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April 27th, 2026 | Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal Apr 28, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 27, 2026.
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(00:30): Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:20): Men who stare at walls
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:45): 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:10): Is my blue your blue?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:36): Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:01): China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920315&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:26): Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:51): Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922712&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:17): GitHub is having issues now
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924775&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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April 26th, 2026 | The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code Apr 27, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26, 2026.
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(00:30): The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:22): I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:49): An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:15): GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:08): Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:34): AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:01): EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:27): Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 25th, 2026 | New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper Apr 26, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 25, 2026.
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(00:30): New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905283&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:29): Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:58): Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897647&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:28): Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897681&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:58): Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:27): Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899844&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:57): Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902416&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:26): USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:56): The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904568&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 24th, 2026 | DeepSeek v4 Apr 25, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 24, 2026.
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(00:30): DeepSeek v4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:58): Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:27): Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891019&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:57): How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888372&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:26): Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887334&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:56): Ubuntu 26.04
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:25): Why I Write (1946)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884768&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:55): Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885377&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 23rd, 2026 | GPT-5.5 Apr 24, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 23, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): GPT-5.5
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:57): I am building a cloud
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:24): Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878633&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877429&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:40): DeepSeek v4
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:07): Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:34): French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877366&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 22nd, 2026 | Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price Apr 23, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 22, 2026.
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(00:30): Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:22): Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:49): We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:15): Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:42): GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862331&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:08): Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:35): Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:01): Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857461&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:27): 3.4M Solar Panels
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862386&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 21st, 2026 | Framework Laptop 13 Pro Apr 22, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 21, 2026.
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(00:30): Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Laws of Software Engineering
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:27): ChatGPT Images 2.0
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:55): Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:24): Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:53): SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:21): Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:50): Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847324&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:19): The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:47): A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844431&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 20th, 2026 | John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apr 21, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 20, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): GitHub's fake star economy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:51): At long last, InfoWars is ours
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:47): NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): Sauna effect on heart rate
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:44): ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 19th, 2026 | Vercel April 2026 security incident Apr 20, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 19, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Vercel April 2026 security incident
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:59): Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824945&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:28): The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:57): Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824068&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:26): Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:55): Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822940&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:24): The RAM shortage could last years
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822414&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:53): The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:23): The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821429&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:52): The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824403&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 18th, 2026 | Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner Apr 19, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 18, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): State of Kdenlive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): Why Japan has such good railways
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817132&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812341&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:19): Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818305&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:47): Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:15): Amiga Graphics Archive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:43): Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813668&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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