Issue No. 115

unshitnews

Saturday, 25 April 2026

A cross-source daily digest

BBC News +2 more

Seven dead in major Russian attack on Ukraine

The city of Dnipro was hardest hit, with officials saying four died in a strike on a residential building.

More Top Stories

US News

Technology

BBC News

Can we predict the next global crisis?

Spotting the events that might lead to a major period of upheaval is notoriously difficult. Could artificial intelligence be the crystal ball we need?

Health

Financial

Lifestyle

BBC News

How to consume less plastic

Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and into meat and vegetables. But there are things we can do to eat less of them.

Opinion

TV & Movies

Hacker News · Top 30

  1. 01 Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)
  2. 02 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
  3. 03 The Free Universal Construction Kit
  4. 04 New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
  5. 05 Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games
  6. 06 GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
  7. 07 Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
  8. 08 Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes
  9. 09 What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story
  10. 10 Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
  11. 11 Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
  12. 12 Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)
  13. 13 A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
  14. 14 Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI
  15. 15 Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
  16. 16 A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf]
  17. 17 HEALPix
  18. 18 Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
  19. 19 Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
  20. 20 A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
  21. 21 Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
  22. 22 Paraloid B-72
  23. 23 Commenting and Approving Pull Requests
  24. 24 Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x
  25. 25 My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
  26. 26 Humpback whales are forming super-groups
  27. 27 The mail sent to a video game publisher
  28. 28 Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
  29. 29 Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
  30. 30 Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)