The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Article URL: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652400 Points: 93 # Comments: 71
LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652324 Points: 140 # Comments: 78
Music for Programming
Article URL: https://musicforprogramming.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652322 Points: 59 # Comments: 15
As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help
We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.
Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652007 Points: 94 # Comments: 7
The UK government reportedly wants Anthropic to expand its presence in London
While the US and Anthropic are in the midst of a major dispute, the UK is trying to sway the San Francisco-based AI company to expand its presence on English soil. According to a report from The Financial Times, staffers at the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have worked on...
Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
See also https://x.com/stevesi/status/2036921223150440542 (https://xcancel.com/stevesi/status/2036921223150440542) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651703 Points: 83 # Comments: 48
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK — New flagship dual-cache CPU might demand a hefty premium
Listings for the 9950X3D2 have started to pop up at many different vendors, with some even listing preliminary prices. We found the CPU going for roughly $1,000 at two Canadian retailers, and just a smidge below that at a UK-based website. For context, the standard 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache on only...
Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
Article URL: https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651540 Points: 136 # Comments: 34
From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024)
Article URL: https://www.kavliprize.org/nancy-kanwisher-autobiography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651479 Points: 33 # Comments: 0
Samsung will discontinue its Messages app in July and replace it with Google's
Samsung is putting the final nail in the coffin for its own messaging app. The smartphone maker posted an "End of Service Announcement" on its website, revealing that the Samsung Messages app will no longer be available by July of this year. Samsung also recommended that anyone still using Samsun...
UK confirms drone-killing DragonFire laser weapon for Royal Navy destroyers by 2027 —laser downs 400mph high‑speed drones, costs $13 per shot
The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the DragonFire high-energy laser weapon will be installed on Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027, five years ahead of the original schedule.
TechCrunch Mobility: ‘A stunning lack of transparency’
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. T
Suno is a music copyright nightmare
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect...
Can orbital data centers help justify a massive valuation for SpaceX?
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.
Computational Physics (2nd Edition)
Article URL: https://websites.umich.edu/~mejn/cp2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650502 Points: 83 # Comments: 11
A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust
Article URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-04-05-tailcall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650312 Points: 115 # Comments: 15
Get a 27" 1440p OLED monitor with a blazing-fast 240 Hz refresh rate for just $499 — LG's 27GS93QE-B is $400 off right now, features 1,300 nits of peak HDR brightness
The LG 27GS93QE-B is perfect for gaming, productivity, and media consumption, thanks to its versatile feature set. It's a 27-inch 1440p OLED monitor with an MLA+ panel so it's really bright at 1,300 nits (peak) and it has a 240 Hz refresh rate with support for both G-Sync and FreeSync, so it's re...
Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center
IRGC spokesperson threatens the “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S. and Israeli facilities. Singles out the $30bn Stargate AI data center.
Researchers train living rat neurons to perform real-time AI computations — experiments could pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces
Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a real-time machine learning framework.