top 50% 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

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

I am worried about Bun

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

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

Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story

3 months ago

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/

3 months ago

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

https://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/83plus-bas/cherny/

3 months ago

I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months

https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk

3 months ago

Let's Talk about LLMs

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/

3 months ago

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

https://ratex.lites.dev/

3 months ago

'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

3 months ago

'Kitten Space Agency' Is the Spiritual Successor to 'Kerbal Space Program'

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-kerbal-space-program-and-they-have-an-ex-spacex-engineer-on-the-team-interview

3 months ago

Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide

https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators

3 months ago

Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

https://www.chevrolet.com/performance-parts/crate-engines/ecrate

3 months ago

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-view-from-mumbai-matchbook-graphic-design-130426

3 months ago

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever

3 months ago

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/

3 months ago

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

https://pomiferous.com/

3 months ago

DHS Demanded Google Data on Canadian's Activity, Location over Anti-ICE Posts

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-demanded-google-surrender-data-on-canadians-activity-location-over-anti-ice-posts/

3 months ago

Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/04/28/2003856358

3 months ago

Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

https://globalnews.ca/news/11828244/alberta-voter-list-leak-public-safety-disaster/

3 months ago

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/

3 months ago

Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-03/trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-opaque-trusts-that-rival-etfs

3 months ago

Dithering with CSS

https://ikesau.co/blog/dithering-with-css/

3 months ago

Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/8-million-thermos-jars-bottles-recalled-after-3-132568152

3 months ago

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra

3 months ago

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312411.html

3 months ago

Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11

3 months ago

Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2

https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/

3 months ago

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html

3 months ago

ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/asmls-best-selling-product

3 months ago

When Networking Doesn't Work

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/when-networking-doesnt-work/

3 months ago

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2026

3 months ago

Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages with Navigations for Interactions

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages/

3 months ago

Make some art with your phone sensors

https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/sensor-etch.html

3 months ago

Gaps in national food production, worldwide

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4

3 months ago

The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/

3 months ago

DAG Workflow Engine

https://github.com/vivekg13186/Daisy-DAG

3 months ago

★ 80 JavaScript MIT