top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-12

Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

4 months ago

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

https://stevehanov.ca/blog/how-i-run-multiple-10k-mrr-companies-on-a-20month-tech-stack

4 months ago

Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756

4 months ago

★ 117.9k Shell

DIY Soft Drinks

https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/

4 months ago

Bring Back Idiomatic Design

https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design

4 months ago

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

4 months ago

Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829

4 months ago

★ 117.9k Shell

Google Removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

https://bsky.app/profile/serenityforge.com/post/3mj3r4nbiws2t

4 months ago

Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

https://boringbar.app/

4 months ago

The Peril of Laziness Lost

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/

4 months ago

We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees

https://blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com/we-have-a-99-email-reputation-gmail-disagrees/

4 months ago

Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps

https://maps.apple.com/frame?center=33.723388%2C35.614698&span=1.983925%2C4.004193

4 months ago

AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/ai-will-be-met-with-violence-and

4 months ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741527

4 months ago

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/12/ios_passcode_bug/

4 months ago

I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI

https://blog.danielvaughan.com/i-ran-gemma-4-as-a-local-model-in-codex-cli-7fda754dc0d4

4 months ago

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

https://www.eetimes.com/taking-on-cuda-with-rocm-one-step-after-another/

4 months ago

Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result

https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-orban-magyar-trump-1a4eb0ba6b94e0c80c3cd18bd36254ab

4 months ago

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

https://phyphox.org/

4 months ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/11/appeals-court-ruling-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional

4 months ago

Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3Native/releases

4 months ago

The End of Eleventy

https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/

4 months ago

JVM Options Explorer

https://chriswhocodes.com/vm-options-explorer.html

4 months ago

A Perfectable Programming Language

https://alok.github.io/lean-pages/perfectable-lean/

4 months ago

European AI. A playbook to own it. By Mistral

https://europe.mistral.ai/

4 months ago

Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

https://eualternative.eu/guides/building-saas-eu-stack/

4 months ago

The Closing of the Frontier

https://tanyaverma.sh/2026/04/10/closing-of-the-frontier.html

4 months ago

Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739305

4 months ago

Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide

https://www.lighterra.com/articles/

4 months ago

The Physics of GPS

https://perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps-work

4 months ago

Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

4 months ago

Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116384935123261912

4 months ago

Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targeted-second-attack/

4 months ago

Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis

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

4 months ago

Tech Valuations Are Back to Pre-AI Boom Levels

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/tech-valuations-back-to-pre-ai-boom-levels

4 months ago

Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair

https://aalonso.dev/blog/2023/how-to-fix-monitor-that-goes-black-off-due-to-static-electricity-in-chair/

4 months ago

Investigating How Long-Distance Couples Use Digital Games to Facilitate Intimacy

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09509

4 months ago

Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V

https://blog.kaving.me/blog/tracking-down-a-25-regression-on-llvm-risc-v/

4 months ago

Why AI Sucks at Front End

https://nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks-at-front-end

4 months ago

Doom, Played over Curl

https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom

4 months ago

Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

https://github.com/halfwhey/claudraband

4 months ago

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-infant-girl-south-lebanon-during-fathers-funeral-2026-04-12/

4 months ago

Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-landmark-election-closely-watched-by-eu-russia-us-2026-04-11/

4 months ago

My adventure in designing API keys

https://vjay15.github.io/blog/apikeys/

4 months ago

Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07902

4 months ago

Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/single-view/unkartierte-insel-demnaechst-auf-seekarten-verzeichnet.html

4 months ago

Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie

https://stevehanov.ca/blog/fast-and-easy-levenshtein-distance-using-a-trie

4 months ago

Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks

https://twitter.com/EthanLevins2/status/2043366941922926940

4 months ago

Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Put_your_SSH_keys_in_your_TPM_chip.html

4 months ago

We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd8jrd1vnyo

4 months ago