Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

(01:55) - Google releases Gemma 4 open models

(03:07) - Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

(04:11) - Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents

(05:46) - Tailscale's new macOS home

(07:10) - Cursor 3

(08:40) - Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

(10:00) - Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

(11:17) - Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

(12:24) - OpenAI Acquires TBPN

(13:46) - Outro

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
https://browsergate.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981Google releases Gemma 4 open models
https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361
Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002
Tailscale's new macOS home
https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618189
Cursor 3
https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084
Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078
Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617415
Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609356
OpenAI Acquires TBPN
https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617376

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:20) - Artemis II Launch Day Updates

(01:05) - EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

(02:38) - DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

(04:07) - Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

(05:23) - SpaceX files to go public

(06:50) - Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

(08:11) - Weather.com/Retro

(09:18) - AI for American-produced cement and concrete

(10:35) - A new C++ back end for ocamlc

(12:09) - Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

(13:50) - Outro

Artemis II Launch Day Updates
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840
Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564
SpaceX files to go public
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155
Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557921
Weather.com/Retro
https://weather.com/retro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609090
AI for American-produced cement and concrete
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and-concrete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603737
A new C++ back end for ocamlc
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058
Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608495

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode

(01:47) - OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation

(03:20) - Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

(04:40) - Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)

(06:14) - A dot a day keeps the clutter away

(07:16) - Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

(08:59) - Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs

(10:26) - Slop is not necessarily the future

(12:05) - MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)

(13:27) - 4D Doom

(14:44) - Outro

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592755
Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
https://ccunpacked.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085
Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586614
A dot a day keeps the clutter away
https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593556
Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795
Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
https://prismml.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422
Slop is not necessarily the future
https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953
MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)
https://ministack.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593285
4D Doom
https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549128

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:22) - Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

(02:13) - How to turn anything into a router

(03:31) - Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

(04:46) - Do your own writing

(06:11) - CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

(07:23) - Artemis II is not safe to fly

(08:57) - Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

(10:23) - Bird brains (2023)

(11:41) - Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens

(13:03) - Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

(14:18) - Outro

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582220How to turn anything into a router
https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574034
Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577761
Do your own writing
https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573519
CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
https://www.codingfont.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575403
Artemis II is not safe to fly
https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043
Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578572
Bird brains (2023)
https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887
Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581701
Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549824

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

(01:51) - Copilot edited an ad into my PR

(02:56) - Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

(04:10) - The Cognitive Dark Forest

(05:51) - Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

(07:15) - Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

(08:25) - C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report

(09:58) - My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

(11:13) - Coding agents could make free software matter again

(12:53) - The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

(14:10) - Outro

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865Copilot edited an ad into my PR
https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269
Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564421
The Cognitive Dark Forest
https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442
Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556290
Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569471
C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565365
My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566143
Coding agents could make free software matter again
https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568028
The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570666