top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-21

Framework Laptop 13 Pro

https://frame.work/laptop13pro

4 months ago

Laws of Software Engineering

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com

4 months ago

OpenAI Livestream

https://openai.com/live/

4 months ago

SpaceX and Cursor partnership. Right to acquire Cursor later this year

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374

4 months ago

Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-to-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-for-ai-training-data/articleshow/130422612.cms?from=mdr

4 months ago

Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan

https://claude.com/pricing

4 months ago

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

4 months ago

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic

4 months ago

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html

4 months ago

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html

4 months ago

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

https://britannica11.org/

4 months ago

Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/

4 months ago

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer

https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as

4 months ago

Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files

https://vidstudio.app/video-editor

4 months ago

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform

4 months ago

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spending-in-return/

4 months ago

Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-original-grapheneos-responses-to-wired-fact-checker

4 months ago

Claude Code no longer included in Pro tier

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mjzxwfx3qs2a

4 months ago

Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com

https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy

4 months ago

★ 42.1k TypeScript MIT

Another Day Has Come

https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come

4 months ago

How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation

4 months ago

I don't want your PRs anymore

https://dpc.pw/posts/i-dont-want-your-prs-anymore/

4 months ago

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says

4 months ago

Your favorite brands got worse on purpose

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-favorite-brands-got-worse-on-purpose

4 months ago

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.html

4 months ago

A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682

4 months ago

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/

4 months ago

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles

4 months ago

Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM

https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel/

4 months ago

★ 722 Go MIT

Work with the Garage Door Up

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up

4 months ago

Fusion Power Plant Simulator

https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator

4 months ago

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o

4 months ago

A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT

https://codemix.com/graph

4 months ago

Less human AI agents, please

https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/

4 months ago

A Periodic Map of Cheese

https://cheesemap.netlify.app/

4 months ago

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth

4 months ago

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust

4 months ago

ChatGPT Images 2.0

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/

4 months ago

WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009580.html

4 months ago

CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

https://www.brex.com/crabtrap

4 months ago

As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-white-sharks-climate

4 months ago

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice

4 months ago

The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan

https://respublica.media/en/en-sudan-abandoned-war-genocide-no-one-stopping/

4 months ago

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability-theory/

4 months ago

Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days

https://www.tindie.com/

4 months ago

California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-more-money-than-projected-newsom-miscalculated-budget/71056376

4 months ago

SpaceX Says It Has Agreement to Acquire Cursor for $60B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-says-has-agreement-to-acquire-cursor-for-60-billion

4 months ago

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment

https://www.courthousenews.com/preserved-for-billions-of-years-organic-compounds-found-on-mars/

4 months ago

SpaceX Said to Agree to Buy Cursor for More Than $50B

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html

4 months ago

The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/dining/la-marzocco-espresso-machine.html

4 months ago

Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM)

https://github.com/Arc1011/KernelUNO

4 months ago

★ 152 C++ BSD-3-Clause

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road

4 months ago

Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift 'Super Dumb' Men

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

4 months ago

Types and Neural Networks

https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2026-04-20-types-and-neural-networks.html

4 months ago

You don't want long-lived keys

https://argemma.com/blog/long-lived-keys/

4 months ago

Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/

4 months ago