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Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

2026-04-19 @ 15:48:40Points: 62Comments: 41

Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach

2026-04-19 @ 15:23:39Points: 222Comments: 31

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

2026-04-19 @ 15:20:01Points: 136Comments: 29

Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

2026-04-19 @ 15:09:45Points: 66Comments: 34

Discord Read Receipts Exploit: When, How Often, How Long

2026-04-19 @ 15:04:45Points: 13Comments: 1

Notes from the SF Peptide Scene

2026-04-19 @ 14:43:07Points: 80Comments: 62

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

2026-04-19 @ 14:34:38Points: 63Comments: 28

Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List

2026-04-19 @ 14:24:04Points: 40Comments: 30

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

2026-04-19 @ 14:05:49Points: 121Comments: 95

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

2026-04-19 @ 13:13:09Points: 188Comments: 116

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

2026-04-19 @ 11:17:27Points: 52Comments: 21

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

2026-04-19 @ 09:17:12Points: 189Comments: 85

I’m focused on helping SMEs sort out the messy back-office parts of the business: spreadsheet glue, brittle internal workflows, poor reporting, awkward integrations, backend/platform problems, and AI workflows that need to do real work rather than just look good in a demo.

I’m not really interested in becoming a generic agency. I’d rather work with businesses that already feel operational pain and need someone technical to help untangle it properly.

For those of you who’ve made this jump:

* how did you get your first real project? * what kind of outreach actually worked? * did your first few clients come from network, content, cold outreach, partnerships, subcontracting, or somewhere else?

Also, if anyone knows SMEs or operators dealing with this sort of mess, I’d be glad to chat.

As a gesture of goodwill, I’m offering the first 5 clients 10 hours free to help get an initial project moving.

You can find me over at https://crescita.cc

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

2026-04-19 @ 08:45:48Points: 129Comments: 57

Binary GCD

2026-04-19 @ 08:33:38Points: 55Comments: 1

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

2026-04-19 @ 07:38:08Points: 183Comments: 70

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

2026-04-19 @ 02:50:43Points: 161Comments: 55

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

2026-04-18 @ 20:54:17Points: 385Comments: 165

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

2026-04-18 @ 19:00:00Points: 404Comments: 369

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

2026-04-18 @ 16:26:47Points: 390Comments: 100

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

2026-04-18 @ 16:05:43Points: 586Comments: 553

Why Japan has such good railways

2026-04-18 @ 12:29:06Points: 504Comments: 466

Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

2026-04-17 @ 17:14:46Points: 12Comments: 1

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

2026-04-17 @ 14:07:28Points: 419Comments: 104

What are skiplists good for?

2026-04-17 @ 13:57:27Points: 218Comments: 46

Pairwise Order of a Sequence of Elements

2026-04-16 @ 19:34:28Points: 17Comments: 0

Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

2026-04-16 @ 17:32:33Points: 99Comments: 22

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

2026-04-16 @ 14:05:10Points: 322Comments: 183

Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

2026-04-15 @ 16:13:10Points: 26Comments: 4

It's cool to care (2025)

2026-04-15 @ 14:20:42Points: 68Comments: 32

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

2026-04-15 @ 11:38:22Points: 79Comments: 12

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