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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war

    69 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  2. A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off

    69 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  3. The Utopia of the Family Computer

    69 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  4. Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI

    69 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  5. What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture

    69 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  6. We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How

    69 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  7. Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

    69 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  8. Arguing with Agents

    68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  9. Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

    68 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  10. A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)

    68 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  11. Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city

    68 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  12. The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

    68 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  13. Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]

    68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  14. George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four

    68 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  15. Agent Reading Test

    68 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  16. Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech

    68 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  17. Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness

    68 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  18. Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)

    67 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  19. The exponential curve behind open source backlogs

    67 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  20. Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?

    67 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  21. The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer

    67 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  22. ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026

    67 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  23. Baby's Second Garbage Collector

    67 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  24. The open web isn't dying, we're killing it

    67 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  25. Move Detroit

    67 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  26. Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?

    66 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  27. An AI robot in my home

    66 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  28. Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions

    66 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  29. A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

    66 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  30. Robots eat cars

    66 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  31. Chernobyl's last wedding

    66 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  32. Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral

    66 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  33. Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction

    66 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  34. Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month

    66 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  35. The end of responsive images

    66 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  36. It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths

    66 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  37. A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace

    66 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  38. Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work

    66 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  39. A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks

    65 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  40. Mario and Earendil

    65 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  41. Free, fast diagnostic tools for DNS, email authentication, and network security

    65 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  42. Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

    65 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  43. The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

    65 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  44. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

    65 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  45. How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home

    65 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  46. A whole civilization might die tonight

    65 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  47. Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products

    65 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  48. Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

    64 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  49. Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse

    64 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  50. PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians

    64 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  51. Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear"

    64 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  52. Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely

    64 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  53. Extra usage credit for Pro, Max, and Team plans

    64 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  54. A printing press for biological data

    64 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  55. No one owes you supply-chain security

    64 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  56. Just Enough Chimera Linux

    64 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  57. Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

    63 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  58. Programming Used to Be Free

    63 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  59. Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement

    63 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  60. Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks

    63 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  61. Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

    63 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  62. Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

    63 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  63. The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard

    63 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  64. Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book

    63 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  65. Refuse to let your doctor record you

    63 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  66. Claude Opus 4.6 accuracy on BridgeBench hallucination test drops from 83% to 68%

    62 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  67. ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware

    62 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  68. Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows

    62 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  69. FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

    62 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  70. LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server

    62 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  71. Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

    62 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  72. The beginning of programming as we'll know it?

    62 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  73. Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes

    62 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  74. A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

    62 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  75. High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction

    62 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  76. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them

    62 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  77. Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it)

    61 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  78. Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)

    61 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  79. Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#

    61 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  80. macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore

    61 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  81. A case study in testing with 100+ Claude agents in parallel

    61 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  82. We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

    61 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  83. Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids

    61 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  84. Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC

    61 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  85. Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts

    61 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  86. App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

    61 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  87. Show HN: Go-Bt: Minimalist Behavior Trees for Go

    61 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  88. The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

    60 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  89. Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory

    60 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  90. AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]

    60 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  91. We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran

    60 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  92. New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows

    60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  93. The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself

    60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  94. Maryland to become first state to ban 'dynamic pricing' in grocery stores

    60 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  95. The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

    60 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  96. The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

    60 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  97. Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

    60 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  98. Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store

    59 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  99. FIXAPL

    59 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  100. Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life

    59 points • comment • apr 01, 2026