top 50% 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

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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

I'm Scared About Biological Computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing

3 months ago

Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/05/04/10-lessons-for-agentic-coding.html

3 months ago

NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market

3 months ago

Agents for Financial Services and Insurance

https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents

3 months ago

AI Product Graveyard

https://tooldirectory.ai/ai-graveyard

3 months ago

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/

3 months ago

Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/

3 months ago

Hand Drawn QR Codes

https://sethmlarson.dev/hand-drawn-qr-codes

3 months ago

What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/18/cognitive-debt-revisited/

3 months ago

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

https://paletteinspiration.com/

3 months ago

Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped

3 months ago

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

https://www.dragonsreach.it/2026/05/04/cve-2026-31431-copy-fail-rootless-containers/

3 months ago

Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

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

3 months ago

UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly

https://www.smmt.co.uk/two-millionth-electric-car-registered-as-market-rebounds-strongly-from-tax-changes/

3 months ago

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752

3 months ago

It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs

https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/article/its-official-utah-is-the-us-state-closest-to-banning-vpns-153556814.html

3 months ago

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader

3 months ago

★ 4.5k C MIT

Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say

https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publishers-lawsuit-llama-5609846d4d840014974a847b01079c32

3 months ago

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023496

3 months ago

Yet Another GitHub Incident

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j40g94rn22j

3 months ago

Biscuit

https://github.com/yattsu/biscuit

3 months ago

★ 229 C MIT

The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars

https://nobodyaskedforthis.lol/posts/connected-car/

3 months ago

Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/xbox-ceo-ends-copilot-ai-development-overhauls-leadership-3361353/

3 months ago

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera

3 months ago

A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

https://ivanpleshkov.dev/blog/polynomial-autoencoder/

3 months ago

PySimpleGUI 6

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI

3 months ago

★ 13.8k Python LGPL-3.0

Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram-encrypted-messaging-ends-may-8/

3 months ago

Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937

3 months ago

SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

https://singleride.nyc/

3 months ago

2-D Mathematical Curves

https://www.2dcurves.com/

3 months ago

Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/dake-kang-garance-burke-byron-tau-aniruddha-ghosal-and-yael-grauer-contributor-associated

3 months ago

GPT‑5.5 Instant

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-instant/

3 months ago

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi

3 months ago

SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

https://subq.ai/introducing-subq

3 months ago

Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

https://wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05-05-I-built-a-new-word-game

3 months ago

The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-mathematical-dance-inside-plant-cells-20260504/

3 months ago

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296

3 months ago

Why airlines are always going bankrupt

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-airlines-are-always-going-bankrupt

3 months ago

The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Camper Van

https://www.thedrive.com/news/meet-the-brave-souls-who-bought-a-used-340000-mile-rental-camper-van

3 months ago

Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/apple-mac-studio-mac-mini-ram-cuts/

3 months ago