The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vefsxkGWkEMmDcZ7v/the-effects-of-caffeine-consumption-do-not-decay-with-a-5
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vefsxkGWkEMmDcZ7v/the-effects-of-caffeine-consumption-do-not-decay-with-a-5
Lesswrong
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life — LessWrong
tldr: The effects of caffeine consumption last longer than many assume. Paraxanthine is sort of like caffeine that behaves the way many mistakenly be…
Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/bluesky-users-are-mastering-the-fine-art-of-blaming-everything-on-vibe-coding/
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/bluesky-users-are-mastering-the-fine-art-of-blaming-everything-on-vibe-coding/
Ars Technica
Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"
Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues.
Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare
https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare
Sylvain Kerkour
Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
TechCrunch
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem
https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2
https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2
Jim's Pckt
April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt
Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go...
Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#
https://nockawa.github.io/blog/why-building-database-engine-in-csharp/
https://nockawa.github.io/blog/why-building-database-engine-in-csharp/
Nockawa’s Blog
Why I’m Building a Database Engine in C#
Everyone says you need C, C++, or Rust for a high-performance database engine. I chose C# — here’s why that’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/10/porngraphy-depicting-sex-acts-between-stepfamily-members-banned-in-uk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/10/porngraphy-depicting-sex-acts-between-stepfamily-members-banned-in-uk
the Guardian
Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
Amendment calling for step-incest to be included in ban on harmful content passes by just one vote
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dDMaxVN-founding-product-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dDMaxVN-founding-product-engineer
Y Combinator
Founding Product Engineer at Bild AI | Y Combinator
We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build…
Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/oe1ap9h/
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/oe1ap9h/
Reddit
From the webdev community on Reddit: Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I’ve never had an app do this before
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Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html
Nytimes
Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO
The device burned an exterior gate of the house in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive was home. The authorities arrested a suspect.
DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/doj-top-antitrust-litigators-exit-after-ticketmaster-settlement
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/doj-top-antitrust-litigators-exit-after-ticketmaster-settlement
Bloomberg.com
DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement
The US Justice Department’s top antitrust litigator and three senior trial attorneys that led cases against Live Nation Entertainment Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are leaving the agency, according to people familiar with their plans.
Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
https://scitechdaily.com/this-spice-combo-could-slash-inflammation-hundreds-of-times-more-effectively/
https://scitechdaily.com/this-spice-combo-could-slash-inflammation-hundreds-of-times-more-effectively/
SciTechDaily
This Spice Combo Could Slash Inflammation Hundreds of Times More Effectively
Researchers have found that common food ingredients can interact inside immune cells in ways that significantly enhance each other’s anti-inflammatory effects.
Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-mythos-just-broken-the-deal-that-kept-the-internet-safe/
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-mythos-just-broken-the-deal-that-kept-the-internet-safe/
Martin Alderson
Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?
What Anthropic's Mythos research preview tells us about the trajectory of frontier models, sandbox escapes, and the cybersecurity risk ahead.
Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty
History Today
Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty
‘The thing I’d like most in the world’, says the reader in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979), ‘is to make clocks run backwards.’ And understandably so. Written after a period of creative uncertainty, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller…