top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-06

Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

4 months ago

Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

4 months ago

I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app

4 months ago

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm

4 months ago

France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain

https://www.mining.com/france-pulls-last-gold-held-in-us-for-15b-gain/

4 months ago

The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane

https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane

4 months ago

A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

4 months ago

Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game

https://www.wesnoth.org

4 months ago

Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb

4 months ago

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper

4 months ago

What Being Ripped Off Taught Me

https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/

4 months ago

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/

4 months ago

81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

https://twitter.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2040864617467924865

4 months ago

Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed

https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/

4 months ago

Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters

https://playlists.at/youtube/search/

4 months ago

Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/

4 months ago

Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents

https://www.freestyle.sh

4 months ago

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

https://www.govauctions.app/

4 months ago

The Importance of Being Idle

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/

4 months ago

The 1987 Game "The Last Ninja" was 40 kilobytes

https://twitter.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151

4 months ago