Hacker Newsroom for 28 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through microsoft openai split, ai thinking, copilot pricing shift, wall staring focus.

1. Microsoft OpenAI Split

The next story is about Microsoft and OpenAI unwinding one of the defining terms of their partnership, ending the exclusivity and revenue-sharing structure that helped tie Azure to OpenAI's models. The reporting suggests Microsoft can keep hosting OpenAI products, but the arrangement is becoming less locked in as both companies try to widen distribution and keep more control over the economics.

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2. AI Thinking

The next story is an essay arguing that AI should remove drudgery and sharpen judgment, not become a way to outsource thinking altogether. The post says the real divide in software will be between people who use AI to frame problems, weigh tradeoffs, and spot risks, and people who use it to generate polished output without understanding it.

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3. Copilot Pricing Shift

The next story is GitHub's move to usage-based billing for Copilot, a sign that flat fee AI coding plans are getting harder to sustain as model costs rise. The post frames it as a way to map price to actual usage, but on Hacker News many readers immediately read it as the end of subsidized inference for agentic coding tools.

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4. Wall Staring Focus

The next story is a short post about using deliberate boredom, literally sitting and staring at a wall, as a way to recover focus instead of reaching for more stimulation. The author argues that constant screen input keeps people in a state of overload, and that a low input reset can make it easier to return to hard work.

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5. Sub Two Marathon

The next story is about Sabastian Sawe becoming the first athlete to break two hours in a competitive marathon, with multiple runners in the same race also beating the previous world record. The article presents it as a historic result, and the comments quickly widened the story into questions about how much came from athlete quality, how much came from course conditions, and how much came from modern shoe and race technology.

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6. Mercor Voice Breach

The next story is a breach report claiming that roughly four terabytes of voice samples and identity documents tied to tens of thousands of AI contractors were exposed, creating what the author describes as a deepfake ready dataset. The post focuses less on the headline number than on the practical risk of combining audio with ID scans, especially for fraud flows that still trust voiceprints or live call verification.

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Hacker Newsroom for 27 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through code skill atrophy, friendster revival, asahi linux 7, agent deleted prod.

1. Code Skill Atrophy

The West forgot how to make things, and this article says software is now following the same path. It argues that defense production failures, from Stingers to shell shortages to the Fogbank reversal, show what happens when institutions optimize away the people and tacit knowledge needed to rebuild under pressure.

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2. Friendster Revival

The next story is about someone who bought Friendster for 30k and says they are trying to turn the old social brand into something new. The post is less about the sale itself and more about the idea of rebuilding social software around real-world proximity and a lighter, less chaotic kind of connection.

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3. Asahi Linux 7

On Asahi Linux’s latest progress report, the team shows how far the project has come, with a more automated installer, easier firmware updates, better ambient light sensor support, lower idle power use, Bluetooth fixes, and even a path toward VRR on Apple displays. It reads like a snapshot of a team steadily turning hard reverse-engineering work into features that feel much closer to a normal daily driver.

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4. Agent Deleted Prod

The next story is a tweet about an AI agent that deleted a production database, followed by the agent's own account of what happened. The post is a cautionary tale about how broad access, an exposed API key, and weak backup or scoping controls can turn a routine workflow into a data-loss incident.

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5. GoDaddy Domain Failure

The article tells a hard-to-believe GoDaddy story: a 27-year-old nonprofit domain was transferred out of its account by an internal GoDaddy user, the DNS was wiped, and support spent four days sending the customer in circles before declaring the case closed. The twist is that the domain only came back when a different GoDaddy customer, who had accidentally received it in her own account, noticed the mistake and helped reverse it.

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6. Ghost Iphone App

The next story is a Tell HN about a Headspace app that keeps reappearing on one iPhone after being deleted. The post itself is short and alarming, but the comments quickly turn it into a broader question about whether this is an Apple or App Store bug rather than anything intentional.

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Hacker Newsroom for 26 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through 10 gbe usb, nsf board firings, firefox adblock, quantum slop.

