Hacker News – 08 May 2026

Table of Contents Data Breaches and Workforce Changes Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce Security Vulnerabilities Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE Programming and Development ClojureScript Gets Async/Await Dithering with CSS Floats Don't Agree with Themselves AI Innovations Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal Miscellaneous Insights The map that keeps Burning Man honest The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated