Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Artemis II Launch Day Updates
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564

SpaceX files to go public
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557921

Weather.com/Retro
https://weather.com/retro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609090

AI for American-produced cement and concrete
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and-concrete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603737

A new C++ back end for ocamlc
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608495

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592755

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
https://ccunpacked.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085

Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586614

A dot a day keeps the clutter away
https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593556

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795

Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
https://prismml.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422

Slop is not necessarily the future
https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953

MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)
https://ministack.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593285

4D Doom
https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549128

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582220

How to turn anything into a router
https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574034

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577761

Do your own writing
https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573519

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
https://www.codingfont.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575403

Artemis II is not safe to fly
https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578572

Bird brains (2023)
https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581701

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549824

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865

Copilot edited an ad into my PR
https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421

The Cognitive Dark Forest
https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556290

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569471

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565365

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566143

Coding agents could make free software matter again
https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568028

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570666

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
https://sytse.com/cancer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729

Spanish legislation as a Git repo
https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773

I decompiled the White House's new app
https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553717

CSS is DOOMed
https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem
https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557166

Linux is an interpreter
https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556359

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557064

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559481

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 28, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543139

Make macOS consistently bad unironically
https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

Desk for people who work at home with a cat
https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543943

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550282

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540383

Meow.camera
https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543204

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3096432/lgs-new-1hz-display-is-the-secret-behind-a-new-laptops-battery-life.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495245

Explore the Hidden World of Sand
https://magnifiedsand.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493677

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms-were-seafoam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518960

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534848

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535708

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531967

DOOM Over DNS
https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490705

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533297

John Bradley, author of xv, has died
https://voxday.net/2026/03/25/rip-john-bradley/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534086

Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
https://georgelarson.me/writing/2026-03-23-nullclaw-doorman/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536761

HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents
https://github.com/facebookresearch/hyperagents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505670

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536712

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-25-thoughts-on-slowing-the-fuck-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517539

Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/tesla/2026/03/23/running-tesla-model-3s-computer-on-my-desk-using-parts-from-crashed-cars/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523330

Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/11.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521876

ARC-AGI-3
https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521150

Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-court-cox-music-copyright.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518281

90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
https://www.claudescode.dev/?window=since_launch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521157

False claims in a widely-cited paper
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/24/false-claims-in-a-published-no-corrections-no-consequences-welcome-to-the-business-school/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525378

Quantization from the Ground Up
https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519295

Personal Encyclopedias
https://whoami.wiki/blog/personal-encyclopedias
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522173

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150

Goodbye to Sora
https://twitter.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036532795984715896
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508246

Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501426

Apple Business
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/introducing-apple-business-a-new-all-in-one-platform-for-businesses-of-all-sizes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504112

Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller
https://videojs.org/blog/videojs-v10-beta-hello-world-again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506713

Arm AGI CPU
https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/introducing-arm-agi-cpu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506251

Missile defense is NP-complete
https://smu160.github.io/posts/missile-defense-is-np-complete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501950

Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
https://github.com/ssrajadh/sentrysearch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503617

Flighty Airports
https://flighty.com/airports
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511589

I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
https://www.onhand.pro/p/i-wanted-to-build-vertical-saas-for-pest-control-i-took-a-technician-job-instead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509571

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
https://twitter.com/anemll/status/2035901335984611412
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490070

Claude Code Cheat Sheet
https://cc.storyfox.cz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495527

Autoresearch on an old research idea
https://ykumar.me/blog/eclip-autoresearch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493460

I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
https://www.itsthatlady.dev/blog/building-an-ai-receptionist-for-my-brother/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487536

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)
https://iev.ee/blog/the-quadratic-problem-nobody-fixed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443903

Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475888

How I'm Productive with Claude Code
https://neilkakkar.com/productive-with-claude-code.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494890

An incoherent Rust
https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490648

Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application
https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475417