top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-02

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

1 month ago

★ 184.7kTypeScriptMIT
1510 upvotes – 850 comments

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions

1 month ago

778 upvotes – 300 comments

Videolan Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d

1 month ago

618 upvotes – 191 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/

1 month ago

545 upvotes – 167 comments

NetHack 5.0.0

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html

1 month ago

525 upvotes – 180 comments

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/

1 month ago

506 upvotes – 150 comments

Ask Jeeves Shut Down

https://www.ask.com/

1 month ago

477 upvotes – 240 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/

1 month ago

455 upvotes – 120 comments

LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462

1 month ago

333 upvotes – 178 comments

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go

1 month ago

325 upvotes – 358 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago

1 month ago

295 upvotes – 165 comments

Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him

https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/

1 month ago

287 upvotes – 144 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/

1 month ago

279 upvotes – 101 comments

America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187

1 month ago

277 upvotes – 145 comments

Russia Poisons Wikipedia

https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poisons-wikipedia

1 month ago

265 upvotes – 195 comments

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html

1 month ago

254 upvotes – 151 comments

Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

1 month ago

232 upvotes – 154 comments

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design

1 month ago

★ 36.9kTypeScriptApache-2.0
230 upvotes – 92 comments

Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/

1 month ago

227 upvotes – 19 comments

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213

1 month ago

216 upvotes – 97 comments
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