Top Hacker News Stories - Apr 5-11, 2026

1.

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (ergosphere.blog)

542 points by zaikunzhang 6h ago 387 comments

2.

A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use (github.com)

367 points by tosh 7h ago 219 comments

3.

Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address (shkspr.mobi)

272 points by m_km 3h ago 71 comments

4.

My Google Workspace account suspension (zencapital.substack.com)

192 points by zenincognito 4h ago 88 comments

5.

Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go (lisette.run)

188 points by jspdown 9h ago 93 comments

6.

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com)

161 points by brilee 3h ago 29 comments

7.

Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses (tandfonline.com)

151 points by Growtika 3h ago 81 comments

8.

Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11 (howtogeek.com)

130 points by jnord 4h ago 146 comments

9.

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (bbc.com)

98 points by mooreds 2h ago 66 comments

10.

Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz (japantoday.com)

92 points by vrganj 2h ago 73 comments

11.

Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon (github.com)

86 points by rosscomputerguy 10h ago 8 comments

12.

Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year (cnn.com)

77 points by rawgabbit 4h ago 38 comments

13.

Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold (iguanaworks.net)

67 points by ripe 3h ago 8 comments

14.

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 (github.com)

64 points by userbinator 11h ago 15 comments

15.

Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network (friendi.ca)

58 points by janandonly 5h ago 22 comments

16.

GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems (s3kshun8.games)

50 points by S3kshun8 9h ago 54 comments

17.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it (taggart-tech.com)

48 points by evolve2k 11h ago 104 comments

18.

EPA official in charge of methane regulations was an oil and gas lobbyist (propublica.org)

46 points by Jimmc414 1h ago 6 comments

19.

Show HN: OsintRadar – Curated directory for osint tools (osintradar.com)

44 points by lexalizer 10h ago 5 comments

20.

Microsoft terms say Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use (tomshardware.com)

41 points by jatins 43m ago 3 comments

21.

What if the browser built the UI for you? (jonno.nz)

38 points by jonnonz 12h ago 60 comments

22.

Banray.eu: Raising awareness of the terrible idea that is always-on AI glasses (banray.eu)

24 points by ChrisArchitect 1h ago 7 comments

23.

Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables (idp-software.com)

21 points by chelm 10h ago 14 comments

24.

Trump uses expletive-ridden social media post to threaten Iran's infrastructure (theguardian.com)

21 points by SanjayMehta 1h ago 5 comments

25.

Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S. (axios.com)

20 points by Brajeshwar 1h ago 3 comments

26.

US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran (foxnews.com)

19 points by longislandguido 12h ago 47 comments

27.

StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site (meta.stackoverflow.com)

19 points by stefankuehnel 1h ago 9 comments

28.

Dynamics of (Not) Being Perceived: Grief and Relief After Leaving Social Media (networkcultures.org)

19 points by glovink 9h ago 4 comments

29.

Right to repair: Why the US military can't fix much of its own equipment (taskandpurpose.com)

16 points by scythe 4h ago 4 comments

30.

Show HN: Cabinet – Kb+LLM (Like Paperclip+Obsidian) (runcabinet.com)

15 points by Hilash 2h ago 11 comments