DTF:HN for April 26, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for April 26, 2026. Featuring: Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem, Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter, The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code, Statecharts: hierarchical state machines, Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?, and more. Stories covered: 1. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126 2. Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter https://www.edenai.co HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908433 3. The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879 4. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines https://statecharts.dev/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 5. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984 6. I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877277 7. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253 8. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876 9. Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908139 10. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876071