top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-03

Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to be used with OpenClaw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

4 months ago

Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o

4 months ago

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

https://text.blogosphere.app/

4 months ago

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

https://apfel.franzai.com

4 months ago

US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran releases wreckage images

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran

4 months ago

The FAA "Temporary" Drone Restriction Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice

4 months ago

iNaturalist

https://www.inaturalist.org/

4 months ago

Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs

https://nationaltoday.com/us/tx/austin/news/2026/04/03/oracle-files-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-petitions-amid-mass-layoffs/

4 months ago

If you're running OpenClaw, you probably got hacked in the last week

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/

4 months ago

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

4 months ago

Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-introspection/

4 months ago

Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

https://only-eu.eu/en/

4 months ago

NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns

https://www.freevacy.com/news/financial-times/nhs-staff-refusing-to-use-fdp-over-palantir-ethical-concerns/7272

4 months ago

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini

https://gist.github.com/greenstevester/fc49b4e60a4fef9effc79066c1033ae5

4 months ago

Solar and batteries can power the world

https://nworbmot.org/blog/solar-battery-world.html

4 months ago

Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise

https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636

4 months ago

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

https://jpmens.net/2026/04/03/ssh-certificates-the-better-ssh-experience/

4 months ago

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai

https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability

4 months ago

'Fatal decision': EU slammed for caving to US pressure on digital rules

https://www.politico.eu/article/fatal-decision-eu-slammed-for-caving-to-us-pressure-on-digital-rules/

4 months ago

Why the heck are we still using Markdown?

https://bgslabs.org/blog/why-are-we-using-markdown/

4 months ago

Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

4 months ago

Running Out of Disk Space in Production

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2026-04-01-running-out-of-disk-space-on-launch.html

4 months ago

Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/build-your-own-dial-up-isp-with-a-raspberry-pi/

4 months ago

Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly

https://tinygo.org/

4 months ago

Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/h264-streaming-license-fees-jump-from-100000-to-4-5-million

4 months ago

Netflix Void Model: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

https://github.com/Netflix/void-model

4 months ago

Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits

http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slightly-safer-vibecoding-by-adopting.html

4 months ago

The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s

https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy

4 months ago

Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was

https://www.sambent.com/proton-meet-isnt-what-they-told-you/

4 months ago

A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

https://printed.analogcamera.space/

4 months ago

Fake Fans

https://www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans

4 months ago

TDF ejects its core developers

https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-04-02-tdf-ejects-core-devs.html

4 months ago

Age Verification on Systemd and Flatpak

https://cybrkyd.com/post/age-verification-on-systemd-and-flatpak/

4 months ago

How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-make-a-sliding-self-locking-and-predator-proof-chicken-coop-door.75906/

4 months ago

New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/new-rowhammer-attacks-give-complete-control-of-machines-running-nvidia-gpus/

4 months ago

Adult German men must request permission to leave Germany for more than 3 months

https://www.fr.de/politik/drastische-wehrpflicht-aenderung-maenner-die-deutschland-laenger-wollen-brauchen-genehmigung-zr-94248132.html

4 months ago

Category Theory Illustrated – Types

https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/06_type/

4 months ago

The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright

https://aeon.co/essays/frank-lloyd-wright-as-a-mirror-of-the-american-condition

4 months ago

Second Revision of 6502 Laptop

https://codeberg.org/TechPaula/LT6502b

4 months ago

Tree Calculus

https://treecalcul.us/

4 months ago

Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

https://www.hanshq.net/big-endian-qemu.html

4 months ago

Show HN: TinyOS – A minimalist RTOS for Cortex-M written in C

https://github.com/cmc-labo/tinyos-rtos

4 months ago

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

4 months ago

Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/

4 months ago

I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz

https://jonno.nz/posts/built-an-sms-gateway-with-a-20-dollar-android-phone/

4 months ago

Hello, World

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

4 months ago

Just 'English with Hanzi'

https://www.oldnorthwhale.com/p/why-modern-chinese-is-just-english

4 months ago

The open web isn't dying. We're killing it

https://ouvre-boite.com/the-open-web-isnt-dying-were-killing-it/

4 months ago

A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2026/03/31/a-new-postcrossing-stamp-from-the-usa

4 months ago

Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack

https://anonhaven.com/en/news/drift-protocol-hack-285-million-solana/

4 months ago

Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/async-python-is-secretly-deterministic

4 months ago

H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means

https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=173935

4 months ago

Porting Go's strings package to C

https://antonz.org/porting-go-strings/

4 months ago

U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran, search underway for crewdead

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/iran-us-fighter-shot-down

4 months ago