This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Opus 4.7
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764

Codex for almost everything
https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792538

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797665

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
https://clojure.org/about/documentary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798345

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801991

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798176