top 50% 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/

4 months ago

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry

https://cli.github.com/telemetry

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/

4 months ago

Coding Models Are Doing Too Much

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

4 months ago

The Free Universal Construction Kit

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

4 months ago

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt

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

4 months ago

I'm Sick of AI Everything

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

4 months ago

Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded

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

4 months ago

3.4M Solar Panels

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

4 months ago

Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform

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

4 months ago

Paraloid B-72

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

4 months ago

Parallel Agents in Zed

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

4 months ago

The Joy of Folding Bikes

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

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

What Async Promised and What It Delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/

4 months ago

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877

4 months ago

How the Heck Does GPS Work?

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work

4 months ago

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/

4 months ago

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247

4 months ago

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html

4 months ago

Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/

4 months ago

San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply

https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2026/03/27/san-diego-rents-declined-more-than-19-of-nations-top-20-markets-following-surge-in-supply

4 months ago

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/

4 months ago

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas

4 months ago

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-players-2026-04-22/

4 months ago

DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser

https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152

4 months ago

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/

4 months ago

Show HN: Agent Vault – A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents

https://github.com/Infisical/agent-vault

4 months ago

★ 810 Go

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts

https://twitter.com/orsonscottcard/status/2046702294406680751

4 months ago

CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/catls-new-lfp-battery-can-charge-from-10-to-98-in-less-than-7-minutes/

4 months ago

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/

4 months ago

How to Implement an FPS Counter

https://vplesko.com/posts/how_to_implement_an_fps_counter.html

4 months ago

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/

4 months ago

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/

4 months ago

Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?

https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-for-ubers-8-million

4 months ago

Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/

4 months ago

New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-production-its-no-contest/

4 months ago

Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-tool-tracks-staff-activity-sparks-concern-2026-4

4 months ago

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder-2000748013

4 months ago

Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/

4 months ago

Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/iran-claims-us-exploited-networking-equipment-backdoors-during-strikes

4 months ago

Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI

https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/top-maga-influencer-emily-hart-revealed-to-be-ai-created-by-a-guy-in-india/

4 months ago

Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-cloud-customer-wakes-up-to-usd18-000-bill-despite-usd7-budget-thanks-to-forgotten-public-api-key-attacker-put-in-60-000-requests-and-blasted-through-usd1-400-spending-cap

4 months ago

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/

4 months ago

PCR Is a (Surprisingly) Near-Optimal Technology

https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/

4 months ago

Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

https://github.com/besimple-oss/broccoli

4 months ago

★ 269 Python MIT