top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-02

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

https://browsergate.eu/

4 months ago

Google releases Gemma 4 open models

https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/

4 months ago

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

4 months ago

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/

4 months ago

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

4 months ago

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6

4 months ago

I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/

4 months ago

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

https://lemonade-server.ai

4 months ago

Tailscale's New macOS Home

https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape

4 months ago

Cursor 3

https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3

4 months ago

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25

4 months ago

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant

4 months ago

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era

4 months ago

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/

4 months ago

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html

4 months ago

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

https://xd009642.github.io/2026/04/01/My-Experience-as-a-Rice-Farmer.html

4 months ago

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/

4 months ago

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/

4 months ago

Weather.com/Retro

https://weather.com/retro/

4 months ago

Significant Raise of Reports

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/

4 months ago

Your sign-up form is a weapon

https://bytemash.net/posts/subscription-bombing-your-signup-form-is-a-weapon/

4 months ago

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket

4 months ago

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/

4 months ago

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing

4 months ago

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665

4 months ago

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/

4 months ago

Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had

https://slicker.me/sqlite/features.htm

4 months ago

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-and-the-rise-of-the-institutional-gothic/

4 months ago

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

https://blogit.michelin.io/clojure-programming/

4 months ago

The Claude Code Leak

https://build.ms/2026/4/1/the-claude-code-leak/

4 months ago

r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1s9jkzi/announcement_temporary_llm_content_ban/

4 months ago

George Goble died recently – known for first dual-CPU-Unix and fast BBQ lighting

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wlfi/name/george-goble-obituary?id=61144779

4 months ago

Amazon to add 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge as Iran war raises energy prices

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/amazon-add-3point5percent-fuel-and-logistics-surcharge-for-sellers-amid-iran-war.html

4 months ago

Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kursk-submarine-disaster-photos/

4 months ago

Ruckus: Racket for iOS

https://ruckus.defn.io/

4 months ago

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0v36ek2go

4 months ago

Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/

4 months ago

Australia to crack down on gambling ads after years of criticism

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62492e925lo

4 months ago

Pam Bondi ousted as Attorney General

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/pam-bondi-role-trump

4 months ago

Yggdrasil Network

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

4 months ago

Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries

https://github.com/razvandimescu/numa

4 months ago

Snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/snowmelt-american-west

4 months ago

One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4g44zv37qo

4 months ago

Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618324

4 months ago

A $1.75T IPO Would Be Overpaying 30% for SpaceX

https://futuresearch.ai/spacex-ipo-valuation/

4 months ago

The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes

https://report.bearblog.dev/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-perfect-storm-of-retail-investor-fallacies/

4 months ago

Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/timeline.html

4 months ago

Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/solar-balconies-take-europe-by-storm/

4 months ago

Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/04/artemis-moon-launch-trump/686661/

4 months ago

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

https://modolap.com/publication/hn-analysis-1

4 months ago

U.S. Is Burning Through Tomahawk Cruise Missile Stockpile at an Alarming Rate

https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-is-burning-through-tomahawk-cruise-missile-stockpile-at-a-alarming-rate-report

4 months ago

Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics-in-nuclear-industry

4 months ago

Even GPT-5.2 Can't Count to Five: Zero-Error Horizons in Trustworthy LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15714

4 months ago

A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s

https://www.bi6.us/CO/MG.HTML

4 months ago

Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book

https://almightylisp.com/

4 months ago

Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF

https://sazak.io/articles/tracing-goroutines-in-realtime-with-ebpf-2026-03-31

4 months ago