4.26.26 | The West is losing manufacturing and coding skills, an amateur with ChatGPT solves Erdős problem, USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

Hacker News Highlights · Apr 26, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2026.

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(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…