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France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

pabs3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:25:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728653

Points: 187

# Comments: 114

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:19:25 +0000

https://pardonned.com

Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily.

Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a static website from the sqlite db

All code is open source and available on Github.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960

Points: 128

# Comments: 41

20 years on AWS and never not my job

cperciva — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:31:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727711

Points: 212

# Comments: 50

Artemis II safely splashes down

areoform — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725583

Points: 1053

# Comments: 337

Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty

lermontov — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725403

Points: 105

# Comments: 20

Filing the corners off my MacBooks

normanvalentine — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352

Points: 1063

# Comments: 491

Installing every* Firefox extension

RohanAdwankar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724118

Points: 494

# Comments: 66

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

neversaydie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722333

Points: 372

# Comments: 223

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

ibobev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:03:39 +0000

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722262

Points: 105

# Comments: 7

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel

hmokiguess — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:35:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721953

Points: 402

# Comments: 284

JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

jkl5xx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721946

Points: 245

# Comments: 124

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:22:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720419

Points: 409

# Comments: 128

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution

zx2c4 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:49:52 +0000

Recent and related: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719942

Points: 509

# Comments: 148

1D Chess

burnt-resistor — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:37:28 +0000

Article URL: https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719740

Points: 891

# Comments: 154

Helium is hard to replace

JumpCrisscross — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:06:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719274

Points: 334

# Comments: 236

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

pashadee — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:29:20 +0000

https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2042483067655262461

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1sh4e5l/warni...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/supply-chain-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717847

Points: 366

# Comments: 94

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

iceberger2001 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:52:47 +0000

Article URL: https://playstarfling.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698455

Points: 336

# Comments: 90

Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

GenericCanadian — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:58:47 +0000

Article URL: https://taintedcoders.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698111

Points: 112

# Comments: 26

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

marvinborner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:37:50 +0000

Article URL: https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695213

Points: 145

# Comments: 21

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

geox — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:11:10 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacobs-collection-concerts-internet-archive-chicago-b1c9c4466a2db409a83523ad84b79d62

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687443

Points: 193

# Comments: 32