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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  2. GBrain – The memex, built for people who think for a living

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  3. Fluid dynamics for Toddlers: A much simpler Navier-Stokes derivation

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  4. Slop-scan – Detect AI code slop patterns in your repo

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  5. QB64 Tutorial A beginner's introduction to game programming

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  6. Pupil dilation suggests people start solving before all numbers are in

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  7. 'Staggering' number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  8. US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  9. Gender Equality and Work

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  10. Hackers exploiting Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw since December

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  11. Homelab

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  12. In Production

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  13. Sony implementing age verification for PlayStation users

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  14. Pizza Legacy an Open-Source Reimplementation of Pizza Connection (Pizza Tycoon)

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  15. Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  16. Cal.com is closing its core codebase, citing AI security risks

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  17. Gender reassignment significantly increases psychiatric morbidity

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  18. SQLite Release 3.53.0

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  19. Mystery over 8 missing or dead scientific experts

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  20. Millions Across Europe Urged to Work from Home

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  21. Show HN: Solyto – a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  22. Moderna starts late-stage trial of bird flu vaccine in US, UK

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  23. Milla Jovovich Built MemPalace – The Full Story

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  24. Apple's UK age verification brings identity checks to the iPhone

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  25. France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  26. pg_plan_alternatives: Tracing PostgreSQL Query Plan Alternatives Using eBPF

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  27. Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  28. Retractions of scientific papers by Nobel Prize Winners

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  29. Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  30. Friendship Recession

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  31. Aristocracy and Hostage Capital

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  32. AI agents can communicate with each other, and can't be caught

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  33. Bonsai 1.7B in the browser: a 290MB 1-bit LLM on WebGPU

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  34. NHS staff boycott Palantir's data platform over ethical concerns

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  35. Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  36. How the Roll Function Works (In APL\360 and Its Descendants)

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  37. Show HN: Running local OpenClaw together with remote agents in an open network

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  38. CATL to launch sodium-ion batteries in EVs in 2026, aiming for 370 miles range

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  39. Nikon Z9 Aboard the Artemis II Moon Mission at the Last Minute

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  40. The power keeping wages low

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  41. 543 Hours: What happens when AI runs while you sleep

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  42. MerJS: A Zig-native web framework that ships without Node

    7 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  43. Democratic AI to serve the public – OneProject.org

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  44. Show HN: Real-Real-Time Chat

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  45. Show HN: 65k AI voters predict UK local elections with 75% accuracy

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  46. Everyone needs own their own machine that is an extension of their intelligence

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  47. The Dopamine Detox Myth Does It Work?

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  48. Apple-like QoS for processes proposed for Linux

    7 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  49. Iran raises suspicion of 'uranium theft' plot after clashes with US forces

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  50. Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.)

    7 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  51. 18 Years Later, IPv6 Reaches Majority

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  52. House punts on FISA, extends spy powers program for two weeks

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  53. Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already'

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  54. 15% of Reddit Posts are Likely AI-generated in 2025

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  55. "Special 301" Comments on Nintendo Game Piracy in Asia and Latin America (1994)

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  56. Mastodon gets Sovereign Tech Agency funding

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  57. SFML 3.1 Is Released

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  58. A Startup Is Supplying Drones to High Schools to Stop Mass Shootings

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  59. Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  60. Was the U.S. Pilot Rescue in Iran a Cover for a Failed Nuclear Retrieval?

    7 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  61. Nothing ever dies. It merely becomes embarrassing

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  62. Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  63. USVC: A new fund by AngelList that broadens access to venture capital

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  64. Show HN: Mo – checks GitHub PRs against decisions approved in Slack

    7 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  65. Show HN: Tokencap – Token budget enforcement across your AI agents

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  66. You've got 41 days before chip prices skyrocket

    7 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  67. Self-Hosting

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  68. Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  69. Palm-sized superconducting magnet achieves 42 Tesla, rivaling the worlds biggest

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  70. Running Faster to Go Nowhere: The AI Adoption Trap

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  71. A Eulogy for Vim

    7 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  72. Inventor of Heelys Dies at 71

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  73. Tiny Programmer:writes code, takes breaks to hang out on a BBS, and clocks out

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  74. Robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the half-marathon world record

    7 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  75. Show HN: Figma for Coding Agents

    7 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  76. The cost of building a workflow editor on React Flow

    7 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  77. New Home Assistant Release 2026.4: Infrared never left the chat

    7 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  78. Neural Computer: A New Machine Form Is Emerging

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  79. Slap: Functional Concatenative Language with a Borrow Checker?

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  80. Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang

    6 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  81. Public sector Matrix deployments in Europe

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  82. What Psychedelics Do to the Brain

    6 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  83. Blue Origin New Glenn rocket grounded after launching satellite into wrong orbit

    6 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  84. Salarymen, Specialists, and Small Businesses

    6 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  85. Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated

    6 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  86. The Hormuz chokehold affects AI funding too

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  87. All Travelers Will Need Clear Carry-On Bags Starting This Summer

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  88. India hits 150 GW solar milestone

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  89. DeepMind's paper on p0wning Claws and what we learned

    6 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  90. They Planned Their Escape: A Systems Architect's Guide to the Iran Trade Scandal

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  91. Show HN: I built a weather site for the Eastern Caribbean

    6 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  92. No more Opus for Copilot Pro plan users

    6 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  93. Show HN: Object Storage Comparisons

    6 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  94. Show HN: Trainly – Free 72-hour audit of your AI agent's production traces

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  95. Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store

    6 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  96. Xogot: Godot for iPad and iPhone

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  97. US FDA Expected to Lift Restrictions on Dozen Peptides Previously Banned

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  98. Katabasis

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  99. Under the hood of MDN's new front end

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  100. Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 canceled or delayed

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2026