DTF:HN for May 1, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 1, 2026. Featuring: After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables, Auto Polo, The Rotary Un-Smartphone, Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows, and more. Stories covered: 1. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973108 2. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972511 3. Auto Polo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_polo HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936184 4. The Rotary Un-Smartphone https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972807 5. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972888 6. 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/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965060 7. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946899 8. Grok 4.3 https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972447 9. If I could make my own GitHub https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971771 10. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965108