Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-19
- Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner isayeter.com - 375 comments 744 points
- Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 tokens.billchambers.me - 494 comments 497 points
- Why Japan has such good railways worksinprogress.co - 358 comments 374 points
- State of Kdenlive kdenlive.org - 119 comments 374 points
- The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber’s star tracker www.righto.com - 89 comments 312 points
- Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war www.theguardian.com - 201 comments 290 points
- Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design samhenri.gold - 186 comments 283 points
- NIST scientists create ‘any wavelength’ lasers www.nist.gov - 122 comments 278 points
- Amiga Graphics Archive amiga.lychesis.net - 77 comments 246 points
- College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work sentinelcolorado.com - 214 comments 243 points
- Category Theory Illustrated – Orders abuseofnotation.github.io - 61 comments 238 points
- The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood bigthink.com - 229 comments 212 points
- NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating science.nasa.gov - 67 comments 148 points
- Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th goodereader.com - 120 comments 139 points
- Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind www.bbc.com - 97 comments 127 points
- PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue github.com - 30 comments 110 points
- Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data github.com - 41 comments 108 points
- Fuzix OS www.fuzix.org - 24 comments 97 points
- America Lost the Mandate of Heaven geohot.github.io - 104 comments 96 points
- Why is IPv6 so complicated? github.com - 195 comments 93 points
- Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 spectrum.ieee.org - 53 comments 88 points
- Optimizing Ruby Path Methods byroot.github.io - 29 comments 88 points
- Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists ipvm.com - 30 comments 82 points
- The USDA’s gardening zones have shifted. - Interactive app and map (2024) apps.npr.org - 10 comments 80 points
- Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore arstechnica.com - 82 comments 75 points
- America will come to regret its war on taxes economist.com - 127 comments 69 points
- Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon abacusnoir.com - 25 comments 64 points
- Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware news.ycombinator.com - 56 comments 60 points
- Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York - 2018 texascooppower.com - 13 comments 51 points
- 4-bit floating point FP4 www.johndcook.com - 31 comments 46 points
April 19, 2026 ∙