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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

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

    44 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  2. Scientists are working on "everything vaccines"

    44 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  3. Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands

    44 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  4. Mexico's President Sheinbaum Decrees Universal Healthcare for 120M

    44 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

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

    44 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  6. Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions

    44 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

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

    44 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  8. Netherlands reaches deal to cut reliance on U.S. cloud tech

    44 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  9. Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy

    44 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  10. Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election

    43 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  11. The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  12. MIT Radiation Laboratory

    43 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  13. Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time

    43 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  14. Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees

    43 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  15. Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks

    43 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  16. The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces

    43 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  17. StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site

    43 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  18. Tim Cook Stepping Down

    43 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  19. Bun: cgroup-aware AvailableParallelism / HardwareConcurrency on Linux

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  20. Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem

    43 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  21. Knitout and Kniterate 3

    43 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  22. Japanese X is now America's favorite corner of the internet

    43 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  23. KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit

    43 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  24. Update on the eBay Scam

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  25. Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

    43 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  26. What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)

    43 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  27. Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law

    43 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  28. How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

    43 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  29. Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran

    43 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  30. Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs

    43 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  31. What if the browser built the UI for you?

    43 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  32. Show HN: BAREmail ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

    42 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  33. Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift 'Super Dumb' Men

    42 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  34. Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now

    42 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  35. CC leak: skills are better than I thought

    42 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  36. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

    42 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  37. Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline

    42 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  38. Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

    42 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  39. Police officer uses Flock database to track mistress

    42 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  40. NanoClaw's architecture is a masterclass in doing less

    42 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  41. Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025

    42 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  42. Meta is set to pay its top AI executives almost a billion each in bonuses

    42 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  43. SteamOS now runs on every AMD handheld

    42 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  44. The Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law

    41 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  45. A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

    41 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  46. Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT

    41 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  47. The Hacker News Tarpit

    41 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  48. Automatic Textbook Formalization

    41 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  49. Euro-Office – Your sovereign office

    41 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  50. Artemis II astronauts arrive at launch pad 39B in an astrovan

    41 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  51. Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over

    41 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  52. The missing catalogue: why finding books in translation is still so hard

    41 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  53. The best seat in town

    41 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  54. Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)

    41 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  55. 8087 Emulation on 8086 Systems

    40 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  56. Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude

    40 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  57. Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration

    40 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  58. Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)

    40 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  59. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

    40 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  60. The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft

    40 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  61. Tracking when Trump chickens out

    40 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  62. Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks

    40 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  63. Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner

    40 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  64. EmDash Feedback

    40 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  65. Hobby CNC machining and resin casting (2015)

    40 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  66. MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science

    39 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  67. Building a web page that edits itself

    39 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  68. The Harvard Library Passport

    39 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  69. Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue

    39 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  70. Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee

    39 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  71. Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members

    39 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  72. A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky

    39 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  73. Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

    39 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  74. Are We Legacy Computing Yet?

    39 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  75. Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image

    39 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  76. Dutch armed forces recruiting 1,200 drone specialists

    39 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  77. From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024)

    39 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  78. USB/IP Project: a general USB device sharing system over IP network

    39 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  79. Italian TV Copyright-Strikes Nvidia over Nvidia's Own DLSS 5 Footage

    39 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  80. Kent Beck: Parkinson's

    39 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  81. Fuck Facebook, Again

    38 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  82. Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

    38 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  83. Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit PLCs Across US Critical Infrastructure

    38 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  84. Anastasia (1997) live action reference material

    38 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  85. United States Code (federal laws) in Git

    38 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  86. Effectful Recursion Schemes

    38 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  87. Amazon's AI boom is creating mess of duplicate tools and data inside the company

    38 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  88. Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling

    38 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  89. Satellite firm Planet Labs to indefinitely withold Iran war imagery

    38 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  90. Hybrid Attention

    38 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  91. PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects

    38 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  92. Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

    38 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  93. SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)

    38 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  94. NIMBY Rails

    38 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  95. Borges' cartographers and the tacit skill of reading LM output

    38 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  96. Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

    38 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  97. CIA reportedly used Pegasus software during rescue of airman in Iran

    38 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  98. No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure

    38 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  99. Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies

    38 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  100. Ads in ChatGPT

    38 points • comment • apr 10, 2026