Episode Details

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2026.

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
• (01:49) - Lunar Flyby
• (02:53) - System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
• (04:24) - GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
• (05:45) - US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
• (06:58) - Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
• (08:07) - How to get better at guitar
• (09:18) - A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
• (10:33) - Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
• (12:07) - S3 Files
• (13:50) - Outro

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121

Lunar Flyby
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676509

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679258

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853

US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-iran-war-ceasefire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682276

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678573

How to get better at guitar
https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/how-to-get-better-at-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650887

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625

S3 Files
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680404