top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-04

Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/

4 months ago

961 upvotes – 187 comments

Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf

4 months ago

856 upvotes – 580 comments

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one

https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

4 months ago

810 upvotes – 385 comments

Apple: Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193

4 months ago

654 upvotes – 201 comments

German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

4 months ago

575 upvotes – 651 comments

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

https://www.theverge.com/tech/907003/apple-approves-driver-that-lets-nvidia-egpus-work-with-arm-macs

4 months ago

527 upvotes – 241 comments

Delve Removed from Y Combinator

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve

4 months ago

508 upvotes – 310 comments

LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua

https://github.com/love2d/love

4 months ago

416 upvotes – 220 comments

German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677

4 months ago

402 upvotes – 719 comments

Components of a Coding Agent

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent

4 months ago

299 upvotes – 90 comments

LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file"

https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f

4 months ago

296 upvotes – 96 comments

Some Unusual Trees

https://thoughts.wyounas.com/p/some-unusual-trees

4 months ago

288 upvotes – 87 comments

The Last Quiet Thing

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

4 months ago

280 upvotes – 157 comments

Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-overtakes-u-s-treasuries-as-the-worlds-largest-foreign-reserve-asset-in-2026-can-gold-challenge-the-u-s-dollars-dominance-and-hold-its-ground/articleshow/126420128.cms?from=mdr

4 months ago

267 upvotes – 250 comments

When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5773354/legal-sports-betting-research-credit-bankruptcy

4 months ago

223 upvotes – 148 comments

Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal

https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

4 months ago

208 upvotes – 55 comments

SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File

https://ultrathink.art/blog/sqlite-in-production-lessons

4 months ago

208 upvotes – 129 comments

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

4 months ago

190 upvotes – 204 comments

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

https://iii.social

4 months ago

189 upvotes – 33 comments

Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iranian-missile-blitz-takes-down-aws-data-centers-in-bahrain-and-dubai-amazon-declares-hard-down-status-for-multiple-zones

4 months ago

188 upvotes – 165 comments
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