top 50% 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/

4 months ago

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

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

4 months ago

Talk like caveman

https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

4 months ago

Gemma 4 on iPhone

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

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon

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

4 months ago

Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?

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

4 months ago

How to Get Better at Guitar

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

Running Google Gemma 4 Locally with LM Studio's New Headless CLI and Claude Code

https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with

4 months ago

Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/someone-at-browserstack-is-leaking-users-email-address/

4 months ago

Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2026.2645467#abstract

4 months ago

Sad Story of My Google Workspace Account Suspension

https://zencapital.substack.com/p/sad-story-of-my-google-workspace

4 months ago

Music for Programming

https://musicforprogramming.net

4 months ago

Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B

https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor

4 months ago

Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go

https://lisette.run/

4 months ago

Introduction to Computer Music [pdf]

https://composerprogrammer.com/introductiontocomputermusic.pdf

4 months ago

Explore union types in C# 15

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-15-union-types/

4 months ago

Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

https://github.com/salmanmohammadi/nanocode/discussions/1

4 months ago

OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-01/openais-shocking-fall-from-grace-as-investors-race-to-anthropic

4 months ago

Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card

4 months ago

LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

4 months ago

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-experimental-physical-ai-is-ready-for-the-real-world/

4 months ago

A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-04-05-tailcall/

4 months ago

Computational Physics (2nd Edition)

https://websites.umich.edu/~mejn/cp2/

4 months ago

Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

https://friendi.ca/

4 months ago

Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz

https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japanese-french-and-omani-vessels-cross-the-strait-of-hormuz

4 months ago

Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel into PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/linux-kernel-pgit

4 months ago

Shooting Down Ideas Is Not a Skill

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/shooting-down-ideas

4 months ago

Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength

https://www.ugr.es/en/about/news/bacteria-found-human-intestine-capable-improving-muscle-strength

4 months ago

Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon

https://github.com/MidstallSoftware/aegis

4 months ago

Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/05/phone-free-restaurants-bars-bans-restrictions-offline

4 months ago

Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games

https://blog.farzon.org/2026/04/binary-obfuscation-that-doesnt-kill-lto.html

4 months ago

Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11

https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-now-requires-more-ram-than-windows-11/

4 months ago

A whole boss fight in 256 bytes

https://hellmood.111mb.de//A_whole_boss_fight_in_256_bytes.html

4 months ago

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6

4 months ago

Musician says AI company is cloning her music, filing claims against her

https://twitter.com/i/status/2040577536136974444

4 months ago

Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/05/us/colorado-field-drug-test-law

4 months ago

Show HN: Contrapunk – Real-time counterpoint harmony from guitar input, in Rust

https://contrapunk.com/

4 months ago

My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters

https://varun.ch/til/prompt-injection-catch-cheaters/

4 months ago

Isseven

https://isseven.app/

4 months ago

Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf

https://github.com/mohshomis/modo

4 months ago

UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security

https://theoryofchange1.substack.com/p/from-global-warming-to-homeland-security

4 months ago

Iguanaworks has closed down. USB Infrared hardware open source maker

http://iguanaworks.net/products/usb-ir-transceiver.html

4 months ago

Writing Lisp Is AI Resistant and I'm Sad

https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/writing-lisp-is-ai-resistant-and-im-sad/

4 months ago

The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]

https://github.com/Votuko/steins-gate-mechanics/blob/main/The%20Mechanics%20of%20Steins%20Gate%20v1.0.3.pdf

4 months ago

Women were never meant to give birth on their backs

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260401-women-were-never-meant-to-give-birth-on-their-backs

4 months ago

Show HN: OsintRadar – Curated directory for osint tools

https://osintradar.com/

4 months ago

Brain scans reveal how to enters a psychedelic-like trance without drugs

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-a-woman-voluntarily-enters-a-psychedelic-like-trance-without-drugs/

4 months ago

How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/middleeast/pope-leo-iran-war-analysis-latam-intl

4 months ago

Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter

https://newclawtimes.com/articles/iran-irgc-satellite-imagery-openai-stargate-abu-dhabi-datacenter-threat/

4 months ago