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1411.

Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | by Luke James | get H.264 Licensing Fee Guide → | tags: via licensing, h.264, streaming license

1412.

A Growing Number of College Students Are Switching Majors — Here’s What’s Behind It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-03 | by Sherin Shibu | get College Major Change Guide → | tags: lumina foundation, gallup, social sciences

1413.

Why are we still using Markdown? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | by Burak Güngör | get Markdown Cheat Sheet → | tags: markdown, html, commonmark

1414.

How to Build Financial Resilience as a Solopreneur (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-03 | by Vuk Stajic | get Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs → | tags: solopreneur, minimum viable product, feast or famine

1415.

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Luke James | get H.264 Codec Licensing Kit → | tags: h.264, via licensing alliance, streaming license fees

1416.

LinkedIn secretely scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-03 | get Chrome Extension Security Tool → | tags: linkedin, browsergate, microsoft

1417.

Mini-LED vs. OLED: Which TV Tech Should You Get? (cnet.com)

2026-04-03 | by See Full Bio | get Samsung QLED 4K TV → | tags: oled, mini-led, qd-oled

1418.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a black hole of entertainment (engadget.com)

2026-04-03 | get Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo Switch → | tags: nintendo, super mario galaxy, illumination

1419.

VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | tags: cogvideox, void, google ai

1420.

RAM Prices Are Killing Small Gaming Devices (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-03 | tags: lenovo, gaming handhelds, ram prices

1421.

Illumination Is Officially Learning Nothing (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-03 | get Smart LED Light Bulb → | tags: super mario galaxy, super mario bros., illumination

1422.

Your Spring 2026 Anime Lineup Is Here, So Put These Titles on Your List (cnet.com)

2026-04-03 | by See Full Bio | get Anime Streaming Gift Card → | tags: crunchyroll, kadokawa, anime streaming

1423.

H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get H.264 Codec Licensing Guide → | tags: via licensing alliance, h.264, streaming fees

1424.

New Garmin Training Features (2026): Nutrition Tracking, Lifestyle Logging, and More (wired.com)

2026-04-03 | by Michael Sawh | get Garmin Forerunner Fitness Watch → | tags: garmin, forerunner 970, apple watch ultra

1425.

The largest programming community on Reddit just banned all content related to AI LLMs — r/programming is prioritizing only high-quality discussions about AI (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Hassam Nasir | get AI Programming Book → | tags: reddit, r/programming, large language models

1426.

AI has come for Domino’s pizza tracker, and we’re not mad about it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-03 | get AI Pizza Tracker Device → | tags: domino’s, pizza tracker, artificial intelligence

1427.

Category Theory Illustrated – Types (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get Category Theory Illustrated Book → | tags: category theory, type theory, programming languages

1428.

$60 Million Startup Says It’s Invented a New Particle to Dim the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-04-03 | by Victor Tangermann | get Sunshade Solar Film → | tags: stardust solutions, solar geoengineering, aerosol particles

1429.

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get Ollama AI Model Platform → | tags: ollama, gemma 4 26b, apple silicon

1430.

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get Apple MacBook Air M2 → | tags: apple, foundationmodels, neural engine

1431.

Apple may be stockpiling mobile DRAM to outmaneuver rivals in a tight market (techspot.com)

2026-04-03 | get Samsung 8GB Mobile DRAM → | tags: apple, mobile dram, tf securities

1432.

The College Student—and His Cat Meme—Who Hunted the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-03 | get Cybersecurity Starter Kit → | tags: cyberweapon, benjamin brundage, internet attacks

1433.

Apple sets Q2 2026 earnings release for April 30 (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-03 | by Marcus Mendes | get Apple Official Earnings Report → | tags: apple, macbook neo, mac mini

1434.

Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | tags: memo, forty-four esolangs, daniel temkin

1435.

Android Auto might have a new copilot for your drive home, with Gemini widely rolling out (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-02 | get Android Auto Gemini Accessory → | tags: android auto, google, gemini

1436.

PSA: CMF Watch owners need to switch over to a new app (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-02 | get Smartwatch Replacement Bands → | tags: cmf watch, nothing x, android authority

1437.

Garmin catches up to Apple and Oura with its latest tracking upgrade (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-02 | get Garmin Vivosmart 5 → | tags: garmin, apple, oura

1438.

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop (wired.com)

2026-04-02 | by Brian Barrett | get Smartphone Screen Repair Kit → | tags: iran, polymarket, us tech companies

1439.

AI Is Now Deciding Which Emails Get Seen. Here’s How to Stay in the Inbox in the Gemini Era (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-02 | by Liviu Tanase | get Smart Email Management Software → | tags: gmail, gemini, google

1440.

Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-02 | get AI Avatar Creator Kit → | tags: google, vids, veo