Top Hacker News Stories – April 2, 2026

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   r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming (old.reddit.com)

   125 pointsby cryptoz2h ago110 comments
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   Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' (bbc.com)

   15 pointsby steveharing155m ago6 comments
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   Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents (qwen.ai)

   8 pointsby meetpateltech1h ago0 comments
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   Vitalik Buterin – "My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup" (vitalik.eth.limo)

   5 pointsby derrida1h ago0 comments
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   The Math of Friday 13th (scientificamerican.com)

   4 pointsby pixiemaster2h ago0 comments
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   Ask vs. Guess Culture (jeanhsu.substack.com)

   4 pointsby computomatic2h ago0 comments
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   Will AI Eventually Thrive Outside the Moat? (unite.ai)

   4 pointsby 50kIters2h ago0 comments
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   TurboQuant-RS – a Rust Implementation (github.com)

   4 pointsby coderjack2h ago2 comments
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   I'm Suing Anthropic for Unauthorized Use of My Personality (lesswrong.com)

   4 pointsby usrme1h ago1 comments
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    Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC (quad9.net)

    4 pointsby itchingsphynx1h ago1 comments
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    Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech (theatlantic.com)

    4 pointsby handfuloflight40m ago1 comments
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    Pair Programming in the Age of Agents (mattwynne.net)

    3 pointsby mattwynne2h ago0 comments
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    Musk: SpaceX IPO to fund space data centers. MSFT undersea fail sounds warning (reuters.com)

    3 pointsby 1vuio0pswjnm72h ago0 comments
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    Why Are Event-Driven Systems Hard? (newsletter.scalablethread.com)

    3 pointsby fagnerbrack2h ago2 comments
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    LFM2.5-350M (twitter.com)

    3 pointsby tosh2h ago0 comments
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    The East India Company in Japan (historytoday.com)

    3 pointsby Thevet1h ago0 comments
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    WhatsApp notifies users who installed fake app made by government spyware maker (techcrunch.com)

    3 pointsby ledoge1h ago0 comments
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    AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models from Being Deleted (wired.com)

    3 pointsby joozio56m ago0 comments
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    IKEA working on gaming console konsål (gamereactor.se)

    3 pointsby amarant43m ago0 comments
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    They Planned Their Escape: A Systems Architect's Guide to the Iran Trade Scandal (60tb.tech)

    3 pointsby mstrslv17m ago0 comments
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    Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler (chipsandcheese.com)

    2 pointsby signa112h ago0 comments
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    I rebuilt the same project after 15 years – what changed in web dev (bamwor.com)

    2 pointsby manudaro2h ago0 comments
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    Show HN: Tileserver-RS – Tile Server in Rust with MapLibre Native Rendering (github.com)

    2 pointsby vinayakkulkarni2h ago0 comments
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    Italian bill proposes curbs on social media addiction (reuters.com)

    2 pointsby 1vuio0pswjnm72h ago0 comments
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    Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs (blogs.newardassociates.com)

    2 pointsby zdw2h ago0 comments
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    I built VX Video Player: A lightweight Android app for smooth HD playback (play.google.com)

    2 pointsby CGCInfotech2h ago0 comments
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    Stop censoring books, teachers warn school libraries (news.sky.com)

    2 pointsby austinallegro2h ago0 comments
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    drrdrr – Free, no app, no db, CLI > Phone Notifications (github.com)

    2 pointsby archb1h ago3 comments
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    Forensic analysis of 37GB data loss caused by Cursor AI Agent (github.com)

    2 pointsby GRAY_WHALE_CO1h ago0 comments
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    AI CEO vs. Engineer [video] (youtube.com)

    2 pointsby vismit20001h ago0 comments