Hacker News on Sunday, 5 April 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of lalitm.com: Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com)

867 points by brilee 6 months ago | 274 comments

Lalit Maganti's essay on building syntaqlite, a set of SQLite devtools, over three months with AI coding agents, covering where AI helped and where it hurt.

syntaqlite sqlite ai-coding-agents developer-tools

Screenshot of apps.apple.com: Gemma 4 on iPhone

Gemma 4 on iPhone (apps.apple.com)

829 points by janandonly 6 months ago | 226 comments

Dutch App Store listing for Google AI Edge Gallery, a free iPhone app for running on-device LLMs like Gemma 4 for chat, image questions, and agent skills.

gemma on-device-ai google-ai-edge ios

Screenshot of github.com: Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com)

827 points by armanified 6 months ago | 125 comments

GitHub repository for GuppyLM, a ~9M parameter transformer language model built from scratch in PyTorch that talks like a small fish.

llm transformer pytorch small-language-models

Screenshot of ergosphere.blog: The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing (ergosphere.blog)

814 points by zaikunzhang 6 months ago | 550 comments

Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.

llm academia phd-training astrophysics

Screenshot of github.com: Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick

Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick (github.com)

809 points by tosh 6 months ago | 344 comments

GitHub repository for Caveman, a Claude Code skill/plugin that cuts output tokens about 75% by making the model respond in terse caveman-style speech.

claude-code prompt-engineering llm-tokens anthropic

Screenshot of jsnover.com: Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)

748 points by naves 6 months ago | 529 comments

Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.

microsoft windows gui-frameworks desktop-development

Screenshot of sschueller.github.io: Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't

Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (sschueller.github.io)

683 points by sschueller 6 months ago | 563 comments

Opinion blog post arguing Switzerland's regulated open-access fiber model delivers 25 Gbit internet while the US free-market approach does not.

broadband fiber-internet switzerland telecom-regulation

Screenshot of bbc.com: Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video](bbc.com)

491 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 375 comments

BBC News video showing the Artemis II crew getting their first view of the far side of the Moon.

artemis-ii nasa moon far-side-of-moon

Screenshot of jakeworth.com: How to get better at guitar

How to get better at guitar (jakeworth.com)

433 points by jwworth 6 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Jake Worth sharing guitar teacher Justin Sandercoe's method for improving at guitar, with an embedded JustinGuitar lesson video.

guitar music-practice justin-sandercoe justinguitar

Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

411 points by e-topy 6 months ago | 602 comments

An Ask HN thread where the poster seeks suggestions for novel, uncrowded technical hobbies they could meaningfully contribute to.

ask-hn hobbies hci biohacking

Screenshot of ai.georgeliu.com: Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code

Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code (ai.georgeliu.com)

380 points by vbtechguy 6 months ago | 94 comments

A blog post walking through setting up Google Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS using LM Studio 0.4.0's headless lms CLI, and using it with Claude Code.

gemma-4 lm-studio claude-code local-llm

Screenshot of marketwatch.com: Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept (marketwatch.com)

380 points by thisislife2 6 months ago | 233 comments

MarketWatch article about employers using personal data to determine the lowest salary a candidate will accept; the page loaded a captcha verification screen.

salary-negotiation personal-data privacy hiring

Screenshot of tandfonline.com: Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses (tandfonline.com)

339 points by Growtika 6 months ago | 221 comments

Journal article in Temperature (Taylor & Francis) studying acute effects of Finnish sauna bathing on immune cell mobilization and circulating cytokines in 51 adults.

sauna immune-system cytokines thermoregulation

Screenshot of shkspr.mobi: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses (shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

browserstack email-privacy gdpr data-leak

Screenshot of zencapital.substack.com: My Google Workspace account suspension

My Google Workspace account suspension (zencapital.substack.com)

322 points by zenincognito 6 months ago | 182 comments

A Substack post recounting how the author's Google Workspace account was suspended as 'hijacked' after he accessed it from overseas, despite DNS-verified domain ownership.

google-workspace account-suspension google email

Screenshot of musicforprogramming.net: Music for Programming