGPT couldn’t stop bringing up gremlins. The systeApr 29, 2026 5:55 AM
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What courage is, how to build it and why you should take a riskhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5b869310402289e1080dde73a314&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Frelationships%2Fwhat-courage-is-how-to-build-it-and-why-you-should-take-a-risk%2Far-AA220wB7&c=16350774064097442098&mkt=en-usFrom ancient epics to contemporary headlines, humans have spent centuries canonizing courage as a rare and admirable virtue. Aristotle writes, “You will never do anything in this world without courage ...Apr 29, 2026 5:25 AM
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Web Developer Certifications And Certificates: Which Should You Choose?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb59b149c4f9c91553afc89c0e2ac&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fadvisor%2Feducation%2Fcertifications%2Fweb-development-certifications%2F&c=11585860242912388834&mkt=en-usDoug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...Apr 28, 2026 9:34 PM
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Nighttime Imaging Grows Landsat’s Science Valuehttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/nighttime-imaging-grows-landsats-science-value/By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center For more than 50 years, Landsat has imaged Earth’s land and near-shore surfaces as the satellites descend in midmorning orbit, when daily sunlight is optimal. That’s just what they’ve always done. Currently, Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 circle the globe while also making better use of their ascending paths, […]Apr 28, 2026 5:57 PM
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Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursorhttps://github.com/trycua/cuaHi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this project together last weekend, inspired by the Codex Computer-Use release and lessons learned from deploying GUI-operating agents for our customers.The main problem: when a UI automation process controls a desktop app today, it usually takes over the human’s session. Your cursor moves, keyboard focus gets stolen, windows jump to the front, and you have to stop working until the agent is done. That is why we have historically avoided encouraging users to run these processes directly on their host machine, instead relying on VMs or GUI containers for concurrency and background execution.But computer-use - the tools we give agents to operate computers like humans - does not scale cleanly that way. As models get smarter, agents need to share hosts safely, run in the background, and avoid collisions with the human or other agents using the same machine.We realized macOS has no first-class API for "drive this app without touching the cursor". CGEApr 28, 2026 4:03 PM
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Show HN: Kompressr – One Step CDN which optimizes all your fileshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933765In my previous organization, we went from a monolith to multiple FE & BE repos & then wanted Image Optimization, which took more than a year for us to get it right & even then it was not fully done for old images!!At first it looks like "we just need image optimization." Then the scope grows:- existing site assets need a CDN path - uploads need storage and permanent URLsI saw the pain & the thought of Kompressr was born. Kompressr is my attempt to make that pipeline boring & make things just work!There are two live paths:1. Prepend a project CDN URL to assets you already host: https://cdn.kompressr.com/PROJECT_ID/https://example.com/hero.jpg 2. Upload a file directly and get back a CDN URL: curl -X POST https://uploads.kompressr.com/api/upload \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KOMPRESSR_API_KEY" \ -F file=@output.png The returned URL is usable immediately. If Kompressr already has an optimized version, it serves that. If not, the original goes out first while optimization runs in the backgrApr 28, 2026 12:43 PM
ghosttythemes.com
Show HN: Ghostty Theme Mixer (preview themes and fonts live)https://ghosttythemes.com/Quick context: I’ve been messing around with various coding tools and agents (GitHub Copilot, Lovable, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) for about 2 years. Before that I did zero development. I barely knew what GitHub was. I knew a bit of python and SQL but mostly spent my time in excel doing data analysis, sentiment analysis, and NLP. I never really thought of myself as a developer, and I’m not sure shipping this counts either. It’s the first open-source thing I’ve made, and I think might be useful to a few people so wanted to share it on here.I started using Ghostty recently and kept editing ~/.config/ghostty/config, reloading, squinting, editing again every time I wanted to try a theme. Built this over a weekend so you can preview 16 palettes and 4 fonts with a background-tint slider, then copy the config lines.One static HTML file. No build step, no tracking.Site: https://ghosttythemes.com/ Source: https://github.com/mcvalosborne/ghostty-theme-mixerHope it’s useful.Apr 28, 2026 10:47 AM
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Best Moving Companies For Small Moves Of 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d30295e4e4f90998b91d9cd302e19&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fhome-improvement%2Fmoving-services%2Fbest-moving-companies-for-small-moves%2F&c=16279069250521629767&mkt=en-usSome of the clearest differences between these movers show up before the move starts. Years in business, DOT registration and whether a company insists on an in-home visit all shape how formal or ...Apr 28, 2026 4:02 AM
cask.news
Show HN: Cask.news – discover and track new homebrew Mac appshttps://cask.news/homebrew has over 6,000 mac apps, this huge catalog is ever growing and there's no real way to keep up with what is actually new - except when you catch that line that shows new casks when you update brew in the terminal...in case some new open source alternative drops, as we just saw with macshot essentially completely obliterating cleanshotx, you'd have no idea unless you catch it when someone posts it on hn or X.well, now there is cask.news! it automatically stays up to date with the brew.sh json and sends out instant, daily, or weekly notifications about new apps. it's also great for just browsing all the casks and finding alternative apps.I have been building on this since mid february and I finally like how it looks, its features, its auto generated reviews and ratings... and my friends told me to post it on hn so I resurrected my 16 year old account to do so :Danyway, check it out and let me know what you guys think!Apr 28, 2026 3:53 AM
