top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-04

Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/

3 months ago

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do

3 months ago

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730

3 months ago

Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/

3 months ago

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents

3 months ago

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/

3 months ago

I am worried about Bun

https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/

3 months ago

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/

3 months ago

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/

3 months ago

CARA 2.0 – "I Built a Better Robot Dog"

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2

3 months ago

GitHub Is Down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/72q3n8yxthcy

3 months ago

Days Without GitHub Incidents

https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/

3 months ago

Agent Skills

https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/

3 months ago

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117

3 months ago

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164

3 months ago

How Monero's proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works

3 months ago

PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out

https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/releases/tag/v3.8.0

3 months ago

★ 5.6k Python MIT

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to

3 months ago

Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-prices-surge/

3 months ago

We found exposed U.S. military data at an A16Z startup (fixed after 150 days)

https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup

3 months ago