top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-17

Claude Design

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

2 months ago

1231 upvotes – 760 comments

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

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

2 months ago

790 upvotes – 306 comments

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

2 months ago

766 upvotes – 198 comments

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

2 months ago

714 upvotes – 497 comments

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

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

2 months ago

600 upvotes – 153 comments

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

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

2 months ago

496 upvotes – 150 comments

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

2 months ago

457 upvotes – 269 comments

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

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

2 months ago

399 upvotes – 337 comments

I'm spending 3 months coding the old way

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

2 months ago

364 upvotes – 355 comments

NASA Force

https://nasaforce.gov/

2 months ago

335 upvotes – 312 comments

Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe

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

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 185 comments

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

2 months ago

306 upvotes – 232 comments

What Are Skiplists Good For?

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

2 months ago

289 upvotes – 70 comments

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

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

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 223 comments

Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

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

2 months ago

282 upvotes – 283 comments

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

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

2 months ago

270 upvotes – 128 comments

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

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

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 116 comments

Slop Cop

https://awnist.com/slop-cop

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 160 comments

NIST gives up enriching most CVEs

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

2 months ago

234 upvotes – 54 comments

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

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

2 months ago

225 upvotes – 83 comments
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