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The Looming College-Enrollment Death Spiral

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/college-enrollment-demographic-cliff/686750/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756672 Points: 22 # Comments: 11

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Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours

Hi HN! I’ve always found it hard to explore the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa online. Most content is either long-form or scattered, and understanding a character like Karna or Bhishma usually means opening multiple tabs. I built https://www.ithihasas.in/

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How to make Firefox builds 17% faster

Article URL: https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756321 Points: 50 # Comments: 0

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Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024)

Article URL: https://timmastny.com/blog/visualizing-cpu-pipelining/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756036 Points: 13 # Comments: 4

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Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities

Article URL: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755805 Points: 36 # Comments: 17

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B-trees and database indexes (2024)

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755209 Points: 17 # Comments: 6

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Booking.com confirms hackers accessed customers’ data

The travel giant notified customers that their personal data, including names, emails, physical addresses, and phone numbers may have been accessed in a security incident.

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Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick-commerce startups

Flipkart's ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India's quick-commerce startups, analysts say.

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Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65B valuation for open AI chips

The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.

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'Yes to fields of wheat, no to fields of iron': how Denmark soured on solar

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/20/solar-power-renewable-energy-denmark-backlash-national-elections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755734 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them

Article URL: https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence

Article URL: https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754606 Points: 51 # Comments: 67

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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379 Points: 111 # Comments: 47

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Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754100 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

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Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754002 Points: 79 # Comments: 70