Tuesday, April 21, 2026

U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working for the CIA, Sources Say

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-deaths-drugs/

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Trump to participate in marathon Bible reading

Amid a quarrel with the Pope and criticism for a social media image, Trump will share a passage during a week-long event of reading the Bible.

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Show HN: YouDeserveNow, Justifications for Treating Yourself

Hey HN,

I built YouDeserveNow — you describe something you accomplished, and an AI gives you a formal "scientific" justification for why you deserve a specific reward, complete with fake citations and institutional gravitas.


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Record-breaking Bayern win Bundesliga - now for the Treble

Free-scoring Bayern Munich swept to the German title for the 35th time. Now their sights turn towards completing the Treble.

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Friday, April 17, 2026

Claude Code is unable to respond to this request

I hit a restriction, while using Claude Code today: API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage Policy (https://ift.tt/oR9q2Z5). Please double press esc to edit your last message or start a new session for Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this refusal repeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.

Well, this is something new in Opus 4.7, or at least I see it for a first time now. No such security gates seen before.

I am asking it to process am email, provided as eml file, but the email contains my address, and my sisters'. And this is treated as personal sensitive data, that it does not want to process. If I just copy and provide the mail content, without the real email addresses, it works fine :D

Have you seen something like this, or anything similar?


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Japan comes up with new word for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.

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New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest

Article URL: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-production-its-no-contest/ Co...