top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-24

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/

4 months ago

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/

4 months ago

Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic

4 months ago

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/

4 months ago

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s

4 months ago

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p

4 months ago

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691

4 months ago

Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

https://github.com/matz/spinel

4 months ago

★ 1.3k Ruby MIT

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/

4 months ago

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/

4 months ago

Why I Write (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/

4 months ago

SDL Now Supports DOS

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377

4 months ago

★ 15.5k C Zlib

Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8

4 months ago

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/

4 months ago

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog

4 months ago

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/

4 months ago

Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture

https://ynarwal.github.io/how-llms-work/

4 months ago

S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx1n0dl9no

4 months ago

Hear your agent suffer through your code

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil

4 months ago

★ 183 Python

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/

4 months ago

Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/

4 months ago

Intel Arc Pro B70 Review

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/intel-arc-pro-b70-review/

4 months ago

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/

4 months ago

UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s781

4 months ago

Do I belong in tech anymore?

https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

4 months ago

Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/us/politics/companies-consumers-tariff-refunds.html

4 months ago

Refuse to let your doctor record you

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/why-you-should-refuse-to-let-your-doctor-record/

4 months ago

Magic: The Gathering Took Me from N2 to Japanese Fluency

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency

4 months ago

DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro

4 months ago

Why Not Venus?

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/why-not-venus

4 months ago

SFO Quiet Airport (2025)

https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/

4 months ago

Google Flow Music

https://www.flowmusic.app/

4 months ago

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/

4 months ago

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubernetes/

4 months ago

Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go

https://github.com/NV404/gova

4 months ago

★ 321 Go MIT

The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

https://orchidfiles.com/stigma-is-a-tax-on-every-operational-decision/

4 months ago

Show HN: Browser Harness – simplest way to give AI control of real browser

https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness

4 months ago

★ 9k Python MIT

Aspartame is not that bad?

https://dynomight.net/aspartame/

4 months ago

Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/

4 months ago

Composition Shouldn't be this Hard

https://www.cambra.dev/blog/announcement/

4 months ago

Databases Were Not Designed for This

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/

4 months ago

Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817

4 months ago

Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

4 months ago

Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895029

4 months ago

nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL

https://hostednowhere.com/

4 months ago

Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years

https://felixbarbalet.com/familiarity-is-the-enemy/

4 months ago

A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?

https://xark.es/b/mythos-firefox-150

4 months ago

Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

https://tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core

4 months ago

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

4 months ago

Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live)

https://www.svtplay.se/video/jXv3A5G/den-stora-algvandringen/idag-00-00

4 months ago

Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?

https://driggsby.com/blog/claude-code-routine-watch-my-finances

4 months ago

CSS as a Query Language

https://evdc.me/blog/css-query

4 months ago

Tesla (TSLA) discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition buried

https://electrek.co/2026/04/23/tesla-tsla-quietly-discloses-2-billion-ai-hardware-acquisition-10q/

4 months ago

Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers

https://www.recurse.com/blog/192-redesigning-the-recurse-center-application

4 months ago

Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799

4 months ago

Sloppy Copies

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/04/19/sloppy-copies/

4 months ago