Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?. The New Yorker takes a hard look at Sam Altman and whether one man should control humanity's AI future. The 2023 boardroom coup gets the full treatment. MORE | SAM BLOG

Wildlife Traffickers Cracked. Bellingcat found nine Facebook groups with 70,000+ members selling protected animals using coded language like "A2" for prices and "WC" for wild-caught. Meta shut all nine down after the report. MORE

Inside Starbucks via SSRF. A bug hunter used non-resolvable hostnames to trigger SSRF, bypassing DNS filters to reach Starbucks' internal network. A crafty technique most automated scanners miss entirely. MORE

Japanese Principle for AI Fatigue. Applying the cooking concept of mise en place to managing AI tool overwhelm. A calm, practical take on pacing yourself with new technology. MORE

The Self-Help Trap. Twenty-plus years of optimizing revealed one core danger: we mistake knowledge for action. Tim Ferriss argues we can't reason our way to real change—discomfort is the only door. MORE

Google VRP Overhauls Bug Bounty Rewards. Google updates its reward model with information tiers and action criticality scores to better reflect real-world impact. Higher-severity, harder-to-exploit bugs now pay more. MORE

OpenAI Calls for AI Industrial Policy. OpenAI is pushing for a U.S. national AI strategy—subsidies, export controls, and major government investment to stay ahead of China. The PDF lays out the full case. MORE

DHH Writes Code With AI Agents. Rails creator DHH now rarely types code manually—AI agents write it for him. He argues senior engineers benefit most since they can validate whether agent output is actually production-ready. MORE

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026). The monthly Hacker News thread where builders share projects in progress—micro-SaaS, open-source tools, and weird experiments. Great place to find inspiration or collaborators. MORE

Ask HN: What Are You Building That's Not AI-Related?. HN pushes back on the AI flood with a thread dedicated to non-AI projects. Answers range from hardware hacks to old-school web tools to niche databases. MORE

Sarah Drasner transitioned to a Distinguished Engineer role as Chrome's Area Tech Lead for AI Web Ecosystem. She's focusing on building secure, standardized web platforms for AI integration while returning to hands-on technical work after 5 years in management. MORE

@shanselman - VP at Microsoft/GitHub covering code, OSS, STEM, and developer relations. Host of the Hanselminutes podcast.

@dhauenstein - Builds IT security teams. Self-described hacking magician and bug hunter.

@Jafar_Abo_Nada - Information security specialist and co-founder of Updatelap.

@ozgur_bbh - Offensive and AI security researcher. Top 3 Synack all time.

@RoxCodes - Builder. Previously built tools for MrBeast, now building with Steven Bartlett.

Presidential Pardons, Tracked. Pardonned is a public database of every presidential pardon since Bill Clinton, sourced directly from DOJ documents. Search and filter 3,205 grants by president, prison time, or restitution abandoned. MORE

Conference Intel. Community-driven deep-dive coverage of major security conferences. Browse talks, rate presentations, and explore topics from industry events in one place. MORE

Advanced YouTube Search. Add filters YouTube won't give you—exact phrases, channel scoping, video length, and playlist building from results. MORE

Government Surplus Auctions. GovAuctions tracks public sales where federal, state, and local agencies sell surplus items. Sometimes the deals are genuinely wild. MORE

Startup Jobs Before They're Posted. The Anti Job Board tracks funded startups and new postings from X. You get roles with 10 applicants, not 1000. MORE

Google AI Edge Gallery. Google released an app for running Gemma 4 AI models locally on your phone—no cloud, no account. Works well for image questions and transcription, though conversations don't persist. MORE

GitHub Repo Size. A quick web tool that shows exactly how much storage any GitHub repo uses. Just enter the name or URL and get the answer instantly. MORE

Ghost Pepper. Fully local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste—no cloud, no account required. Apple Silicon only. MORE

OpenCode School. A free, no-account-required course on using OpenCode, the local AI coding agent. Covers configuration, plugins, and hands-on projects for automating tasks. MORE

Impeccable. A free, open-source design toolkit that teaches AI models real design principles via 18 commands. Works with Claude Code and Cursor to catch common AI-generated design mistakes. MORE

Claude Code Across 15 Repos. Field engineer Al Chen uses Claude Code across their codebases to instantly answer customer questions. A practical look at what non-engineers can do with agentic coding tools. MORE

Learn 80% of Claude Code in 20 Minutes. A fast, dense tutorial covering the most useful Claude Code features. If you've been putting off learning the tool, this is your on-ramp. MORE

DHH's New Coding Workflow. DHH walks through his AI-assisted workflow in this companion video to the Pragmatic Engineer piece. Watch agents do the typing while he does the thinking. MORE

Stop Giving Agents Bash. An argument for building better tool interfaces for agents instead of just handing them a shell. If bash is the hammer, everything becomes a nail—and that's a problem. MORE

Claude Code + PARA for File Organization. An experiment using Claude Code with the PARA method to auto-organize files. The free PARA skill referenced in the video is worth grabbing. MORE

AI Shrinks the Team, Not the Problem. AI speeds up individual engineers but triples coordination work per person when teams shrink to match. Cutting headcount to chase productivity gains risks burnout and system failures. MORE

25 People, Four AI Agents. Every built four Notion agents to handle prioritization, meeting notes, OKR planning, and growth tracking. Routine logistical work—automated. MORE

Andrej Karpathy shares how he uses LLMs to automatically build and maintain personal knowledge bases by ingesting research papers and articles into markdown wikis. Instead of coding, he's now spending most of his time having AI organize knowledge, answer complex questions, and generate insights from his growing 400K+ word research collections. MORE

Marketing as a Solo Technical Founder. Founders share what actually worked for getting first users—cold outreach, content, community, and a few counterintuitive surprises. MORE

The Real Reason You Can't Think Fast on the Spot. Learn the psychological mechanisms behind mental blocks and practical strategies to improve your on-the-spot performance. MORE