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HN Daily - May 6, 2026

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Today's top Hacker News stories:

  • Valve open-sources the Steam Controller — the original 2015 controller's CAD files released under Creative Commons. Fork it, 3D print replacement shells, build your own variant.
  • Anthropic takes over SpaceX's Colossus 1 — 300+ megawatts, 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Claude Code rate limits doubled. And a tossed-off mention of "multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute."
  • Simon Willison: vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like — the normalization-of-deviance worry as agents get reliable enough to skip code review.
  • The bottleneck was never the code — agents collapse coding time, but the new bottleneck is spec quality, focus, and shared organizational context.
  • Appearing productive in the workplace — a sharp piece on output-competence decoupling, with two anecdotes that will change how you read your colleagues' messages.
  • Google Cloud Fraud Defense — reCAPTCHA's "next evolution" adds an agentic policy engine, Web Bot Auth/SPIFEE integration, and a QR-based human-in-the-loop challenge.
  • Inkscape 1.4.4 — a quiet, careful point release. The closing palate cleanser.
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