It's 2026-05-07. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | comment
AI slop is killing online communities | comment
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE | comment
Agents need control flow, not more prompts | comment
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | comment
Building for the Future | comment
Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI | comment
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | comment
I want to live like Costco people | comment
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | comment
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | comment
Appearing productive in the workplace | 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
Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | comment
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | comment
StarFighter 16-Inch | comment
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | comment
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | comment
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | comment
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | comment
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | comment
I am worried about Bun | comment
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | comment
Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym | comment
Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | comment
GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | comment
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | comment
NetHack 5.0.0 | comment
Three Inverse Laws of AI | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Ghostty is leaving GitHub | comment
DeepSeek v4 | comment
GPT-5.5 | comment
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 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
Appearing productive in the workplace | 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
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | comment
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 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
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