Top Hacker News Stories - April 5, 2026

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   SPF/PC v4 for MS-DOS, FreeDOS, x86 (github.com)

   15 points by hggh 1h ago 3 comments
2. 32.
   SpaceX and OpenAI: The Mega IPO Grift [video] (youtube.com)

   14 points by throw0101c 5h ago 6 comments
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   The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn't in a Hurry to Reopen Hormuz? (gcaptain.com)

   11 points by jgalt212 3h ago 17 comments
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   Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized Covid-19 deaths in the US (science.org)

   11 points by Pxtl 11h ago 7 comments
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   U.S. Rescues Officer from Downed Fighter Jet in Iran (nytimes.com)

   11 points by ranit 9h ago 2 comments
6. 36.
   A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust (mattkeeter.com)

   10 points by g0xA52A2A 1h ago 0 comments
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   Show HN: jmux – tmux-based development environment for humans and coding agents (github.com)

   9 points by jarredkenny 1h ago 5 comments
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   Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs (github.com)

   9 points by desideratum 2h ago 1 comments
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   An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night (theguardian.com)

   8 points by mellosouls 8h ago 1 comments
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    'Everyone now kind of sounds the same': How AI is changing college classes (cnn.com)

    8 points by skanderbm 8h ago 1 comments
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    Goldman Sachs: biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit (bsky.app)

    8 points by doener 7h ago 0 comments
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    In Hungary, the First Post-Reality Political Campaign (theatlantic.com)

    7 points by rwmj 7h ago 3 comments
13. 43.
    

    Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI (github.com)

    7 points by paperplaneflyr 2h ago 1 comments
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    Why the US Can't Have Nice Things, Part 2 (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

    7 points by barry-cotter 3h ago 0 comments
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    Almost half of Gen Z women want to be Trad wives (edubirdie.com)

    6 points by DivingForGold 3h ago 11 comments
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    Spain has the biggest concentration of greenhouses (theguardian.com)

    6 points by simonebrunozzi 9h ago 1 comments
17. 47.
    I Give Up on Neovim (bittich.be)

    6 points by nbittich 9h ago 1 comments
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    AGI won't automate most jobs–because they're not worth the trouble (fortune.com)

    6 points by Sandman 8h ago 1 comments
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    Simpson's paradox demonstrates how counterintuitive statistics can be (scientificamerican.com)

    6 points by bryanrasmussen 7h ago 1 comments
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    High meat consumption linked to lower dementia risk in genetic risk group (news.ki.se)

    6 points by tannhaeuser 7h ago 1 comments
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    Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature (nature.com)

    6 points by Growtika 2h ago 1 comments
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    Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield (cnbc.com)

    6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1h ago 1 comments
23. 53.
    Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users (help.openai.com)

    6 points by ccmcarey 31m ago 1 comments
24. 54.
    Ask HN: Is AI-generated output copyrightable? Should it be? (news.ycombinator.com)

    5 points by robalni 9h ago 7 comments
25. 55.
    Show HN: Bb – Windows API viewer for hackers, in the browser (cristeigabriela.github.io)

    5 points by gabriela_c 9h ago 1 comments
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    What Teens Are Doing with Role-Playing Chatbots (nytimes.com)

    5 points by ytpete 9h ago 1 comments
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    LinkedIn scans for 6k Chrome extensions, collects data (bleepingcomputer.com)

    5 points by anonhaven 8h ago 1 comments
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    Large language models are not the problem (nature.com)

    5 points by sega_sai 3h ago 1 comments
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    Code Reviews Need to Evolve (latent.space)

    5 points by nutwani91 11h ago 0 comments
30. 60.
    The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook (2024) (thomas-huehn.com)

    5 points by Tomte 10h ago 0 comments