top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-17

Claude Design

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

4 months ago

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

https://hex.ooo/library/last_question.html

4 months ago

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation

4 months ago

Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you

4 months ago

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09

4 months ago

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

4 months ago

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon

4 months ago

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification

4 months ago

I'm spending 3 months coding the old way

https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand

4 months ago

NASA Force

https://nasaforce.gov/

4 months ago

Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe

https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not

4 months ago

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap

4 months ago

What Are Skiplists Good For?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/

4 months ago

Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

4 months ago

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794

4 months ago

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75848

4 months ago

Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/

4 months ago

Slop Cop

https://awnist.com/slop-cop

4 months ago

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/

4 months ago

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/

4 months ago