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Hacker News (Apr 2026)
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How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war
69 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off
69 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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The Utopia of the Family Computer
69 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI
69 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture
69 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How
69 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
69 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Arguing with Agents
68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge
68 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)
68 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city
68 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
68 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]
68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four
68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Agent Reading Test
68 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
68 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness
68 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)
67 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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The exponential curve behind open source backlogs
67 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?
67 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer
67 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
67 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Baby's Second Garbage Collector
67 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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The open web isn't dying, we're killing it
67 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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Move Detroit
67 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
66 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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An AI robot in my home
66 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions
66 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers
66 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Robots eat cars
66 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Chernobyl's last wedding
66 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral
66 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction
66 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
66 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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The end of responsive images
66 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths
66 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace
66 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work
66 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks
65 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Mario and Earendil
65 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Free, fast diagnostic tools for DNS, email authentication, and network security
65 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
65 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
65 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
65 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
65 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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A whole civilization might die tonight
65 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
65 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads
64 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse
64 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians
64 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear"
64 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely
64 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans
64 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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A printing press for biological data
64 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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No one owes you supply-chain security
64 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Just Enough Chimera Linux
64 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)
63 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Programming Used to Be Free
63 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement
63 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
63 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill
63 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
63 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
63 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book
63 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Refuse to let your doctor record you
63 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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Claude Opus 4.6 accuracy on BridgeBench hallucination test drops from 83% to 68%
62 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
62 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows
62 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
62 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server
62 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting
62 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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The beginning of programming as we'll know it?
62 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes
62 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
62 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction
62 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them
62 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it)
61 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)
61 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#
61 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
61 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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A case study in testing with 100+ Claude agents in parallel
61 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
61 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids
61 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC
61 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts
61 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
61 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go
61 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive
60 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory
60 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]
60 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran
60 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself
60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores
60 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"
60 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model
60 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store
59 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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FIXAPL
59 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life
59 points • comment • apr 01, 2026