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Apple reports second quarter results

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple periodically provides information for investors on its corporate website, apple.com, and its investor relations website, investor.apple.com. This includes press releases and other information about financial performance, reports filed or furnished with the SEC, information on corporate governance, and details related to its annual meeting of shareholders. This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include without limitation those about the Company’s plan for return of capital, payment of the Company’s quarterly…

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Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

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🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Since I published Carrot disclosure: Forgejo two days ago, numerous things happened: Friends of mine were reached out to, to "talk to me from a place of trust", or simply to tell them what an horrible person I am, which they found hilarious. The toot linking to the blogpost was removed from infosec.exchange by an overzealous moderator after it had been reported multiple times by multiple people. I thus moved to mastodon.social, where it was also removed with "Irresponsible disclosure" given as a reason. So…

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Full-Text Search with DuckDB – peterdohertys.website

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Published on: 4/29/2026 Overview This is a follow-up to my first post about DuckDB: A Dab of DuckDB. If you’re new to DuckDB, you may want to start there. The basic DuckDB workflow of making a data source quickly and easily discoverable is incredibly powerful … but there are limits. Some use cases, like searching the contents of historical publications or a tranche of emails would be constrained by basic text queries. As mentioned in my first post, I’m interested in exploring some of the…

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Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 24 Apr, 2026 You know the drill. That passwords.txt is no longer needed. Right click -> Delete. Empty Trash. That's it. Well, not quite. When I was younger, I used to hear stories about people recovering deleted files. Not from opening the Recycle Bin and restoring files one by one. No. There were rumors that deleted files weren't actually sent to the abyss. That, one could recover lost items even after clearing them from whatever OS bin they were last seen in. Recently, I was…

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World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Update 4:30 PM EDT: On a popular listserv for academics, many of whom are attending RightsCon, a board member of Access Now wrote "I am told I can leak that RightsCon has been canceled. Message from [Access Now] following shortly" in a thread about what attendees were planning on doing. And in an email, AccessNow wrote: "It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online. We understand this news is deeply upsetting for our community and while we know…

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Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf. According to Koizumi, Japan’s military has already begun to use the cardboard drone. “The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is already utilizing them as targets,” he said in a post on X. “In aiming to become the Self-Defense Forces that…

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The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It’s been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there’s no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z.Like with many tech trends before it, it’s no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters of AI chatbot tools. But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part…

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How an Oil Refinery Works

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The world consumes over 100 million barrels of oil a day. As of 2023, oil was responsible for 30% of all energy use worldwide, higher than any other energy source (though its share has been gradually falling). In chemical manufacturing, petroleum is even more critical: an astounding 90% of chemical feedstocks are…

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Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Belgium will stop decommissioning its nuclear power plants, Prime Minister Bart De Wever announced on Thursday.The government is going to negotiate with operator ENGIE over the nationalization of the plants, De Wever said."This government chooses safe, affordable, and sustainable energy. With less dependence on fossil imports and more control over our own supply," he wrote on X.ENGIE said it signed a letter of intent with the Belgian government on exclusive negotiations.The agreement covers the potential acquisition of "the complete nuclear fleet of seven reactors, the…

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GCC 16 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes – GNU Project

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: GCC 16 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes - GNU Project This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation. Caveats int8_t etc. are now signed char on Solaris for conformance with the C99 standard. However, this is an incompatible change. See the porting notes for more information. The -pthread option no longer predefines _REENTRANT on Solaris.…

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