Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-12

1. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found aisle.com - 273 comments 1002 points
2. France’s government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk www.xda-developers.com - 246 comments 437 points
3. Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons news.ycombinator.com - 231 comments 419 points
4. South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access www.theregister.com - 102 comments 366 points
5. How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next rdi.berkeley.edu - 87 comments 343 points
6. Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI cirruslabs.org - 125 comments 257 points
7. The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances aphyr.com - 145 comments 252 points
8. Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS www.v68k.org - 60 comments 231 points
9. Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops www.coindesk.com - 208 comments 226 points
10. 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane zenodo.org - 99 comments 195 points
11. Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit - 2023 khronokernel.com - 128 comments 185 points
12. The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet www.osnews.com - 67 comments 180 points
13. Dark Castle darkcastle.co.uk - 22 comments 172 points
14. Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war www.theguardian.com - 123 comments 152 points
15. The End of Eleventy brennan.day - 76 comments 133 points
16. The Problem That Built an Industry ajitem.com - 44 comments 120 points
17. How to build a Git diff driver www.jvt.me - 12 comments 105 points
18. Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom kotaku.com - 50 comments 99 points
19. Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy planetscale.com - 25 comments 93 points
20. US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional www.theguardian.com - 45 comments 85 points
21. How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home www.bbc.com - 89 comments 73 points
22. We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran www.bbc.com - 62 comments 72 points
23. Phone Trips www.wideweb.com - 6 comments 70 points
24. Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions www.pewresearch.org - 54 comments 66 points
25. Now is the best time to write code by hand sitebloom.ch - 30 comments 66 points
26. The APL programming language source code - 2012 computerhistory.org - 20 comments 65 points
27. One neat trick to end extreme poverty www.economist.com - 69 comments 59 points
28. New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real noirlab.edu - 13 comments 57 points
29. Killing of Hind Rajab - 2024 en.wikipedia.org - 5 comments 54 points
30. Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours www.hormuz-havoc.com - 16 comments 53 points