top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-07

Building for the Future

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

3 months ago

1355 upvotes – 998 comments

Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach

3 months ago

920 upvotes – 648 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

3 months ago

853 upvotes – 470 comments

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/

3 months ago

832 upvotes – 734 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

3 months ago

818 upvotes – 332 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/

3 months ago

767 upvotes – 353 comments

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

3 months ago

636 upvotes – 247 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/

3 months ago

588 upvotes – 294 comments

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures

3 months ago

511 upvotes – 333 comments

OpenAI's WebRTC Problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/

3 months ago

509 upvotes – 149 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4

3 months ago

★ 8.6k C MIT
498 upvotes – 157 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html

3 months ago

399 upvotes – 209 comments

Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/

3 months ago

396 upvotes – 381 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/

3 months ago

388 upvotes – 171 comments

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00796-2

3 months ago

387 upvotes – 318 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders

3 months ago

368 upvotes – 121 comments

Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html

3 months ago

364 upvotes – 145 comments

I Want to Live Like Costco People

https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/

3 months ago

343 upvotes – 734 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/

3 months ago

335 upvotes – 218 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/

3 months ago

327 upvotes – 149 comments
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