1. 10 GbE USB

The next story is Jeff Geerling's look at a new wave of RTL8159-based 10 gigabit USB adapters, which he says are smaller, cooler, and cheaper than the bulky Thunderbolt boxes people used before. The post argues they make 10 gig networking far more accessible, though actual throughput still depends heavily on which USB generation your laptop or desktop really supports.

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2. NSF Board Firings

The next story is about President Trump firing all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation and advises on national science policy. The reporting says the move strips out an independent board tied to roughly $9 billion in NSF spending, and the Hacker News thread treated it as part of a broader effort to politicize or hollow out U.

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3. Firefox Adblock

The next story is Firefox quietly shipping Brave's open source Rust adblock engine inside the browser, even though the feature is still off by default and barely mentioned in the release notes. The article frames it as Mozilla borrowing a proven blocking core while it experiments with richer built-in content filtering.

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4. Quantum Slop

The next story is a GitHub write-up arguing that a reported quantum attack on a tiny elliptic-curve key can be reproduced by swapping the IBM Quantum back end for /dev/urandom and letting the classical verifier do the real work. The post's point is not that quantum computing is fake, but that this specific Project Eleven prize result may not have demonstrated meaningful quantum advantage at all.

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5. Deep Learning Theory

The next story is a new arXiv paper arguing that deep learning is moving from a bag of empirical tricks toward a real scientific theory, with the authors pointing to converging work on optimization, representations, scaling, and generalization. The paper does not claim the theory is finished, but it argues the field now has enough recurring structure to explain important parts of how neural networks train and behave.

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6. SSH Audio Interface

The next story is a reverse-engineering post about a Rodecaster Duo audio interface whose firmware package turned out to be an easy-to-inspect tarball and whose device image had SSH enabled by default. The post walks through how the author grabbed the firmware, unpacked the update flow, and found a level of openness that is unusual for consumer hardware, even if it also exposes obvious security questions.

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Hacker Newsroom for 25 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through deepseek v4, claude backlash, maduro raid bet, google anthropic deal.

1. DeepSeek V4

The next story is DeepSeek V4, a preview release that says it brings a 1M context window, two model tiers, open weights, and stronger reasoning and agentic coding support. In the comments, people quickly debated whether this was a real model launch or mostly an API docs update, and several pointed out that the weights were already up on Hugging Face.

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2. Claude Backlash

The next story is an article about why one user cancelled Claude after running into token spikes, confusing usage limits, declining output quality, and support that felt automated and unhelpful. The writer says the product started out strong but became harder to trust as sessions burned through limits faster and the model leaned on shortcuts instead of careful fixes.

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3. Maduro Raid Bet

The next story is a CNN report on a U. S.

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4. Google Anthropic Deal

The next story is a Bloomberg article about Google planning to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, a move that looks as much like securing compute and cloud demand as it does backing a rival AI lab. The deal matters because it shows how much frontier AI has become a contest for chips, capacity, and distribution, not just model quality.

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5. Scope Creep

The next story is Kevin Lynagh's latest newsletter, which is really two stories in one: a reflection on how overthinking, prior-art hunting, and scope creep can turn a promising project into a stalled one, and a separate deep dive into structural diffing tools. He argues that the best antidote is knowing your own success criteria early, then cutting scope ruthlessly so you can actually ship something small.

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6. Norway Social Ban

The next story is about Norway moving toward a ban on social media for kids under 16, a policy aimed at reducing the harms of addictive feeds and giving children more room to be kids. The article says this would put Norway among a growing set of countries treating youth social media use as a public health issue, but the HN reaction is split on whether a ban can actually work.

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Hacker Newsroom for 24 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through gpt 5 5, building cloud, palantir ethics, bitwarden breach.

1. GPT 5 5

The next story is GPT-5. 5, OpenAI’s announcement of its newest model, which says it improves benchmark performance and token generation speed while showing off a few practical demos.

