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I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app
433•ssiddharth•2h ago•236 comments

Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
119•Bender•2h ago•50 comments

sc-im Spreadsheets in Your Terminal

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
19•m-hodges•38m ago•4 comments

Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
73•ibobev•2h ago•45 comments

81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

https://twitter.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2040864617467924865
43•josephcsible•22m ago•19 comments

Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
112•StanAngeloff•2h ago•63 comments

What Being Ripped Off Taught Me

https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
188•doctorhandshake•3h ago•117 comments

A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
11•thadt•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
746•armanified•16h ago•113 comments

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/
698•naves•23h ago•469 comments

PostHog (YC W20) Is Hiring

1•james_impliu•3h ago

More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class

https://www.wsj.com/economy/more-americans-are-breaking-into-the-upper-middle-class-bf8b7cb2
18•alephnerd•51m ago•34 comments

Gemma 4 on iPhone

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337
781•janandonly•21h ago•218 comments

An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon

https://moonrf.com/
207•hillcrestenigma•13h ago•41 comments

France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain

https://www.mining.com/france-pulls-last-gold-held-in-us-for-15b-gain/
454•teleforce•8h ago•250 comments

AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/04/05/itunes-takeover-by-fake-ai-singer-eddie-dalton-now-occupies...
20•flinner•41m ago•15 comments

The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes

https://twitter.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151
228•keepamovin•13h ago•143 comments

Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B

https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor
211•karimf•22h ago•21 comments

One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4g44zv37qo
90•gmays•4d ago•15 comments

LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua

https://github.com/love2d/love
376•cl3misch•2d ago•189 comments

Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

https://willybrauner.com/journal/signal-the-push-pull-based-algorithm
121•mpweiher•2d ago•31 comments

Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair

https://drop.com/
99•stevebmark•12h ago•44 comments

Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code

https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with
354•vbtechguy•23h ago•90 comments

Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal

https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets
152•_____k•2d ago•35 comments

When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda

https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/when-virality-is-the-message-the-new-age-of-ai-propaganda/
37•virgildotcodes•2h ago•25 comments

Music for Programming

https://musicforprogramming.net
289•merusame•22h ago•144 comments

Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool

https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/1107
109•salt4034•14h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud

https://github.com/kessler/gemma-gem
126•ikessler•16h ago•18 comments

Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
288•nevernothing•16h ago•179 comments

Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't

https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/
698•sschueller•22h ago•573 comments
Open in hackernews

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-team-behind-a-pro-iran-lego-themed-viral-video-campaign
65•tantalor•2h ago

Comments

tantalor•2h ago
https://archive.is/73hcR
virgildotcodes•2h ago
It was quite obvious, but this is a noteworthy example of just how much more effective propaganda will become with AI.

These videos are blowing up on Twitter.

I personally found the one about Pete Hegseth quite well made and the song actually catchy.

Edit: Video link courtesy mirashii in this thread - https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116348872322024778

abdusco•1h ago
Care to share the link?
mirashii•1h ago
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116348872322024778
blackcatsec•1h ago
people were worried about deepfakes with AI but instead the propaganda is doing pretty well, and arguably better, when it's not a deepfake but instead silly, catchy, youthful, and is playing up existing beliefs. The invasion is deeply unpopular in the US, and these videos only serve to amp that up.
baggy_trough•1h ago
Invasion?
chaostheory•1h ago
Ground troops are going to be deployed
baggy_trough•1h ago
That would be a precondition, yes.
some_random•45m ago
Deepfakes were never necessary, people have been making incredible propaganda forever though the same few tactics. For instance, presenting footage out of context.
simonw•1h ago
That Hegseth one is an extraordinary piece of media. It's dense with Hegseth and Epstein lore, the song is catchy, the visuals are a significant cut above the normal AI slop aesthetic.

If this is Iranian state backed propaganda (which seems very likely) it's light years ahead of those White House videos with footage of bombs mixed in with clips from action movies.

guzfip•1h ago
The White House seems to have made the mistake of hiring HOI4 modders for their propaganda team.
input_sh•1h ago
Given the headline, they found out nothing about "the team".
hk1337•1h ago
Siding with a dictatorial regime that’s murdered 100s of their own people and aided terrorist organizations because you both hate the same person is absurd.
imdsm•1h ago
I watched "One Battle After Another" and it shows how deranged people are. I don't think its a new thing, I just think in any stable society, people who don't thrive eventually find a way to destroy the society in the hope whatever comes next will serve them better. In a society where hard work and intelligent gives you an advantage, it stands to reason that lazy, stupid people will need to play differently in order to win.

