top 50% 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

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

Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal

https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

4 months ago

208 upvotes – 55 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

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

https://sllm.cloud

4 months ago

187 upvotes – 103 comments

Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

4 months ago

176 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown

https://static.laszlokorte.de/escher/

4 months ago

176 upvotes – 32 comments

Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself (2024)

https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/06/01/advice-to-young-people/

4 months ago

169 upvotes – 60 comments

Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

https://willybrauner.com/journal/signal-the-push-pull-based-algorithm

4 months ago

169 upvotes – 37 comments

Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser

https://github.com/teamchong/turboquant-wasm

4 months ago

165 upvotes – 7 comments

Why the Most Valuable Things You Know Are Things You Cannot Say

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/why-the-most-valuable-things-you

4 months ago

162 upvotes – 63 comments

The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS

https://next.jazzsequence.com/posts/the-cms-is-dead-long-live-the-cms

4 months ago

159 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges

https://github.com/KaiPereira/Overglade-Badges

4 months ago

158 upvotes – 18 comments

12,000 AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

https://github.com/OneUptime/blog/commit/30cd2384794c897d95aca77d173db44af51ca849

4 months ago

155 upvotes – 148 comments

Native Americans had dice 12,000 years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/native-americans-dice-games-probability-study-rcna266426

4 months ago

135 upvotes – 86 comments

Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome

https://shapemachine.xyz/tusk/

4 months ago

120 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V

https://github.com/roscopeco/anos

4 months ago

115 upvotes – 32 comments

Scientists capture how cells trigger inflammation

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/immune-response-inside-cells-inflammation-research

4 months ago

114 upvotes – 7 comments

The Clock

https://blog.senko.net/the-clock

4 months ago

101 upvotes – 44 comments

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/floating_dragon/

4 months ago

100 upvotes – 29 comments

Sopwith

http://www.sopwith.org/

4 months ago

99 upvotes – 42 comments

What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island

https://apps.npr.org/life-on-tristan-da-cunha/

4 months ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI

https://github.com/borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

4 months ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration Videos and Press Coverage

https://www.curiousmarc.com/space/apollo-guidance-computer

4 months ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

https://insideevs.com/news/791999/tesla-unsold-inventory-record-q1-2026/

4 months ago

88 upvotes – 160 comments

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html

4 months ago

78 upvotes – 5 comments

Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings

https://www.businessinsider.com/block-ceo-jack-dorsey-bring-prototypes-not-slide-decks-meetings-2026-4

4 months ago

74 upvotes – 90 comments

US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-deploys-bulk-of-stealthy-long-range-missile-for-iran-war/ar-AA209yKj

4 months ago

66 upvotes – 88 comments

Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/netflix-ordered-to-refund-subscribers-up-to-e500-for-unlawful-price-hikes/

4 months ago

65 upvotes – 6 comments

Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html

4 months ago

63 upvotes – 10 comments

A brief history of instant coffee

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/a-brief-history-of-instant-coffee/

4 months ago

60 upvotes – 62 comments

IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3278/GA33-3056-0_3270_Information_Display_System_Color_and_Programmed_Symbols_3278_3279_3287_Sep1979.pdf

4 months ago

56 upvotes – 13 comments

Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/student-loans-abroad-default.html

4 months ago

56 upvotes – 105 comments

Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8k8vq8gno

4 months ago

56 upvotes – 108 comments

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house-teleportation.html

4 months ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments
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