top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-27

Microsoft to Stop Sharing Revenue with Main AI Partner OpenAI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-openai

2 months ago

989 upvotes – 845 comments

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

2 months ago

771 upvotes – 330 comments

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/

2 months ago

766 upvotes – 554 comments

Men Who Stare at Walls

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/

2 months ago

720 upvotes – 336 comments

Is my blue your blue?

https://ismy.blue/

2 months ago

692 upvotes – 468 comments

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026

2 months ago

599 upvotes – 227 comments

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models

2 months ago

501 upvotes – 108 comments

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest

2 months ago

★ 3.9kC
450 upvotes – 232 comments

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html

2 months ago

400 upvotes – 340 comments

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac

2 months ago

★ 1.1kTypeScriptApache-2.0
392 upvotes – 147 comments

Dutch central bank dithces AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140634/dutch-central-bank-chooses-lidl-for-european-cloud/

2 months ago

359 upvotes – 148 comments

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/

2 months ago

358 upvotes – 143 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/

2 months ago

358 upvotes – 166 comments

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

https://zsnes.com/

2 months ago

337 upvotes – 116 comments

CS Professor: To My Students

http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml

2 months ago

333 upvotes – 198 comments

GitHub is having issues now

https://www.githubstatus.com

2 months ago

330 upvotes – 122 comments

"Why not just use Lean?"

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html

2 months ago

303 upvotes – 209 comments

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/

2 months ago

299 upvotes – 66 comments

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 144 comments

Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 236 comments
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