top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-04-30

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

3 months ago

1342 upvotes – 719 comments

Where the Goblins Came From

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

4 months ago

1068 upvotes – 660 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/

3 months ago

869 upvotes – 1054 comments

Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle

3 months ago

757 upvotes – 350 comments

The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/

3 months ago

707 upvotes – 252 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

4 months ago

681 upvotes – 462 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213

3 months ago

★ 731 HTML MPL-2.0
660 upvotes – 231 comments

CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10

3 months ago

599 upvotes – 549 comments

How an Oil Refinery Works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works

3 months ago

537 upvotes – 191 comments

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o

3 months ago

524 upvotes – 432 comments

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blockages-by-laliga/

3 months ago

518 upvotes – 227 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/

3 months ago

465 upvotes – 177 comments

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request

https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/

3 months ago

434 upvotes – 219 comments

Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/

3 months ago

408 upvotes – 296 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/

3 months ago

350 upvotes – 77 comments

J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI, dies at 79

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-genomics-inc-dies-79

4 months ago

342 upvotes – 85 comments

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/

3 months ago

327 upvotes – 209 comments

U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senators-vote-to-ban-themselves-from-trading-on-prediction-markets-ae4535dd

3 months ago

312 upvotes – 107 comments

GCC 16 has been released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html

3 months ago

305 upvotes – 52 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com

3 months ago

302 upvotes – 105 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seven-fold-last-decade

3 months ago

244 upvotes – 40 comments

Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file

https://honker.dev/

3 months ago

227 upvotes – 60 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito

4 months ago

215 upvotes – 32 comments

Mike: open-source legal AI

https://mikeoss.com/

4 months ago

208 upvotes – 113 comments

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html

3 months ago

207 upvotes – 33 comments

Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code

4 months ago

★ 91 Python
201 upvotes – 166 comments

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html

4 months ago

194 upvotes – 156 comments

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres

3 months ago

191 upvotes – 95 comments

The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed

https://theupsellgame.com/

3 months ago

191 upvotes – 65 comments

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl

3 months ago

★ 132 C# MIT
185 upvotes – 47 comments

U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP

https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-debt-tops-100-of-gdp-81c013d7

3 months ago

169 upvotes – 235 comments

Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/

3 months ago

164 upvotes – 8 comments

American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-richer-dads-spend-more-time

3 months ago

162 upvotes – 220 comments

The Internet Is Falling Down- CPanel/WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-authentication-bypass-cve-2026-41940/

3 months ago

158 upvotes – 59 comments

Tar files made in macOS generate "xattr" errors when expanded in Linux

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/

3 months ago

153 upvotes – 104 comments

DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

https://datacenter.fm/

3 months ago

150 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen

3 months ago

★ 328 Go Apache-2.0
136 upvotes – 65 comments

If I Could Make My Own GitHub

https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/

3 months ago

134 upvotes – 155 comments

The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

https://markready.io/blog/fcc-accredited-test-labs-complete-guide

3 months ago

129 upvotes – 83 comments

Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html

3 months ago

128 upvotes – 41 comments

The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai

3 months ago

125 upvotes – 146 comments

Claude.ai and API Unavailable

https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350

4 months ago

118 upvotes – 121 comments

For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa

https://twitter.com/benbawan/status/2049303326999609846

3 months ago

116 upvotes – 160 comments

Little Magazines Are Back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back

3 months ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958353

3 months ago

111 upvotes – 40 comments

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html

3 months ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

Monad Tutorials Timeline

https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline

3 months ago

105 upvotes – 57 comments

A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-1960s-art-school-experiment-that-redefined-creativity/

3 months ago

105 upvotes – 34 comments

Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/

3 months ago

97 upvotes – 68 comments

Apple reports second quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

3 months ago

96 upvotes – 107 comments

Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos with Historic JFK Flight

https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/

4 months ago

92 upvotes – 240 comments

Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell

https://pu.dev/

3 months ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718

3 months ago

89 upvotes – 102 comments

The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models

3 months ago

88 upvotes – 16 comments

Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

3 months ago

★ 25k C#
81 upvotes – 14 comments

Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled

https://www.404media.co/rightscon-human-rights-conference-suddenly-postponed/

3 months ago

80 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development/

4 months ago

79 upvotes – 19 comments

Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

https://lost-number.bearblog.dev/recovering-files-from-beyond-the-grave-using-photorec/

3 months ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

https://dustri.org/b/follow-up-to-carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html

3 months ago

76 upvotes – 14 comments

Zulip 12.0 Released

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/

4 months ago

75 upvotes – 10 comments

Warm Burnout: editor and terminal color scheme

https://warmburnout.com/

4 months ago

72 upvotes – 5 comments

I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens

https://burla-cloud.github.io/examples/airbnb-burla-demo/

3 months ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/

3 months ago

68 upvotes – 31 comments

On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/on-the-stand-elon-musk-cant-escape-his-own-tweets/

4 months ago

68 upvotes – 5 comments
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