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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. Let's talk space toilets

    216 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  2. The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

    216 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  3. 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

    216 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  4. Bodega cats of New York

    216 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  5. Running out of disk space in production

    215 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  6. AI for American-produced cement and concrete

    215 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  7. Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

    215 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  8. Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

    214 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  9. When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems

    214 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  10. Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

    214 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  11. Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

    214 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  12. After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)

    213 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  13. FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

    213 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  14. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

    213 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  15. CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome

    212 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  16. Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD

    212 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  17. Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

    211 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  18. We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2

    211 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  19. It's OK to compare floating-points for equality

    210 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  20. Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

    210 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  21. What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?

    209 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  22. A programmable watch you can actually wear

    209 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  23. Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

    207 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  24. OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic

    206 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  25. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

    205 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  26. San Diego rents declined following surge in supply

    205 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  27. A perfectable programming language

    203 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  28. Using the internet like it's 1999

    202 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  29. Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

    202 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  30. If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true

    202 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  31. SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File

    202 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  32. Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft

    202 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  33. How to make Firefox builds 17% faster

    201 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  34. Our newsroom AI policy

    201 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  35. ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

    201 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  36. A simplified model of Fil-C

    201 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  37. The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

    201 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  38. Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes

    200 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  39. Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

    200 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  40. Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

    200 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  41. Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

    200 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  42. Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool

    200 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  43. Introduction to Obsidian

    198 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  44. Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message

    198 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  45. Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice

    197 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  46. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

    197 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  47. European AI. A playbook to own it

    197 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  48. Design and implementation of DuckDB internals

    197 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  49. Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

    196 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  50. 5NF and Database Design

    196 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  51. Brands got worse on purpose

    196 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  52. To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

    195 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  53. LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation

    194 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  54. Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

    194 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  55. How Passive Radar Works

    194 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  56. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage

    194 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  57. C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

    194 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  58. South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

    193 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  59. US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed

    193 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  60. In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants

    193 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  61. Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

    193 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  62. US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

    193 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  63. Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture

    192 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  64. Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

    192 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  65. RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

    191 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  66. I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to

    190 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  67. We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

    190 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  68. Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

    190 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  69. Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

    189 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  70. In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition

    189 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  71. A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust

    188 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  72. The beginning of scarcity in AI

    187 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  73. Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

    186 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  74. The Closing of the Frontier

    186 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  75. Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989

    186 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  76. Towards trust in Emacs

    186 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  77. Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs

    185 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  78. Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

    185 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  79. Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)

    185 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  80. Fusion Power Plant Simulator

    185 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  81. Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

    185 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  82. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

    185 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  83. Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

    185 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  84. Air is full of DNA

    184 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  85. Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM

    184 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  86. Distributed DuckDB Instance

    184 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  87. The Claude Code Leak

    184 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  88. Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor

    183 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  89. Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

    183 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  90. Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

    182 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  91. The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

    182 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  92. UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale

    182 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  93. Modern Common Lisp with FSet

    182 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  94. The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

    182 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  95. Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025)

    182 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  96. Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M

    181 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  97. Your File System Is Already A Graph Database

    181 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  98. Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

    181 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  99. Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

    180 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  100. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

    180 points • comment • apr 19, 2026