This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540

Three Inverse Laws of AI
https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368

StarFighter 16-Inch
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129

Write some software, give it away for free
https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Talking to strangers at the gym
https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

Redis array: short story of a long development process
https://antirez.com/news/164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948

Agent Skills
https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015397

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012162

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991981

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636

Let's Buy Spirit Air
https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777

A desktop made for one
https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990

Southwest Headquarters Tour
https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002607

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ti-84 Evo
https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748

Ask.com has closed
https://www.ask.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352

Artemis II Photo Timeline
https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394

Apocalypse Early Warning System
https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961319

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965060

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965108

How an oil refinery works
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962548

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964617

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951295

You can beat the binary search
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924912

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965503

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2026.

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Zed 1.0
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722

Copy Fail
https://copy.fail/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181

Cursor Camp
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939

Where the goblins came from
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957688

We need a federation of forges
https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927627

OpenTrafficMap
https://opentrafficmap.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953541

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2026.

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Ghostty is leaving GitHub
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

Your phone is about to stop being yours
https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853

Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
https://github.com/localsend/localsend
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208

Before GitHub
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921

UAE to leave OPEC
https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933983

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937

GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479

How ChatGPT serves ads
https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437

Bugs Rust won't catch
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499

Warp is now open-source
https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2026.

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Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

Men who stare at walls
https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074

Is my blue your blue?
https://ismy.blue/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
https://quarkdown.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919240

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919733

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350

Self-updating screenshots
https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388

Flipdiscs
https://flipdisc.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855

Three constraints before I build anything
https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677