Hacker News Highlights

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

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

(01:29) - How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer

(02:43) - Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

(03:55) - Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

(05:05) - RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]

(06:24) - Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

(07:27) - I still prefer MCP over skills

(08:59) - PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement

(10:15) - Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes

(11:30) - Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps

(13:03) - Outro

Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704804
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
https://colaptop.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707477
Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft
https://www.unfolder.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706140
RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680005
Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709158
I still prefer MCP over skills
https://david.coffee/i-still-prefer-mcp-over-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712718
PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
https://eaw.app/picoz80/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708041
Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706141
Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707632

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:16) - Git commands I run before reading any code

(01:24) - I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

(02:45) - LittleSnitch for Linux

(04:24) - They're made out of meat (1991)

(05:23) - ML promises to be profoundly weird

(06:55) - Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

(08:22) - Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

(09:39) - Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

(10:58) - Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

(12:20) - John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

(13:47) - Outro

Git commands I run before reading any code
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687273I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730
LittleSnitch for Linux
https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870
They're made out of meat (1991)
http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678
ML promises to be profoundly weird
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685320
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062
Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example
https://kalmanfilter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693153
Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/?_fb_noscript=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043
John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696035

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:22) - Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

(01:49) - Lunar Flyby

(02:53) - System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

(04:24) - GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

(05:45) - US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire

(06:58) - Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat

(08:07) - How to get better at guitar

(09:18) - A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

(10:33) - Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

(12:07) - S3 Files

(13:50) - Outro

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121Lunar Flyby
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676509
System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258
GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853
US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-iran-war-ceasefire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276
Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678573
How to get better at guitar
https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650887
A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268
Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625
S3 Files
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:24) - Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

(01:31) - Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates

(03:18) - A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines

(04:49) - What being ripped off taught me

(06:15) - Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

(07:18) - German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups

(09:03) - Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

(10:20) - Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

(11:32) - Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

(12:49) - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute

(14:22) - Outro

Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925
A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234
What being ripped off taught me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024
German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954
Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945
Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147
Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853
Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

(02:11) - Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick

(03:26) - Gemma 4 on iPhone

(04:40) - Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't

(06:13) - Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

(07:27) - Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]

(08:33) - Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

(10:04) - LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua

(11:18) - Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code

(12:53) - Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

(13:53) - Outro

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648828Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455
Gemma 4 on iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652561
Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652400
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655408
Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce3d5gkd2geo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649721
Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651703
LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
https://github.com/love2d/love
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637377
Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651540
Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655392