top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-30

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

1 month ago

1342 upvotes – 719 comments

Where the Goblins Came From

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

1 month ago

1068 upvotes – 660 comments

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/

1 month ago

869 upvotes – 1054 comments

Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle

1 month ago

757 upvotes – 350 comments

The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/

1 month ago

707 upvotes – 252 comments

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

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

1 month ago

681 upvotes – 462 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

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

1 month ago

★ 731HTMLMPL-2.0
660 upvotes – 231 comments

CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10

1 month ago

599 upvotes – 549 comments

How an Oil Refinery Works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works

1 month ago

537 upvotes – 191 comments

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o

1 month ago

524 upvotes – 432 comments

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blockages-by-laliga/

1 month ago

518 upvotes – 227 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/

1 month ago

465 upvotes – 177 comments

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request

https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/

1 month ago

434 upvotes – 219 comments

Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/

1 month ago

408 upvotes – 296 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/

1 month ago

350 upvotes – 77 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

1 month ago

342 upvotes – 85 comments

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/

1 month ago

327 upvotes – 209 comments

U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senators-vote-to-ban-themselves-from-trading-on-prediction-markets-ae4535dd

1 month ago

312 upvotes – 107 comments

GCC 16 has been released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html

1 month ago

305 upvotes – 52 comments

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com

1 month ago

302 upvotes – 105 comments
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