top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-04-05

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

2 months ago

987 upvotes – 626 comments

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/

2 months ago

956 upvotes – 301 comments

Talk like caveman

https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

2 months ago

896 upvotes – 364 comments

Gemma 4 on iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337

2 months ago

865 upvotes – 232 comments

Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/

2 months ago

831 upvotes – 579 comments

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

2 months ago

810 upvotes – 693 comments

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce3d5gkd2geo

2 months ago

524 upvotes – 431 comments

Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062

2 months ago

479 upvotes – 728 comments

How to Get Better at Guitar

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/

2 months ago

472 upvotes – 261 comments

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

2 months ago

410 upvotes – 162 comments
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