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1. Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)

   337 points • 103 comments • apr 15, 2026

2. Backpacks got worse on purpose

   287 points • 245 comments • apr 15, 2026

3. God Sleeps in the Minerals

   247 points • 59 comments • apr 15, 2026

4. Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

   244 points • 117 comments • apr 15, 2026

5. Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

   225 points • 122 comments • apr 15, 2026

6. Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference

   209 points • 133 comments • apr 15, 2026

7. Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code

   197 points • 174 comments • apr 15, 2026

8. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

   190 points • 131 comments • apr 15, 2026

9. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

   169 points • 111 comments • apr 15, 2026

10. Keep Android Open

    167 points • 57 comments • apr 15, 2026