top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-03

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/

1 month ago

862 upvotes – 510 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude

1 month ago

★ 1.7kJavaScriptMIT
676 upvotes – 281 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

1 month ago

605 upvotes – 577 comments

Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/

1 month ago

570 upvotes – 551 comments

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses

1 month ago

505 upvotes – 471 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135

1 month ago

482 upvotes – 159 comments

A Desktop Made for One

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html

1 month ago

459 upvotes – 266 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap

1 month ago

453 upvotes – 374 comments

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/

1 month ago

434 upvotes – 231 comments

Why TUIs Are Back

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/

1 month ago

423 upvotes – 420 comments

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/

1 month ago

380 upvotes – 219 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html

1 month ago

321 upvotes – 99 comments

Metal Gear Solid 2's Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan

https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/

1 month ago

315 upvotes – 147 comments

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility

1 month ago

295 upvotes – 137 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing

1 month ago

286 upvotes – 295 comments

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html

1 month ago

237 upvotes – 246 comments

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law

1 month ago

234 upvotes – 282 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors

1 month ago

231 upvotes – 96 comments

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/personal/phish/flow/agents/2026/05/03/rift.html

1 month ago

231 upvotes – 177 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions

1 month ago

226 upvotes – 136 comments
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