top 50% 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

4 months ago

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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

4 months ago

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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

4 months ago

Men Who Stare at Walls

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

4 months ago

Is my blue your blue?

https://ismy.blue/

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

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

4 months ago

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest

4 months ago

★ 3.9k C

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

★ 1.1k TypeScript Apache-2.0

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/

4 months ago

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/

4 months ago

You can beat the binary search

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

4 months ago

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

https://zsnes.com/

4 months ago

CS Professor: To My Students

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

4 months ago

GitHub is having issues now

https://www.githubstatus.com

4 months ago

"Why not just use Lean?"

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

4 months ago

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

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

4 months ago

The Prompt API

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

4 months ago

Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27

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

4 months ago

The Woes of Sanitizing SVGs

https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/

4 months ago

US Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data to Find Criminals

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/supreme-court-cell-data-geofence.html

4 months ago

FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher

4 months ago

Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino

4 months ago

★ 561 CERN-OHL-P-2.0

United Wizards of the Coast

https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

4 months ago

France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-frances-mistral-built-a-14-billion-ai-empire-by-not-being-american/

4 months ago

Three men are facing 44 charges in Toronto SMS Blaster Arrests

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/unprecedented-sms-blaster-arrests/

4 months ago

It's OK to abandon your side-project

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/

4 months ago

A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-type-of-neuroplasticity-rewires-the-brain-after-a-single-experience-20260424/

4 months ago

Can You Find the Comet?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

4 months ago

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Landmark Roundup Weedkiller Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/climate/supreme-court-bayer-monsanto-roundup-glyphosate.html

4 months ago

U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/

4 months ago

Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238

4 months ago

Withnail's Coat and I

https://ontherow.substack.com/p/withnails-coat-and-i

4 months ago

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax

4 months ago

The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/

4 months ago

Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight

https://deploy.live/blog/running-local-llms-offline-on-a-ten-hour-flight/

4 months ago

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

https://www.systalyze.com/utilyze

4 months ago

Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings

https://github.com/garritfra/cell

4 months ago

★ 265 Rust MIT

NPM Website Is Down

https://status.npmjs.org

4 months ago

EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow

4 months ago

★ 379 Shell

New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/integrated-by-design-launch

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages

https://samizdat.dev/phantom-patch/

4 months ago

Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/26/windows_second_chance_setup/

4 months ago

Notepad++ for Mac

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

4 months ago

Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

https://routerjockey.com/tim-cook-is-leaving-good/

4 months ago

AI can cost more than human workers now

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers

4 months ago

Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL

https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/

4 months ago

L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

https://github.com/duane1024/l123

4 months ago

★ 108 Rust MIT

Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/26858/gallium-oxide-electronics-withstand-extreme-cold/

4 months ago

I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

https://leblancfg.com/intensity-pad-founder-story.html

4 months ago

Our principles

https://openai.com/index/our-principles/

4 months ago

My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html

4 months ago

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

https://derekrodriguez.dev/parse-dont-validate-through-the-years-with-c-/

4 months ago

We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/we-still-dont-have-a-more-precise-value-for-big-g/

4 months ago

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril

4 months ago

★ 170 TypeScript

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919028/canva-magic-layers-ai-replacing-palestine

4 months ago

Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3123900/framework-new-linux-laptop-is-selling-faster-than-its-windows-one.html

4 months ago

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/

4 months ago

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

https://github.com/drio/unixmagic

4 months ago

★ 144 CSS MIT