top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-01

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

https://ccunpacked.dev/

4 months ago

NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-launches-to-the-moon-official-broadcast/

4 months ago

EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

4 months ago

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/

4 months ago

OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio

https://github.com/siddharthvaddem/openscreen

4 months ago

I Quit. The Clankers Won

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/01/i-quit-the-clankers-won/

4 months ago

SpaceX Files to Go Public

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html

4 months ago

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/cern-levels-new-superconducting-karts

4 months ago

Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates

4 months ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601859

4 months ago

Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)

https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/CVE-2026-4747/write-up.md

4 months ago

U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security

4 months ago

Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP

https://isbgpsafeyet.com/

4 months ago

The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2026/03/31/openai-graveyard-deals-and-products-havent-happened-openai/

4 months ago

Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years

https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-survived-knife-s-edge-350-000-years

4 months ago

A new C++ back end for ocamlc

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701

4 months ago

We intercepted the White House app's traffic. 77% of requests go to 3rd parties

https://www.atomic.computer/blog/white-house-app-network-traffic-analysis/

4 months ago

AI for American-Produced Cement and Concrete

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and-concrete/

4 months ago

My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1s92fql/my_son_pleasured_himself_in_front_of_gemini_live/

4 months ago

C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

https://gist.github.com/alganet/2b89c4368f8d23d033961d8a3deb5c19

4 months ago

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html

4 months ago

Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/04/01/focus/

4 months ago

StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)

https://app.uniclaw.ai/arena?tab=costEffectiveness&via=hn

4 months ago

Ukrainian Drone Holds Position for 6 Weeks

https://defenceleaders.com/news/ukrainian-combat-robot-holds-frontline-position-for-six-weeks-in-sign-of-growing-ugv-maturity/

4 months ago

Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)

https://getdull.app

4 months ago

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-open-source-litellm-project/

4 months ago

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606244

4 months ago

OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/openai-demand-sinks-on-secondary-market-as-anthropic-runs-hot

4 months ago

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

https://www.wired.com/story/a-mysterious-numbers-station-is-broadcasting-through-the-iran-war/

4 months ago

Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)

https://www.intelligentliving.co/scientists-finally-figured-out-how-eels-reproduce/

4 months ago

Apple at 50

https://www.apple.com/

4 months ago

The Document Foundation ejects its core developers

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/

4 months ago

New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option to Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IPv6-IPv4-Legacy-Knobs

4 months ago

You're still signing data structures the wrong way

https://blog.foks.pub/posts/domain-separation-in-idl/

4 months ago

Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/

4 months ago

Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/33727-swappacom-for-grapheneos-compatible-devices-stay-away

4 months ago

The AI Marketing BS Index

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/bs/

4 months ago

The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites

https://www.elizabethspiers.com/the-anti-intellectualism-of-silicon-valley-elites/

4 months ago

A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/29/a-new-way-to-measure-poverty-shows-the-us-falling-behind-europe

4 months ago

The most-disliked people in the publishing industry

https://www.woman-of-letters.com/p/the-most-disliked-people-in-the-publishing

4 months ago

Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity

https://sycamore.dev

4 months ago

What Is Copilot Exactly?

https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly

4 months ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601858

4 months ago

Jax's true calling: Ray-Marching renderers on WebGL

https://benoit.paris/posts/jax-ray-marcher/

4 months ago

Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM

https://flight-viz.com

4 months ago

Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260313002633.htm

4 months ago

Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/31/iran-war-sparks-renewables-boom-as-europeans-rush-to-buy-solar-heat-pumps-and-evs

4 months ago

Marc Andreessen's Dangerously Unexamined Life

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/

4 months ago

IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

https://sentence2ipv6.tib3rius.com/

4 months ago

We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How

https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1227

4 months ago

TurboQuant KV Compression and SSD Expert Streaming for M5 Pro and IOS

https://github.com/SharpAI/SwiftLM

4 months ago

ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover

https://old.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1raiz8v/zombocom_was_stolen_by_hacker_put_up_for_sale_and/

4 months ago

Show HN: Real-time dashboard for Claude Code agent teams

https://github.com/simple10/agents-observe

4 months ago

SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/spacex-public-offering-stock-market

4 months ago

Rubysyn: Clarifying Ruby's Syntax and Semantics

https://github.com/squadette/rubysyn/blob/master/README.md

4 months ago

The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

http://techkettle.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-windows-equivalents-of-most-used.html

4 months ago

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

https://gizmodo.com/apple-removes-iphone-vibe-coding-app-from-app-store-2000740084

4 months ago

OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval

https://www.neowin.net/news/onlyoffice-suspends-nextcloud-partnership-over-unapproved-euro-office-fork/

4 months ago

Montana referendum to outlaw corporate campaign contributions [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

4 months ago

Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599303

4 months ago

Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

https://getbaton.dev/

4 months ago

Functional programming accellerates agentic feature development

https://cyrusradfar.com/thoughts/functional-programming-is-the-only-way-to-scale-with-ai

4 months ago

The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft

https://www.ft.com/content/95bd87c8-a112-49a5-9b80-c280a6bb4283

4 months ago

AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/maybe-open-source-needs-ai/

4 months ago

Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-15673955/Solar-panels-Lidl-Plug-versions-set-appear-shops-MONTHS.html

4 months ago