2026-04-02

Horseshit

• Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras

• Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years

• Life after California: People find dramatically lower costs, buy homes

• The Everest scandal: poisonings and fraud on the roof of the world

  Nepali authorities have identified a new danger, and it’s not one faced by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Might your guide be covertly feeding you baking soda, so that you can be airlifted off sick as part of an insurance scam? As the Everest climbing season begins, investigators have uncovered what they say is a vast criminal network on the roof of the world.

• The Norwegian Billionaire Who Broke the Iditarod

• Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

• What One Month of Intense Red-Light Therapy Did to My Mind

• How the Guillotine Got Axed

• Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose

  The 2010 merger of Stanley Works and Black & Decker created a company that already owned DeWalt. From there they went on an acquisition spree that should have built an empire. Instead it built a bloated holding company drowning in debt and leadership turnover. They bought so many brands they were competing with themselves on the same store shelves, then starved the weaker ones to feed DeWalt.

  This is what happens in every industry once the conglomerates and private equity firms show up. Acquire the brand. Consolidate the operations. Cut costs. Extract value. Move to the next one. The names change. The industries change. The strategy doesn’t.

  Eyewear is next. One Italian company owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, and the insurance you use to pay for your glasses. They own the brands, the retail stores, and the payment pipeline. That one is going to be fun.

• Heirs to Bic Pen Fortune Seek Painting They Say Chauffeur Stole

• Why Everyone Wants to Be "High Agency" Now

• The Family That Decided to Have Their Stomachs Removed

• Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold

• Robot Umpires Have Arrived–and They're Making Baseball Players Shrink

• Are Bright Headlights Pissing You Off? AAA Says You’re Not Alone.

celebrity gossip

• Marc Andreessen's Dangerously Unexamined Life

Obit

• Jonathan, the oldest living land animal, has passed away

  Heartbroken to share that our beloved Jonathan, the world's oldest living land animal, has passed away today peacefully on St. Helena. At an estimated 193+ years old, this gentle giant outlived empires, wars, and generations of humans.

Musk

• A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky

• Starlink satellite breaks apart into "objects" SpaceX confirms "anomaly"

  • Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in 'fragment creation event'

• Index providers shouldn't bend the rules for Elon Musk

• SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO

  • SpaceX has reportedly filed for the biggest IPO in history

  • Musk's SpaceX Files to Go Public in One of the Biggest IPOs

  • SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say

  • SpaceX files for IPO, targets $1.75T valuation

  • SpaceX Files to Go Public

  • Elon Musk's SpaceX files to go public

• Musk's exploding megarocket puts $8B in space investments at risk

  Starcloud is one of 47 companies whose business models rely on the increased capacity or lower launch costs that the SpaceX CEO has for years promised Starship would already be able to deliver, according to an exclusive analysis from the financial data provider PitchBook. The largest and most powerful rocket ever built, Starship prototypes have unexpectedly burst into flames more than a dozen times, interrupting commercial air travel and sending shrapnel into Mexico. Those space startups — including ones working on orbital data centers, asteroid mining and microgravity pharmaceutical manufacturing — have collectively raised more than $8 billion from investors and could soon be at risk if Starship continues combusting,

• Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Human-Controlled

• Tesla confirms Model S and Model X production is over – only \~600 left

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help

  • Why has "remote driven cars" never been a feature of this push? Why isn't the service "someone else drives it" the selling point? I've been assuming that the fact that its a deliverable aspiration is the reason they've avoided talking about it; the overall goal not being to deliver a product and serve society, but rather to scrape all the investor money they can before bailing out and leaving nothing of use behind.

• Kia to sell lower-priced electric vehicle in US

• Politics Keeps D.C.'S Autonomous Vehicles Roadblocked

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• No tuition, no grades, no power grid: why flock to a desert 'college'?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• AT&T signs deal worth $2B to upgrade emergency cellular network

• I wore Meta's smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep

• A 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases

  As painful as these price rises are, there are some brighter spots in the picture. We’ve been able to hold the price of Raspberry Pi 400 with 4GB of memory at $60, and the 1GB and 2GB variants of Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 at between $35 and $65. These are capable and versatile modern Raspberry Pi computers at affordable price points. And, as we’ve said before, we don’t anticipate any price rises for our classic products, including Raspberry Pi Zero, Zero W and Zero 2 W; Raspberry Pi 1, 3, 3B+, and 3A+; and Compute Module 1 and 3+. These products use older LPDDR2 DRAM, of which we currently hold substantial inventory.

• DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

• The Sims Creator's Quest to Turn His and Your Own Mind into a Video Game

• OnlyOffice suspends Nextcloud partnership over 'illegal' Euro-Office fork

• DDR5 RAM prices fall by as much as 30%, but memory shortage likely far from over

• GoDaddy launches DomainMaxxing to optimize your domains

• Probably the best sign yet that the market is about to relax: If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now

• US patent office revokes Nintendo's patent on summoning characters to battle

• Amazon waives month's AWS charges after Iranian drone attack

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)

• CUDA Tile Programming Now Available for BASIC!

  In retrospect, developers asking for broad support of the CUDA Tile programming model should perhaps have been a bit more specific. Look for cuTile COBOL coming April 1, 2027.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Artemis II moonshot enters final hours before launch with NASA engineers optimistic.

• Why won’t NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts land on the moon when they get there?

• Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA

• Artemis Astronauts Board Spacecraft for NASA Moon Launch

• Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

  An LLM company using regexes for sentiment analysis is peak irony, but also: a regex is faster and cheaper than an LLM inference call just to check if someone is swearing at your tool.

  The codebase also has some rough spots. print.ts is 5,594 lines long with a single function spanning 3,167 lines and 12 levels of nesting. They use Axios for HTTP, which is funny timing given that Axios was just compromised on npm with malicious versions dropping a remote access trojan.

  As one Twitter reply put it: “accidentally shipping your source map to npm is the kind of mistake that sounds impossible until you remember that a significant portion of the codebase was probably written by the AI you are shipping.”

  • Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident

  • Anthropic open sourced Claude Code repo after the source code leak

  • Claude Code source code leak was a developper error

  • Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you

  • Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent

  • Claude Code won April Fools Day this year

• Anthropic Is Having a Month

• OpenAI Adds Another $12B to Latest Funding Round

  • OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley's Largest-Ever Funding Round: $122B

• Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children's book

• Justice Alito: "do you think we should ask Claude to decide this case?"

  The transcript notes there was "laughter." I heard the distinct and prolonged laughs of Justices Kagan and Barrett. There may have been others. Adam swiftly replied: "No. I --I adhere to the wise judgment of --of this Court."

  I think the effect of this joke is that lawyers will now be afraid to even suggest they use AI. But it seems clear that many lawyers are using AI to generate questions that may be posed at oral argument--though they may not admit it. I give Adam credit for being transparent with his methods. Though, Adam may have gotten burned.

• Art schools are being torn apart by AI

• The Startup That Used AI and OpenClaw to Automate Its Own Developers

• AI's ability to see 'mirages' shows how alien machine brains are

• Caltech Researchers Claim Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models

• AI chatbots may be too validating for their own good

• Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played

• OpenAI Locked Up 40% of Global RAM with No Obligation to Buy Any of It

• CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI

• AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers

• Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

• OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot

• One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it

• New York hospital leaders weigh regulatory shift to replace some doctors with AI

• OpenAI Is Almost Public

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Google warns quantum computing may break Bitcoin earlier than thought

  • Google Paper Warns of Quantum Computing Risk for Bitcoin

  • Google researchers just put a new expiration date on Bitcoin

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Microsoft closes worst quarter since 2008: 'Redmond is in a pickle'

• Allbirds, once valued at $4B, just sold its assets for next to nothing

  • Allbirds, Once Silicon Valley's Favorite Shoe, Sells for $39M

• JPMorgan and Pimco Warn Bond Markets Miss Slowdown Risks

• Oracle is cutting up to 30k employees to pay for AI data centres

  • Oracle cutting thousands inlayoffs as company continues to ramp AI spending

  • Oracle stock rises in premarket on plans to cut jobs

  • Tech giant Oracle reportedly blindsides thousands with emailed layoffs

• Bank denies liability after $343K misdirected deposit

• Hershey says it will shift back to classic recipe for all Reese's products

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Washington state's 'historic' millionaire tax takes aim at super-rich

• Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Splits Conservative Scholars

  • Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case with Trump in room

• Blackstone, Ares, Rivals Grilled by Congress over Private Credit

• Head of FEMA defends claim that he was teleported

Trump

• Federal judge halts Trump's White House ballroom construction

  U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that no statute “comes close” to granting Trump the authority he claims he has to execute the $400 million project, barring construction from continuing until Congress authorizes its completion. “The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families,” Leon wrote. “He is not, however, the owner!”

