top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-10

Filing the Corners Off MacBooks

https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

4 months ago

1D Chess

https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html

4 months ago

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

4 months ago

Installing Every* Firefox Extension

https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension

4 months ago

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/

4 months ago

FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/fbi-used-iphone-notification-data-to-retrieve-deleted-signal-messages/

4 months ago

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009561.html

4 months ago

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

4 months ago

You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/

4 months ago

I Still Prefer MCP over Skills

https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/

4 months ago

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design

4 months ago

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

4 months ago

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po

4 months ago

CPUid Compromised

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor/

4 months ago

I gave every train in New York an instrument

https://www.trainjazz.com/

4 months ago

Helium Is Hard to Replace

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace

4 months ago

Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512

4 months ago

Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-suspends-dev-accounts-for-high-profile-open-source-projects/

4 months ago

We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

https://blog.gitbutler.com/series-a

4 months ago

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-compelling-title-that-is-cryptic-enough-to-get-you-to-take-action-on-it/

4 months ago

JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware

https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

4 months ago

DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/trump-documents-library-presidential-records-act/

4 months ago

Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html

4 months ago

ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/04/a-new-trick-brings-stability-to-quantum-operations.html

4 months ago

Apple's New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/apples-new-iphone-update-is-restricting-internet-freedom-in-the-uk/

4 months ago

A Communist Apple II and Fourteen Years of Not Knowing What You're Testing

https://llama.gs/blog/index.php/2026/04/10/friday-archaeology-a-communist-apple-ii-and-fourteen-years-of-not-knowing-what-youre-testing/

4 months ago

Nowhere Is Safe

https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/

4 months ago

Design and Implementation of DuckDB Internals

https://duckdb.org/library/design-and-implementation-of-duckdb-internals/

4 months ago

Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989

https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-486-cpu-announced-april-10-1989/

4 months ago

Hip-hop pioneer, Afrika Bambaataa, dies aged 68

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2evppm30p7o

4 months ago

I've Seen a Thousand OpenClaw Deploys. Here's the Truth

https://blog.nishantsoni.com/p/ive-seen-a-thousand-openclaw-deploys

4 months ago

Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/penguin-toxicologists-find-pfas-chemicals-remote-patagonia

4 months ago

YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

https://pocketables.com/2026/04/ai-music-corporate-control-and-the-creator-who-cant-even-leave.html

4 months ago

Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript

https://fluidcad.io/

4 months ago

White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgld65x396go

4 months ago

Code is run more than read (2023)

https://olano.dev/blog/code-is-run-more-than-read/

4 months ago

Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem

https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2

4 months ago

The Raft Consensus Algorithm Explained Through "Mean Girls"

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/raft-is-so-fetch/

4 months ago

Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/franklin-ace-1000/

4 months ago

CPU-Z and HWMonitor Compromised

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1sh4e5l/warning_hwmonitor_163_download_on_the_official/

4 months ago

Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty

4 months ago

Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate

https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare

4 months ago

Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)

https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-pt-1

4 months ago

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go/

4 months ago

HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X

https://torrentfreak.com/hbo-obtains-dmca-subpoena-to-unmask-euphoria-spoiler-account-on-x/

4 months ago

DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/doj-top-antitrust-litigators-exit-after-ticketmaster-settlement

4 months ago

US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/10/us-summoned-bank-bosses-to-discuss-cyber-risks-posed-by-anthropic-latest-ai-model

4 months ago

Microsoft's PhotoDNA technology keeps flagging my face picture

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/microsoft-photodna-scanning-problem-it-is-comical-now.45961/

4 months ago

The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vefsxkGWkEMmDcZ7v/the-effects-of-caffeine-consumption-do-not-decay-with-a-5

4 months ago

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

4 months ago

Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python

https://codeberg.org/chrisecker/miniword

4 months ago

Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more

https://scitechdaily.com/this-spice-combo-could-slash-inflammation-hundreds-of-times-more-effectively/

4 months ago

Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon

https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/artemis-ii-and-invisible-hazard-on-way-to-moon-part-1

4 months ago

Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border

https://restofworld.org/2026/mexico-seguritech-government-surveillance-profile/

4 months ago

Forcing an Inversion of Control on the SaaS Stack

https://www.100x.bot/a/client-side-injection-inversion-of-control-saas

4 months ago