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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity

    19 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  2. Linux 7.0 Released with New Hardware Support, Optimizations and Self-Healing XFS

    19 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  3. Wife Acceptance Factor

    19 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  4. Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks – The Writing Secrets of Stephen King

    19 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  5. Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

    18 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  6. Real-Time Visualization of Human Finger Joint Cavitation (2015)

    18 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  7. The pope moves to police AI

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  8. Rubens Menin's 150 Years "Old" Port Wine

    18 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  9. Health AI Startup Has Helped Reverse Denied Health Insurance Claims

    18 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  10. ChatGPT Images 2.0

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  11. Open Models have crossed a threshold

    18 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  12. GLM-5.1 matches Opus 4.6 in agentic performance, at ~1/3 actual cost

    18 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  13. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released

    18 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  14. U.S. Unveils Up to 100% Tariff on Branded Drugs

    18 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  15. Exposing and Understanding Scrolling Transfer Functions (2012) [pdf]

    18 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  16. Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  17. Who was "Not Even Wrong" first? [2023]

    18 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  18. Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?

    18 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  19. Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units? (2025)

    18 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  20. Fly Drones from the Browser

    18 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  21. BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas

    18 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  22. Software never had a soul

    18 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  23. Equity for Europeans

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  24. Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player

    18 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  25. Rick Dangerous

    18 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  26. Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

    18 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  27. rpg: A modern psql-compatible Postgres terminal and TUI written in Rust

    18 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  28. The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light

    18 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  29. Blurry iPhone Text Picture Problem: Is There an Easy Solution I'm Missing?

    18 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  30. The EU digital ID wallet can't deliver the privacy properties it claims

    18 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  31. Naming rights to street auctioned in San Francisco

    18 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  32. The Forgotten History of Hershey's Electric Railway (1916) in Cuba

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  33. AI run store in SF can't stop ordering candies and paying women less.

    18 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  34. Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

    18 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  35. Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98

    18 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  36. The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

    18 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  37. Roo code shuts down, Team will focus on roomote agent

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  38. C++26: Structured Bindings in Conditions

    18 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  39. Zig 0.16 Milestone Completed

    18 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  40. Framework 13 Pro

    18 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  41. Show HN: Mtproto.zig – High-performance Telegram proxy with DPI evasion

    18 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  42. I stopped hitting Claude's usage limits – things I changed

    18 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  43. Several Mac mini and Mac Studio configs are now out of stock at Apple

    18 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  44. Magic mushroom-infused products appear in Colorado gas stations

    18 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  45. Show HN: SyNumpy – a Header only C++17 library for working with NumPy Arrays

    18 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  46. Ubuntu now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11

    18 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  47. Rendering arbitrary-scale emojis using the Slug algorithm

    17 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  48. Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail

    17 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  49. Stripe closed my UAE business account and is withholding $3.5K

    17 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  50. Demand for autism care is soaring

    17 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  51. Show HN: Pluck – Copy any UI from any website, paste it into AI coding tools

    17 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  52. "Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

    17 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  53. Little Snitch for Linux

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  54. Sequencing DNA at Home Locally on a DGX Spark and Mac Studio

    17 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  55. Pgfmt – a PostgreSQL specific SQL formatter

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  56. Pentagon Pete's Bigoted Reason for Firing Top General Leaks

    17 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  57. DMCA-resistant Claude Code source code

    17 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  58. NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

    17 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  59. Show HN: I just built a MCP Server that connects Claude to all your wearables

    17 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  60. ChatGPT allegedly advised Florida State shooter when and where to strike

    17 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  61. Does your DSL little language need operator precedence?

    17 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  62. How Much Caffeine in Coffee Cup?

    17 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  63. A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator

    17 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  64. Cached knowledge is not intelligence

    17 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  65. AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  66. How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers

    17 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  67. Veteran artist behind Mass Effect, Halo, & Overwatch 2 weighs in on Nvidia DLSS5

    17 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  68. Hegseth says U.S. troops are fighting for Jesus. The Pope disagrees

    17 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  69. Build web apps for smart glasses

    17 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  70. Context Is Software, Weights Are Hardware

    17 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  71. Tool to explore regularly sampled time series

    17 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  72. Man suspected of Molotov attack Sam Altmans home charged with attempted murder

    17 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  73. NY Times publishes headline claiming the "A" in "NATO" stands for "American"

    17 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  74. Tim Cook to step down from Apple

    17 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  75. US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws

    17 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  76. Managed Nationalism

    17 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  77. Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz

    17 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  78. Molotov cocktail attack at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home

    17 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  79. Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers

    17 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  80. Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

    17 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  81. The best tools for sending an email if you go silent

    17 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  82. Space Force looks at moving "significant number" of launches from ULA to SpaceX

    17 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  83. UK Government unveils rules to end subscription traps

    17 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  84. Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud

    17 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  85. The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks

    17 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  86. Google has the same AI adoption curve as John Deere

    17 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  87. Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure

    17 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  88. Strait of Hormuz appears to remain closed amid conflicting US and Iran briefings

    17 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  89. A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

    17 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  90. OnlyOffice just pulled its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud

    17 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  91. Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

    17 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  92. Sam Altman Attack Suspect Had 'Anti-AI' Document with CEO Names

    17 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  93. Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they're drowning in 'workslop'

    16 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  94. A name is succession, legacy and celebration in Japan's Kabuki theater

    16 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  95. Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields

    16 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  96. The Era of Citizens United Could Be Nearing Its End

    16 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  97. Zuckerberg Didn't Think He Was Robotic Enough So Now He's Using AI

    16 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  98. The next evolution of the Agents SDK

    16 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  99. Hershey says it will shift back to classic recipe for all Reese's products

    16 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  100. Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither are working'

    16 points • comment • apr 03, 2026