Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (04:08) - A History of IDEs at Google (05:54) - Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent (07:24) - The Emacsification of Software (08:46) - Claude for Small Business (10:03) - Scorched Earth 2000 – Web (11:03) - Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (12:37) - MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (14:08) - Outro Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel featureshttps://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being firedhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438A History of IDEs at Googlehttps://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-googlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedenthttps://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848The Emacsification of Softwarehttps://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727Claude for Small Businesshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-businesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950Scorched Earth 2000 – Webhttp://www.scorch2000.com/web/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamblehttps://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (01:40) - Googlebook (02:52) - Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (04:21) - Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (05:57) - Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (07:25) - Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (08:43) - The Future of Obsidian Plugins (09:58) - How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (11:01) - Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (12:34) - CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (14:00) - Outro Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contracthttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224Googlebookhttps://googlebook.google/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertisehttps://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Modelhttps://github.com/cactus-compute/needlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planetshttps://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printershttps://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulabhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127The Future of Obsidian Pluginshttps://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970How to make your text look futuristic (2016)https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machinehttps://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasqhttps://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm (02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left (04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES (05:25) - I'm going back to writing code by hand (07:16) - Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory (08:41) - Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan (09:51) - Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (11:06) - The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) (12:35) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) (13:44) - Outro Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enablerhttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190Local AI needs to be the normhttps://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821I returned to AWS and was reminded why I lefthttp://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKEShttps://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082I'm going back to writing code by handhttps://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memoryhttps://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojanhttps://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerabilityhttps://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (01:12) - EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (02:51) - Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (04:19) - I’ve banned query strings (05:29) - LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (06:47) - The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (08:21) - Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (09:37) - Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (10:42) - Zed Editor Theme-Builder (11:47) - Outro Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibchttps://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTMLhttps://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940I’ve banned query stringshttps://chrismorgan.info/no-query-stringshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegatehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianismhttps://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levelshttps://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaninghttps://github.com/imtomt/ymawkyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587Zed Editor Theme-Builderhttps://zed.dev/theme-builderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (01:39) - David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (02:37) - An Introduction to Meshtastic (03:42) - Mojo 1.0 Beta (05:12) - Cartoon Network Flash Games (06:05) - AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (07:30) - A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (08:58) - OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (10:15) - US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (11:40) - Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (13:32) - Outro Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android usershttps://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-usershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119David Attenborough's 100th Birthdayhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884An Introduction to Meshtastichttps://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566Mojo 1.0 Betahttps://mojolang.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901Cartoon Network Flash Gameshttps://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-gameshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360AI is breaking two vulnerability cultureshttps://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultureshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Prohttps://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262OpenAI’s WebRTC problemhttps://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videoshttps://www.war.gov/UFO/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)https://www.wiisfi.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037760

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:13) - Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (01:31) - AI slop is killing online communities (02:52) - Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (04:26) - The map that keeps Burning Man honest (05:37) - Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (06:57) - Programming Still Sucks (08:13) - Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (09:13) - Agents need control flow, not more prompts (10:34) - DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (12:02) - I want to live like Costco people (13:19) - Outro Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforcehttps://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423AI slop is killing online communitieshttps://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ datahttps://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breachhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913The map that keeps Burning Man honesthttps://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPEhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623Programming Still Suckshttps://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bithttps://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227Agents need control flow, not more promptshttps://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metalhttps://github.com/antirez/ds4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751I want to live like Costco peoplehttps://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (01:23) - Appearing productive in the workplace (02:42) - Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (04:09) - Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (05:31) - SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (06:54) - From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (08:19) - Show HN: Hallucinopedia (09:08) - A Theory of Deep Learning (10:31) - Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (11:56) - Permacomputing Principles (13:19) - Outro Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons licensehttps://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-licensehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555Appearing productive in the workplacehttps://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd likehttps://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHAhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Formathttps://sqlite.org/locrsf.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434From Supabase to Clerk to Better Authhttps://blog.val.town/better-authhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038827Show HN: Hallucinopediahttp://halupedia.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257A Theory of Deep Learninghttps://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027455Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystemhttps://tilde.run/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037724Permacomputing Principleshttps://permacomputing.net/principles/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (01:34) - Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (02:59) - Three Inverse Laws of AI (04:36) - Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (06:26) - Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (07:56) - StarFighter 16-Inch (09:11) - Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (10:28) - EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (11:33) - Write some software, give it away for free (12:54) - Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (14:09) - Outro DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolvedhttps://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction draftershttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540Three Inverse Laws of AIhttps://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIshttps://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368StarFighter 16-Inchhttps://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deployhttps://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129Write some software, give it away for freehttps://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence mehttps://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Talking to strangers at the gym (01:50) - Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (03:03) - How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (04:12) - Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (05:28) - Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (06:53) - Redis array: short story of a long development process (08:01) - Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (09:12) - Agent Skills (10:32) - Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (11:18) - 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving' (12:39) - Outro Talking to strangers at the gymhttps://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438Bun is being ported from Zig to Rusthttps://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scalehttps://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shockshttps://www.nber.org/papers/w35117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consenthttps://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219Redis array: short story of a long development processhttps://antirez.com/news/164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172Train Your Own LLM from Scratchhttps://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948Agent Skillshttps://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015397Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerabilityhttps://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startuphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480121621966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (01:42) - DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (03:12) - New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (04:48) - OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (06:22) - BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (07:40) - Let's Buy Spirit Air (08:56) - A desktop made for one (10:11) - Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (11:16) - Southwest Headquarters Tour (12:31) - The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (13:49) - Outro Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttonshttps://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Prohttps://github.com/aattaran/deepclaudehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flaghttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctorshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991981BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidthhttps://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636Let's Buy Spirit Airhttps://letsbuyspiritair.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777A desktop made for onehttps://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbershttps://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990Southwest Headquarters Tourhttps://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractionshttps://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002607

