top 50% 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

Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD

https://electrek.co/2026/04/17/tesla-hw3-owners-be-patient-7-years-fsd/

4 months ago

A simplified model of Fil-C

https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c

4 months ago

Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage

https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/

4 months ago

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint

4 months ago

Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

https://www.discovermagazine.com/up-to-8-million-bees-are-living-in-an-underground-network-beneath-this-cemetery-48977

4 months ago

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/

4 months ago

Japan's Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blossom-database-scientist.html

4 months ago

Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything

https://newatlas.com/electronics/meta-nfc-focused-microwaves-circuits/

4 months ago

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

https://www.theverge.com/tech/913638/bluesky-has-been-dealing-with-a-ddos-attack-for-nearly-a-full-day

4 months ago

Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/09/teddy-roosevelt-and-abraham-lincoln-in-the-same-photo/

4 months ago

FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/

4 months ago

Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust

https://medium.com/@iainmcgin/zero-copy-protobuf-and-connectrpc-for-rust-69bda8ac0f02

4 months ago

Human Accelerated Region 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1

4 months ago

Show HN: Spice simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

https://lucasgerads.com/blog/lecroy-mcp-spice-demo/

4 months ago

How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists into Exploited Gig Workers

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-silicon-valley-andreesen-thiel-stem/

4 months ago

Iceye Open Data

https://www.iceye.com/open-data-initiative

4 months ago

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01204-5

4 months ago

Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (By Cloudflare)

https://isitagentready.com

4 months ago

We Reproduced Anthropic's Mythos Findings with Public Models

https://blog.vidocsecurity.com/blog/we-reproduced-anthropics-mythos-findings-with-public-models

4 months ago

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-monumental-ship-burial-beneath-ancient.html

4 months ago

Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-two-motorola-transistors-became-the-worlds-default-npns/

4 months ago

Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units

https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/tesla-cybertruck-spacex-1279-q4-sales-inflated/

4 months ago

US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions

4 months ago

Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box

https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html

4 months ago

Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

https://www.defined.net/blog/year-of-the-ipv6-overlay-network/

4 months ago

EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted

https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921

4 months ago

The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant

https://gregorio-project.github.io/index.html

4 months ago

Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803524

4 months ago