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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (April 2026)

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month

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Technology Apr 18, 2026

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end u...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/04/18/america-mandate-of-heaven.html Comments URL: https...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Category Theory Illustrated – Orders

Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Why is IPv6 so complicated?

Article URL: https://github.com/becarpenter/misc/blob/main/why6why.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Amiga Graphics

Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 7 # Commen...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths

Article URL: https://runxiyu.org/comp/doubleslash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813454 Points: ...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. T...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

What the EU Battery Passport Means for Your Devices

Article URL: https://holdmybill.com/blog/eu-battery-passport-explained-2027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

A story about how I dug into the PostgreSQL sources to write my own WAL receiver

Article URL: https://medium.com/@mailbox.sq7/a-long-story-about-how-i-dug-into-the-postgresql-source-code-to-write-my-o...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG

I found myself reaching for SF Symbols' 'Copy Image As…' quite often during agentic design sessions, so I made a comm...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

I've been studying interval arithmetic for the past few weeks and it's a really interesting field because while there i...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Casus Belli Engineering

Article URL: https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/casus-belli-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 18, 2026

Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23532 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811993 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain

Article URL: https://www.davidma.org/blog/2025-11-14-host-your-blog-on-a-subdirectory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is l...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

Related: Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

A simplified model of Fil-C

Article URL: https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Russia-friendly exchange says "western special service" behind $15 million cyberattack

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states." ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, annou...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab

We built AI Subroutines in rtrvr.ai. Record a browser task once, save it as a callable tool, replay it at: zero token c...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arc-prize-foundation/jobs/AKZRZDN-platform-engineer-benchmark-lead C...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free bo...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sh...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADI...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

The former Instagram executive is departing the ChatGPT-maker, and the company is sunsetting its “OpenAI for Scienceâ€...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media. ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious

She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. ...

Technology Apr 17, 2026

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.