Archive
Apr 2026
- The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
- Do you even need a database?
- Backpacks got worse on purpose
- Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
- Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
- Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
- Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
- My AI-Assisted Workflow
- Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
- Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network
- Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference
- Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
- Saying goodbye to Agile
- Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
- Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
- OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
- US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed
- Fuck the cloud (2009)
- Stop Flock
- Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
- Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
- 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
- Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
- I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
- Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
- NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027
- Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
- Claude Code Routines
- For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas
- The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work
- Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
- Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
- jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
- An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story
- Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
- The secrets of the Shinkansen
- A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
- Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
- DaVinci Resolve – Photo
- Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
- The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
- WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
- Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
- The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)
- GitHub Stacked PRs
- The looming college-enrollment death spiral
- In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue
- Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
- The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence
- The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety
- Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal
- Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
- Claude.ai down
- Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
- This year’s insane timeline of hacks
- Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
- Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
- US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
- They See Your Photos
- AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
- I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to
- Servo is now available on crates.io
- Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised
- Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
- Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
- The AI Layoff Trap
- The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
- Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
- All elementary functions from a single binary operator
- Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
- Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack
- A perfectable programming language
- I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI
- Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
- European AI. A playbook to own it
- The peril of laziness lost
- The Closing of the Frontier
- Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
- Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
- DIY Soft Drinks
- Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
- Why AI Sucks at Front End
- JVM Options Explorer
- The End of Eleventy
- Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
- 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
- Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
- Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
- The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
- South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
- Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
- Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
- Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
- France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
- Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
- Artemis II safely splashes down
- Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
- Filing the corners off my MacBooks
- Nowhere is safe
- Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
- Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
- OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
- AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
- JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware
- A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
- Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
- WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
- 1D Chess
- You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
- France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
- Helium is hard to replace
- Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
- The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
- CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
- OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
- Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
- Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
- FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
- Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
- France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
- YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription
- I still prefer MCP over skills
- We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
- New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK
- Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
- Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
- Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
- Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
- Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
- Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
- Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
- ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month
- EFF is leaving X
- The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
- Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++
- The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts
- How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
- Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI
- The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture
- Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
- Am I German or Autistic?
- Session is shutting down in 90 days
- Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
- Claude mixes up who said what
- Top laptops to use with FreeBSD
- Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)
- Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
- Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
- Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
- Open source security at Astral
- Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets
- LittleSnitch for Linux
- Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
- John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
- Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
- I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
- Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
- I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
- Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates
- Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
- ML promises to be profoundly weird
- US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
- They're made out of meat (1991)
- I've sold out
- Git commands I run before reading any code
- Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
- Veracrypt project update
- We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
- Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
- Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
- OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)
- US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
- Bitcoin and quantum computing
- S3 Files
- IPv6 is the only way forward
- System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
- Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
- Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
- Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
- 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
- Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows
- Lunar Flyby
- Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
- Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal
- Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026
- AI may be making us think and write more alike
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
- Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
- We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
- Are We Idiocracy Yet?
- Every GPU That Mattered
- After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
- Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
- Peptides: where to begin?
- A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days
- Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
- The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
- Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made
- Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others
- Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
- Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
- Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
- 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
- AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
- A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
- I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
- The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign
- German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
- Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
- Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
- What being ripped off taught me
- Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
- Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
- Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure
- France pulls last gold held in US
- The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
- Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
- Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
- OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic
- In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants
- Gemma 4 on iPhone
- Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
- LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
- Music for Programming
- Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
- Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
- Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
- Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.
- Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz
- Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
- Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
- Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
- Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
- Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11
- Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year
- My Google Workspace account suspension
- The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
- Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
- Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
- I used AI. It worked. I hated it
- Shooting down ideas is not a skill
- AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
- German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
- Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying
- How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
- Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai
- Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
- 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit
- Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
- German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
- When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
- Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
- Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
- Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
- Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
- Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks
- Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
- Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
- Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
- Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
- Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
- Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
- Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak
- Why are we still using Markdown?
- iNaturalist
- OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
- F-15E jet shot down over Iran
- Solar and batteries can power the world
- Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
- Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
- Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
- The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
- Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure
- SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
- European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
- NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
- April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
- Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
- Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was
- The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s
- Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
- Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
- Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers
- We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
- The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms
- Tailscale's new macOS home
- Cursor 3
- Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
- OpenAI Acquires TBPN
- Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general
- A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses
- Google releases Gemma 4 open models
- Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
- The case for zero-error horizons in trustworthy LLMs
- Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
- Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
- Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
- Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
- Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
- 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
- LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
- Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
- Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
- Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
- Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
- I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
- Significant raise of reports
- IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
- Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
- r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming
- Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
- Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
- Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
- The Claude Code Leak
- Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
- IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
- DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
- Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
- Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks
- SpaceX files to go public
- AI for American-produced cement and concrete
- Artemis II Launch Day Updates
- EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
- The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
- Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs
- New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
- CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI
- Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
- I quit. The clankers won
- Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell
- Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
- My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned
- U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
- Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years