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Hacker News (05 Apr 2026)

  1. AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy

    338 points • 104 comments • apr 05, 2026

  2. The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

    238 points • 161 comments • apr 05, 2026

  3. Talk like caveman

    191 points • 134 comments • apr 05, 2026

  4. Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]

    177 points • 54 comments • apr 05, 2026

  5. Shooting down ideas is not a skill

    144 points • 151 comments • apr 05, 2026

  6. Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go

    133 points • 65 comments • apr 05, 2026

  7. Isseven

    97 points • 56 comments • apr 05, 2026

  8. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input, in Rust

    80 points • 36 comments • apr 05, 2026

  9. Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11

    71 points • 68 comments • apr 05, 2026

  10. Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad

    69 points • 73 comments • apr 05, 2026