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Ask HN: Views on abilities of large cos to disrupt supplyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928745What do people here think of large cos' ability to disrupt supply by placing huge orders? Should there be regulations around/against it? I can understand the Thailand floods, and also the crypto-currency craze is forgivable. But it doesn't feel right that one dude got support of some super rich dudes and now I can't even buy RAMApr 27, 2026 11:43 PM
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Ask HN: Why is Rust still hard to use as a scripting language?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925000I like Rust, but the edit-run loop still feels heavier than I’d like.Sometimes I don’t care about runtime performance. I just want to write some code, run it quickly, see what happens, and keep tweaking.I know there are things like rust-script, cargo-script, evcxr, and incremental builds, but I haven’t found a setup that feels as casual as Python/Ruby.Is this just the wrong way to think about Rust, or are people actually using it this way?Curious what setups people here use when they want Rust, but with faster feedback.Apr 27, 2026 6:00 PM
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You Can Help Humans Thrive in Spacehttps://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/you-can-help-humans-thrive-in-space/The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science!Apr 27, 2026 3:54 PM
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What type of code should you generate with AI?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917192I (and many people) have been thinking a lot about "what are the best tasks to do using AI." My personal framework I've been using is, you should use AI to generate code when: 1. The code is easy to validate 2. It is not important that a human understands itI find that the best thing to AI generate is something on the level of a pure function (easy to validate + not necessarily important to understand implementation as long as you understand the interface). I've tried doing things like generating whole services or applications, but those often violate rule 1 - it's hard to validate an entire application behaves "correctly" when "correctly" isn't really well defined - i.e., are there memory leaks, is it secure, is it able to be monitored, etc.I'm curious of others thoughts on this topic. The larger the task you complete using AI, the more time savings, but also the more likely that a catastrophic error exists in the generated code. A side effect of following these rules is there is not Apr 27, 2026 2:50 AM
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Show HN: Friendly prediction markets to turn trips into a running tournamenthttps://bets.bernikins.com/On a trip with my friend, he introduced me to Kalshi and Polymarket and was shocked at how degenerate it was being able to bet on literally anything. So naturally I built an app ironically where we could do the same thing (with fake money) on group outings!Managed to get a prototype finished in time for our big 14-person annual ski trip and we had a blast 'betting' on things like "Will [friend that always breaks his phone] break his phone?" and "Who will win the first game of Jackbox?" Having a low-stakes running leaderboard during our trip was so fun that I decided to flesh it out and share it with others for their trips, wacky professors, etc.*How It Works*1. Create a group for your trip and give your friends the group code to join.2. Everyone starts with the same amount of Tokens/Points/Ski-bux that they can wager on each question.3. Place bets on the options that you think will win - the more bets on an option, the more it costs to pick that option.4. Anyone can propose when an outApr 27, 2026 2:06 AM
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch final ViaSat-3 satellite on Falcon Heavy rockethttps://spaceflightnow.com/2026/04/27/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-final-viasat-3-satellite-on-falcon-heavy-rocket/This will be the 12th launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket to date and the first use of Landing Zone 2 and Landing Zone 40 simultaneously. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 UTC), the opening of an 85-minute window.Apr 27, 2026 12:46 AM
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Proposed New Test of AI Capabilities:)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911835When Microsoft can turn a fleet of LLMs loose on the Azure UX, and Google can do the same for the Google Adwords UX, and reduce their level of dreadfulness substantially, it will go a long way to showing that frontier models are as good as claimed.Apr 26, 2026 5:03 PM
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Business Class or First Class: Which Offers a Better Flight Experience?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8acb99989d41de9061bfceb0a130e8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelandleisure.com%2Fbusiness-class-vs-first-class-tips-for-booking-6891862&c=14700204914900515368&mkt=en-usCompared to flying in economy, business class typically features perks like amenity kits, better meal service, and lie-flat seats. While domestic first class offers an experience similar to premium ...Apr 26, 2026 12:33 PM
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Business Class or First Class: Which Offers a Better Flight Experience?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d41511ab245c59899cddfa26d0960&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelandleisure.com%2Fbusiness-class-vs-first-class-tips-for-booking-6891862&c=14700204914900515368&mkt=en-usCompared to flying in economy, business class typically features perks like amenity kits, better meal service, and lie-flat seats. While domestic first class offers an experience similar to premium ...Apr 26, 2026 12:33 PM
