HN Daily - May 5, 2026

Today's top Hacker News stories: The .de TLD went offline — a DNSSEC key rollover went sideways and validating resolvers refused to serve German domains. The fix, the workarounds, and why this pattern keeps repeating. Google accelerates Gemma 4 with multi-token prediction — up to 3x speedup by training a drafter that proposes multiple tokens for the big model to verify in parallel. Computer use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs — Reflex benchmarks vision agents (53 steps, 17 minutes, 551k tokens) vs API agents (8 calls, 20 seconds, 12k tokens) on the same task. Three Inverse Laws of AI — Susam Pal's riff on Asimov: don't anthropomorphize, don't blindly trust, stay accountable. Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI model — ThatPrivacyGuy's forensic deep dive on the Gemini Nano download with no consent prompt. Should you run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026? — surprisingly, yes, with caveats.