Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=40.64&lon=-73.78&alt=3000&hdg=220&spd=130&cs=DAL123
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694064

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4
https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695213

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
https://cirruslabs.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730194

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS
https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731506

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
https://stevehanov.ca/blog/how-i-run-multiple-10k-mrr-companies-on-a-20month-tech-stack
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736555

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
https://zenodo.org/records/19513269
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733561

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust
https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693559

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Artemis II safely splashes down
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725583

Filing the corners off my MacBooks
https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352

1D Chess
https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719740

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009561.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719942

Installing every* Firefox extension
https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724118

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720419

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722333

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717847

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721953

Helium is hard to replace
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719274

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704804

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
https://colaptop.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707477

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft
https://www.unfolder.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706140

RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680005

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709158

I still prefer MCP over skills
https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712718

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
https://eaw.app/picoz80/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708041

Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706141

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707632

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Git commands I run before reading any code
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687273

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

LittleSnitch for Linux
https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

They're made out of meat (1991)
http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678

ML promises to be profoundly weird
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685320

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
https://kalmanfilter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693153

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696035

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121

Lunar Flyby
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676509

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-iran-war-ceasefire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678573

How to get better at guitar
https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650887

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625

S3 Files
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234

What being ripped off taught me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648828

Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455

Gemma 4 on iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652561

Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652400

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655408

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce3d5gkd2geo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649721

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651703

LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
https://github.com/love2d/love
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637377

Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651540

Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655392

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640728

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642569

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
https://www.theverge.com/tech/907003/apple-approves-driver-that-lets-nvidia-egpus-work-with-arm-macs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640380

OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
https://github.com/siddharthvaddem/openscreen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595695

AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644864

German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644406

Components of a Coding Agent
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638810

LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file"
https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640875

Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]
https://composerprogrammer.com/introductiontocomputermusic.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645432

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens
https://sllm.cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639779

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631118

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

F-15E jet shot down over Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628326

iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629433

The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633947

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628608

Delve removed from Y Combinator
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618223

Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621792

Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-overtakes-u-s-treasuries-as-the-worlds-largest-foreign-reserve-asset-in-2026-can-gold-challenge-the-u-s-dollars-dominance-and-hold-its-ground/articleshow/126420128.cms?from=mdr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635056

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
https://browsergate.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

Google releases Gemma 4 open models
https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002

Tailscale's new macOS home
https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618189

Cursor 3
https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617415

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609356

OpenAI Acquires TBPN
https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617376