4.7.26 | Sam Altman’s potential influence, Claude Code’s engineering limitations, and a cryptography engineer’s quantum computing insights

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:24) - Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
• (01:31) - Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
• (03:18) - A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
• (04:49) - What being ripped off taught me
• (06:15) - Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
• (07:18) - German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
• (09:03) - Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
• (10:20) - Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
• (11:32) - Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
• (12:49) - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
• (14:22) - Outro

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662234

What being ripped off taught me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024

German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660954

Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663147

Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717