HN Daily Digest episodes:

• May 05, 2026Hacker News – 05 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Async Rust and Docker Dynamics

  Async Rust never left the MVP state

  Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

  Innovations in AI and Programming

  How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

  Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

  Security and Vulnerabilities

  CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

  Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

  Creative Projects and Community Initiatives

  Hand Drawn QR Codes

  Why I Created phpc.tv

  A Touch of Nostalgia

  The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls

  ...more

  

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• May 04, 2026Hacker News – 04 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Trademark and Security Scandals

  Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

  Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

  Innovative Techniques in AI and Development

  Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

  The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

  Hardware and Networking Breakthroughs

  BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

  Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

  Programming and Learning Innovations

  Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

  A desktop made for one

  Industry Movements and Speculations

  GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

  Let's Buy Spirit Air

  ...more

  

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• May 03, 2026Hacker News – 03 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Programming Languages and Frameworks

  A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

  This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

  Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

  AI and Quantum Computing Innovations

  A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

  VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

  Tech and User Experience

  Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

  Do_not_track

  The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

  Sustainability and Resource Management

  Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

  Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

  Community and Local News

  Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

  San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

  ...more

  

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• May 02, 2026Hacker News – 02 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and Tools

  Ti-84 Evo

  Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

  Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

  K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

  Environmental and Scientific Insights

  To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

  New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

  Tech Legacy and Market Moves

  Ask.com has closed

  The USB Situation

  Interesting Programming Developments

  Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example

  LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture

  Job Opportunities in Innovative Startups

  CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

  ...more

  

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• May 01, 2026Hacker News – 01 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations

  Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

  Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

  Security Concerns

  Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

  CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

  Historical Insights

  New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

  Auto Polo

  AI and Ethics

  Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

  Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

  Cultural Reflections

  Maladaptive Frugality

  How an oil refinery works

  ...more

  

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• April 30, 2026Hacker News – 30 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI Developments

  Where the goblins came from

  The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

  Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs

  Programming Innovations

  Zed 1.0

  Parse, don't validate

  Tech Products and Policies

  Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

  Copy Fail

  Tributes and Reflections

  Craig Venter has died

  London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

  ...more

  

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• April 29, 2026Hacker News – 29 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  GitHub and Open Source Developments

  Ghostty is leaving GitHub

  Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

  Before GitHub

  Security and Safety in Software

  Bugs Rust won't catch

  GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

  Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation

  Innovations in AI and Computing

  OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs

  Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU

  Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold

  Cultural and Community Reflections

  Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

  Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

  I won a championship that doesn't exist

  ...more

  

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• April 28, 2026Hacker News – 28 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI and Language Models

  Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

  Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

  4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

  Tech Innovations and Developments

  Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

  Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

  LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer

  Networking and System Changes

  Networking changes coming in macOS 27

  High Performance Git

  Security and Retro Computing

  GTFOBins

  Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

  Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

  ...more

  

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• April 27, 2026Hacker News – 27 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and Retro Revivals

  Flipdiscs

  I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

  When the cheap one is the cool one

  AI and Software Engineering

  AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

  TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

  SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

  Personal Projects and Development Philosophy

  It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

  Three constraints before I build anything

  Self-updating screenshots

  Cybersecurity and Historical Insights

  Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

  Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

  FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

  ...more

  

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• April 26, 2026Hacker News – 26 Apr 2026

  Table of Contents

  The State of Expertise and Industry

  The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

  Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

  Innovations in Mathematics and Science

  Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

  GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

  Tech Tools and Tips

  USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

  OpenAI Privacy Filter

  Creative Projects and Cultural Insights

  The Free Universal Construction Kit

  Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

  Miscellaneous Fascinations

  Quirks of Human Anatomy

  APL is more French than English

  ...more

  

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