top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-29

Zed is 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

4 months ago

Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431

https://copy.fail/

4 months ago

HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

4 months ago

★ 120.6k Shell

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/

4 months ago

Online age verification is the hill to die on

https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560

4 months ago

Bugs Rust Won't Catch

https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/

4 months ago

Tangled – We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/

4 months ago

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/

4 months ago

Mistral Medium 3.5

https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5

4 months ago

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously

4 months ago

FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies

4 months ago

HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/mitchell_hashimoto_ghostty_quitting_github/

4 months ago

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/

4 months ago

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom

4 months ago

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003

4 months ago

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/

4 months ago

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing

4 months ago

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

4 months ago

★ 977 Ruby

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them

4 months ago

Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html

4 months ago