HN Daily Digest episodes:

• April 25, 2026Hacker News – 25 Apr 2026

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  Networking Innovations

  New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

  AI and Collaboration Tools

  Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

  Corporate Moves in AI

  Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

  Tech in Daily Life

  My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

  Discoveries in Science and Literature

  Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

  ...more

  

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• April 24, 2026Hacker News – 24 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI Innovations and Controversies

  DeepSeek v4

  S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities

  GPT-5.5

  Software Development Challenges

  Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

  Composition Shouldn't be this Hard

  Security Alerts and Ethical Dilemmas

  Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

  US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

  Miscellaneous Insights

  Why I Write (1946)

  An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

  Using the internet like it's 1999

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• April 23, 2026Hacker News – 23 Apr 2026

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  Cloud Innovations

  I am building a cloud

  Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

  Privacy and Security

  Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

  We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

  Coding and Development

  Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

  Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

  Unique Tech Trends

  Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

  5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

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• April 22, 2026Hacker News – 22 Apr 2026

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  DIY Innovations in Tech

  Making RAM at Home [video]

  Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma

  AI and Ethics

  ChatGPT Images 2.0

  The Vercel Breach: OAuth Attack Exposes Risk in Platform Environment Variables

  Evolving Software Practices

  All Your Agents Are Going Async

  Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code

  Exciting Developments in Science and Gaming

  Diverse Organic Molecules on Mars Revealed by the First SAM TMAH Experiment

  Stephen's Sausage Roll Remains One of the Most Influential Puzzle Games

  Tech Acquisitions and Changes

  SpaceX Says It Has Agreement to Acquire Cursor for $60B

  Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans

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• April 21, 2026Hacker News – 21 Apr 2026

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  Tech Leadership Changes

  John Ternus to become Apple CEO

  AI & Software Innovations

  Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

  Types and Neural Networks

  Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

  Gaming & Culture

  Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

  The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

  Security & Infrastructure

  Brussels launched an age-checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

  How a subsea cable is repaired

  Environmental Insights

  Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

  Air is full of DNA

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• April 20, 2026Hacker News – 20 Apr 2026

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  Tech Vulnerabilities and Security News

  OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

  Vercel April 2026 security incident

  Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

  Innovations in Software and AI

  GitHub's Fake Star Economy

  Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

  Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

  History and Nature’s Wonders

  Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

  A Brief History of Fish Sauce

  Gaming and Community Updates

  Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

  SDF Public Access Unix System

  Renewable Energy Breakthroughs

  IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

  ...more

  

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• April 19, 2026Hacker News – 19 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations

  NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

  Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

  Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

  Game Development Insights

  Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

  Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

  Programming and Performance

  What are skiplists good for?

  Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

  Education and Technology

  College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

  Historical Insights

  The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

  The world in which IPv6 was a good design

  Miscellaneous Tech Discussions

  Modern Common Lisp with FSet

  Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

  Why Japan has such good railways

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• April 18, 2026Hacker News – 18 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  Math & Algorithms

  Category Theory Illustrated – Orders

  Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

  A simplified model of Fil-C

  Tech History & Culture

  Amiga Graphics

  Michael Rabin Has Died

  AI & Machine Learning

  Claude Design

  Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

  Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially?

  Software & Security

  Towards trust in Emacs

  Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time

  Miscellaneous

  The simple geometry behind any road

  All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder

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• April 17, 2026Hacker News – 17 Apr 2026

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  Language Insights

  Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

  A Python Interpreter Written in Python

  30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages

  AI Developments

  Claude Opus 4.7

  Codex for almost everything

  Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

  Hardware Innovations

  Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

  FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

  ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm

  Creative Tools and Experiences

  Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

  Building a Web Page That Edits Itself

  Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

  ...more

  

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• April 16, 2026Hacker News – 16 Apr 2026

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  Networking Milestones

  IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

  The paper computer

  Cybersecurity Innovations

  Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

  RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

  Emerging Technologies

  Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

  ChatGPT for Excel

  Cultural Reflections

  North American English Dialects

  Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

  Programming Insights

  FIXAPL

  Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie

  ...more

  

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