  • Trump responded to the decision on Truth Social

• Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATO

  • Trump suggests in new interviews he is considering withdrawing from NATO

• Justice Dept. Struggles to Respond to Trump's Suit Against IRS

• Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters.

  While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation.

Democrats

• California's "Trusted AI" Order Is a Blueprint for a Censorship Weapon

Left Angst

• U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'

• The World Sees Trump's America as a Sad Joke

• President signs order to restrict mailin ballots in likely unconstitutional move

  • Trump signs order exerting federal control on mail-in ballots

• Supreme Court opens door to conversion therapy

• Zuckerberg asked Musk if Facebook should take down DOGE tracking pages

• RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks

  • US FDA Expected to Lift Restrictions on Dozen Peptides Previously Banned

• American Heart Association dietary guidance counter to some MAHA guidelines

• The Autocrat's Dilemma

• Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Congressman Calls for FBI Help over Missing General, Scientists

• Founder of 'orgasmic meditation' co gets 9 yrs prison in forced labor conspiracy

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon declines to reaffirm NATO's collective defense, says up to Trump

• Europe pushes back on some US Military operations as concerns over Iran mount

• Senator proposes to widen US ban on Chinese autos

• NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won't be far behind

• America's Best New Weapon in Iran Is a Drone Inspired by Iran

World

• 'Beyond what we could imagine': Europe's coming energy crunch

• Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops

• Germany's economic forecast more than halved over Iran war

• The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft

• Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes–not cars

• Asia's factory activity slows on cost pressure from Iran war

• Business group urges BC govt to reject 'unreasonable' remote work request

• Germany Funded Israel's Nuclear Program

• Matt Miller: Tech sovereignty is 'welfare' for weak startups

• Post Office scandal supplier Fujitsu to cut nearly 10% of UK workforce

• Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Books

• Try Living in Cape Town, Where 70% of Downtown Housing Is for Tourists

• Switzerland says cancelling U.S. Patriot missile system order an option

• Dutch armed forces recruiting 1,200 drone specialists

• Solar-powered truck charging gains ground on South Africa's freight corridors

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

  • Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies

• Biker gangs and hired hands: how Iran is increasingly outsourcing its terrorism

• China and Pakistan present new Iran deal: Ceasefire for opening Hormuz

• Why seizing Iran's uranium would be so risky for the US

• Iran's Revolutionary Guards Declares War on Silicon Valley

  • The IRGC has issued threats not just against the US and Israel and the Arab world - that's old hat - but now against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla.

• A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

• Iranian president has released an open letter to the American people

• Amazon's cloud business in Bahrain damaged in Iran strike

• Secret Codes and Yuan Fees Get Ships Through Iran's Hormuz Tollbooth

Israel

• Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia goes after VPNs as 'great crackdown' gathers pace

China

• Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways

• China can survive without the Strait of Hormuz

• Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city

  • Baidu robotaxis halted mid-traffic causing crashes in Wuhan

  • Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure', police say

  • 'System malfunction' causes robotaxis to stall in middle of the road in China

  • Over 100 driverless cars stop mid-traffic in Wuhan in 'system malfunction'

Health / Medicine

• How to Turn a Chicken Egg into a Drug Factory

• Lilly's Obesity Pill Gets US Approval in Challenge to Novo

  • Lilly's weight-loss pill wins US approval, sets up next battle with Novo Nordisk

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• H9N2 Bird Flu Hits Europe as First Human Case Confirmed in Italy.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Office air quality may affect employees' cognition, productivity

• 'Terrible pollution': the reality of the US gas sites rated 'grade A'

• Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs

• Rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

• Scientists Discovered an Entire Island Made of Ancient Humans’ Leftover Food.

• What adaptations to high-sugar diets reveal about bird metabolism