April 26th, 2026 | The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

About this episode

This episode recaps the top posts on Hacker News, discussing the decline in manufacturing and coding skills in the West.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 26, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (01:56): Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909226&utm_source=wondercraft_ai (03:22): I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it O...

People in this episode

Host: Wondercraft.ai

Topics covered

• technology
• coding
• Hacker News
• software development
• Linux
• internet history

Keywords

• Hacker News
• coding
• manufacturing
• Asahi Linux
• Friendster
• software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hacker News, wondercraft.ai

Products: Linux 7.0, Friendster

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