top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-11

Artemis II safely splashes down

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/

4 months ago

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier

4 months ago

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/

4 months ago

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/

4 months ago

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960

4 months ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/south_korea_data_access_universal/

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances

https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances

4 months ago

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026

https://cirruslabs.org/

4 months ago

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/

4 months ago

TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

https://zenodo.org/records/19513269

4 months ago

20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html

4 months ago

Dark Castle

https://darkcastle.co.uk/

4 months ago

I Just Want Simple S3

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/i-just-want-simple-s3/

4 months ago

Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/22/bitcoin-miners-are-losing-usd19-000-on-every-btc-produced-as-difficulty-drops-7-8

4 months ago

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit

https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html

4 months ago

The Orange Pi 6 Plus

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/11/1900

4 months ago

An Introduction to Obsidian

https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-introduction

4 months ago

Your Startup Is Probably Dead on Arrival

https://steveblank.com/2026/03/17/your-startup-is-probably-dead-on-arrival/

4 months ago

The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet

https://www.osnews.com/story/144776/the-disturbing-white-paper-red-hat-is-trying-to-erase-from-the-internet/

4 months ago

Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel)

https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/gigapixel/#3/63.11/-120.59

4 months ago

Write less code, be more responsible

https://blog.orhun.dev/code-responsibly/

4 months ago

Productive Procrastination

https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/productive-procrastination/

4 months ago

’Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/11/polymarket-gamblers-betting-iran-war-ukraine-news-truth

4 months ago

The Problem That Built an Industry

https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/

4 months ago

Air Powered Segment Display? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BLGpE5zH0

4 months ago

How to build a `Git diff` driver

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/04/11/how-git-diff-driver/

4 months ago

Now is the best time to write code by hand

https://sitebloom.ch/writing/now-is-the-best-time-to-write-code-by-hand/

4 months ago

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy

4 months ago

Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom

https://kotaku.com/rockstar-games-reportedly-hacked-massive-data-leak-ransom-gta-6-shinyhunters-2000686858

4 months ago

PCI Express over Fiber [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDa9bBucEI

4 months ago

Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool

https://github.com/retlehs/quien/

4 months ago

How do Wake-On-LAN works

https://blog.xaner.dev/post/wake-on-lan/

4 months ago

What We Learned Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript

https://encore.dev/blog/rust-runtime

4 months ago

The APL Programming Language Source Code (2012)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/

4 months ago

High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain

https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-01_high-level-rust

4 months ago

How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260410-how-to-breathe-in-fewer-microplastics-in-your-home

4 months ago

Phone Trips

http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/

4 months ago

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2611/

4 months ago

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck

https://jcs.org/2026/04/09/openbsd-dm250

4 months ago

Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab

4 months ago

Prompt to Appdead

https://prompttoapp.dev/

4 months ago

One neat trick to end extreme poverty

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/09/one-neat-trick-to-end-extreme-poverty

4 months ago

We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltnlks2-uU

4 months ago