Hacker News Highlights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 18, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

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

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782570

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-finds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783713

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769089

Cal.com is going closed source
https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780456

IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
https://darkbloom.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788542

ChatGPT for Excel
https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785397

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
https://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788424

CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-crispr-bold-silencing-syndrome-extra.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781286

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

Stop Flock
https://stopflock.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765604

Claude Code Routines
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768133

The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759420

The Orange Pi 6 Plus
https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/11/1900
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732535

Let's talk space toilets
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758870

A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing
https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-years-of-not-knowing-what-youre-testing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724571

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768339

5NF and Database Design
https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767676

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774789

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629

GitHub Stacked PRs
https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495

DaVinci Resolve – Photo
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753472

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751781

Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752819

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750669

Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753689

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro

Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260

Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739313

Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738827

DIY Soft Drinks
https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741701

Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
https://bsky.app/profile/serenityforge.com/post/3mj3r4nbiws2t
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743730

All elementary functions from a single binary operator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610

The peril of laziness lost
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
https://boringbar.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742200

Most people can't juggle one ball
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jTGbKKGqs5EdyYoRc/most-people-can-t-juggle-one-ball
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702887