top 20 hacker news stories for today

TikTok Makes Americans Want Chinese EVs They Can't Have

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/byd-xiaomi-and-zeekr-car-reviews-flood-tiktok-youtube-in-the-us

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Introducing GPT-5.5

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

8 hours ago

1096 upvotes – 761 comments

I am building a cloud

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

21 hours ago

1000 upvotes – 488 comments

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/

8 hours ago

750 upvotes – 512 comments

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain

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

11 hours ago

645 upvotes – 321 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

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

8 hours ago

579 upvotes – 434 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

435 upvotes – 802 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

379 upvotes – 352 comments

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/

13 hours ago

370 upvotes – 129 comments

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/

10 hours ago

358 upvotes – 122 comments

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

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

1 day ago

309 upvotes – 105 comments

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

https://github.com/russellromney/honker

14 hours ago

233 upvotes – 55 comments

'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/

9 hours ago

232 upvotes – 228 comments

U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-prediction-market-bets?bm-verify=AAQAAAAN_____y6To7sZYZ502biZwIHXlr-7zXZUqV4H0xLTfW__wDA3SjNLqifXRaQwsikyuz6IJknyuL8xfVYRkesxcDk5V10m-HoXl2K93f17rygBphL77WVFoQ_XvlmUo922IwM_DQ66137X6wWMtpdHslcEjpJG7KbBmUw9Su4kDENpDt_yv2spThQZehgv-X1Adk5U2VHfp41co2s_QJGjRj4y0KmL1mhSCyVaE7MC1LHG0mtP-xYmD0xBOQwn6PlHkPiP5Nt46h5ZIjLGXgCZDEVD42i7rIEM379DKLPUPX0PDNmOAwFSuTqcTDVnT_UUV8vxpHLRMb7rUxPxKUPcIB23iZTRJddWDDtPHMXadpwv67xr-f1sKDLZT9NgHCO4iuC2EthmAt0

3 hours ago

227 upvotes – 94 comments

Incident with Multple GitHub Services

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

9 hours ago

207 upvotes – 102 comments

Raylib v6.0

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0

13 hours ago

200 upvotes – 33 comments

To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-yet-remains-on-the-force

10 hours ago

196 upvotes – 135 comments

Ars Technica: Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/

20 hours ago

187 upvotes – 125 comments

Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo

6 hours ago

175 upvotes – 145 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

151 upvotes – 92 comments
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