top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-09

EFF Is Leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

4 months ago

1427 upvotes – 1310 comments

LittleSnitch for Linux

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html

4 months ago

1375 upvotes – 458 comments

NASA Built Artemis II's Fault-Tolerant Computer

https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/

4 months ago

644 upvotes – 236 comments

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/

4 months ago

643 upvotes – 332 comments

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

4 months ago

632 upvotes – 253 comments

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

https://playstarfling.com

4 months ago

627 upvotes – 153 comments

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0/apr26-1e/donate/

4 months ago

579 upvotes – 393 comments

Most people can't juggle one ball

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jTGbKKGqs5EdyYoRc/most-people-can-t-juggle-one-ball

4 months ago

505 upvotes – 173 comments

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo

4 months ago

471 upvotes – 309 comments

Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK

https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-mixes-up-who-said-what-and-thats-not-ok.html

4 months ago

466 upvotes – 359 comments

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/

4 months ago

395 upvotes – 244 comments

How Microsoft Abuses Its Users

https://lzon.ca/posts/other/microsoft-user-abuse/

4 months ago

395 upvotes – 245 comments

Open Source Security at Astral

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral

4 months ago

365 upvotes – 109 comments

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-month-claude-spend/

4 months ago

349 upvotes – 233 comments

YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-worlds-largest-media-company-2025-tops-disney-1236525130/

4 months ago

337 upvotes – 270 comments

FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD

https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/

4 months ago

333 upvotes – 193 comments

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/

4 months ago

317 upvotes – 86 comments

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban Major New Data Centers

https://www.gadgetreview.com/maine-is-about-to-become-the-first-state-to-ban-major-new-data-centers

4 months ago

305 upvotes – 440 comments

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

https://pizzalegacy.nl/blog/traffic-system.html

4 months ago

303 upvotes – 62 comments

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

https://www.unfolder.app/

4 months ago

300 upvotes – 58 comments
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