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April 17th, 2026 | Claude Design Apr 18, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 17, 2026.
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(00:30): Claude Design
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:54): Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804965&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:18): Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806304&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:42): Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807006&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:06): US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801991&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:30): All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808913&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(08:55): Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:19): Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803844&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:43): NASA Force
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:07): Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806484&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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April 16th, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.7 Apr 17, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 16, 2026.
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(00:30): Claude Opus 4.7
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): Codex for almost everything
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:54): The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788385&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:22): The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:50): Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788542&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:18): Cloudflare Email Service
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792593&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:46): €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791871&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:14): FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788424&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:42): Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 15th, 2026 | Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data Apr 16, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 15, 2026.
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(00:30): Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782570&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): God sleeps in the minerals
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778475&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:20): Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:45): Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:11): Backpacks got worse on purpose
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:36): Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776035&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:01): Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776557&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:26): The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:52): Open Source Isn't Dead
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780712&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:17): Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774971&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 14th, 2026 | DaVinci Resolve – Photo Apr 15, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 14, 2026.
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(00:30): DaVinci Resolve – Photo
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:55): Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762864&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:20): A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:45): Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765604&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:10): I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768813&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:36): Claude Code Routines
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768133&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:01): Stop Flock
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772012&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:26): jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763759&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(11:51): Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769796&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:17): Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768195&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 13th, 2026 | Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them Apr 14, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 13, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): All elementary functions from a single binary operator
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746610&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:26): GitHub Stacked PRs
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:55): Servo is now available on crates.io
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750872&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:23): Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747017&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:52): The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748064&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:20): Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753472&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:49): US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751781&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:17): Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752819&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:46): Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751936&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 12th, 2026 | I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack Apr 13, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 12, 2026.
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(00:30): I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736555&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:22): Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:48): Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739313&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:15): Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738827&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:41): Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736476&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:07): Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743730&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:33): The peril of laziness lost
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:00): AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:26): Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737383&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 11th, 2026 | Artemis II safely splashes down Apr 12, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 11, 2026.
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(00:30): Artemis II safely splashes down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725583&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:58): Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:27): France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728653&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:55): Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:24): South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730407&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:53): How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:21): The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730981&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:50): Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730194&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:19): 20 years on AWS and never not my job
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727711&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:47): Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731506&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 10th, 2026 | France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins Apr 11, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 10, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716043&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:57): 1D Chess
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719740&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:24): Artemis II safely splashes down
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725583&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716490&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:45): France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719486&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:12): You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719602&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:39): WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719942&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:06): I still prefer MCP over skills
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712718&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:33): OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717587&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 9th, 2026 | LittleSnitch for Linux Apr 10, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 09, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): LittleSnitch for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:57): EFF is leaving X
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706268&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:24): Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:51): Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700388&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:18): The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705952&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:46): Claude mixes up who said what
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701233&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:13): Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:40): Open source security at Astral
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699181&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:07): Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700972&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:34): Top laptops to use with FreeBSD
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701148&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

April 8th, 2026 | Git commands I run before reading any code Apr 09, 2026

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 08, 2026.
This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai
(00:30): Git commands I run before reading any code
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687273&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(01:56): I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(03:23): Veracrypt project update
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(04:50): US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689237&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(06:17): Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(07:44): Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690977&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(09:11): They're made out of meat (1991)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(10:38): ML promises to be profoundly weird
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(12:05): LittleSnitch for Linux
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870&utm_source=wondercraft_ai
(13:32): OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684326&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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