Article URL: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195 Points: 206 # Comments: 100
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- 01All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027◆ 6.4
- 02NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentagon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 Points: 249 # Comments: 200
◆ 6.4 - 03Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)
Article URL: https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/tesla-dissimule-des-milliers-d-incidents-de-conduite-autonome-mortels-29214161.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833156 Points: 197 # Comments: 59
◆ 6.4 - 04Vercel says internal systems hit in breach
Article URL: https://decipher.sc/2026/04/19/vercel-says-internal-systems-hit-in-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824976 Points: 361 # Comments: 101
◆ 6.2 - 05NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-axios-reports-2026-04-19/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 Points: 140 # Comments: 102
◆ 6.2 - 06The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829486 Points: 191 # Comments: 80
◆ 6.1 - 07GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Article URL: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621 Points: 404 # Comments: 245
◆ 6.1 - 08Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)
Article URL: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184 Points: 136 # Comments: 81
◆ 6.0 - 09Vercel April 2026 security incident
Article URL: https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 185 # Comments: 69
◆ 6.0 - 10Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/swiss-authorities-want-to-reduce-dependency-on-microsoft/91280532 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Points: 173 # Comments: 61
◆ 5.9 - 11Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Article URL: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-whatsapp-5HjdXwr_2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824068 Points: 187 # Comments: 113
◆ 5.7 - 12Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818305 Points: 171 # Comments: 105
◆ 5.7 - 13OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437 Points: 116 # Comments: 132
◆ 5.6 - 14Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/17/tesla-hw3-owners-be-patient-7-years-fsd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809347 Points: 129 # Comments: 83
◆ 5.6 - 15ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558 Points: 107 # Comments: 27
◆ 5.5 - 16The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913765/adobe-rivals-free-creative-software-app-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824403 Points: 115 # Comments: 87
◆ 5.5 - 17M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832248 Points: 145 # Comments: 64
◆ 5.4 - 18Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-2026-04-17/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828225 Points: 131 # Comments: 54
◆ 5.4 - 19Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830 Points: 391 # Comments: 83
◆ 5.3 - 20How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll
Article URL: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803745 Points: 145 # Comments: 55
◆ 5.2 - 21Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-childcare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820046 Points: 109 # Comments: 62
◆ 5.1 - 22US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801991 Points: 287 # Comments: 196
◆ 5.1 - 23Everything we like is a psyop?
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/everything-we-like-is-a-psyop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800738 Points: 258 # Comments: 171
◆ 5.1 - 24IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831272 Points: 116 # Comments: 79
◆ 5.1 - 25The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Article URL: https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/the-quiet-disappearance-of-the-free-range-childhood/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815127 Points: 156 # Comments: 167
◆ 5.0 - 26Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802233 Points: 149 # Comments: 54
◆ 4.9 - 27Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
I’ve spent roughly the last decade and some change as a software engineer, and recently decided to start a solo consultancy. I’m focused on helping SMEs sort out the messy back-office parts of the business: spreadsheet glue, brittle internal workflows, poor reporting, awkward integrations, backend/platform problems, and AI workflows that need to do real work rather than just look good in a demo. …
◆ 4.9 - 28Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822356 Points: 130 # Comments: 25
◆ 4.8 - 29NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820531 Points: 175 # Comments: 78
◆ 4.8 - 30Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913638/bluesky-has-been-dealing-with-a-ddos-attack-for-nearly-a-full-day Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802330 Points: 111 # Comments: 49
◆ 4.8 - 31Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
Article URL: https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803844 Points: 235 # Comments: 167
◆ 4.7 - 32New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800166 Points: 220 # Comments: 52
◆ 4.7 - 33Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Article URL: https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824945 Points: 349 # Comments: 125
◆ 4.7 - 34Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
Article URL: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700 Points: 336 # Comments: 209
◆ 4.6 - 35Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806304 Points: 693 # Comments: 176
◆ 4.6 - 36Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829178 Points: 168 # Comments: 65
◆ 4.6 - 37Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
I ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 (4B parameter image-to-3D model) to run on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. The original requires CUDA with flash_attn, nvdiffrast, and custom sparse convolution kernels: none of which work on Mac. I replaced the CUDA-specific ops with pure-PyTorch alternatives: a gather-scatter sparse 3D convolution, SDPA attention for sparse transformers, and a Python-based mesh ext…
◆ 4.5 - 382,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Related ongoing thread: Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420 Points: 206 # Comments: 62
◆ 4.5 - 39Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 1920 # Comments: 1402
◆ 4.4 - 40Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
Article URL: https://hex.ooo/library/last_question.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804965 Points: 706 # Comments: 281
◆ 4.4 - 41Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
Faceoff is a TUI app written in Python to follow live NHL games and browse standings and stats. I got the inspiration from Playball, a similar TUI app for MLB games that was featured on HN. The app was mostly vibe-coded with Claude Code, but not one-shot. I added features and fixed bugs by using it, as I spent way too much time in the terminal over the last few months. Try it out with `uvx faceof…
