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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 18th April 2026 Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 in July 2024 and it’s always interesting to see how the system prompt evolves as they publish new models. Opus 4.7 shipped the other day (April 16, 2026) with a Claude.ai system prompt update since Opus 4.6 (February 5, 2026).…
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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: In a market that evolves as quickly as this one, it's interesting to realize how many interesting inventions have been lost to time over the years, many of which we may never even have heard of. Today, removable storage is all about USB drives or external SSDs and HDDs (which also connect to a computer via USB), but most will remember DVDs, CDs, and even floppy disks. But some formats fell through the cracks when it comes to the history of storage media, and Zip…
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

πŸ’₯ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve spent roughly the last decade and some change as a software engineer, and recently decided to start a solo consultancy.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…
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design

πŸ”₯ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: The world in which IPv6 was a good design Last November I went to an IETF meeting for the first time. The IETF is an interesting place; it seems to be about 1/3 maintenance grunt work, 1/3 extending existing stuff, and 1/3 blue sky insanity. I attended mostly because I wanted to see how people would react to TCP BBR, which was being presented there for the first time. (Answer: mostly positively, but with suspicion. It kinda seemed too good to be true.) Anyway, the…
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The RAM shortage could last years

The RAM shortage could last years

πŸš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030.The world’s largest memory makers β€” Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron β€” are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if not 2028. SK opened a fab in Cheongju in February, but that is the only…
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Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information collected under the mass spying program known as 702. A reauthorization with virtually no changes was defeated because a core group of lawmakers held strong; they know that people are hungry for real reform that protects the…
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Ratchaphon Lertdamrongwong, a sophomore at Cornell University, laughs with classmates while using a typewriter for a German writing assignment on Friday, March 20, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. The professor, Grit Matthias Phelps, brings out the typewriters once a semester for her students to use. (AP Photo/Lauren Petracca)Students use typewriters to complete a writing assignment in German at Cornell University, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. Their professor, Grit Matthias Phelps, brings out the typewriters once each semester for students to disconnect from technology and…
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Baumgartner Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON – Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA‑05) introduced theΒ Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen U.S. national security by closing critical gaps in export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME). Original cosponsors include Chairman of the Select Committee on China John Moolenaar (MI‑02) and Reps. Rich McCormick (GA‑07), Bill Huizenga (MI‑04), Jefferson Shreve (IN‑06), Mike Lawler (NY‑17), John Mannion (NY‑22), Jared Golden (ME‑02), Josh Riley (NY‑19), Maggie Goodlander (NH‑02) and Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10). Senators Pete Ricketts (R‑NE) and Andy…
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Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design Β· Sam Henri Gold

Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design Β· Sam Henri Gold

✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out. As product teams scaled and design needed to justify itself inside engineering orgs, it was pushed toward systematization β€” and Figma invented its own primitives to make that work: components, styles, variables, props, and so on. Some concepts are borrowed from programming, some aren’t, and the whole thing doesn’t neatly map onto anything. Guidance evolves, migrations pile up, and if you want to automate any of it you’re…
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My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

πŸ’₯ Read this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Here I'll share my first impressions with ROCm and Strix Halo and how I've set up everything. 128GB efficiently shared between the CPU and GPU. I'm used to working with Ubuntu, so I stuck with it in the supported 24.04 LTS version, and just followed the official installation instructions. It seems that things wouldn't work without a BIOS update: PyTorch was unable to find the GPU. This was easily done on the BIOS settings: it was able to connect to my Wifi network and download…
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