Hacker News on Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era(anthropic.com)

1455 points by Ryan5453 6 months ago | 760 comments

Anthropic's announcement page for Project Glasswing, an initiative to secure critical software in the AI era using its Claude models.

Lunar Flyby(nasa.gov)

910 points by kipi 6 months ago | 222 comments

NASA image gallery titled Lunar Flyby showing photos of the Moon's surface, Earthrise, and an eclipsed Moon from a lunar flyby.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf](www-cdn.anthropic.com)

811 points by be7a 6 months ago | 610 comments

Anthropic's PDF system card for the Claude Mythos Preview model, documenting its capabilities, evaluations, and safety assessments.

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)(sam-burns.com)

747 points by sam-bee 6 months ago | 228 comments

A blog post describing how the author built a solid concrete laptop stand in a brutalist architecture style with urbex and urban decay themes.

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks(z.ai)

593 points by zixuanlimit 6 months ago | 240 comments

Z.ai research blog post announcing GLM-5.1, a flagship model for agentic engineering with stronger coding and long-horizon task performance on benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro.

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire(theguardian.com)

536 points by g-b-r 6 months ago | 1588 comments

Guardian news article reporting that the US and Iran agreed to a provisional ceasefire; the capture shows a bot-verification captcha page instead of the article.

Are We Idiocracy Yet?(idiocracy.wtf)

484 points by jdiiufccuskal 6 months ago | 302 comments

A satirical website with an "Idiocracy Proximity Index" tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's 2006 film Idiocracy.

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat(bbc.com)

466 points by speckx 6 months ago | 109 comments

BBC News article about Cambodia unveiling a statue honouring Magawa, a famous landmine-detecting rat.

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code(juxt.pro)

394 points by henrygarner 6 months ago | 187 comments

JUXT blog post by CTO Henry Garner describing how writing a specification uncovered an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code.

DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video](youtube.com)

371 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 132 comments

A LaurieWired YouTube video explaining a decades-old DRAM design limitation and a technique to bypass it for lower tail latency in RAM reads.

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security(blog.cloudflare.com)

370 points by ilreb 6 months ago | 112 comments

Cloudflare blog post by Bas Westerbaan announcing a roadmap to achieve full post-quantum security across its services by 2029.

S3 Files(allthingsdistributed.com)

356 points by werner 6 months ago | 105 comments

Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on the launch of S3 Files, which makes S3 buckets accessible as file systems, and how S3 has evolved.

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net(jola.dev)

355 points by shintoist 6 months ago | 184 comments

A blog post describing the author's motivation and experience moving their Elixir/Phoenix blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net.

Every GPU That Mattered(sheets.works)

291 points by jonbaer 6 months ago | 175 comments

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities(red.anthropic.com)

265 points by sweis 6 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth(middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app)

258 points by frasermarlow 6 months ago | 51 comments

Happy Map(pudding.cool)

242 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 42 comments

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)(sciencealert.com)

240 points by pulisse 6 months ago | 95 comments

Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard(scottlawsonbc.com)

228 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 63 comments

Taste in the age of AI and LLMs(rajnandan.com)

221 points by speckx 6 months ago | 184 comments

Generative art over the years(blog.veitheller.de)

219 points by evakhoury 6 months ago | 58 comments

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP(printervention.app)

212 points by gmac 6 months ago | 89 comments

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon(github.com)

205 points by MediaSquirrel 6 months ago | 25 comments

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion(infoq.com)

199 points by timbilt 6 months ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead(locker.dev)

196 points by Zm44 6 months ago | 169 comments

AI may be making us think and write more alike(dornsife.usc.edu)

190 points by giuliomagnifico 6 months ago | 186 comments

Claude Code is locking people out for hours(github.com)

188 points by sh1mmer 6 months ago | 228 comments

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system(pijul.org)

186 points by kouosi 6 months ago | 28 comments

Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it(tubesoundquiz.com)

159 points by nelson687 6 months ago | 51 comments

How Complex is my Code?(philodev.one)

155 points by speckx 6 months ago | 40 comments

Blackholing My Email(johnsto.co.uk)

151 points by semyonsh 6 months ago | 23 comments

Bitcoin and quantum computing(nehanarula.org)

144 points by nehan 6 months ago | 98 comments

Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures(andreyor.st)

142 points by roxolotl 6 months ago | 12 comments

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world(intofarlands.com)

139 points by intofarlands 6 months ago | 25 comments

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework(github.com)

128 points by Levitating 6 months ago | 64 comments

Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing(arstechnica.com)

110 points by DamnInteresting 6 months ago | 47 comments

Tofolli gates are all you need(johndcook.com)

110 points by ibobev 6 months ago | 35 comments

John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz(americanjazzmusicsociety.com)

108 points by luu 6 months ago | 14 comments

Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app(midi.guide)

103 points by ductionist 6 months ago | 13 comments

Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf](cis.upenn.edu)

100 points by JackeJR 6 months ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents(github.com)

97 points by manzt 6 months ago | 23 comments

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence(perfectlynormal.co.uk)

97 points by jxmorris12 6 months ago | 16 comments

Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?(has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de)

92 points by konschubert 6 months ago | 129 comments

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR(blog.zacka.io)

87 points by rryan 6 months ago | 22 comments

Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons(loskutoff.com)

87 points by Firfi 6 months ago | 51 comments

Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026(carbonbrief.org)

85 points by mindracer 6 months ago | 54 comments

"The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"(twitter.com)

84 points by bundie 6 months ago | 49 comments

What is a property?(alperenkeles.com)

84 points by alpaylan 6 months ago | 23 comments

The Miller Principle (2007)(puredanger.github.io)

79 points by FelipeCortez 6 months ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go(github.com)

78 points by Sean-Der 6 months ago | 11 comments

A blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets(apnews.com)

78 points by speckx 6 months ago | 7 comments

Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security(sergioprado.blog)

73 points by sprado 6 months ago | 22 comments

Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?(judoscale.com)

72 points by crcastle 6 months ago | 25 comments

JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript(discourse.llvm.org)

69 points by nnx 6 months ago | 20 comments

You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)(inngest.com)

65 points by goodoldneon 6 months ago | 39 comments

DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502(aransentin.github.io)

64 points by Aransentin 6 months ago | 17 comments

The Soul of an Old Machine(skalski.dev)

63 points by mskalski 6 months ago | 14 comments

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy(martinfowler.com)

62 points by zdw 6 months ago | 10 comments

Robots eat cars(telemetry.endeff.com)

57 points by JMill 6 months ago | 67 comments

An AI robot in my home(allevato.me)

57 points by kukanani 6 months ago | 21 comments