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A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For the past few weeks I have been testing a simple workflow for making coding agents interact with each other without using APIs, SDKs, or extra dependencies. The main constraint is this: use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes. This became useful to me for two reasons: I sometimes want to extend a Claude session by asking Codex or Gemini to review or continue…
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GitHub – esutcu/planb-lpm · GitHub

GitHub – esutcu/planb-lpm · GitHub

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IPv6 longest-prefix-match (LPM) using a linearized B+-tree with AVX-512 SIMD and a scalar fallback. Based on the algorithm from: Zhihao Zhang, Lanzheng Liu, Chen Chen, Huiba Li, Jiwu Shu, Windsor Hsu, Yiming Zhang. PlanB: Efficient Software IPv6 Lookup with Linearized B+-Tree. NSDI '26. arXiv:2604.14650. Author's reference code: https://github.com/nicexlab/planb. This repository is an independent, clean-room reimplementation of the algorithm as a portable, MIT-licensed C++17 library with extras that were not part of the reference: Portable header-only core (include/lpm6.hpp) that compiles without AVX-512 and transparently falls…
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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 20th April 2026 - Link Blog Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons. I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only worth running comparisons between 4.7 and 4.6. The Claude token counting API accepts any Claude model ID though so I've included options for all four of the notable…
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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I was working on a personal project, debugging a Native Messaging helper I had written for it. In the process I needed to check what Brave Browser had registered on my laptop. What I found was a file I had never put there. It was not mine. I had not installed it. I had not authorised it. I had not even been told about it. It was from Anthropic. The file sits at this path on my MacBook: ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts/com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension.json And its contents are this:…
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The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Recent survey data show a wide gap between public and expert views of AI. In Pew's 2025 survey, 76% of AI experts said AI would benefit them personally, while only 24% of the U.S. public said the same. The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them. Negative public sentiment also appears to be growing. In March 2026, Quinnipiac found that 55% of Americans thought AI would do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, up from 44%…
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GitHub – shivampkumar/trellis-mac · GitHub

GitHub – shivampkumar/trellis-mac · GitHub

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Run TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D generation natively on Mac. This is a port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 — a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model — from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. No NVIDIA GPU required. Generates 400K+ vertex meshes from single images in ~3.5 minutes on M4 Pro. Output includes vertex-colored OBJ and GLB files ready for use in 3D applications. macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or later) Python 3.11+ 24GB+ unified memory recommended (the 4B model is large) ~15GB disk space for model weights (downloaded on first…
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Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore. Here’s What to Do.

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore. Here’s What to Do.

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If you own one of the following Kindles, you won’t be able to download new books after May 20: Kindle 1st Generation (2007), Kindle DX (2009), Kindle DX Graphite (2010), Kindle Keyboard (2010), Kindle 4 (2011), Kindle Touch (2011), Kindle 5 (2012), and the Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012). The Fire tablets that will no longer be supported are: Kindle Fire 1st Generation (2011), Kindle Fire 2nd Generation (2012), Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012), and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012).To check which model you have,…
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MXmap — Email Providers of Swiss Municipalities

MXmap — Email Providers of Swiss Municipalities

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: What is this? A map of all ~2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email — grouped by jurisdiction — based on public DNS records and other public network signals. Context Digital sovereignty: US-based providers are subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to request stored data, regardless of where it is physically hosted. This map makes the current provider landscape visible. How does it work? Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners,…
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Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Compatible with digital sovereignty? A Microsoft logo pictured in London. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence. This content was published on April 19, 2026 - 12:34 +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A spokesman for the Federal Chancellery…
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Islamic medicine – Hektoen International

Islamic medicine – Hektoen International

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Mesua During the expansion of the Empire of Islam and its ensuing Golden Age, physicians from Spain to Samarkand advanced the medical sciences by reviving existing Greek medicine and adding their own innovations.1 There were many prominent physicians, dating back to the days of the Prophet himself. Often associated with hospitals or schools of pharmacy, some were members of the important Academy of Jundi-Shapur in south-west Persia.2 Distinguished physicians worked at the Umayyad court in Damascus, but the great flowering took place later at the…
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