top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-07

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

4 months ago

Lunar Flyby

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

4 months ago

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf

4 months ago

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand

https://sam-burns.com/posts/concrete-laptop-stand/

4 months ago

Are We Idiocracy Yet?

https://idiocracy.wtf/

4 months ago

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1

4 months ago

Trump agrees to suspend 'bombing and attack of Iran' for 2 weeks

https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-ceasefire-deal-trumps-deadline-reopen-strait-hormuz-2026-04-07

4 months ago

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo

4 months ago

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/

4 months ago

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

https://jola.dev/posts/dropping-cloudflare

4 months ago

RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE

4 months ago

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/

4 months ago

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html

4 months ago

Every GPU That Mattered

https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-gpu

4 months ago

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

4 months ago

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

4 months ago

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/

4 months ago

Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left

https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai-and-llms/

4 months ago

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-if-iran-does-not-make-deal-2026-04-07/

4 months ago

Happy Map

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/happy-map/

4 months ago

Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

https://locker.dev

4 months ago

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led

4 months ago

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/mattmireles/gemma-tuner-multimodal

4 months ago

LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/ai-may-be-making-us-think-and-write-more-alike/

4 months ago

Generative Art over the Years

https://blog.veitheller.de/Generative_art_over_the_years.html

4 months ago

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/google-agent-testbed-scion/

4 months ago

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

https://printervention.app/details

4 months ago

Claude Code is locking people out for hours

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257

4 months ago

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

https://pijul.org/

4 months ago

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it

https://tubesoundquiz.com/

4 months ago

Blackholing My Email

https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/blackholing-my-email/

4 months ago

Solod – A Subset of Go That Translates to C

https://github.com/solod-dev/solod

4 months ago

How Complex is my Code?

https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/

4 months ago

Bitcoin and Quantum Computing

https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html

4 months ago

Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures

https://andreyor.st/posts/2026-04-07-clojure-on-fennel-part-one-persistent-data-structures/

4 months ago

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world

https://www.intofarlands.com/atlasofarda

4 months ago

Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany?

https://has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de

4 months ago

A whole civilization might die tonight

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-threat-whole-civilization-will-die-iran-war-deadline-hormuz-rcna267059

4 months ago

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

https://github.com/linebender/xilem

4 months ago

Show HN: Marimo pair – reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents

https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-pair

4 months ago

John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz

https://www.americanjazzmusicsociety.com/blog/john-coltrane-draws

4 months ago

Tofolli gates are all you need

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/06/tofolli-gates/

4 months ago

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app

https://midi.guide/blog/three-hunded-synths-one-app/

4 months ago

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/teardown-of-unreleased-lg-rollable-shows-why-rollable-phones-arent-a-thing/

4 months ago

Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-wind-and-solar-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1bn-in-march-2026/

4 months ago

"The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"

https://twitter.com/i/status/2041112541909205001

4 months ago

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

https://blog.zacka.io/p/simplify-then-add-lightness-bc4

4 months ago

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

https://www.perfectlynormal.co.uk/blog-kl-divergence

4 months ago

Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

https://github.com/LaurieWired/tailslayer

4 months ago

Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons

https://www.loskutoff.com/blog/model-based-testing-dnd/

4 months ago

Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-whats-going-on

4 months ago

Mysteries of Dropbox: Property-Based Testing of a Distributed Sync Service [pdf]

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/mysteriesofdropbox.pdf

4 months ago

Why IPv6 is the only way forward

https://ankshilp.in/posts/for-the-love-of-internet/

4 months ago

Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go

https://github.com/pion/handoff

4 months ago

You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)

https://www.inngest.com/blog/hanging-promises-for-control-flow

4 months ago

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

https://sergioprado.blog/breaking-the-console-a-brief-history-of-video-game-security/

4 months ago

Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg049xz1ygo

4 months ago

The Miller Principle

https://puredanger.github.io/tech.puredanger.com/2007/07/11/miller-principle/

4 months ago

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

https://apnews.com/article/lego-bricks-for-blind-audio-braille-instructions-5a2a27de4354a0b1443171c3f24f29e4

4 months ago

What Is a Property?

https://alperenkeles.com/posts/what-is-a-property/

4 months ago

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

https://martinfowler.com/articles/mechanical-sympathy-principles.html

4 months ago

Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/06/iphone-apps-from-apple-update/

4 months ago

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/germany-power-prices-turn-deeply-negative-on-renewables-surge

4 months ago

USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000

https://onedollar.today/

4 months ago

DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502

https://aransentin.github.io/deimos/

4 months ago

The Soul of an Old Machine

https://skalski.dev/the-soul-of-an-old-machine/

4 months ago

US Labor Force Participation Continues to Slide

https://restaurant.org/research-and-media/research/restaurant-economic-insights/analysis-commentary/potential-workers-on-the-sidelines-labor-force-participation-continues-to-slide/

4 months ago