Top Hacker News Stories - April 5, 2026

  1. 61.
    Porting Go's strings package to C
    Porting Go's strings package to C (antonz.org)
  2. 62.
    China Edges Past U.S. in Global Approval Ratings
    China Edges Past U.S. in Global Approval Ratings (news.gallup.com)
  3. 63.
    Panorama – AI that finds your team's workflows and hidden structures
    Panorama – AI that finds your team's workflows and hidden structures (withpanorama.com)
  4. 64.
    Ask HN: Vibe Coding over Easter? (news.ycombinator.com)
  5. 65.
    Why domain specific LLMs won't exist: an intuition (simianwords.bearblog.dev)
  6. 66.
    Show HN: ImPlot v1.0 – 6 years of Immediate-mode plotting for Dear ImGui
    Show HN: ImPlot v1.0 – 6 years of Immediate-mode plotting for Dear ImGui (github.com)
  7. 67.
    Is the UK falling out of love with social media?
    Is the UK falling out of love with social media? (theguardian.com)
  8. 68.
    Verbosity decreases accuracy in large language models
    Verbosity decreases accuracy in large language models (unite.ai)
  9. 69.
    Show HN: White Border
    Show HN: White Border (awhiteborder.com)
  10. 70.
    Why aren't qualified candidates getting hired?
    Why aren't qualified candidates getting hired? (justapplied.substack.com)
  11. 71.
    H.264 licenses: Prices increase up to 45 times
    H.264 licenses: Prices increase up to 45 times (heise.de)
  12. 72.
    Skills to construct and read docs following the progressive exposure principle (news.ycombinator.com)
  13. 73.
    Show HN: Homebutler – Self-healing homelab in a single Go binary (homebutler.dev)
  14. 74.
    FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident'
    FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident' (nbcnews.com)
  15. 75.
    Qwen 3.6 Free
    Qwen 3.6 Free (openrouter.ai)
  16. 76.
    How Plausible Is 'Project Hail Mary'? Astrophysicists Have Thoughts
    How Plausible Is 'Project Hail Mary'? Astrophysicists Have Thoughts (nytimes.com)
  17. 77.
    Microsoft QDK from .NET to Rust: 100x faster, 100x smaller (quantum.microsoft.com)
  18. 78.
    Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)
  19. 79.
    US commandos rescue downed F-15 airman in daring raid deep inside Iran
    US commandos rescue downed F-15 airman in daring raid deep inside Iran (timesofisrael.com)
  20. 80.
    Andrej Karpathy on X: LLM Knowledge Bases (twitter.com)
  21. 81.
    The Disposable Tools Manifesto
    The Disposable Tools Manifesto (blog.vtemian.com)
  22. 82.
    Show HN: Identa – CLI to calibrate prompts across local LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)
  23. 83.
    iCloud appears to be down for some users (reddit.com)
  24. 84.
    Python compiler in Rust that runs faster than CPython with a 160KB WASM
    Python compiler in Rust that runs faster than CPython with a 160KB WASM (github.com)
  25. 85.
    Show HN: Artemis II Moon Mission Simulator in the Browser (artemis.radish.build)
  26. 86.
    Show HN: 1B Embeddings (news.ycombinator.com)
  27. 87.
    Drivers May Soon Pay Taxes Based on How Much Their Car Weighs (autoblog.com)
  28. 88.
    10 years later, no phone has replaced what Google promised
    10 years later, no phone has replaced what Google promised (androidauthority.com)
  29. 89.
    Common Sense 2026: AI In America – the open letter I dictated over 2 months
    Common Sense 2026: AI In America – the open letter I dictated over 2 months (raresignal.ai)
  30. 90.
    I Saw Something New in San Francisco (By Ezra Klein)
    I Saw Something New in San Francisco (By Ezra Klein) (nytimes.com)