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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code (02:20) - Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (03:46) - USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (04:51) - The Free Universal Construction Kit (05:52) - Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day (07:09) - Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (08:36) - Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (10:03) - OpenAI Privacy Filter (11:15) - EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (12:45) - The Joy of Folding Bikes (13:44) - Outro The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Codehttps://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-thingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problemhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126USB Cheat Sheet (2022)https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876The Free Universal Construction Kithttps://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every dayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finishhttps://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984OpenAI Privacy Filterhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDshttps://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130The Joy of Folding Bikeshttps://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.