top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-22

Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/

2 months ago

2316 upvotes – 778 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456

2 months ago

1010 upvotes – 255 comments

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

2 months ago

992 upvotes – 446 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/

2 months ago

929 upvotes – 298 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/

2 months ago

887 upvotes – 192 comments

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave"

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/

2 months ago

615 upvotes – 92 comments

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

https://cli.github.com/telemetry

2 months ago

464 upvotes – 346 comments

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era/

2 months ago

454 upvotes – 225 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/

2 months ago

437 upvotes – 118 comments

Coding Models Are Doing Too Much

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/

2 months ago

422 upvotes – 243 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/

2 months ago

383 upvotes – 85 comments

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html

2 months ago

346 upvotes – 94 comments

I'm Sick of AI Everything

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857461

2 months ago

344 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/

2 months ago

333 upvotes – 234 comments

3.4M Solar Panels

https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html

2 months ago

320 upvotes – 272 comments

Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/

2 months ago

300 upvotes – 158 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 64 comments

Parallel Agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 164 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes

2 months ago

262 upvotes – 190 comments

Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time

https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured-film-first-time

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 66 comments
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