I can't wait to read wikipedia in 30 years.

fcarraldo•1h ago
I'm sorry, your takeaway from that film was that Sean Penn was the good guy?
akramachamarei•51m ago
This is a pretty obvious misinterpretation. Protagonist bad ≠ antagonist good. This isn't even the law of the excluded middle because there was only ever a statistical relationship between the morality of narrative opponents.
delis-thumbs-7e•1h ago
> In a society where hard work and intelligent gives you an advantage

Which society is this, Sweden? Xi Jinping is pretty smart and hard working, is China being demolished by lazy dumb twats? Because it seems to me its US that is overrun bu stupidity and sheer lazyness right now, but it seems to be because it rewards people like Musk, Trump etc.

lynndotpy•1h ago
Isn't the film fiction? I haven't seen it but I would refrain from using a fiction film as something to measure "how deranged people are" by.
cryptoegorophy•1h ago
Today’s world is messed up. Look at EU leaders rubbing shoulders with Syrian president/ex-terrorist.
glawre•1h ago
Don't forget Trump rubbing shoulders with al-Sharaa either.
the_duke•1h ago
That's in part because many EU countries would like to ship the Syrian refugees back to Syria.
lenerdenator•1h ago
Today's?

We were shuffling capital to China after Tiananmen Square. People were talking about how we should have left Saddam alone because of how "orderly" Iraq was under his boot. Europeans were happy to ink the plans for Nordstream 2 after Russia sent tanks into Georgia, and Russia received no less than a FIFA World Cup and Olympic games after seizing Crimea.

There is incredibly little will to stick to the whole "humans have rights and we should have a rules-based international order" when the rubber meets the road.

acessoproibido•1h ago
rules-based international order is mostly a propaganda term that the Us empire invented. It also was mostly "rules for thee but not for me"

Its a nice thing in theory but in practice power always overruled morals and I think the current US admin not only freely admits this but also kind of rubs your nose in it. In a way its less hypocritical than previously but also incredibly sobering for someone who grew up in a seemingly more "stable" world

lenerdenator•1h ago
> rules-based international order is mostly a propaganda term that the Us empire invented. It also was mostly "rules for thee but not for me"

I think there was an effort to try to stick to it, at least early on after WWII when people had seen what the old system resulted in.

Then the Berlin blockade, Korea, and Hungarian intervention happened and the implication was made that the rules were what were to be aspired to, not actually followed, and it's been all downhill from there.

Incidentally, most of those aren't on the "Us empire".

some_random•17m ago
Don't worry, the multipolar world you dream of will be here soon, and it will be as brutal and violent as you're hoping.
u8080•1h ago
Indeed, we even had deals with Germany and Belgium who bombed hospitals in Yugoslavia in 1999!
lenerdenator•1h ago
There's an implicit tolerance of authoritarian regimes so long as the price is right. This is nothing new.
raincole•1h ago
Which one? If you mean Iran, "100s of" seems like a weird understatement.
pasquinelli•58m ago
what numbers can you trust? i mean, you can trust whatever suits you, but *i* don't trust, really, any of the things i hear about the global bad guys, particularly iran when america is making war on them or building a case for war.
akramachamarei•48m ago
How about start with the number that the regime itself admits to; namely, thousands of protestors killed.
throwuxiytayq•1h ago
The number is well in the thousands/tens of thousands, and we have no way of knowing precisely because, well, it's a dictatorial regime.
pasquinelli•57m ago
also because, well, our dictatorial regime.
spaghetdefects•57m ago
Incorrect, and just yesterday Trump admitted that these weren't "protesters", they were heavily armed (by the US) insurrectionists trying to overthrow the government. Iran was right to fight them.
josefritzishere•1h ago
I appreciate that this statement accurately describes all three regimes primarily involved without naming one.
prh8•1h ago
What about the dictatorial regime that's bombing schools, falsely imprisoned tens of thousands, murdered far more than 100s, openly admitting to international war crimes?
titanomachy•1h ago
You probably have to wait 2 more years to see if they're really a dictatorship, for the time being at least they still have an electoral mandate.
dbdr•49m ago
Having an electoral mandate is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. If you don't follow your own laws and your own constitution, for instance, you're not a in a democracy, even if you have been elected. Precisely because you are elected under the assumption that you will follow the laws and constitution, not have unlimited power to do whatever you like until the next elections.
platinumrad•46m ago
The Trump regime is still borderline, but I think it's fair to call Netanyahu a dictator at this point.
edgyquant•1h ago
Who exactly are you talking about?
barbazoo•1h ago
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...

