Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager
https://thales.me/posts/why-i-built-snapstate/
https://thales.me/posts/why-i-built-snapstate/
thales.me
Why I Built Snapstate — thales.me
React is excellent at rendering UI. I built Snapstate because I wanted business logic to live somewhere else.
Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/
The Hill
Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December
Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money. The Selective Ser…
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy…
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/06/app-store-sees-84-surge-in-new-apps-as-ai-coding-tools-take-off/
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/06/app-store-sees-84-surge-in-new-apps-as-ai-coding-tools-take-off/
9to5Mac
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off - 9to5Mac
Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions.
Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element
https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element
The American Society of Cinematographers
Fantastic Voyage: Creating the Futurescape for The Fifth Element
Digital Domain’s imagery experts help to create eye-boggling visual effects for Luc Besson’s sci-fi fantasy.
Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK
https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html
https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html
dwyer.co.za
Claude mixes up who said what, and that's not OK
Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages come from the user. This is categorically distinct from hallucinations or missing permissions.
Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us
Bbc
Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".
Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads
Axios
Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.
Clean code in the age of coding agents
https://www.yanist.com/clean-code-in-the-age-of-coding-agents/
https://www.yanist.com/clean-code-in-the-age-of-coding-agents/
Yanist
Clean code in the age of coding agents
Keeping code clean helps both humans and agents. Coding agents are limited by context, and poorly organized code means they consume more tokens and perform worse. Here are some practical steps to keep your code clean for both humans and agents.
Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html
Nytimes
Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows
A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
Thelettersfromleo
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes
https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
SkyPilot Blog
Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
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