top 50% 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

3 months ago

★ 184.7k TypeScript MIT

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

3 months ago

Videolan Dav2d

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

3 months ago

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/

3 months ago

NetHack 5.0.0

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

3 months ago

This Month in Ladybird - April 2026

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

3 months ago

Ask Jeeves Shut Down

https://www.ask.com/

3 months ago

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

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

3 months ago

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462

3 months ago

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

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

3 months ago

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago

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

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

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

3 months ago

Russia Poisons Wikipedia

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

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

3 months ago

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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

3 months ago

★ 36.9k TypeScript Apache-2.0

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

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox

3 months ago

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota

3 months ago

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/

3 months ago

Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/uber-wants-to-turn-its-millions-of-drivers-into-a-sensor-grid-for-self-driving-companies/

3 months ago

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers

3 months ago

Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988268

3 months ago

Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs

https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd

3 months ago

Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language

3 months ago

A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics

3 months ago

Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake

https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-year-mistake/

3 months ago

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717

3 months ago

K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

https://github.com/rancher/k3k

3 months ago

★ 847 Go Apache-2.0

Zugzwang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang

3 months ago

An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-pyramid-unreleased

3 months ago

Farewell to a Giant of Botany

https://nautil.us/farewell-to-a-giant-of-botany-1280409

3 months ago

World's biggest RC A380 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9YLGbhxng

3 months ago

Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

https://flueframework.com/

3 months ago

Modern C++ Programming: Busato

https://github.com/federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming

3 months ago

★ 15.4k HTML CC-BY-SA-4.0

I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings

https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop

3 months ago

★ 593 Rust Apache-2.0

Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage

https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with-south-bay-mans-luggage-after-trunk-fails-to-open/

3 months ago

Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/02/business/spirit-to-halt-all-flights

3 months ago

Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers

https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai

3 months ago

★ 266 MIT

GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-1678e6de

3 months ago

Show HN: nfsdiag - a NFS diagnostic application

https://github.com/lsferreira42/nfsdiag

3 months ago

★ 120 C

The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious

https://www.dailygrail.com/2026/05/the-claude-delusion-richard-dawkins-believes-his-female-ai-chatbot-is-conscious/

3 months ago

Welcome to Hell Developer

https://noahclements.com/Wahoo-Bolt-Hidden-Debug-Mode/

3 months ago