2026-04-17

4/17/2026, 2:03:34 PM

View the global trend summary, highlights, and original links captured for this date.

Pro preview Pro adds clearer actions and deeper reasoning

Free gives you the key items first. Pro unlocks why-it-matters analysis, risks, opportunities, and next steps for each item.

Join Pro waitlist
YouTube
Views: 96.8 k Comments: 2475

Harris Faulkner: This is SINISTER

Chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin discusses the impact that the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is having on Iran's economy. Retired Navy fighter pilot Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley also joins 'The Faulkner Focus' to break down efforts to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz. Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews

Top comment

"Thank You to our Navy and to all our armed forces"

By: @Mike-v5o6e

View original
YouTube
Views: 222.8 k Comments: 1792

The North Oaks Streetview images on Google are finally gone... but they are still accessible

Turns our North Oaks has been invading their own privacy this whole time with these things called Flock cameras. So that info sent me on a 2 month deep dive investigating America's surveillance system. I came out the other side having been a changed man. So I took the Streetview images of North Oaks down. And immediately reuploaded them to mapillary, an open source mapping project. (also availabl

Top comment

"some guy in washington state got the FLOCK cameras removed from his city by doing a FOIA request for all FLOCK info. it was going to cost the city millions, so they got rid of flock instead."

By: @nickyt3269

View original
YouTube
Views: 203.8 k Comments: 686

UN NENE EN MEDIO DEL TERROR: Dispararon contra una mamá y su hijo al no poder arrancar el auto

Ocurrió en Gonzalez Catan. Los ladrones sorprendieron a la madre y al hijo y los hicieron bajar del auto. Como la mujer tiró la llave a una casa vecina, los delincuentes les dispararon. Todo quedó registrado por cámaras de seguridad. ★ Suscribite a nuestro canal → https://bit.ly/365OTiS ★ Informate sobre las noticias desde nuestra web → https://tn.com.ar/ ★ Y no te olvides de seguirnos en las r

Top comment

"Donde entro en pánico? Reacciono perfecto ambos"

By: @federicotoro4059

View original
Hacker News
Score: 157 Comments: 43

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole. Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough — so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac’s.

Top comment

"This is one of those stories, just like the SR-71 "ground speed check" story, that every single time I see it posted I just have to read the entire thing again. I love it."

By: jasongill

View original
Hacker News
Score: 1849 Comments: 1339

Claude Opus 4.7

Top comment

"I'm finding the "adaptive thinking" thing very confusing, especially having written code against the previous thinking budget / thinking effort / etc modes: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/adapti... Also notable: 4.7 now defaults to NOT including a human-rea"

By: simonw

View original
Hacker News
Score: 930 Comments: 493

Codex for almost everything

Top comment

"My current expectation is that the Cowork/Codex set of "professional agents" for non-technical users will be one of the most important and fastest growing product categories of all time, so far. i.e. agents for knowledge workers who are not software engineers A few thoughts and q"

By: cjbarber

View original
Hacker News
Score: 96 Comments: 51

FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

Top comment

"A little while ago when I had a free weekend. I decided I would pre-compute some musings of an LLM trapped in a computer, I had a raspberry pi 1 (or maybe b) lieing around that I had a framebuffer screen for. I think it was a non-standard TFT_ILI9325 from Aliexpress. The idea is "

By: aiiotnoodle

View original
RSS

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in April, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

View original
Hacker News
Score: 152 Comments: 88

Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

Top comment

"Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had for free. I think that is the biggest factor of all."

By: YesThatTom2

View original
YouTube
Views: 146.7 k Comments: 1233

How did those RGB strips not start fires.. #carterpcs #tech #rgbstrips #roomlights

How did those RGB strips not start fires.. #carterpcs #tech #rgbstrips #roomlights

Top comment

"Immediately got me checking my LED strips that i havent touched since 2021 💀"

By: @PossiblyBean

View original
RSS

Netflix plans to add a vertical video feed, use AI for recommendations

Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.

View original
RSS

Google’s AI Mode can now help you find products in stock nearby

Although you can already track hotel prices at the city level, the new update lets you do so for a specific hotel that you're interested in.

View original
RSS

Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch

Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster.

View original
RSS

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.

View original