top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-08

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

4 months ago

I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html

4 months ago

Veracrypt Project Update

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/

4 months ago

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology/

4 months ago

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/

4 months ago

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html

4 months ago

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-smart-headphones/

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

4 months ago

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

4 months ago

Show HN: Is Hormuz Open Yet?

https://www.ishormuzopenyet.com/

4 months ago

Understanding the Kalman Filter with a Simple Radar Example

https://kalmanfilter.net

4 months ago

I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic support to respond

https://nickvecchioni.github.io/thoughts/2026/04/08/anthropic-support-doesnt-exist/

4 months ago

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/

4 months ago

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacobs-collection-concerts-internet-archive-chicago-b1c9c4466a2db409a83523ad84b79d62

4 months ago

John Deere to Pay $99M in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

4 months ago

OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-generating-algorithm-ai-dangerous.html

4 months ago

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=40.64&lon=-73.78&alt=3000&hdg=220&spd=130&cs=DAL123

4 months ago

Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1

4 months ago

Razor1911 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw4W9V57SKs&t=5716s

4 months ago

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091

4 months ago

Protect Your Shed

https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/

4 months ago

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/

4 months ago

I've Sold Out

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/

4 months ago

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock

4 months ago

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

https://www.patater.com/files/projects/manual/manual.html

4 months ago

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two

https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs

4 months ago

Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs

https://meta.ai/

4 months ago

Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire

https://www.ft.com/content/02aefac4-ea62-48db-9326-c0da373b11b8

4 months ago

Claude Managed Agents

https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents

4 months ago

Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN much easier to read

http://oj-hn.com/

4 months ago

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/

4 months ago

The AI Great Leap Forward

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

4 months ago

What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical

https://ubuntu.com/blog/risc-v-101-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-canonical

4 months ago

One item purchased, Ten emails

https://joshghent.com/online-shopping/

4 months ago

Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

https://github.com/pcruz1905/hls-restream-proxy

4 months ago