top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-09

EFF Is Leaving X

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

4 months ago

LittleSnitch for Linux

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

4 months ago

NASA Built Artemis II's Fault-Tolerant Computer

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

4 months ago

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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

4 months ago

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

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

4 months ago

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

https://playstarfling.com

4 months ago

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

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

4 months ago

Most people can't juggle one ball

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

4 months ago

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

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

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/

4 months ago

How Microsoft Abuses Its Users

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

4 months ago

Open Source Security at Astral

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

4 months ago

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

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

FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD

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

4 months ago

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/

4 months ago

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

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU

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

4 months ago

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

https://www.unfolder.app/

4 months ago

Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt

https://akshaychugh.xyz/writings/png/vercel-plugin-telemetry

4 months ago

Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

https://aywren.com/2026/04/09/netflix-prices-went-up-again-i-bought-a-dvd-player-instead/

4 months ago

Am I German or Autistic?

https://german.millermanschool.com/

4 months ago

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

4 months ago

PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

https://eaw.app/picoz80/

4 months ago

Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-funerals-keep-africa-poor

4 months ago

Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture

4 months ago

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us

4 months ago

ChatGPT Pro is now $100/month

https://chatgpt.com/pricing/

4 months ago

Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes

https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/

4 months ago

How Passive Radar Works

https://www.passiveradar.com/how-passive-radar-works/

4 months ago

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-and-take-take-take-sign-cooperation-agreement/DZS0S0Dy

4 months ago

Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects

https://blog.kagi.com/tips/redirects

4 months ago

Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor

https://pretty.fish/

4 months ago

BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sglytg/bunnycdn_has_been_silently_losing_our_production/

4 months ago

I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

https://github.com/randerson112/craft

4 months ago

A Tour of Oodi

https://blinry.org/oodi/

4 months ago

Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

https://cssstudio.ai

4 months ago

Discovering, detecting, and surgically removing Google's AI watermark

https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID

4 months ago

Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-trump-us-iran-ceasefire

4 months ago

Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

https://iucn.org/press-release/202604/emperor-penguin-and-antarctic-fur-seal-now-endangered-due-climate-change-iucn

4 months ago

The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/grammar-parser-maintenance-contract

4 months ago

Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700460

4 months ago

A WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent

https://github.com/jure/webphysics

4 months ago

Session is shutting down in 90 days

https://getsession.org/donate

4 months ago

Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies

https://ssta.willhelps.org

4 months ago

Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html

4 months ago

Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

https://taintedcoders.com/

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture

https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture

4 months ago

guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

https://guide.world/

4 months ago

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/

4 months ago

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element

https://theasc.com/articles/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element

4 months ago

Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

https://hegel.dev

4 months ago

Rust Threads on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/threads-on-gpu/

4 months ago

Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260408-a-150-metro-ticket-to-ancient-rome

4 months ago

A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian

https://desktopcommander.app/blog/zettelkasten-obsidian/

4 months ago

Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again

https://korigamik.dev/blog/bitmap_fonts/

4 months ago

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-pat-gelsinger-2026

4 months ago

Layoff Thinking

https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2026/layoff-thinking.html

4 months ago

Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)

https://www.demandsphere.com/blog/rebuilding-demandsphere-with-jekyll-and-claude-code/

4 months ago

FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

4 months ago

A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2026/04/08/soft-robot-has-no-problem-moving-no-motor-and-no-gears

4 months ago

Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75792

4 months ago

What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot

https://nockawa.github.io/blog/what-game-engines-know-about-data/

4 months ago