top 50% 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/

3 months ago

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

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude

3 months ago

★ 1.7k JavaScript MIT

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

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

3 months ago

A Desktop Made for One

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

3 months ago

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

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

3 months ago

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

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

3 months ago

Why TUIs Are Back

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

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

Southwest Headquarters Tour

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

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

3 months ago

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

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

3 months ago

Ghost Operators: How Israeli Telecoms Were Exploited to Track Citizens Worldwide

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-05-03/ty-article-magazine/ghost-operators-how-israeli-telecoms-were-exploited-to-track-citizens-worldwide/0000019d-e9c0-dd9a-a79d-ede90a450000

3 months ago

Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad

https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/

3 months ago

What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/

3 months ago

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/

3 months ago

Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo

3 months ago

Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web

3 months ago

★ 260 TypeScript

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html

3 months ago

Coffee doesn't just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects

https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-coffee-doesnt-key-biological-pathway.html

3 months ago

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/comparing-the-z80-and-6502-to-their-relatives/

3 months ago

I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68

3 months ago

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html

3 months ago

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases

https://academy.dair.ai/blog/wiki-builder-claude-code-plugin

3 months ago

Alert-Driven Monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring

3 months ago

Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security

https://www.ft.com/content/9921f2b5-c910-4cec-a50f-cad453935a1a

3 months ago

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp

3 months ago

★ 169 Python MIT

Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2026/motorsport/porsche-will-contest-laguna-seca-in-historic-colors-of-the-apple-computer-livery.html

3 months ago

Make Your Own Microforest

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket

3 months ago

Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php

3 months ago

Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API

https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api

3 months ago

Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

https://unsung.aresluna.org/mouse-pointer-as-a-mere-mortal/

3 months ago

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-violin-produces-realistic-sounds-0429

3 months ago

Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/testing-macos-on-apple-network-server.html

3 months ago

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

https://fshot.org/techzone/the-algorithm-knows.php

3 months ago

Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services

https://github.com/Matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui

3 months ago

★ 1.4k Rust MIT

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-single-crystal

3 months ago

Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer

https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-print-structural-colour-with-an-inkjet-printer/

3 months ago

The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards

https://gizmodo.com/the-oscars-just-banned-ai-from-winning-acting-and-writing-awards-2000753740

3 months ago