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April 27, 20264.27.26 | Bought Friendster, AI agent deleted production database, AI should elevate thinking
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
(01:47) - An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
(03:10) - AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
(04:37) - Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
(05:54) - Self-updating screenshots
(07:02) - SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
(08:24) - Flipdiscs
(09:33) - Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
(11:14) - Three constraints before I build anything
(12:22) - Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
(13:43) - Outro

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524
AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350
Self-updating screenshots
https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051
SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388
Flipdiscs
https://flipdisc.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795
Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855
Three constraints before I build anything
https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677
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April 26, 20264.26.26 | The West is losing manufacturing and coding skills, an amateur with ChatGPT solves Erdős problem, USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
(02:20) - Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
(03:46) - USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
(04:51) - The Free Universal Construction Kit
(05:52) - Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
(07:09) - Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
(08:36) - Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
(10:03) - OpenAI Privacy Filter
(11:15) - EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
(12:45) - The Joy of Folding Bikes
(13:44) - Outro

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126
USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876
The Free Universal Construction Kit
https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253
Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984
OpenAI Privacy Filter
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130
The Joy of Folding Bikes
https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127
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April 25, 20264.25.26 | Google invests in Anthropic, overthinking hampers projects, MacBook Neo and iPad comparison
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:15) - Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
(01:33) - Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
(02:57) - MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
(04:30) - Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
(05:38) - My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
(06:58) - There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
(08:24) - The Classic American Diner
(09:34) - Paraloid B-72
(10:46) - New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
(12:30) - Outro

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074
Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799
MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306
Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891
My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779
The Classic American Diner
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435
Paraloid B-72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053
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April 24, 20264.24.26 | GPT-5.5, DeepSeek v4, Bitwarden CLI compromised in Checkmarx campaign
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - GPT-5.5
(01:19) - DeepSeek v4
(03:06) - Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
(04:34) - An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
(05:58) - Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
(07:15) - US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
(08:33) - Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
(10:11) - Incident with multple GitHub services
(11:18) - Ubuntu 26.04
(12:41) - MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
(13:59) - Outro

GPT-5.5
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092
DeepSeek v4
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971
Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986
US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882645
Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
https://github.com/russellromney/honker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647
Incident with multple GitHub services
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644
Ubuntu 26.04
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596
MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117
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April 23, 20264.23.26 | Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors, Qwen3.6-27B offers flagship-level coding, Firefox identifier links private Tor identities
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
(01:56) - Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
(03:11) - We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
(04:47) - 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
(06:04) - Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
(07:28) - I am building a cloud
(08:36) - Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
(10:22) - Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
(12:12) - Website streamed live directly from a model
(13:13) - Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
(14:49) - Outro

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217
We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867
I am building a cloud
https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324
Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913
Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393
Website streamed live directly from a model
https://flipbook.page/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048
Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661
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April 22, 20264.22.26 | Framework Laptop 13 Pro, Laws of Software Engineering, ChatGPT Images 2.0
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Framework Laptop 13 Pro
(01:34) - Laws of Software Engineering
(02:40) - ChatGPT Images 2.0
(03:53) - SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
(05:19) - Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
(06:34) - Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
(07:54) - Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
(09:06) - Making RAM at Home [video]
(10:21) - Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
(11:32) - The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
(12:48) - Outro

Framework Laptop 13 Pro
https://frame.work/laptop13pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177
Laws of Software Engineering
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179
ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293
Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948
Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508
Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635
Making RAM at Home [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569
Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822978
The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634
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13min
April 21, 20264.21.26 | John Ternus to become Apple CEO, EU mandates replaceable batteries in phones by 2027, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Evolving
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 21, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - John Ternus to become Apple CEO
(01:46) - All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
(03:15) - Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
(04:26) - ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
(05:38) - Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
(06:51) - WebUSB Extension for Firefox
(08:17) - Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
(09:26) - Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
(10:44) - Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
(12:03) - Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
(13:19) - Outro

John Ternus to become Apple CEO
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219
All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565
ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558
Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838703
WebUSB Extension for Firefox
https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831742
Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784
Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269
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April 20, 20264.20.26 | Vercel security incident, Claude Opus prompt changes, prolonged RAM shortage
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 20, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Vercel April 2026 security incident
(02:00) - Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
(04:09) - The RAM shortage could last years
(05:22) - Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
(06:15) - Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
(07:41) - The Bromine Chokepoint
(09:01) - 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
(10:11) - A Brief History of Fish Sauce
(11:16) - Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
(12:54) - Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
(14:15) - Outro

Vercel April 2026 security incident
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-selling-stolen-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270
The RAM shortage could last years
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822414
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-after-blizzard-wins-injunction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825160
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259
The Bromine Chokepoint
https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-production-of-the-worlds-memory-chips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826100
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
https://mxmap.ch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420
A Brief History of Fish Sauce
https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822734
Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828896
Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780743
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April 19, 20264.19.26 | Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner, comparing request-tokens in Opus 4.6 and 4.7, and exploring Japan's excellent railways
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 19, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
(02:10) - Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
(03:46) - Why Japan has such good railways
(05:19) - State of Kdenlive
(06:35) - The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
(07:41) - NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
(08:54) - Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
(10:35) - College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
(11:57) - Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
(13:04) - Modern Common Lisp with FSet
(14:18) - Outro

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816960
Why Japan has such good railways
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395
State of Kdenlive
https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817132
NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength-lasers-tiny-circuits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819453
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-written-work-and-teach-life-lessons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818485
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups
https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784395
Modern Common Lisp with FSet
https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779659
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April 18, 20264.18.26 | Claude Design, measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs, Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Claude Design
(01:53) - Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
(03:42) - Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
(04:52) - All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
(06:12) - NASA Force
(07:23) - Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
(08:35) - Spending 3 months coding by hand
(09:45) - NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
(11:19) - Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
(12:35) - Outro

Claude Design
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725
Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807006
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808913
NASA Force
https://nasaforce.gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209
Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778922
Spending 3 months coding by hand
https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807583
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806777
Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807619
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