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2. Building Cloud

The next story is I am building a cloud, a post arguing that modern cloud platforms are the wrong shape for how people actually want to run software, with local NVMe, simpler VM isolation, and cheaper networking as the core fixes. The post says agents and growing software demand make these limits more painful, so the new service tries to offer CPU and memory directly, local replicated disk, and global entry points instead of forcing everything through hyperscaler abstractions.

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3. Palantir Ethics

The next story is WIRED’s report that some Palantir employees are finally questioning whether the company has become part of the machinery they once thought they were helping keep in check. The article says internal Slack debates, the ICE contract, the reported use of Palantir tools in a deadly Iran strike, and a recent company manifesto have pushed workers to ask whether they are enabling surveillance and violence rather than preventing abuse.

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4. Bitwarden Breach

Bitwarden CLI is the latest supply chain story, with Socket saying version 2026. 4.

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5. Claude Code Fixes

The next story is an Anthropic post about recent Claude Code quality complaints. It says three separate changes caused the problem: a default reasoning-effort drop, a cache bug that kept stripping older thinking after idle sessions, and a system prompt tweak that made the assistant more terse and less effective.

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6. Meta Layoffs

Meta is cutting 10% of jobs, according to a Bloomberg news story about the company pushing harder on efficiency. The post reads as part of a broader cost-cutting wave across big tech, with readers treating it as a sign of caution rather than a simple headcount trim.

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Hacker Newsroom for 23 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through no tech tractors, windows 9x linux, qwen coding model, firefox tor fingerprint.

1. No Tech Tractors

The next story is about an Alberta startup selling tractors built around remanufactured Cummins engines, with no electronics, no touchscreen, and a price tag well below comparable big-brand machines. The article says Ursa Ag is betting that farmers want simpler equipment they can actually service, and that U.

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2. Windows 9x Linux

The next story is Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux, a post about a project that tries to run Linux alongside Windows 95-era systems in a way that is deliberately strange but apparently workable. The setup described in the post has Windows boot first and Linux start beside it, so the two kernels cooperate until one crashes and takes the other down with it.

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3. Qwen Coding Model

The next story is an article about Qwen3. 6-27B, a flagship-level coding model in a 27B dense release that aims to deliver strong coding performance in a much smaller package.

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4. Firefox Tor Fingerprint

The next story is an article from fingerprint. com about a Firefox IndexedDB quirk that can expose a stable browser-process identifier and let sites link private browsing or Tor Browser sessions until the browser is fully restarted.

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5. Apple Message Extraction

The next story is about Apple shipping a fix for an iPhone bug that let law enforcement recover deleted Signal messages and other disappearing chat content from cached notifications on the device. TechCrunch says the flaw could keep notification text around for up to a month, and Apple has now backported the patch to older iOS 18 devices too.

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6. GitHub CLI Telemetry

The next story is an article from GitHub about the GitHub CLI starting to collect pseudoanonymous telemetry. The post says the data helps the team understand which commands and flags people actually use, and it lays out what gets collected, how to inspect the payload, and how to opt out.

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Hacker Newsroom for 22 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through framework laptop pro, software engineering laws, chatgpt images, claude cli rules.

1. Framework Laptop Pro

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is Framework's new 13-inch laptop pitch, and the headline claim is simple: more battery life, more performance, and the same repairable, modular design that made the brand popular. The page leans hard on Linux support, but the comments quickly turned to the fine print around battery numbers, Windows-only performance claims, and whether a "Linux first" product should be clearer about what it can actually prove.

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2. Software Engineering Laws

The next story is Laws of Software Engineering, a visual collection of software principles, team dynamics, and design rules that groups familiar aphorisms under one browsable site. It highlights ideas like Conway’s Law, YAGNI, Brooks’s Law, Tesler’s Law, and the leaky-abstraction problem, framing them as patterns that shape how software gets built and maintained.

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3. ChatGPT Images

The next story is ChatGPT Images 2. 0 from OpenAI, which pitches a new era of image generation with tighter instruction following, stronger editing, and more polished results across posters, comics, photos, and infographics.

