top 50% hacker news stories for today

Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs

https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c

2 hours ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI appears to be funding it

https://modelrepublic.substack.com/p/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are

2 hours ago

14 upvotes – 0 comments

The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/viral-tin-can-phone-brings-landline-nostalgia-back-for-kids-in-2026

2 hours ago

14 upvotes – 5 comments

Notepad++ for Mac

https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/

52 minutes ago

11 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated)

https://github.com/drio/unixmagic

1 hour ago

★ 109HTMLMIT
10 upvotes – 0 comments

After three months on Linux, I don't miss Windows at all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows

2 hours ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/

2 hours ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

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

20 hours ago

1097 upvotes – 783 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

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

16 hours ago

597 upvotes – 294 comments

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation

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

10 hours ago

555 upvotes – 219 comments

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

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

1 day ago

536 upvotes – 179 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

483 upvotes – 655 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

6 hours ago

457 upvotes – 250 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/

1 day ago

407 upvotes – 286 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/

23 hours ago

329 upvotes – 183 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/

6 hours ago

303 upvotes – 257 comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

https://statecharts.dev/

17 hours ago

290 upvotes – 79 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

271 upvotes – 202 comments

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

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

13 hours ago

259 upvotes – 146 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

229 upvotes – 123 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

8 hours ago

209 upvotes – 316 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

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

10 hours ago

201 upvotes – 121 comments

Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years

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

6 hours ago

171 upvotes – 44 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

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

23 hours ago

164 upvotes – 56 comments

Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

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

9 hours ago

162 upvotes – 24 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/

1 day ago

162 upvotes – 24 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/

5 hours ago

142 upvotes – 42 comments

Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

https://www.edenai.co

18 hours ago

125 upvotes – 66 comments

The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color

https://www.barwypowstania.pl/

7 hours ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/

11 hours ago

116 upvotes – 29 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

14 hours ago

114 upvotes – 79 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

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

10 hours ago

112 upvotes – 19 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

93 upvotes – 1 comments

If You Stop Hiring Juniors, Your Senior Engineers Own You

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

6 hours ago

93 upvotes – 71 comments

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

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

21 hours ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

Self-updating screenshots

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

19 hours ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski

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

19 hours ago

81 upvotes – 11 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

8 hours ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Two Athletes Break Sub-2-HR Marathon in Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3

https://news.adidas.com/running/two-adidas-athletes-sabastian-sawe-and-yomif-kejelcha-break-the-sub-2-hour-marathon-barrier-in-the-r/s/d4be4eac-a3b8-47d5-835f-9cbd685638ca

5 hours ago

75 upvotes – 1 comments

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

https://github.com/sachitrafa/YourMemory

6 hours ago

★ 103Python
65 upvotes – 31 comments
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