5.12.26 | TanStack NPM supply-chain attack, GitLab workforce reduction and CREDIT end, AI-written code questions Python use

What this episode covers

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (01:58) - GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (03:22) - If AI writes your code, why use Python? (04:57) - UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025) (06:04) - Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (07:35) - They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (08:48) - Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (10:21) - Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (11:30) - Interaction Models (12:56) - Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw (14:20) - Outro Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromisehttps://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT valueshttps://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500If AI writes your code, why use Python?https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077They Live (1988) inspired Adblockerhttps://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblockerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/shttps://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685Screenshots of Old Desktop OSeshttp://www.typewritten.org/Media/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428Interaction Modelshttps://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flawhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641

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