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4. Claude CLI Rules

The next story is Anthropic saying OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again, which matters because a lot of people have been unsure whether harness-based reuse would still be tolerated. The linked article says Anthropic staff told OpenClaw the behavior is allowed again, and the docs now treat Claude CLI reuse and claude -p as sanctioned unless policy changes.

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5. Claude Code Pro

The next story is a Bluesky post flagging that Anthropic appears to have removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month Pro subscription, based on a change to the pricing page and support docs. HN commenters treated it as a possible rug pull, but several noted there was still no formal announcement and some said existing subscribers might not be affected yet.

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6. SpaceX Cursor Deal

The next story is SpaceX’s strange new deal with Cursor: the company says it can either buy the coding startup later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion to work together on a next-generation coding and knowledge-work AI. The pitch links Cursor’s product and software-engineer distribution with SpaceX’s Colossus compute, and it fits Elon Musk’s broader push to turn SpaceX into more of an AI platform ahead of a possible IPO.

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Hacker Newsroom for 21 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through apple ceo handoff, eu battery rules, fake github stars, kimi coding model.

1. Apple CEO Handoff

The next story is Apple’s leadership handoff: Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1, 2026, and John Ternus will take over as CEO after a long-planned transition. The article says Cook will stay on through the summer to help with the handoff, while Apple presents Ternus as a hardware-focused successor with 25 years inside the company.

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2. EU Battery Rules

The next story is about the EU moving to require replaceable batteries in phones sold there from 2027, a change aimed at making devices easier to repair and keep in service longer. The article frames it as another step against planned obsolescence, even though it will force phone makers to rethink sealed designs.

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3. Fake GitHub Stars

The next story looks at GitHub’s fake star economy, arguing that stars are being bought or farmed at scale and that those inflated counts still feed into startup discovery and funding. The article says there is a real marketplace for stars, cites research and its own sampling to show suspicious stargazer patterns, and claims the incentive loop has turned star counts into a weak proxy for actual use.

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4. Kimi Coding Model

Kimi K2. 6 is Moonshot’s new open-source coding model, and the post pitches it as a big step forward for long-horizon programming, tool use, and agent-swarm workflows.

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5. Qwen Preview

The next story is Qwen3. 6-Max-Preview, a new hosted Qwen post that pitches the model as sharper on coding and agentic work while still being a preview release.

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6. Onion InfoWars Deal

The next story is The Onion’s “At long last, InfoWars is ours,” which frames the takeover as a joke about turning a notorious misinformation brand into an even bigger machine for ads, scams, and absurdity. The article presents the new plan as a kind of satirical empire-building, with panic and capital feeding each other until the site becomes a self-sustaining parody of modern media.

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7. Atlassian AI Training

The next story is about Atlassian enabling default data collection for AI training across Jira, Confluence, and related apps, with customer content included unless admins later opt out. The post says the company is rolling out the settings through May 19, then giving another reminder before the August 17 enforcement date, and commenters say the scope goes well beyond metadata into issue text, page bodies, prompts, and other in-app content.

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Hacker Newsroom for 20 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through vercel breach, typewriter exams, tunable lasers, claude design.

1. Vercel Breach

The next story is a BleepingComputer article about Vercel confirming a security incident after hackers claimed they were selling stolen data. The report says Vercel traced the initial access to a compromised Google Workspace account tied to a third-party AI tool, then warned customers to review and rotate any environment variables that may have been exposed.

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2. Typewriter Exams

The next story is an AP article about a Cornell German instructor bringing out manual typewriters once a semester to slow students down, cut off AI and translation tools, and push them to write and think without digital crutches. The article says the exercise has students feeding paper by hand, working more deliberately, and noticing how much harder it is to revise without a delete key.

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3. Tunable Lasers

The next story is a NIST article about integrated photonics chips that can generate a wide range of wavelengths, which the researchers say could shrink and simplify laser systems for quantum tech, communications, and other optical tools. On Hacker News, people were excited by the underlying materials work but quick to note that the headline is a bit of a stretch, with several comments pointing out this looks more like nonlinear optics and frequency conversion than a literal magic laser.