◆ 4.4 - 42Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)
Article URL: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/09/teddy-roosevelt-and-abraham-lincoln-in-the-same-photo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803992 Points: 117 # Comments: 31
◆ 4.3 - 43Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764 Points: 1193 # Comments: 494
◆ 4.3 - 44FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
Article URL: https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803323 Points: 132 # Comments: 66
◆ 4.2 - 45Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Article URL: https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806348 Points: 159 # Comments: 65
◆ 4.2 - 46Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
Article URL: https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259 Points: 331 # Comments: 179
◆ 4.2 - 47PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
Article URL: https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349 Points: 101 # Comments: 24
◆ 4.1 - 48Human Accelerated Region 1
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802312 Points: 101 # Comments: 51
◆ 4.1 - 49Experiment with ICEYE Open Data
Article URL: https://www.iceye.com/open-data-initiative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806440 Points: 108 # Comments: 14
◆ 4.0 - 50The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718 Points: 669 # Comments: 688
◆ 4.0 - 51Claude Design
Related: https://x.com/flomerboy/status/2045162321589252458 (https://xcancel.com/flomerboy/status/2045162321589252458) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725 Points: 1166 # Comments: 730
◆ 4.0 - 52Vercel April 2026 security incident
https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 815 # Comments: 465
◆ 4.0 - 53Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
I built MCP servers for my oscilloscope and SPICE simulator so Claude Code can close the loop between simulation and real hardware. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801255 Points: 110 # Comments: 30
◆ 4.0 - 54Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
Article URL: https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033 Points: 212 # Comments: 43
◆ 3.9 - 55A simplified model of Fil-C
Article URL: https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810872 Points: 190 # Comments: 104
◆ 3.9 - 56Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Article URL: https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774 Points: 835 # Comments: 413
◆ 3.9 - 57The beginning of scarcity in AI
Article URL: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799322 Points: 137 # Comments: 170
◆ 3.9 - 58The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
Article URL: https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822486 Points: 312 # Comments: 120
◆ 3.8 - 59The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Article URL: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821429 Points: 190 # Comments: 95
◆ 3.8 - 60Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/artifacts-git-for-agents-beta/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792374 Points: 188 # Comments: 20
◆ 3.8 - 61Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
I've been studying interval arithmetic for the past few weeks and it's a really interesting field because while there is a ton of super interesting research published over the past decades, it has never really gotten the recognition that it deserves, IMO. One reason for this is that standard interval arithmetic has really poor handling of division by intervals containing zero. If you compute 1 / …
◆ 3.8 - 62"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809190 Points: 255 # Comments: 143
◆ 3.8 - 63Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Related: Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791282 (64 comments) https://x.com/doctorveera/status/2044679999450664967 (https://xcancel.com/doctorveera/status/2044679999450664967) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811283 Points: 100 # Comments: 113
◆ 3.7 - 64Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-hacked-a-samsung-tv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791212 Points: 238 # Comments: 127
◆ 3.7 - 65Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Article URL: https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-measured-claude-4-7-s-new-tokenizer-here-s-what-it-costs-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807006 Points: 678 # Comments: 474
◆ 3.7 - 66Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Article URL: https://clojure.org/about/documentary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798345 Points: 309 # Comments: 95
◆ 3.7 - 67Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-after-blizzard-wins-injunction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825160 Points: 286 # Comments: 250
◆ 3.7 - 68The Bromine Chokepoint
Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-production-of-the-worlds-memory-chips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826100 Points: 215 # Comments: 126
◆ 3.7 - 69Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270 Points: 336 # Comments: 186
◆ 3.7 - 70Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Article URL: https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826834 Points: 124 # Comments: 38
◆ 3.7 - 71Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
Article URL: https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798176 Points: 235 # Comments: 108
◆ 3.7 - 72Amiga Graphics Archive
Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 241 # Comments: 77
◆ 3.6 - 73NASA Force
Article URL: https://nasaforce.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209 Points: 300 # Comments: 294
◆ 3.6 - 74A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Article URL: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799573 Points: 145 # Comments: 27
◆ 3.6 - 75Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Article URL: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268 Points: 414 # Comments: 128
◆ 3.6 - 76Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797665 Points: 296 # Comments: 121
◆ 3.6 - 77Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
Article URL: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819369 Points: 117 # Comments: 43
◆ 3.6 - 78NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength-lasers-tiny-circuits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819453 Points: 402 # Comments: 185
◆ 3.6 - 79Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
Article URL: https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807619 Points: 252 # Comments: 219
◆ 3.6 - 80All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808913 Points: 430 # Comments: 243
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