4.27.26 | Bought Friendster, AI agent deleted production database, AI should elevate thinking

Hacker News Highlights · Apr 27, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2026.

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(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

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