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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

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

    59 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  2. Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life

    59 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  3. Inflation Rose to 3.3% in March, Driven by Rising Fuel Costs

    59 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  4. Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?

    58 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  5. On hacker mindset

    58 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  6. The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers

    58 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  7. One neat trick to end extreme poverty

    58 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  8. Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

    58 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  9. IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1

    58 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  10. OpenAI model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text

    58 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  11. Clean code in the age of coding agents

    58 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  12. Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

    58 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  13. Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors

    58 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  14. Peter Thiel Is Building a Parallel Justice System – Powered by AI

    58 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  15. Glasses Got Worse on Purpose

    58 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  16. Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure

    58 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  17. Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery

    58 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  18. Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API

    57 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  19. Meta to start capturing employee mouse movement, keystrokes for AI training data

    57 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  20. Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

    57 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  21. Montana referendum to outlaw corporate campaign contributions [video]

    57 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  22. German Dog Commands

    57 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  23. The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

    57 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  24. Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was

    57 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  25. Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store

    57 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  26. Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List

    57 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  27. How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

    57 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  28. Network Flow Algorithms

    57 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  29. Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code

    57 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  30. Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T tokens processed in a day

    56 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  31. US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency

    56 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  32. Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM

    56 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  33. Mark's Magic Multiply

    56 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  34. Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

    56 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  35. My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

    56 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  36. Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

    56 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  37. Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

    55 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  38. Kuri – Zig based agent-browser alternative

    55 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  39. What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)

    55 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  40. Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route

    55 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  41. Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI

    55 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  42. OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

    55 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  43. The Neon King of New Orleans

    55 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  44. Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards

    55 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  45. Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet

    55 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  46. EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS

    55 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  47. Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' crashed through railroad gate seconds before train

    55 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  48. Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon

    55 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  49. When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda

    55 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  50. Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything

    55 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  51. 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking

    55 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  52. Hacker News CLI (2014)

    55 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  53. Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%

    55 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  54. The Case Against Gameplay Loops (2024)

    55 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  55. Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops

    54 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  56. A brief history of instant coffee

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  57. Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  58. Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app

    54 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  59. SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines

    54 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  60. NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation

    54 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  61. Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them

    54 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  62. Show HN: Unicode Steganography

    54 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  63. KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage

    54 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  64. Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'

    54 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  65. Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis

    54 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  66. Metatextual Literacy

    54 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  67. We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput

    54 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  68. IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  69. Trinity Large Thinking

    54 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  70. Introducing GEN-1 [video]

    54 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  71. One interface, every protocol

    53 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  72. Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war

    53 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  73. The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

    53 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  74. Tiny Corp's Exabox

    53 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  75. Generating a color spectrum for an image

    53 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  76. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

    53 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  77. The great Scouse pasty war

    53 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  78. Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

    53 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  79. Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists

    53 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  80. Show HN: I built a small app for FSI German Course

    53 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  81. Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  82. Brave Origin

    53 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  83. Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  84. Judge sides with ICE tracker creators in DHS/DOJ First Amendment lawsuit

    52 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  85. U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  86. Textbooks and Methods of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe (2008)

    52 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  87. Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)

    52 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  88. A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  89. EPA official in charge of methane regulations was an oil and gas lobbyist

    52 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  90. Functional programming accelerates agentic feature development

    52 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  91. JPMorgan warns Tesla stock could sink 60% in new note

    52 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  92. Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen

    52 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  93. The Art of Risk Management (2017)

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  94. Cooperative Vectors Introduction

    51 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  95. OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  96. Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

    51 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  97. Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours

    51 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  98. In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  99. Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  100. Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2026