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4. Claude Design

The next story is Sam Henri Gold’s post arguing that design is drifting back toward code and that Figma’s sprawling, system-heavy workflow looks increasingly out of step with that shift. On Hacker News, a lot of the reaction was visceral frustration with Figma’s cost, CPU usage, and walled-garden tooling, alongside strong agreement that Claude Design feels more honest because it works directly in HTML and JavaScript.

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5. Notion Email Leak

The next story is a tweet claiming that Notion leaks the email addresses of everyone who edits a public page, which has commenters treating it as a serious privacy bug that should have been fixed long ago. The discussion centers on how vague the public-page warning is, whether Notion is dragging its feet after years of reports, and whether the right fix is to remove the data from public views or proxy it like GitHub does.

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6. Iran War Bets

The next story is a Guardian report on traders placing more than $1 billion in suspiciously well-timed bets around the Iran war, including wagers tied to the timing of strikes, a possible Khamenei death, and a ceasefire. The article argues that prediction markets and related trades now sit in a gray zone where insider information can produce huge windfalls before regulators react.

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7. Programming Ur Languages

The next story is an essay arguing that most modern programming languages are really descendants of seven deeper "ur-languages," including ALGOL, Lisp, ML, Self, Forth, APL, and Prolog. The post says the real leap in learning is not between near-neighbor languages like Python and Ruby, but between very different mental models such as imperative loops, logic programming, array languages, and macro-heavy Lisp systems.

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Hacker Newsroom for 19 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through hetzner migration, opus token costs, toxic lunar dust, kdenlive 2026.

1. Hetzner Migration

The next story is a real-world migration from DigitalOcean to a Hetzner dedicated server that cut monthly infrastructure spend from $1,432 to $233 without taking production offline. The post walks through rsync, MySQL replication, lowered DNS TTLs, and turning the old machine into a reverse proxy so 34 Nginx sites, GitLab, Neo4j, and live mobile traffic could move over with no visible outage.

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2. Opus Token Costs

The next story is a community leaderboard comparing anonymous prompt token counts between Opus 4. 6 and Opus 4.

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3. Toxic Lunar Dust

The next story looks at lunar dust and why every Apollo moonwalker reported some version of lunar hay fever after bringing the material back into the cabin. The ESA article says the dust is sharp, abrasive, and still poorly understood as a long-term health risk, which matters much more if future missions involve long stays or permanent bases.

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4. Kdenlive 2026

The next story is Kdenlive's 2026 state-of-the-project update, which says the team spent the last year balancing new features with stability work, UI cleanup, OpenTimelineIO improvements, and faster audio workflows. The post highlights automatic masking, big waveform rendering gains, a more flexible docking system, and upcoming work on monitor mirroring, OpenFX support, subtitle refactors, and a dopesheet for keyframes.

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5. Japan Rail Model

The next story is a long argument that Japan's rail system is exceptional less because of culture and more because of policy: private operators, rail-led development, liberal land-use rules, and fewer hidden subsidies for driving. The article says railway companies there behave like city-builders, capturing value through housing, retail, and station-centered real estate instead of relying on fares alone, while drivers face more of the real cost of parking and roads.

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6. B 52 Star Tracker

The next story is Ken Shirriff's deep dive into the electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker, a pre-GPS navigation system that used analog machinery to do trigonometry from celestial observations. The post explains how the system could search for, lock onto, and track stars automatically at a time when digital computers were not yet a practical fit for the job.

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7. Interval Calculator

The next story is a Show HN project called Interval Calculator, which performs arithmetic over unions of intervals instead of single values so expressions can stay closed even around cases like division by ranges containing zero. The project pitches interval union arithmetic as a better way to represent uncertainty, preserve inclusion guarantees, and reason about functions whose outputs split into multiple disjoint ranges.

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