top 10 hacker news stories for today

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253

7 hours ago

227 upvotes – 100 comments

Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/

8 hours ago

207 upvotes – 109 comments

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

1 hour ago

155 upvotes – 63 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/

4 hours ago

144 upvotes – 54 comments

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/

3 hours ago

56 upvotes – 9 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html

4 hours ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/

7 hours ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/02/fcc-router-ban/

4 hours ago

27 upvotes – 10 comments

Europe to burned American scientists: We'll take you in

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-brain-drain-academic-research-progressive-institutions/

7 hours ago

25 upvotes – 10 comments

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

https://wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026

5 hours ago

22 upvotes – 4 comments
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