top 50% hacker news stories for today

Trump blocks wind farms on national security grounds

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/03/trump-blocks-wind-farms-national-security-grounds/

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 1 comments

Said it couldn't see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/2051079891316248860

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

Tesla is facing up to $14.5B in lawsuits and it's only getting worse

https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/tesla-facing-up-to-14-billion-lawsuits-deep-dive/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Fake Notepad++ for Mac

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

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author?

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17982

55 minutes ago

★ 27.8kC++
5 upvotes – 0 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

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

11 hours ago

604 upvotes – 349 comments

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

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

1 day ago

405 upvotes – 199 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/

21 hours ago

351 upvotes – 213 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 day ago

276 upvotes – 234 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/

6 hours ago

267 upvotes – 270 comments

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

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing

19 hours ago

260 upvotes – 274 comments

Why TUIs Are Back

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

7 hours ago

254 upvotes – 281 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

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

7 hours ago

254 upvotes – 82 comments

A Desktop Made for One

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

10 hours ago

234 upvotes – 93 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

227 upvotes – 95 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 day ago

220 upvotes – 233 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

11 hours ago

210 upvotes – 240 comments

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

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

9 hours ago

207 upvotes – 167 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

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

8 hours ago

189 upvotes – 55 comments

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

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

23 hours ago

184 upvotes – 83 comments

Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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

1 day ago

179 upvotes – 140 comments

What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?

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

8 hours ago

164 upvotes – 57 comments

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

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude

3 hours ago

★ 112JavaScriptMIT
160 upvotes – 71 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

★ 172TypeScript
159 upvotes – 40 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

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

2 hours ago

125 upvotes – 92 comments

Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad

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

10 hours ago

119 upvotes – 138 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

118 upvotes – 154 comments

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

14 hours ago

111 upvotes – 87 comments

Alert-Driven Monitoring

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

11 hours ago

106 upvotes – 39 comments

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

11 hours ago

104 upvotes – 46 comments

Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API

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

22 hours ago

102 upvotes – 127 comments

Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels

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

1 day ago

102 upvotes – 46 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

2 hours ago

97 upvotes – 63 comments

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

9 hours ago

96 upvotes – 7 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 hour ago

95 upvotes – 36 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

★ 1.4kRustMIT
77 upvotes – 24 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

71 upvotes – 5 comments

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

8 hours ago

70 upvotes – 48 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

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

7 hours ago

★ 66PythonMIT
67 upvotes – 47 comments

Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades

https://yusufaytas.com/breaking-up-with-wordpress-after-two-decades

11 hours ago

66 upvotes – 34 comments

Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-04-14/delivery-robots-creating-problems-glendale-ban

1 day ago

65 upvotes – 73 comments

Make Your Own Microforest

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

6 hours ago

63 upvotes – 15 comments

Uncle Bob: It's Over

https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1srfqm0/uncle_bob_its_over/

9 hours ago

55 upvotes – 80 comments
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