top 10 hacker news stories for today

Show HN: Spice simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

https://lucasgerads.com/blog/lecroy-mcp-spice-demo/

3 hours ago

38 upvotes – 8 comments

Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/starlink-outage-hit-drone-tests-exposing-pentagons-growing-reliance-spacex-2026-04-16/

3 hours ago

21 upvotes – 2 comments

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/

45 minutes ago

18 upvotes – 2 comments

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification

1 hour ago

16 upvotes – 1 comments

Hospital Held Woman for Months Against Her Will. SCOTUS to decide if she can sue

https://reason.com/2026/04/10/a-maryland-hospital-held-a-woman-for-months-against-her-will-the-supreme-court-will-decide-if-she-can-sue/

4 hours ago

15 upvotes – 6 comments

AI companies are buying the Slack data of failed startups

https://twitter.com/_iainmartin/status/2044758204773486925

3 hours ago

12 upvotes – 3 comments

MAGA Indians Went All in on Trump. Many Right-Wingers Can't Stand Them

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-indians-went-all-in-on-trump/

3 hours ago

11 upvotes – 6 comments

France reports over 40 cryptocurrency kidnappings so far this year

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2026/04/16/france-reports-over-40-cryptocurrency-kidnappings-so-far-this-year_6752508_105.html

4 hours ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

Atlassian is changing how we use customer data on August 17, 2026

https://www.atlassian.com/trust/ai/data-contribution

3 hours ago

9 upvotes – 2 comments

Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/global-warming-is-making-the-strongest-hurricanes-stronger/

2 hours ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments
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