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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (01:31) - Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (03:18) - A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (04:49) - What being ripped off taught me (06:15) - Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (07:18) - German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (09:03) - Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (10:20) - Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents (11:32) - Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division (12:49) - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute (14:22) - Outro Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trustedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updateshttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelineshttps://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234What being ripped off taught mehttps://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOShttps://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepperhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groupshttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at oncehttps://www.govauctions.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agentshttps://www.freestyle.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Divisionhttps://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen computehttps://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-computehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.