This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883

Dav2d
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504

Do_not_track
https://donottrack.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284