> On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12

dmos62•1h ago
It's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.
spaghetdefects•56m ago
Except that only the US and Israel are bombing schools.
platinumrad•48m ago
I agree that HN often turns a blind eye to all of the awful things that the US and Israel do, but Iran is hitting civilian targets as well.
victorbjorklund•22m ago
Iran has helped Russia bomb many schools and hospitals.
victorbjorklund•20m ago
Iran hit a teaching hospital so I guess they technically managed to hit a school and a hospital at the same time.
rolandog•53m ago
Not to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.
pb7•49m ago
Well when you put it that way, it's an improvement over the previous regime that falsely imprisoned tens of millions of citizens and not illegals that are murdering and raping our populace.

But you should probably pick up a book and learn the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship.

platinumrad•1h ago
I agree with you on principle, but you're oversimplifying things if you think that opposition to the United States or Israel is all about a single person.
jdthedisciple•1h ago
So instead we must side with another regime that slaughtered 72'000 innocent civilians of another country, most of whom were women and children?
praptak•1h ago
A regime driven by a weird religious cult and murdering their own citizens is battling a regime which is driven by a weird religious cult and is murdering their own citizens.

I think in this situation it is okay to cheer on both sides.

alberto-m•1h ago
Churchill and Eisenhower beg to disagree. When everyone is bad, you focus on restraining the most powerful actor first.
barbazoo•1h ago
Check out the history behind this and how the US has treated Iran because of their Oil for almost a hundred years now. This is 100% on the west in my opinion. We've been abusing these people for the longest time.
cobbzilla•59m ago
Before the US it was the British with BP.

Before the British with BP it was the British East India Company.

Before the British EIC there were various periods of Arab, Turk and Mongol control.

Persia has been a political football since Alexander the Great. Cursed geography.

pasquinelli•1h ago
i really can't tell which side you're talking about
spaghetdefects•58m ago
Trump just yesterday admitted to arming anti-Iranian insurrectionists. So Iran did not "murder 100s of their own people", they fought off a CIA armed coup.
jmyeet•50m ago
You mean like siding with the dictatorial regime that provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers, 15/19 of whom were nationals of that country? And then we wanted to question 3 menders of the royal family who were implicated they all mysteriously fell out of windows, died in a car accident or otherwise died?

Another national was a renowned arms dealer linked to both Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. And then that arms dealer’s nephew was chopped up in a foreign embassy and taken away in pieces?

They murdered thousands of our citizens let alone theirs.

What leg do we have to stand on here exactly?

bigtex88•50m ago
Who is siding with Iran?
some_random•48m ago
Most commenters in this thread.
some_random•48m ago
Cue dozens of comments doing exactly that...
regularization•47m ago
> Siding with a dictatorial regime

Right, Iran used to have a parliament with Mossadegh as prime minister, what happened there? Oh yaa, Mossadegh wanted Iranian oil for Iranians, so the US and UK overthrew Mossadegh, with the help of conservative mullahs, and installed a dictatorship. Then SAVAK with CIA help spent decades slaughtering the secular opposition.

> that’s murdered 100s of their own people

There are armed Balochi and Kurdish separatists shooting at the Iranian army right now, no doubt with clandestine Israeli and US support. Incidentally the Kurds had their own state at the end of WWII, until the US and UK made them dissolve into Iran.

Also aside from the bombings, the Basij have been fired on from the ground and have fired back. Who is arming the people shooting at the Basij is unknown, but some signs point to Israel.

I write this less than three months after armed federal personnel decided to march into Minneapolis and among other things kill a nurse and also a woman.

> and aided terrorist organizations

The Arabs in southern Lebanon and the Gaza strip have lived there a long time. Over the past century Zionist Jews from around the world have been invading their land, shooting, bombing, starving them. If they fight back the epithet terrorist is applied to them, and if these brave men fighting for their people are assigned the word, it gives it a great esteem.

