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Claude Opus 4.7

2026-04-16T14:23:50Z

1817 points by meetpateltech | 1308 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793411

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

2026-04-16T13:36:27Z

1146 points by cmitsakis | 482 comments

Article: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792764

Codex for almost everything

2026-04-16T17:12:19Z

913 points by mikeevans | 475 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47796469

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

2026-04-16T13:32:13Z

647 points by aphyr | 664 comments

Article: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792718

Cloudflare Email Service

2026-04-16T13:21:53Z

441 points by jilles | 198 comments

Article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792593

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

2026-04-16T17:37:20Z

416 points by simonw | 84 comments

Article: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47796830

Mozilla Thunderbolt

2026-04-16T13:01:36Z

359 points by dabinat | 312 comments

Article: https://www.thunderbolt.io/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792368

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

2026-04-16T20:31:52Z

328 points by devonnull | 212 comments

Article: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47799120

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

2026-04-16T13:17:37Z

291 points by nikitoci | 73 comments

Article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-platform/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792538

Everything we like is a psyop?

2026-04-16T23:15:33Z

279 points by evo_9 | 197 comments

Article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/everything-we-like-is-a-psyop/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47800738

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

2026-04-16T18:39:59Z

259 points by ingve | 102 comments

Article: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47797665

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

2026-04-16T19:32:18Z

249 points by adityaathalye | 65 comments

Article: https://clojure.org/about/documentary
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798345

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

2026-04-17T02:50:02Z

233 points by ronsor | 151 comments

Article: https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47801991

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

2026-04-16T22:08:53Z

228 points by kmfrk | 57 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47800166

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

2026-04-16T21:56:37Z

199 points by scaredpelican | 40 comments

Article: https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47800033

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

2026-04-16T14:51:13Z

198 points by mooreds | 115 comments

Article: https://techstackups.com/articles/laravel-raised-money-and-now-injects-ads-directly-into-your-agent/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793926

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

2026-04-16T13:02:03Z

195 points by jgrahamc | 24 comments

Article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/artifacts-git-for-agents-beta/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792374

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit

2026-04-16T15:13:13Z

194 points by lukaspetersson | 272 comments

Article: https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47794391

Claude Opus 4.7

2026-04-16T14:29:09Z

186 points by AlphaWeaver | 12 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/opus
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793493

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

2026-04-16T19:18:31Z

180 points by Ivoah | 84 comments

Article: https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798176

Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card

2026-04-16T14:32:24Z

172 points by adocomplete | 80 comments

Article: https://anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-7-system-card
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793546

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

2026-04-16T23:29:07Z

165 points by flykespice | 110 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrd818gd2o
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47800839

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

2026-04-17T03:36:26Z

161 points by sams99 | 58 comments

Article: https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47802233

Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

2026-04-16T16:53:32Z

155 points by mikhael | 123 comments

Article: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/15/japan/society/jlpt-visa-requirement/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47796197

Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh

2026-04-16T13:16:29Z

140 points by hammer32 | 40 comments

Article: https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47792525

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

2026-04-16T21:14:02Z

136 points by sebg | 23 comments

Article: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47799573

Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

2026-04-17T08:51:38Z

122 points by mpweiher | 59 comments

Article: https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47803844

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

2026-04-17T03:59:22Z

119 points by dotmanish | 53 comments

Article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913638/bluesky-has-been-dealing-with-a-ddos-attack-for-nearly-a-full-day
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47802330

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

2026-04-16T19:40:14Z

115 points by aa_is_op | 77 comments

Article: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798456

The beginning of scarcity in AI

2026-04-16T20:49:35Z

109 points by gmays | 141 comments

Article: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47799322

Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"

2026-04-16T19:00:09Z

108 points by ck2 | 79 comments

Article: https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47797911

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

2026-04-16T19:24:50Z

96 points by babelfish | 25 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798244

Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

2026-04-17T00:37:47Z

94 points by _fizz_buzz_ | 19 comments

Article: https://lucasgerads.com/blog/lecroy-mcp-spice-demo/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47801255

Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs

2026-04-16T15:19:54Z

91 points by alexblackwell_ | 77 comments

Article: https://www.zatanna.ai/kampala
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47794514

FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer

2026-04-17T07:20:46Z

82 points by Mr_Minderbinder | 38 comments

Article: https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47803323

George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four

2026-04-16T23:17:47Z

76 points by doener | 52 comments

Article: https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-george-orwell-predicted-the-rise-of-ai-slop.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47800765

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll

2026-04-17T08:32:54Z

68 points by cyberlimerence | 20 comments

Article: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47803745

Human Accelerated Region 1

2026-04-17T03:55:54Z

67 points by apollinaire | 31 comments

Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47802312

Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

2026-04-16T16:08:05Z

62 points by GRVYDEV | 33 comments

Article: https://github.com/GRVYDEV/marky
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47795468

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now

2026-04-16T17:13:01Z

58 points by droidjj | 34 comments

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/where-the-doge-operatives-are-now/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47796483

U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20

2026-04-16T19:32:45Z

56 points by tantalor | 34 comments

Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/us-set-launch-tariff-refund-system-april-20-rcna332018
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798349

KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage

2026-04-16T16:31:24Z

55 points by slow_typist | 15 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/apr/16/uk-february-gdp-report-economy-iran-war-stock-market-reeves-ftse-sterling-live-updates
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47795872

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

2026-04-16T14:30:38Z

50 points by speckx | 62 comments

Article: https://www.engadget.com/ai/theres-yet-another-study-about-how-bad-ai-is-for-our-brains-183418494.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793522

German Dog Commands

2026-04-16T19:26:03Z

48 points by rolph | 61 comments

Article: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-dog-commands/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47798258

US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

2026-04-17T06:17:41Z

45 points by zeristor | 5 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47802962

Show HN: Home Memory – A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes

2026-04-16T13:58:10Z

44 points by impactjo | 8 comments

Article: https://github.com/impactjo/home-memory
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47793061

Clojure The Documentary, official film [video]

2026-04-16T15:14:46Z

43 points by bmillare | 5 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24vK_QDLFg
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47794418

Kent Beck: Parkinson's

2026-04-16T21:37:15Z

39 points by umbula | 4 comments

Article: https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/parkinsons
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47799817

FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

2026-04-17T04:13:52Z

36 points by rawgabbit | 10 comments

Article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/fcc-exempts-netgear-from-ban-on-foreign-routers-doesnt-explain-why/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47802394

Elon Musk buys a fifth of his own Cybertrucks

2026-04-16T20:58:18Z

35 points by petethomas | 8 comments

Article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-buys-a-fifth-of-his-own-cybertrucks/ar-AA212Sci
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47799420