top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-23

Introducing GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

4 months ago

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud

4 months ago

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

4 months ago

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

4 months ago

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised

4 months ago

Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8000-employees/

4 months ago

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade

4 months ago

Flipdiscs

https://flipdisc.io

4 months ago

If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so

4 months ago

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/

4 months ago

France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids/

4 months ago

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/

4 months ago

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker

4 months ago

★ 698 Python Apache-2.0

MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/

4 months ago

Show HN: Tolaria – open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria

4 months ago

★ 8.4k TypeScript AGPL-3.0

OpenAI model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/

4 months ago

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split

4 months ago

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/23/hairdryer-used-trick-weather-sensor-34000-polymarket-bet/

4 months ago

Incident with Multple GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p

4 months ago

Using the internet like it's 1999

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/

4 months ago