top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-16

Claude Opus 4.7

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

4 months ago

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b

4 months ago

Codex for Almost Everything

https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go from Here?

https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here

4 months ago

Stop Using Ollama

https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

4 months ago

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

https://darkbloom.dev

4 months ago

Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/

4 months ago

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/

4 months ago

Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339

4 months ago

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/

4 months ago

€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/unexpected-54k-billing-spike-in-13-hours-firebase-browser-key-without-api-restrictions-used-for-gemini-requests/140262

4 months ago

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

https://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575

4 months ago

Mozilla Thunderbolt

https://www.thunderbolt.io/

4 months ago

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

https://clojure.org/about/documentary

4 months ago

Everything we like is a psyop

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/everything-we-like-is-a-psyop/

4 months ago

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html

4 months ago

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/

4 months ago

A Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design

https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/

4 months ago

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit

4 months ago

Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-hacked-a-samsung-tv

4 months ago

I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it

https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-next-level-camera-and-i-love-it/

4 months ago

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

https://antirez.com/news/163

4 months ago

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober

4 months ago

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

https://blog.cloudflare.com/artifacts-git-for-agents-beta/

4 months ago

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

https://techstackups.com/articles/laravel-raised-money-and-now-injects-ads-directly-into-your-agent/

4 months ago

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch

4 months ago

The Beginning of Scarcity in AI

https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/

4 months ago

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun

4 months ago

Claude Opus 4.7

https://www.anthropic.com/claude/opus

4 months ago

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrd818gd2o

4 months ago

I learned Unity the wrong way

https://darkounity.com/blog/how-i-learned-unity-the-wrong-way

4 months ago

Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card

https://anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-7-system-card

4 months ago

Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/15/japan/society/jlpt-visa-requirement/

4 months ago

North American English Dialects

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

4 months ago

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/

4 months ago

Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab

4 months ago

Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh

https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind

4 months ago

The simple geometry behind any road

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/simple-geometry-of-roads/

4 months ago

IPv8 Proposal

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

4 months ago

SDL bans AI-written commits

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/15350

4 months ago

★ 15.4k C Zlib

Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review

https://stagereview.app/

4 months ago

Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703

4 months ago

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/

4 months ago

Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv

4 months ago

How a subsea cable is repaired

https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair

4 months ago

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine

4 months ago

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/

4 months ago

Tailscale-rs: Official Rust library for embedding Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-rs-rust-tsnet-library-preview

4 months ago

Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs

https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala

4 months ago