Mikhail_Edoshin•46m ago
There was an interview with a historian and he said an interesting thing about the ancient Sparta: "Everything we know about Sparta we know from its enemies".
ryandrake•39m ago
I think it's possible to have a grown-up discussion about the production value, cultural relevance, and effectiveness of propaganda without "siding" with the videos' sponsors. This appears to be an uncomfortable case of bad people speaking at least some truth--to the point where it's resonating.
swat535•24m ago
> Siding with a dictatorial regime that’s murdered 100s of their own people and aided terrorist organizations

I'm getting really tired of this. United States and Israel have bombed and killed more innocent people than I can count on. The biggest terrorist regime is United States right now, bombing schools.

Your own president tweets out war crimes, your secretary of defense proudly proclaims "no quarters" and "send them back to the stone age".

Do me a favor, and please lay off the morality lecture.

How about you talk about the Gaza genocide for once? Or the IRAQ war that killed millions of people? Or using nuclear weapons on Japan? or the killing and raping of Vietnamese ?

Or the fact that you backed Saddam to use chemical weapons on Iranians during the 8 year war?

victorbjorklund•23m ago
While Iran is bad - US is engaged in war crimes (they even brag about it). It’s like when Russians defend their war crimes by saying that Ukraine is corrupt.
torlok•19m ago
I will side with any country that's being illegally attacked, and whose population is being illegally targeted, thank you very much. Sovereignty is fundamental, it's been broken. The state of Iran is the result of US and Israeli meddling. There was time for criticizing Iran before it was attacked.
adrian_b•13m ago
When I first heard about the protests in Iran, I assigned automatically the blame on the dictatorial regime.

Nevertheless, after the following events and after extra information provided by the US government itself, this is no longer so clear cut.

The truth is that we do not really know what happened in Iran, how many have been killed and whether that was really an internal protest against the regime or a coup attempt organized by USA.

The timing of the protests is too suspicious. The most plausible hypothesis is that US/Israeli agents have initiated the protests by influencing a great number of well-intended internal opponents of the regime, who probably have suffered then most from this action.

If some of the opposition had received US weapons, that can explain the paranoia of the dictatorial regime, even if there is little doubt that the retaliations against the opposition must have affected many who had no ties with USA or Israel.

Until credible information will surface about what really happened in Iran at the beginning of the year, we can affirm only that it is likely that the dictatorial regime has killed or tortured many non-violent opponents, but there is nothing certain about this.

On the other hand, the unprovoked crimes committed by USA since the beginning of the year against countries like Iran or Cuba are certain facts, about which there exists no doubt whatsoever, because the top US officials are bragging about them.

For all we know, USA might have already killed more Iranian civilians than the Iran government, so any claims that the attacks done by USA are somehow intended for supporting the Iranian people, are completely ridiculous.

chaostheory•1h ago
No one cares about who made these videos in the US. The bigger issue is why are we engaging in a ground war in Iran when it doesn’t really serve US interests? Everyone on both political spectrums in the US can see why it benefits Saudi Arabia and Israel, but not the US.

We’re using precious resources like missiles that we will need in the Pacific theater in next 1-2 years

harrall•1h ago
Because it wasn’t planned that far. The administration probably thought it would go like Venezuela. A Middle East historian would have told you Iran has building for all our war for decades because it trusts none of its neighbors.

A second problem is that the US knew for a while that we were weak at asymmetric warfare but we didn’t fix it. There was a war game in 2002 (the Millennium Challenge, which was actually set in the Strait of Hormuz) that, though the red team did very much cheat, it did hint at a major weakness that wasn’t resolved.

There are US defense companies today that actually specialize in that but they weren’t given the same attention (but boy are they now).

dvh•1h ago
I'm much more impressed by Chinese state-made eagles vs. cats video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGY0_pgkv8
spaghetdefects•55m ago
That one is so good.
KellyCriterion•1h ago
Is this one group?

Today I saw an analyst from Pakistan and he also had some of these "trump-lego-snippets" in the video, was wondering why someone would put so much effort in a video against trump, but it seems he copied it somewhere (from this group e.g.)

dbvn•1h ago
Hate to admit it... but the video goes hard
josefritzishere•1h ago
The production values were great. I can't deny it.
sschueller•1h ago
I would be interested to know how these are made on a technical level. Is it a combination of several tools and are they local or some service (I would think LEGO minifigs would trigger some copyright issue)? I also assume you need to do certain things to keep the consistency and somehow sync the music with the video?
delis-thumbs-7e•48m ago
Is it even propaganda if you just read aloud your enemy’s wikipedia? I think Bubba refers to someone else than Clinton and Iran’s regime is despotic assholes, but apart from that pretty accurate depiction.
ece•19m ago
Puppet regime has competition. Now do Putin.