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2026-05-03 16:00:09 UTC

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Link: https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418

2026-05-03 15:45:09 UTC

Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974307

2026-05-03 15:45:09 UTC

Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
Link: https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995037

2026-05-03 15:25:10 UTC

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997358

2026-05-03 14:55:09 UTC

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Link: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-since-march/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980279

2026-05-03 14:45:11 UTC

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972114

2026-05-03 13:05:08 UTC

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
Link: https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981979

2026-05-03 09:25:09 UTC

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
Link: https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994012

2026-05-03 08:35:08 UTC

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
Link: https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990675

2026-05-03 08:30:09 UTC

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
Link: https://hnup.date/hn-sota
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990708

2026-05-03 08:25:09 UTC

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
Link: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990789

2026-05-03 05:45:09 UTC

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992349

2026-05-03 05:40:09 UTC

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Link: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235

2026-05-03 05:25:09 UTC

Open source does not imply open community
Link: https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992772

2026-05-03 05:15:09 UTC

Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992338

2026-05-03 04:20:10 UTC

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986136

2026-05-03 04:10:09 UTC

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
Link: https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802

2026-05-03 03:45:11 UTC

The USB Situation
Link: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950993

2026-05-03 01:15:09 UTC

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
Link: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284

2026-05-03 01:05:08 UTC

Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991350

2026-05-03 00:00:08 UTC

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026
Link: https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318

2026-05-02 23:40:09 UTC

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
Link: https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606

2026-05-02 22:40:09 UTC

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
Link: https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961935

2026-05-02 21:35:08 UTC

Do_not_track
Link: https://donottrack.sh/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592

2026-05-02 21:20:09 UTC

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Link: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883

2026-05-02 20:50:09 UTC

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/uber-wants-to-turn-its-millions-of-drivers-into-a-sensor-grid-for-self-driving-companies/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987333

2026-05-02 20:05:08 UTC

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988261

2026-05-02 20:00:09 UTC

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y
Link: https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seven-fold-last-decade
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960015

2026-05-02 19:45:10 UTC

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988742

2026-05-02 19:35:10 UTC

Dav2d
Link: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504

2026-05-02 19:05:09 UTC

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
Link: https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948526

2026-05-02 18:40:08 UTC

NetHack 5.0.0
Link: https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988776

2026-05-02 18:15:10 UTC

America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987006

2026-05-02 16:25:09 UTC

LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987256

2026-05-02 16:25:09 UTC

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
Link: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985750

2026-05-02 15:50:09 UTC

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
Link: https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964957

2026-05-02 15:30:09 UTC

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
Link: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949794

2026-05-02 15:00:10 UTC

Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Link: https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poisons-wikipedia
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986083

2026-05-02 14:40:09 UTC

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984522

2026-05-02 14:00:10 UTC

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
Link: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852

2026-05-02 13:05:09 UTC

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
Link: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669

2026-05-02 09:25:08 UTC

DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977026

2026-05-02 07:30:09 UTC

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Link: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352

2026-05-02 06:05:09 UTC

Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Link: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982512

2026-05-02 05:15:08 UTC

Ask.com has closed
Link: https://www.ask.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226

2026-05-02 04:25:09 UTC

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
Link: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834

2026-05-02 03:50:08 UTC

Artemis II Photo Timeline
Link: https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394

2026-05-02 02:45:09 UTC

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789

2026-05-02 01:55:09 UTC

The smelly baby problem
Link: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950070

2026-05-02 01:05:08 UTC

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978892

2026-05-02 01:00:08 UTC

Understand Anything
Link: https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977470

2026-05-02 00:15:08 UTC

Apocalypse Early Warning System
Link: https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

2026-05-01 22:45:08 UTC

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
Link: https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975392

2026-05-01 22:10:09 UTC

Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks
Link: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839

2026-05-01 22:00:09 UTC

Ti-84 Evo
Link: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583

2026-05-01 21:20:09 UTC

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-centers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977498

2026-05-01 21:15:10 UTC

whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
Link: https://github.com/whohas/whohas
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975592

2026-05-01 21:00:09 UTC

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748

2026-05-01 21:00:09 UTC

The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
Link: https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977583

2026-05-01 20:40:08 UTC

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570

2026-05-01 20:35:09 UTC

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676

2026-05-01 20:25:10 UTC

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976856

2026-05-01 20:15:09 UTC

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Link: https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978370

2026-05-01 19:50:09 UTC

Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
Link: https://www.ghost.charity/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975472

2026-05-01 19:25:08 UTC

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS
Link: https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXeGZB94okNHdHBGlCv58Sw==
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213

2026-05-01 19:20:10 UTC

AI uses less water than the public thinks
Link: https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977383

2026-05-01 19:15:09 UTC

The Gay Jailbreak Technique
Link: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977134

2026-05-01 19:00:10 UTC

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
Link: https://github.com/intel/auto-round
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972659

2026-05-01 18:50:10 UTC

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
Link: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973755

2026-05-01 18:40:09 UTC

Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwxV0Sd9V8
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977450

2026-05-01 17:50:08 UTC

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
Link: https://keepthingsopen.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975785

2026-05-01 17:25:08 UTC

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?
Link: https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927011

2026-05-01 17:15:10 UTC

Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
Link: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976529

2026-05-01 17:15:10 UTC

Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
Link: https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976415

2026-05-01 17:05:09 UTC

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975571

2026-05-01 16:40:08 UTC

If I could make my own GitHub
Link: https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962269

2026-05-01 14:10:08 UTC

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973108

2026-05-01 13:35:08 UTC

Your Website Is Not for You
Link: https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376

2026-05-01 13:30:09 UTC

I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
Link: https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939246

2026-05-01 13:25:09 UTC

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Link: https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973378

2026-05-01 13:20:08 UTC

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Link: https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946899

2026-05-01 11:15:08 UTC

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Link: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972511

2026-05-01 11:10:09 UTC

Grok 4.3
Link: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972447

2026-05-01 10:55:10 UTC

OpenWarp
Link: https://openwarp.zerx.dev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970622

2026-05-01 09:45:11 UTC

Maladaptive Frugality
Link: https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942863

2026-05-01 09:25:09 UTC

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939158

2026-05-01 08:55:09 UTC

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
Link: https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-authentication-bypass-cve-2026-41940/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969288

2026-05-01 04:05:08 UTC

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges
Link: https://wideluxx.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937033

2026-05-01 03:55:08 UTC

Does Postgres Scale?
Link: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966625

2026-05-01 03:05:09 UTC

Full-Text Search with DuckDB
Link: https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966254

2026-05-01 02:05:08 UTC

The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed
Link: https://theupsellgame.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967508

2026-05-01 00:55:09 UTC

Reverse Engineering SimTower
Link: https://phulin.me/blog/simtower
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937814

2026-05-01 00:05:09 UTC

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
Link: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951295

2026-04-30 21:30:08 UTC

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
Link: https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967262

2026-04-30 21:20:08 UTC

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
Link: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947944

2026-04-30 21:10:09 UTC

Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity
Link: https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786

2026-04-30 20:50:08 UTC

U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets
Link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senators-vote-to-ban-themselves-from-trading-on-prediction-markets-ae4535dd
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967289

2026-04-30 20:00:08 UTC

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
Link: https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965503

2026-04-30 19:20:10 UTC

Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file
Link: https://honker.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963316

2026-04-30 19:05:08 UTC

A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?
Link: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933934