top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-05

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

3 months ago

.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de

3 months ago

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5

3 months ago

★ 89.8k Zig

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/

3 months ago

Three Inverse Laws of AI

https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html

3 months ago

AI didn't delete your database, you did

https://idiallo.com/blog/ai-didnt-delete-your-database-you-did

3 months ago

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/

3 months ago

Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs

https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/

3 months ago

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723

3 months ago

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch

3 months ago

★ 2.7k

Async Rust never left the MVP state

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state

3 months ago

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/

3 months ago

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298

3 months ago

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/

3 months ago

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php

3 months ago

Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%)

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/y_combinators_stake_in_openai

3 months ago

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026

3 months ago

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI

3 months ago

About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them

https://walzr.com/empty-screenings

3 months ago

The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is-over/

3 months ago