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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
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• ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
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• Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
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• Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
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• AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
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• Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
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• Laws of Software Engineering
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• Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
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• Framework Laptop 13 Pro
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• ChatGPT Images 2.0
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
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• GitHub's fake star economy
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• NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
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• Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
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• Sauna effect on heart rate
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• All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
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• Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
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• Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
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• At long last, InfoWars is ours
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• John Ternus to become Apple CEO
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
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• Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975
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• Why Japan has such good railways
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• The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
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• College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
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• Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
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• NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
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• Vercel April 2026 security incident
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• Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
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• Vercel says internal systems hit in breach
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
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• Michael Rabin has died
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• NASA Force
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• I’m spending months coding the old way
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• Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
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• All 12 moonwalkers had \"lunar hay fever\" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
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• Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
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• State of Kdenlive
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• Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
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• Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
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• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
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• Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
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• Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
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• The \"Passive Income\" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
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• US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
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• Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
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• Ban the sale of precise geolocation
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• Claude Design
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• Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
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• The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
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• Stop Using Ollama
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• Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
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• Cloudflare Email Service
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• The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
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• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
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• Claude Opus 4.7
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• Codex for almost everything
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
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• Claude Code Routines
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• Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
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• Stop Flock
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• Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
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• Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
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• Backpacks got worse on purpose
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• God sleeps in the minerals
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• Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
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• Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
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• Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
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• Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
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• GitHub Stacked PRs
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• DaVinci Resolve – Photo
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• A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
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• Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
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• jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
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• Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
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• I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Most people can't juggle one ball
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• I gave every train in New York an instrument
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• DIY Soft Drinks
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• Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
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• The peril of laziness lost
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• Google removes \"Doki Doki Literature Club\" from Google Play
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• All elementary functions from a single binary operator
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• The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
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• Servo is now available on crates.io
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• Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
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• Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
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• Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
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• Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
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• Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
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• I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
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• Bring Back Idiomatic Design
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• Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block
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• Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
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• Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
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• CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
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• Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
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• AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
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• Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers
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• Installing every* Firefox extension
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• Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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• Artemis II safely splashes down
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• France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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• Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]
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• How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
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• Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
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• I still prefer MCP over skills
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• France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
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• FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
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• OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
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• You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
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• 1D Chess
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• WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
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• Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
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• They're made out of meat (1991)
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• ML promises to be profoundly weird
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• Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
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• Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
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• LittleSnitch for Linux
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• Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
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• Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
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• EFF is leaving X
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to get better at guitar
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• Lunar Flyby
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• Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
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• US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
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• Veracrypt project update
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• Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
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• Git commands I run before reading any code
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• US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
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• Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates
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• I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What being ripped off taught me
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• A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
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• Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
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• Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
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• Are We Idiocracy Yet?
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• We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
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• Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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• GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
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• Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
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• System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
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• Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
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• Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
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• Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
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• Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
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• France pulls last gold held in US
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• Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
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• Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
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• I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
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• The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
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• Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
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• How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
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• German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
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• AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy
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• Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
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• The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
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• Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
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• Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
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• Gemma 4 on iPhone
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
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• OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
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• iNaturalist
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• Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
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• Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
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• The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
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• Delve removed from Y Combinator
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• Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
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• Author of \"Careless People\" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
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• Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
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• Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
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• Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
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• Cursor 3
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• Tailscale's new macOS home
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• Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
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• Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
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• Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
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• F-15E jet shot down over Iran
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• Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• SpaceX files to go public
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• DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
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• Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
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• Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
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• Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
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• Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
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• LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
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• Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
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• Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
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• Google releases Gemma 4 open models
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
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• OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
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• GitHub's Historic Uptime
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• OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
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• Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
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• A dot a day keeps the clutter away
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• Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
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• CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
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• EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
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• NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Do your own writing
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• CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
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• Artemis II is not safe to fly
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• Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
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• Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
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• GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
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• Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
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• The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
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• Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only
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• Oracle slashes 30k jobs
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