Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.

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  • (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-trusted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234

What being ripped off taught me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717

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