Top Hacker News Stories - April 2026

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

   196 points by cryptoz 3d ago 223 comments
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   Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M (tomshardware.com)

   192 points by MaximilianEmel 2d ago 75 comments
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   Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor (ounapuu.ee)

   182 points by Fudgel 4d ago 173 comments
4. 94.
   The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House (dbreunig.com)

   182 points by dbreunig 4d ago 63 comments
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   The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites (iii.social)

   182 points by freshman_dev 1d ago 32 comments
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   Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model (anthropic.com)

   180 points by dnw 1d ago 181 comments
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   Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai (tomshardware.com)

   178 points by lschueller 1d ago 154 comments
8. 98.
   StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles) (app.uniclaw.ai)

   174 points by skysniper 4d ago 84 comments
9. 99.
   Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens (sllm.cloud)

   173 points by jrandolf 1d ago 87 comments
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    George Goble has died (legacy.com)

    172 points by finaard 3d ago 40 comments
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    Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks (defenceleaders.com)

    171 points by AftHurrahWinch 4d ago 194 comments
12. 102.
    

    The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s (donotresearch.substack.com)

    166 points by lazydogbrownfox 2d ago 136 comments
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    Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers (cnbc.com)

    166 points by lehi 2d ago 105 comments
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    Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was (sambent.com)

    163 points by bundie 2d ago 164 comments
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    New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds (bbc.co.uk)

    157 points by chrisjj 3d ago 66 comments
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    Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser (github.com)

    157 points by teamchong 1d ago 6 comments
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    Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say (deadneurons.substack.com)

    156 points by nr378 1d ago 56 comments
18. 108.
    

    Fake Fans (wordsfromeliza.com)

    155 points by performative 1d ago 61 comments
19. 109.
    Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS) (getdull.app)

    152 points by kasparnoor 3d ago 117 comments
20. 110.
    Ruckus: Racket for iOS (ruckus.defn.io)

    152 points by nsm 3d ago 15 comments
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    Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived (github.com)

    151 points by RohanAdwankar 18h ago 66 comments
22. 112.
    Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker (artemis-ii-tracker.com)

    151 points by codingmoh 2d ago 57 comments
23. 113.
    The Document Foundation ejects its core developers (meeksfamily.uk)

    151 points by janvdberg 2d ago 2 comments
24. 114.
    Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM (techcrunch.com)

    150 points by jackson-mcd 4d ago 45 comments
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    12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit (github.com)

    147 points by noslop 1d ago 146 comments
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    The CMS is dead, long live the CMS (next.jazzsequence.com)

    147 points by taubek 1d ago 94 comments
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    Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges (github.com)

    147 points by kaipereira 1d ago 15 comments
28. 118.
    Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown (static.laszlokorte.de)

    146 points by laszlokorte 22h ago 22 comments
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    Shooting down ideas is not a skill (scottlawsonbc.com)

    145 points by zdw 17h ago 161 comments
30. 120.
    Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165 (news.ycombinator.com)

    145 points by maziyar 3d ago 35 comments