HN Daily - May 1, 2026

Flock's 'demo partner program' caught accessing live cameras in a children's gymnastics room — Dunwoody, GA renews contract anyway UC Davis professor publishes the actual physics math on AI water use in California (it's far smaller than the panic suggests) Inside a credit card brute force attack: PCI's masked PAN, differentiated gateway errors, and friendly merchants exempt from 3D Secure Spotify rolls out 'Verified by Spotify' badges for human artists — but it labels the human, not the music WhatCable: a tiny Mac menu bar app that finally tells you what your USB-C cable can actually do Lucid dream research: subjects solving math, practicing darts, and answering questions in REM sleep — and a warning not to weaponize it