top 10 hacker news stories for today

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/

6 hours ago

286 upvotes – 152 comments

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/

10 hours ago

225 upvotes – 96 comments

Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo

9 hours ago

165 upvotes – 117 comments

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/

7 hours ago

159 upvotes – 48 comments

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html

9 hours ago

157 upvotes – 119 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing

4 hours ago

122 upvotes – 114 comments

Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API

https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api

7 hours ago

74 upvotes – 76 comments

Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-04-14/delivery-robots-creating-problems-glendale-ban

10 hours ago

59 upvotes – 56 comments

Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php

8 hours ago

43 upvotes – 12 comments

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

https://fshot.org/techzone/the-algorithm-knows.php

7 hours ago

31 upvotes – 1 comments
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