It's 2026-05-06. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | comment
Appearing productive in the workplace | comment
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | comment
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | comment
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge | comment
AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights | 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
Why TUIs are back | comment
Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | comment
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | comment
Knitting bullshit | comment
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws | comment
A desktop made for one | comment
Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | comment
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | comment
BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets | comment
Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan | comment
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | comment
Ted Turner has died | comment
Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to | comment
Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
GPT-5.5 | comment
Where the goblins came from | comment
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | 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

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

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
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
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code | 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
GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation | comment
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing | comment
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | 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
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 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
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