Hacker News Highlights

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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• (00:00) - Intro

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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• (00:00) - Intro

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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• (00:00) - Intro

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876

The Free Universal Construction Kit
https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525

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/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984

OpenAI Privacy Filter
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130

The Joy of Folding Bikes
https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779

The Classic American Diner
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435

Paraloid B-72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

GPT-5.5
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092

DeepSeek v4
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/meta-tells-staff-it-will-cut-10-of-jobs-in-push-for-efficiency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special-forces-soldier-arrested-maduro-raid-trade
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882645

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
https://github.com/russellromney/honker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647

Incident with multple GitHub services
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644

Ubuntu 26.04
https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867

I am building a cloud
https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913

Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393

Website streamed live directly from a model
https://flipbook.page/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 22, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Framework Laptop 13 Pro
https://frame.work/laptop13pro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177

Laws of Software Engineering
https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179

ChatGPT Images 2.0
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635

Making RAM at Home [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822978

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634