🤖 AI Tech Digest

Science CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

CERN has developed new superconducting magnet technology that significantly boosts particle accelerator performance.

▲ 365  ·  2026-04-01 12:57

Dev EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

EmDash is a new CMS that aims to replace WordPress by solving its long-standing plugin security vulnerabilities.

▲ 356  ·  2026-04-01 21:44

Science NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast

NASA is broadcasting the live launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon in over 50 years.

▲ 248  ·  2026-04-01 22:41

Security Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell

Anthropic's Claude AI independently wrote a working remote code execution exploit targeting the FreeBSD kernel.

▲ 218  ·  2026-04-01 10:51

Security Is BGP safe yet?

An up-to-date look at whether internet routing protocol BGP has adopted modern security measures to prevent hijacking.

▲ 214  ·  2026-04-01 18:40

Dev Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)

A developer reverse-engineered the REWE supermarket API and built a Haskell command-line tool to order groceries from the terminal.

▲ 183  ·  2026-03-30 12:15

Business The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened

A running list of OpenAI's announced partnerships, products, and deals that were never delivered or quietly abandoned.

▲ 171  ·  2026-04-01 21:25

Dev Intuiting Pratt Parsing

A clear visual explanation of Pratt parsing, a powerful technique for building expression parsers in programming languages.

▲ 129  ·  2026-03-30 18:01

AI AI for American-produced cement and concrete

Researchers are applying AI to optimize the production of cement and concrete in the United States.

▲ 101  ·  2026-04-01 22:47

AI StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)

Benchmarks across 300 battles show StepFun 3.5 Flash leads competitors in cost-efficiency for agentic AI tasks.

▲ 100  ·  2026-04-01 21:47

Science Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks

A Ukrainian military drone maintained a fixed surveillance position autonomously for six consecutive weeks.

▲ 94  ·  2026-04-01 23:27

Science Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

Amateur radio enthusiasts are captivated by a mysterious shortwave signal broadcasting random numbers in Persian.

▲ 91  ·  2026-04-01 17:09

Science Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)

A fascinating look at the Greenland Shark, one of the world's longest-living vertebrates that can survive for over 400 years.

▲ 74  ·  2026-03-27 13:09

Dev Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

A tool that uses Bayesian statistics to find the commit that introduced a bug even when the bug appears non-deterministically.

▲ 73  ·  2026-03-29 02:02

AI TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS

A new technique for compressing AI model key-value caches and streaming expert weights from SSD on Apple hardware.

▲ 69  ·  2026-04-01 23:36

AI The AI Marketing BS Index

A satirical index that tracks and calls out exaggerated or misleading AI marketing claims from tech companies.

▲ 68  ·  2026-04-01 23:25

Business SpaceX files to go public

SpaceX has officially begun the process of going public, marking a major milestone for the private space company.

▲ 68  ·  2026-04-01 23:19

Business Apple at 50

A retrospective on Apple's 50-year journey from a garage startup to one of the world's most valuable companies.

▲ 65  ·  2026-04-02 00:18

Security Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls

Zerobox is an open-source tool that lets you run any command in a sandbox with fine-grained control over file, network, and credential access.

▲ 64  ·  2026-03-30 20:02

AI Show HN: Real-time dashboard for Claude Code agent teams

A developer built a real-time dashboard to monitor and coordinate multiple Claude Code AI agents working in parallel.

▲ 57  ·  2026-04-01 21:54

Dev Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one

A look at the clever mechanisms Windows 95 used to prevent installers from accidentally downgrading system files.

▲ 51  ·  2026-03-29 23:08

Dev Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples

A hands-on tutorial for programming ARM microcontrollers using the Ada and SPARK languages with Arduino and Nucleo boards.

▲ 48  ·  2026-03-28 11:56

Security Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024)

An in-depth look at how Apple's operating systems generate cryptographically secure random numbers across all platforms.

▲ 47  ·  2026-03-27 20:11

Dev An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode

A beginner-friendly explainer on how human writing systems work and how Unicode encodes them digitally.

▲ 38  ·  2026-03-29 23:13

Security Signing data structures the wrong way

A deep dive into common mistakes developers make when cryptographically signing data structures.

▲ 27  ·  2026-04-02 01:22

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

SpaceX has reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork valuing the company at a staggering 1.75 trillion dollars.

▲ 19  ·  2026-04-02 00:49

Dev Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM

A developer built a stunning 3D globe visualizing 10,000 live flights using Rust compiled to WebAssembly in just 3.5MB.

▲ 4  ·  2026-04-01 23:04

Dev Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring – Rust and DevRel Positions

WebAssembly runtime company Wasmer is hiring Rust engineers and a developer relations specialist.

▲ 1  ·  2026-04-01 17:30