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (01:50) - Dav2d (03:00) - Do_not_track (04:20) - This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (05:25) - Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (06:41) - Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (08:07) - How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (09:40) - A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (11:51) - Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (12:58) - Outro VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usagehttps://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883Dav2dhttps://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504Do_not_trackhttps://donottrack.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592This Month in Ladybird – April 2026https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOShttps://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challengehttps://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercuryhttps://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ti-84 Evo (01:39) - New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (02:58) - Ask.com has closed (04:13) - Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (05:10) - Artemis II Photo Timeline (06:16) - Apocalypse Early Warning System (07:32) - I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (08:47) - Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (10:13) - Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment (11:35) - A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf] (12:46) - Outro Ti-84 Evohttps://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaminghttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-wehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748Ask.com has closedhttps://www.ask.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352Artemis II Photo Timelinehttps://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394Apocalypse Early Warning Systemhttps://ews.kylemcdonald.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programminghttps://github.com/microsoft/lib0xchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT momenthttps://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (01:40) - Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (03:04) - Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (04:34) - How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (05:41) - For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (07:03) - How an oil refinery works (08:14) - Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (10:03) - Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (11:37) - You can beat the binary search (13:21) - I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (15:00) - Outro Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plantshttps://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961319Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehiclehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965060For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributionshttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965108How an oil refinery workshttps://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-workshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962548Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Libraryhttps://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964617Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelseyhttps://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymouslyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951295You can beat the binary searchhttps://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924912I built a Game Boy emulator in F#https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965503

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Zed 1.0 (01:47) - HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (03:13) - Copy Fail (04:41) - Cursor Camp (05:35) - Where the goblins came from (06:53) - We need a federation of forges (08:14) - FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (09:46) - The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (11:02) - Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (12:38) - OpenTrafficMap (13:47) - Outro Zed 1.0https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billinghttps://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722Copy Failhttps://copy.fail/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181Cursor Camphttps://neal.fun/cursor-camp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939Where the goblins came fromhttps://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957688We need a federation of forgeshttps://blog.tangled.org/federation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxieshttps://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policyhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fanshttps://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927627OpenTrafficMaphttps://opentrafficmap.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953541

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Ghostty is leaving GitHub (01:41) - Your phone is about to stop being yours (03:21) - Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop (05:00) - Before GitHub (06:25) - UAE to leave OPEC (07:53) - Who owns the code Claude Code wrote? (09:13) - GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown (10:41) - How ChatGPT serves ads (11:55) - Bugs Rust won't catch (13:18) - Warp is now open-source (14:29) - Outro Ghostty is leaving GitHubhttps://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-githubhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579Your phone is about to stop being yourshttps://keepandroidopen.org/en/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrophttps://github.com/localsend/localsendhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208Before GitHubhttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921UAE to leave OPEChttps://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933983Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrotehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdownhttps://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479How ChatGPT serves adshttps://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437Bugs Rust won't catchhttps://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499Warp is now open-sourcehttps://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (01:53) - GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (03:15) - Men who stare at walls (04:28) - Is my blue your blue? (05:39) - 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (07:10) - Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained (08:21) - Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 (09:45) - Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers (10:46) - Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (12:08) - FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss (13:20) - Outro Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing dealhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-openaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billinghttps://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357Men who stare at wallshttps://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074Is my blue your blue?https://ismy.blue/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479268614TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercorhttps://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630Pgbackrest is no longer being maintainedhttps://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackresthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkiehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowershttps://quarkdown.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919240Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Picohttps://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing losshttps://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucherhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919733