top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-26

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

2 months ago

1192 upvotes – 851 comments

I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d

2 months ago

1115 upvotes – 614 comments

A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/

2 months ago

865 upvotes – 600 comments

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

2 months ago

855 upvotes – 1028 comments

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/

2 months ago

688 upvotes – 253 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/

2 months ago

657 upvotes – 363 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253

2 months ago

589 upvotes – 188 comments

Sawe smashes two-hour mark to 'move goalposts for marathon running'

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo

2 months ago

517 upvotes – 345 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots

2 months ago

488 upvotes – 75 comments

Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/

2 months ago

430 upvotes – 329 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/

2 months ago

360 upvotes – 214 comments

Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years

https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/

2 months ago

352 upvotes – 96 comments

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/

2 months ago

343 upvotes – 181 comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

https://statecharts.dev/

2 months ago

313 upvotes – 85 comments

I have officially retired from Emacs

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/

2 months ago

274 upvotes – 210 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 83 comments

Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

2 months ago

245 upvotes – 438 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial

2 months ago

243 upvotes – 151 comments

GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666

2 months ago

242 upvotes – 134 comments

Meetings Are Forcing Functions

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 117 comments

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0/

2 months ago

195 upvotes – 34 comments

Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/

2 months ago

191 upvotes – 48 comments

Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html

2 months ago

178 upvotes – 135 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/

2 months ago

175 upvotes – 29 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html

2 months ago

174 upvotes – 65 comments

The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color

https://www.barwypowstania.pl/

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 74 comments

When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 117 comments

Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on

2 months ago

161 upvotes – 104 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/

2 months ago

149 upvotes – 38 comments

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book

2 months ago

★ 460ShellMIT
148 upvotes – 43 comments

Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-deep-antarctic-ice-cosmic-strange.html

2 months ago

134 upvotes – 45 comments

Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

https://www.edenai.co

2 months ago

133 upvotes – 69 comments

Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-trove-of-ancient-shipwrecks-in-bay-of-gibraltar

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 39 comments

At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/us/deaths-disappearances-scientists-investigation

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 74 comments

If You Stop Hiring Juniors, Your Senior Engineers Own You

https://evalcode.com/posts/if-you-stop-hiring-juniors-your-seniors-own-you/

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)

https://github.com/sachitrafa/YourMemory

2 months ago

★ 206Python
98 upvotes – 52 comments

Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/plants-can-sense-sound-rain-new-study-finds-0422

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 25 comments

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Have you tried Clean Architecture as foundation for your AI project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913561

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 1 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 11 comments

A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 13 comments
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