Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2026.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:20) - Artemis II Launch Day Updates
  • (01:05) - EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
  • (02:38) - DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
  • (04:07) - Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
  • (05:23) - SpaceX files to go public
  • (06:50) - Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
  • (08:11) - Weather.com/Retro
  • (09:18) - AI for American-produced cement and concrete
  • (10:35) - A new C++ back end for ocamlc
  • (12:09) - Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
  • (13:50) - Outro

Artemis II Launch Day Updates
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564

SpaceX files to go public
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557921

Weather.com/Retro
https://weather.com/retro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609090

AI for American-produced cement and concrete
https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and-concrete/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603737

A new C++ back end for ocamlc
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608058

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608495

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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.