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HN Daily - May 3, 2026

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Sunday edition. Today's top Hacker News stories:

  • Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons — the company admits the touchscreen-everything era didn't work, and the manufacturing reason it happened in the first place.
  • AI outperforms doctors in Harvard ER triage trial — OpenAI's o1 vs two ER physicians on 76 cases. The headline number, and the asterisks.
  • Why TUIs are back — Alcides Fonseca on terminal interfaces winning by default because Electron is everywhere.
  • New statue attributed to Banksy in central London — a suited man blinded by a flag, stepping off his pedestal. The council is keeping it.
  • BYOMesh: LoRa mesh radio with 100x bandwidth — a dual-band kit that adds a fast 2.4 GHz channel on top of the slow 900 MHz mesh.
  • A desktop made for one — Geir Isene replaced his entire Linux desktop with custom software because LLMs collapsed the cost of writing it.

    • Best of the Week: The AI agent that deleted a production database. What Replit shipped since, and the pattern connecting that to Anthropic's regex and VS Code's Copilot co-author default. Permissions, not prompts.

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