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Hacker News (Apr 2026)
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Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
255 points • comment • apr 04, 2026
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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
255 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?
255 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
254 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
253 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
252 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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Is BGP safe yet?
251 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone
251 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
251 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
250 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
250 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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Another Day Has Come
249 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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U.S. soldier charged with using classified info to profit from prediction market
248 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
248 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)
247 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
246 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
246 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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20 years on AWS and never not my job
246 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
245 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter
244 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Slop Cop
243 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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Why are Flock employees watching our children?
243 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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I just want simple S3
243 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
243 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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Haunted Paper Toys
243 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
243 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Dark Castle
243 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust
242 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Happy Map
242 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Why I Write (1946)
242 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
241 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
241 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
241 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
240 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming
240 points • comment • apr 08, 2026
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Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
239 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
239 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
238 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard
237 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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OpenAI Acquires TBPN
237 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
236 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
236 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
236 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase
235 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
235 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public
235 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
235 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)
235 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
234 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
234 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
233 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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A new C++ back end for ocamlc
233 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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How does GPS work?
233 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure
233 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
232 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
232 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
231 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
231 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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A Brief History of Fish Sauce
230 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
228 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Generative art over the years
228 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
228 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
228 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]
227 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026
227 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
226 points • comment • apr 17, 2026
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Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
226 points • comment • apr 06, 2026
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We intercepted the White House app's network traffic
226 points • comment • apr 01, 2026
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AI may be making us think and write more alike
226 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
226 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
225 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models
225 points • comment • apr 14, 2026
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Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
225 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
225 points • comment • apr 24, 2026
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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
225 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing
224 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had
224 points • comment • apr 02, 2026
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I don't want your PRs anymore
224 points • comment • apr 21, 2026
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PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
223 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
223 points • comment • apr 18, 2026
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The End of Eleventy
223 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion
223 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
222 points • comment • apr 20, 2026
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The Bromine Chokepoint
222 points • comment • apr 19, 2026
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Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
222 points • comment • apr 16, 2026
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Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon
221 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Union types in C# 15
221 points • comment • apr 05, 2026
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JVM Options Explorer
220 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Why are we still using Markdown?
220 points • comment • apr 03, 2026
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Nowhere is safe
220 points • comment • apr 10, 2026
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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
219 points • comment • apr 12, 2026
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Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared
219 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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Am I German or Autistic?
219 points • comment • apr 09, 2026
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Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
219 points • comment • apr 22, 2026
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Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
218 points • comment • apr 23, 2026
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Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised
218 points • comment • apr 13, 2026
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AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?
218 points • comment • apr 15, 2026
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The Orange Pi 6 Plus
217 points • comment • apr 11, 2026
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Claude Code is locking people out for hours
217 points • comment • apr 07, 2026
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Raylib v6.0
217 points • comment • apr 23, 2026