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Hacker News (Apr 2026)

  1. Where did my taxes go?

    130 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  2. How to build a `Git diff` driver

    129 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  3. CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

    129 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  4. White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

    129 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  5. How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025)

    129 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  6. OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot

    129 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  7. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

    129 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  8. Hear your agent suffer through your code

    129 points • comment • apr 24, 2026

  9. John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz

    128 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  10. Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died

    128 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  11. The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

    128 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  12. Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases

    127 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  13. Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)

    127 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  14. Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

    127 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  15. Claude.ai down

    127 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  16. Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

    127 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  17. The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)

    127 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  18. New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

    126 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  19. Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

    126 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  20. Will I ever own a zettaflop?

    125 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  21. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

    125 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  22. Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)

    125 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  23. SDL bans AI-written commits

    125 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  24. The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms

    125 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  25. Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

    124 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  26. A whole boss fight in 256 bytes

    124 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  27. PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations

    124 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  28. ChatGPT Images 2.0

    123 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  29. Tax Wrapped 2025

    123 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  30. Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

    123 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  31. They See Your Photos

    123 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  32. Tofolli gates are all you need

    123 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  33. Columnar Storage Is Normalization

    123 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  34. Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

    123 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  35. Usenet Archives

    122 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  36. Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)

    122 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  37. Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

    122 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  38. Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network

    122 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  39. Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

    122 points • comment • apr 20, 2026

  40. One item purchased, ten emails

    122 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  41. Why is IPv6 so complicated?

    122 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  42. How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)

    121 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  43. Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

    121 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  44. As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating

    121 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  45. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

    121 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  46. Human Accelerated Region 1

    121 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  47. Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty

    120 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  48. Apple at 50

    120 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  49. Rust Threads on the GPU

    120 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  50. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data

    120 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  51. Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

    120 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  52. B-trees and database indexes (2024)

    119 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  53. Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

    119 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  54. Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

    119 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  55. Doom, Played over Curl

    119 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  56. Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

    119 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  57. Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

    119 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  58. Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI

    119 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  59. Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

    119 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  60. Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction

    118 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  61. Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate

    118 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  62. Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?

    118 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  63. Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?

    118 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  64. Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal

    118 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  65. Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

    117 points • comment • apr 17, 2026

  66. The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

    117 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  67. Why AI Sucks at Front End

    117 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  68. The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

    117 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  69. 80386 Memory Pipeline

    117 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  70. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others

    117 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  71. Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future

    117 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  72. Now is the best time to write code by hand

    117 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  73. California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

    117 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  74. Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

    116 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  75. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

    116 points • comment • apr 21, 2026

  76. Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  77. New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production

    116 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  78. Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

    116 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  79. New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

    116 points • comment • apr 13, 2026

  80. MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation

    116 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  81. Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input

    116 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  82. European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

    116 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  83. Signing data structures the wrong way

    116 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  84. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

    115 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  85. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

    115 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  86. Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

    115 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  87. Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her

    115 points • comment • apr 05, 2026

  88. New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only

    115 points • comment • apr 01, 2026

  89. Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026

    114 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  90. Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome

    114 points • comment • apr 04, 2026

  91. Yggdrasil Network

    114 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  92. Second Revision of 6502 Laptop

    114 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  93. Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

    113 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  94. Garbage collection without unsafe code

    113 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  95. Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

    113 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  96. Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout

    113 points • comment • apr 16, 2026

  97. CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

    113 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  98. The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright

    112 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  99. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

    112 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  100. Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)

    112 points • comment • apr 10, 2026