top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-14

DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo

4 months ago

Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

4 months ago

Stop Flock

https://stopflock.com

4 months ago

A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking

4 months ago

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769796

4 months ago

Claude Code Routines

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines

4 months ago

Rare concert records going on Internet Archive

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/thousands-of-rare-concert-recordings-are-landing-on-the-internet-archive-listen-now/

4 months ago

I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

https://honeypot.net/2026/04/14/i-wrote-to-flocks-privacy.html

4 months ago

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html

4 months ago

What is jj and why should I care?

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/introduction/what-is-jj-and-why-should-i-care.html

4 months ago

Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

https://bandaancha.eu/articulos/telefonica-consigue-bloqueos-ips-11731

4 months ago

Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Work

https://aphyr.com/posts/418-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-work

4 months ago

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

https://introspective-diffusion.github.io/

4 months ago

OpenSSL 4.0.0

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.0.0

4 months ago

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/

4 months ago

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models

https://cadquery.github.io/

4 months ago

H.R.8250 – To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

4 months ago

An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story

https://www.tobru.ch/an-ai-vibe-coding-horror-story/

4 months ago

It's OK to compare floating-points for equality

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/its-ok-to-compare-floating-points-for-equality.html

4 months ago

5NF and Database Design

https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/

4 months ago

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/skills-in-chrome/

4 months ago

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out

https://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/

4 months ago

Distributed DuckDB Instance

https://github.com/citguru/openduck

4 months ago

40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2976-601X/ae4f6b

4 months ago

Fuck the Cloud (2009)

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717

4 months ago

Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'

https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/

4 months ago

Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes

https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html

4 months ago

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-renewables-natural-gas-coal

4 months ago

The Shinkansen

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways

4 months ago

Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?

https://github.com/ginlix-ai/langalpha

4 months ago

PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure-optimizations

4 months ago

California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/eff_california_3dprinted_firearms/

4 months ago

Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764215

4 months ago

Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html

4 months ago

80386 Memory Pipeline

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_memory_pipeline/

4 months ago

Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-from-clown-show-to-v1-0-c239d9a407ec

4 months ago

NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2026/04/07/nimconf-2026.html

4 months ago

Can Claude Fly a Plane?

https://so.long.thanks.fish/can-claude-fly-a-plane/

4 months ago

Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

4 months ago

How can I keep from singing?

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/

4 months ago

Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/apple-threat-remove-grok-app-store-deepfake-letter-musk-x-ai-rcna331677

4 months ago

Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents

https://github.com/dropseed/plain

4 months ago

Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense/

4 months ago

Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

https://www.sebastian-jais.de/blog/two-months-alma-experiment

4 months ago

Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

https://ciphercue.com/blog/ransomware-claims-grew-faster-than-security-spend-2025

4 months ago

Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time

https://amitlimaye1.substack.com/p/rewriting-every-syscall-in-a-linux

4 months ago

TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components

https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components

4 months ago

What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude

4 months ago