DTF:HN for April 12, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for April 12, 2026. Featuring: MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source, An Interview with Pat Gelsinger, Tofolli gates are all you need, Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone, The Miller Principle, and more. Stories covered: 1. MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source https://firethering.com/minimax-m2-7-agentic-model/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737928 2. An Interview with Pat Gelsinger https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-pat-gelsinger-2026 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706423 3. Tofolli gates are all you need https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/06/tofolli-gates/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672718 4. Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone https://phyphox.org/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737376 5. The Miller Principle https://puredanger.github.io/tech.puredanger.com/2007/07/11/miller-principle/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674910 6. Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/12/ios_passcode_bug/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737383 7. How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217 8. The End of Eleventy https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735535 9. US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/11/appeals-court-ruling-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736298 10. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020