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Hacker News (Apr 2026)
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It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien
51 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half
51 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins
51 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
51 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks
51 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics
51 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)
51 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018)
51 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock
51 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)
51 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep
50 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically
50 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
50 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Plague Ships (2020)
50 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS
50 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video]
50 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Using a USB switch as a full KVM
50 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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We sped up bun by 100x
50 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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America will come to regret its war on taxes
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Work with the garage door up
50 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Reading Is Magic
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Struggle Against the Gods
50 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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OpenAI: Workspace Agents for Business
49 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear
49 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens
49 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again
49 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache
49 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities
49 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Intel Xpress Resurrection: Reviving a Forgotten EISA Beast
49 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026
49 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
49 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer
48 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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EFF Logs Out of X
48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Microsoft terms say Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use
48 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors
48 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)
48 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs
48 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Show HN: Weird Clocks
48 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations
48 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock
48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie
48 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected
48 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers
48 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver
48 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated
48 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006)
47 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?
47 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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Hot-wiring the Lisp machine
47 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map
47 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps
47 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains
47 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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Iran threatens OpenAI's Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Floyd's Sampling Algorithm
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Tesla admits HW3 owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving'
47 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Reducto releases Deep Extract
47 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain
47 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In
47 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI
47 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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How Costco Won in Japan (2025)
47 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
47 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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AI chatbots could be making you stupider
47 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
46 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing
46 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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CDC blocks study showing Covid shots cut hospital visits after earlier delay
46 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020)
46 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Minimal Viable Programs (2014)
46 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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My practitioner view of program analysis
46 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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What Async Promised and What It Delivered
46 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes
46 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Shared mutable state in Rust (2022)
46 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
46 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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The AI Layoff Trap
46 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Golden eagles' return to English skies
46 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
45 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?
45 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Simplest Hash Functions
45 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof
45 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Iran's Network of Cameras Bolsters Air Defenses, Expert Says
45 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crew
45 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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C++: Freestanding Standard Library
45 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012)
45 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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AWS has officially removed all EC2 instances in Bahrain from their docs
45 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days
45 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Tesla reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2
45 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year
44 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus
44 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Show HN: Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No
44 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion
44 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction
44 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World
44 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab
44 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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The Melanesian: Dark-skinned people with blonde hair region of Oceania (2022)
44 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol
44 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
44 points • comment • apr 03, 2026