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Your daily TLDR of the top Hacker News stories. Hosts Kai and Maya break down the biggest tech news, open source drama, AI breakthroughs, and community hot takes -- in about 15 minutes, every day.
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HN Daily - April 24, 2026
Today on HN Daily: DeepSeek v4 dominates the front page (1782pts) 'I cancelled Claude' — token issues, declining quality, poor support Sabotaging projects by overthinking and scope creep Spinel —…
HN Daily - April 23, 2026
Today on HN Daily: GPT-5.5 ships (HN community supremely unimpressed with the marketing) David Crawshaw: 'I am building a cloud' — Cloud 1.0 IOPS price-gouging Wired: Palantir employees wondering if…
HN Daily - April 22, 2026
Today on HN Daily (Earth Day edition): Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (1198pts) Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (871pts) Qwen 3.6-27B claims flagship-level coding GitHub CLI now…
HN Daily - April 21, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Framework Laptop 13 Pro (831pts) Laws of Software Engineering visual list (794pts) OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.0 GitHub Copilot plan changes spark Opus 4.7 rug-pull…
HN Daily - April 20, 2026
Today on HN Daily: John Ternus to become Apple CEO (985pts) EU: all phones must have replaceable batteries from 2027 GitHub's fake star economy exposed Kimi K2.6 and Qwen 3.6 Max: Chinese AI model…
HN Daily - April 19, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Archive of BYTE magazine from 1975 (519pts) Vercel April 2026 security incident Notion leaks email addresses on public pages The seven programming ur-languages The RAM shortage…
HN Daily - April 18, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (661pts) Opus 4.7 tokenizer costs 45% more than 4.6 Michael Rabin has died -- a computing giant The Amiga Graphics Archive Why Japan has such…
HN Daily - April 17, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Claude Design: is this the Figma killer? (790pts) Claude 4.7 tokenizer costs 30% more on code Asimov's The Last Question trends again Ban the sale of precise geolocation data NASA…
HN Daily - April 16, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Claude Opus 4.7 drops with cybersecurity safeguards (1385pts) Qwen3.6-35B open weights rival frontier models on a laptop OpenAI ships major Codex update Codex hacked a Samsung TV…
HN Daily - April 15, 2026
Google data requests and user notification promises (EFF) Security as proof-of-work in the age of token-burning AI Cal.com going closed source and the open-source trust debate ChatGPT for Excel and…
HN Daily - April 14, 2026
Today on HN Daily: DaVinci Resolve adds full Photo mode Backblaze stops backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders Google cracks down on back-button hijacking Thousands of rare concert recordings hit…
HN Daily - April 13, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them Servo browser engine now on crates.io GitHub ships native stacked PRs Polymarket bot that always buys…
HN Daily - April 12, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Docker pull fails across Spain during football matches Anthropic quietly downgraded cache TTL, developers furious Seven countries at 100% renewable electricity Bring Back Idiomatic…
HN Daily - April 11, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Small models found the same vulnerabilities as Mythos Berkeley breaks top AI agent benchmarks without solving tasks Cirrus Labs joins OpenAI, Cirrus CI shutting down June…
HN Daily - April 10, 2026
Today on HN Daily: 1D Chess WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting…
HN Daily - April 9, 2026
Stories today: - EFF is leaving X - Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter - Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers - Introduction to Nintendo…
HN Daily - April 8, 2026
Mac OS X running natively on a Nintendo Wii Five Git commands to triage a codebase before reading it Meta introduces Muse Spark (and what’s actually available) VeraCrypt’s Windows update pipeline…
HN Daily - April 7, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Project Glasswing (Anthropic AI security initiative), a brutalist concrete laptop stand, Claude Mythos Preview system card, GLM-5.1 long-horizon agents, Apollo 11 guidance computer…
HN Daily - April 6, 2026
Today on HN Daily: Claude Code users report reduced reasoning depth and more hallucinations New Yorker profile asks whether Sam Altman can be trusted with AI power Bram Cohen on the risks and…
HN Daily - April 5, 2026
Gemma 4 runs on iPhone (offline LLMs) Caveman prompt to cut token-y verbosity Artemis II sees the Moon’s far side Microsoft’s never-ending Windows GUI framework churn LÖVE 2D Lua game…
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HN Daily has published 63 episodes since March 2026, covering topics in Technology.
HN Daily is currently highly active with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 10m.