top 10 hacker news stories for today

Where the Goblins Came From

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

7 hours ago

656 upvotes – 353 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

8 hours ago

302 upvotes – 138 comments

J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI, dies at 79

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-genomics-inc-dies-79

8 hours ago

239 upvotes – 42 comments

Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code

7 hours ago

★ 58Python
137 upvotes – 105 comments

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html

7 hours ago

127 upvotes – 92 comments

Claude.ai and API Unavailable

https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350

9 hours ago

115 upvotes – 111 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito

7 hours ago

104 upvotes – 16 comments

Mike: open-source legal AI

https://mikeoss.com/

9 hours ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213

2 hours ago

★ 719HTMLMPL-2.0
88 upvotes – 38 comments

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718

4 hours ago

59 upvotes – 65 comments
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