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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien

    51 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

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

    51 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  3. Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins

    51 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

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

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

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

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  6. Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics

    51 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  7. How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  8. Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018)

    51 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  9. SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock

    51 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  10. Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)

    51 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  11. The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep

    50 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  12. Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

    50 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  13. Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

    50 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  14. Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower

    50 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  15. Plague Ships (2020)

    50 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  16. Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  17. RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS

    50 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  18. I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter

    50 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  19. Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?

    50 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  20. Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video]

    50 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  21. Using a USB switch as a full KVM

    50 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  22. We sped up bun by 100x

    50 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  23. America will come to regret its war on taxes

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  24. Work with the garage door up

    50 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  25. Reading Is Magic

    50 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  26. Struggle Against the Gods

    50 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  27. OpenAI: Workspace Agents for Business

    49 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  28. A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear

    49 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  29. Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens

    49 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  30. War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again

    49 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  31. Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

    49 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  32. Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities

    49 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  33. Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast

    49 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  34. Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026

    49 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  35. Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

    49 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  36. Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer

    48 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  37. EFF Logs Out of X

    48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  38. Microsoft terms say Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use

    48 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  39. Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors

    48 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  40. NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)

    48 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  41. Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs

    48 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  42. Show HN: Weird Clocks

    48 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  43. Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

    48 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  44. US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock

    48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  45. Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie

    48 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  46. Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected

    48 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  47. AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers

    48 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  48. I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver

    48 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  49. Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated

    48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  50. Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006)

    47 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  51. Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?

    47 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  52. Hot-wiring the Lisp machine

    47 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  53. Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map

    47 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  54. Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May

    47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  55. Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps

    47 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  56. 'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

    47 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  57. Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

    47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  58. Floyd's Sampling Algorithm

    47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  59. Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'

    47 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  60. Reducto releases Deep Extract

    47 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  61. Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)

    47 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  62. To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain

    47 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  63. No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

    47 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  64. Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI

    47 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  65. How Costco Won in Japan (2025)

    47 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  66. Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

    47 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  67. AI chatbots could be making you stupider

    47 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  68. Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

    46 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  69. Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing

    46 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  70. CDC blocks study showing Covid shots cut hospital visits after earlier delay

    46 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  71. The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020)

    46 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  72. Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

    46 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  73. My practitioner view of program analysis

    46 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  74. What Async Promised and What It Delivered

    46 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  75. Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes

    46 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  76. Shared mutable state in Rust (2022)

    46 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  77. SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

    46 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  78. The AI Layoff Trap

    46 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  79. Golden eagles' return to English skies

    46 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  80. AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update

    45 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  81. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

    45 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  82. Simplest Hash Functions

    45 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  83. Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof

    45 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  84. Iran's Network of Cameras Bolsters Air Defenses, Expert Says

    45 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  85. U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew

    45 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  86. C++: Freestanding Standard Library

    45 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  87. Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)

    45 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  88. AWS has officially removed all EC2 instances in Bahrain from their docs

    45 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  89. US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days

    45 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  90. Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2

    45 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  91. US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year

    44 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  92. Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus

    44 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  93. Show HN: Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No

    44 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  94. Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion

    44 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  95. Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction

    44 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  96. Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World

    44 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  97. Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab

    44 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  98. The Melanesian: Dark-skinned people with blonde hair region of Oceania (2022)

    44 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  99. Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol

    44 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  100. The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

    44 points • comment • apr 03, 2026