top 50% 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

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation

4 months ago

I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine

https://www.scd31.com/posts/diy-hair-electrolysis-machine

4 months ago

He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

https://www.diabettech.com/i-asked-ai-to-count-my-carbs-27000-times-it-couldnt-give-me-the-same-answer-twice/

4 months ago

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did

4 months ago

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/

4 months ago

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/

4 months ago

The Smelly Baby Problem

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered

4 months ago

Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

https://rip.so

4 months ago

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman

4 months ago

★ 3.1k Python GPL-3.0

I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/

4 months ago

"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont-use-ai-will-be-left-behind/

4 months ago

GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings

4 months ago

★ 884 Assembly MIT

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/

4 months ago

Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity

https://www.newsweek.com/germany-overtakes-us-in-ammunition-production-capacity-11886409

4 months ago

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04-26/hardenedbsd-officially-radicle

4 months ago

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot

4 months ago

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials

4 months ago

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU

4 months ago

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

https://prm.ua/en/the-us-is-no-longer-the-leader-germany-has-become-the-largest-ammunition-producer-in-the-world/

4 months ago

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi

4 months ago

Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained

https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql

4 months ago

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-game

4 months ago

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by-losing-infinity-20260429/

4 months ago

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/

4 months ago

> Be Alexandra Elbakyan

https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049057344013881523#m

4 months ago

Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

https://github.com/bruin-data/dac

4 months ago

★ 478 Go AGPL-3.0

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Alphabet-Announces-First-Quarter-2026-Results-2026-X-ge4Dm6bf/default.aspx

4 months ago

Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/28/court-rules-2nd-amendment-covers-firearms-parts-good-news-for-those-who-build-guns/

4 months ago

U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-war-iran-has-cost-25-billion-so-far-says-pentagon-official-2026-04-29/

4 months ago

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

https://github.com/aallan/vera

4 months ago

★ 324 Python MIT

Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis

https://handyai.substack.com/p/your-ceo-is-suffering-from-ai-psychosis

4 months ago

Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

https://physicsworld.com/a/coffee-with-a-splash-of-physics-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-your-brew/

4 months ago

We decreased our LLM costs with Opus

https://www.mendral.com/blog/frontier-model-lower-costs

4 months ago

Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

https://github.com/electricant/adblock-rust-manager

4 months ago

★ 54 CSS

When the Internet Was a Place

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/09/when-the-internet-was-a-place/

4 months ago

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

https://atproto.com/

4 months ago

Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/making-ai-chatbots-more-friendly-mistakes-support-false-beliefs-conspiracy-theories-study

4 months ago

Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-jumps-from-225m-55b-drones-cheap-attacks-overwhelm-us-defenses

4 months ago

I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."

https://www.maxtaylor.me/articles/i-benchmarked-caveman-against-two-words

4 months ago

Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/apple-vision-pro-m5-flop/

4 months ago

Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil

4 months ago

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945522

4 months ago

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/

4 months ago

Because It Doesn't Have To

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/because-it-doesnt-have-to.html

4 months ago