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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it (01:47) - An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (03:10) - AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (04:37) - Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race (05:54) - Self-updating screenshots (07:02) - SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (08:24) - Flipdiscs (09:33) - Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet (11:14) - Three constraints before I build anything (12:22) - Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (13:43) - Outro I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with ithttps://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is belowhttps://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524AI should elevate your thinking, not replace ithttps://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive racehttps://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350Self-updating screenshotshttps://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshotshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilitieshttps://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388Flipdiscshttps://flipdisc.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnethttps://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855Three constraints before I build anythinghttps://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarchhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.