top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-07

Building for the Future

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

1 month ago

1355 upvotes – 998 comments

Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack

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

1 month ago

920 upvotes – 648 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

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

1 month ago

853 upvotes – 470 comments

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

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

1 month ago

832 upvotes – 734 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

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

1 month ago

818 upvotes – 332 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

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

1 month 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/

1 month ago

636 upvotes – 247 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

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

1 month 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

1 month ago

511 upvotes – 333 comments

OpenAI's WebRTC Problem

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

1 month ago

509 upvotes – 149 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4

1 month ago

★ 8.6kCMIT
498 upvotes – 157 comments

Mythical Man Month

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

1 month 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/

1 month ago

396 upvotes – 381 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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

1 month ago

388 upvotes – 171 comments

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

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

1 month ago

387 upvotes – 318 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

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

1 month ago

368 upvotes – 121 comments

Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter

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

1 month ago

364 upvotes – 145 comments

I Want to Live Like Costco People

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

1 month ago

343 upvotes – 734 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

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

1 month ago

335 upvotes – 218 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

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

1 month ago

327 upvotes – 149 comments

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/

1 month ago

321 upvotes – 156 comments

Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25-percent-as-chipmakers-strangle-enthusiast-pc-market-to-build-more-ai-chips-asus-projected-to-sell-5-million-fewer-boards-in-2025-gigabyte-msi-and-asrock-also-expected-to-see-reduced-sales-numbers

1 month ago

299 upvotes – 342 comments

RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/

1 month ago

297 upvotes – 79 comments

Permacomputing Principles

https://permacomputing.net/principles/

1 month ago

271 upvotes – 212 comments

LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/05/05/noyb-cries-foul-on-linkedin-withholding-profile-visitor-data/5225338

1 month ago

221 upvotes – 127 comments

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

https://aniket.foo/posts/20260505-netboot/

1 month ago

208 upvotes – 103 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants

1 month ago

206 upvotes – 80 comments

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

https://predr.ag/blog/the-self-cancelling-subscription/

1 month ago

188 upvotes – 75 comments

The Vatican's Website in Latin

https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html

1 month ago

186 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust

1 month ago

★ 229RustMIT
178 upvotes – 88 comments

First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-element-lowered/

1 month ago

156 upvotes – 98 comments

Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/

1 month ago

155 upvotes – 96 comments

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03546

1 month ago

150 upvotes – 80 comments

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-human-brain

1 month ago

150 upvotes – 62 comments

How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all

1 month ago

148 upvotes – 21 comments

ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-hacker-claims-data-theft-from-8-800-schools-universities/

1 month ago

145 upvotes – 2 comments

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/

1 month ago

141 upvotes – 38 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html

1 month ago

139 upvotes – 80 comments

I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too

https://blog.johnozbay.com/i-left-apples-ecosystem-for-a-lenovo-chromebook-and-you-can-too.html

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 172 comments

How Unsloth and Nvidia made LLM training 25% faster on consumer GPUs

https://unsloth.ai/blog/nvidia-collab

1 month ago

129 upvotes – 25 comments

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/

1 month ago

125 upvotes – 4 comments

Looking at the data behind prediction markets

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/are-prediction-markets-good-for-anything

1 month ago

118 upvotes – 48 comments

ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math

https://firethering.com/zaya1-8b-open-source-math-coding-model/

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 55 comments

The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/05/the-old-guard-samuel-moyn-gerontocracy/

1 month ago

110 upvotes – 233 comments

Principles for agent-native CLIs

https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795

1 month ago

110 upvotes – 50 comments

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524042-a-lost-ancient-script-reveals-how-writing-as-we-know-it-really-began/

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 71 comments

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/

1 month ago

106 upvotes – 79 comments

Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability

https://blog.cloudflare.com/copy-fail-linux-vulnerability-mitigation/

1 month ago

103 upvotes – 82 comments

California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply

https://kmph.com/news/local/california-leaders-report-four-to-six-weeks-worth-of-gasoline-and-diesel-in-supply

1 month ago

99 upvotes – 215 comments

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-men-as-women

1 month ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 25 comments

Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement

https://www.ohio.news/stories/dayton-authorities-say-that-flock-cameras-data-allegedly-used-for-immigration-enforcement/

1 month ago

93 upvotes – 51 comments

The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation

1 month ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/reporter-jj-nursery-utah-senator-jerry-stevenson-box-elder-county-data-center/

1 month ago

85 upvotes – 34 comments

Creating for a niche

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche

1 month ago

84 upvotes – 7 comments

Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce)

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/cloudflare-announces-first-quarter-2026-201500778.html

1 month ago

83 upvotes – 2 comments

Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

https://ahk.cardor.dev

1 month ago

82 upvotes – 23 comments

The rise and fall of snake oil

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rise-and-fall-snake-oil

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs

https://github.com/darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval

1 month ago

★ 480TypeScriptMIT
79 upvotes – 37 comments
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