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

HACKER NEWS

.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | comment
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | comment
Three Inverse Laws of AI | comment
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | comment
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | comment
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | comment
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag | comment
Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
GPT-5.5 | comment
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing | comment
Where the goblins came from | comment
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | comment
Online age verification is the hill to die on | comment
Cursor Camp | comment
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | comment
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | comment
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 | 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
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | comment
Mistral Medium 3.5 | comment
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] | comment
Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | comment
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | comment
Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga | comment
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price | 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
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | 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
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | comment
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 | comment
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports | 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
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | comment
We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities | comment
If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad? | comment
Mistral Medium 3.5 | comment
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