It's 2026-05-12. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract | comment
Googlebook | comment
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise | comment
The Future of Obsidian Plugins | comment
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model | comment
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare | comment
GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch | comment
I’ve banned query strings | comment
The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism | comment
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | comment
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | comment
Appearing productive in the workplace | comment
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | comment
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 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
Local AI needs to be the norm | comment
Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise | comment
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | comment
StarFighter 16-Inch | comment
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | comment
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | comment
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | comment
AI slop is killing online communities | comment
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | comment
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | comment
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes | comment
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker | comment
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | comment
Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE | 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
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing | comment
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | 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
Appearing productive in the workplace | comment
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | comment
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 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
Local AI needs to be the norm | comment
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 | comment
Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | comment
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing | comment
Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise | comment
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | comment
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem | comment
StarFighter 16-Inch | comment
Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity | comment
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | comment
The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy | comment
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | comment
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | comment
Bugs Rust won't catch | comment
AI slop is killing online communities | comment
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