Hacker News Highlights

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...

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...

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 writ...

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...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (01:34) - Spanish legislation as a Git repo (02:42) - AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (03:41) - I decompiled the White House's new app (04:52)...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account (01:32) - Anatomy of the .claude/ folder (02:56) - Make macOS consistently bad unironically (04:03) - Desk for people who work at home with a ca...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 27, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025) (01:38) - We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do (03:08) - Apple discontinues the Mac Pro (04:25) - My minute-by-minute response t...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 26, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos (01:19) - Thoughts on slowing the fuck down (02:33) - Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars (03:50) - Apple randomly clos...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 25, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains (01:51) - Goodbye to Sora (03:02) - Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised (04:40) - Apple Business (06:16) - Show H...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 24, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM (01:32) - Claude Code Cheat Sheet (02:47) - Autoresearch on an old research idea (04:28) - I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop (05:44) - Finding all regex match...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 23, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading (01:35) - The future of version control (02:58) - Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline (04:14) - GrapheneOS will remain usable...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 22, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Some things just take time (01:39) - Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (03:22) - Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning (04:55) - Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords (0...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 21, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (01:38) - Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (02:49) - France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (04:15) - Our commitment to Windows qualit...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 20, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Astral to Join OpenAI (01:46) - Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (03:26) - Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (04:36) - 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK o...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 19, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:26) - Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (02:01) - OpenRocket (03:08) - Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (04:27) - A sufficiently detailed spec is code (05:53) - Warranty Void If Regenerated (...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 18, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (01:56) - A Decade of Slug (03:16) - Mistral AI Releases Forge (04:46) - Have a fucking website (06:06) - Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track (07:26) - G...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 17, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (01:52) - Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (03:04) - US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement (04:04) -...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 16, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance (01:43) - The 49MB web page (03:02) - Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (04:15) - LLM Architecture Gallery (05:22) - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (06...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (02:43) - Python: The Optimization Ladder (04:50) - Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (06:35) - How kernel anti-cheats work (08...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Can I run AI locally? (01:34) - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (03:07) - Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (04:29) - Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch Yo...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Shall I implement it? No (01:40) - Malus – Clean Room as a Service (03:08) - “This is not the computer for you” (04:42) - ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (06:19) - US private credit defaults hit...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans (01:38) - Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (03:10) - Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (04:36) -...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Tony Hoare has died (01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook (02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (05:42) - Agents...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (02:06) - Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (03:42) - Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (01:50) - Ask HN: How to be alone? (03:27) - Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (04:39) - FrameBook (05:40) - My Homelab Setup (06:46) - Show HN: I built...