It's 2026-05-01. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

The gay jailbreak technique | comment
Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months | comment
AI uses less water than the public thinks | comment
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo | comment
Ti-84 Evo | comment
New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming | comment
Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
GPT-5.5 | comment
Your phone is about to stop being yours | comment
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing | comment
Where the goblins came from | comment
I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support | comment
Online age verification is the hill to die on | comment
Cursor Camp | comment
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 | comment
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation | comment
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing | comment
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem | comment
Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity | comment
The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy | comment
Bugs Rust won't catch | comment
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below | comment
Mistral Medium 3.5 | comment
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] | comment
Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga | comment
I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it | comment
Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans | comment
CopyFail was not disclosed to distro developers? | comment
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price | comment
John Ternus to become Apple CEO | comment
GPT-5.5 | comment
Your phone is about to stop being yours | comment
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing | comment
Framework Laptop 13 Pro | comment
Where the goblins came from | comment
I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support | comment
Online age verification is the hill to die on | comment
Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys | comment
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code | comment
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model | comment
I am building a cloud | comment
Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign | comment
Cursor Camp | comment
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 | comment
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports | comment
Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding | comment
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation | comment
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing | comment
At long last, InfoWars is ours | comment
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem | comment
Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity | comment
The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy | comment
Bugs Rust won't catch | comment
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below | comment
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux | comment
We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities | comment
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