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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
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• Google changes its search box
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• Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
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• GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
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• Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
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• Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
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• Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
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• Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
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• Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
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• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Anthropic acquires Stainless
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• Click (2016)
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• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
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• CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
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• Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
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• Apple unveils new accessibility features
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• I’ve joined Anthropic
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• I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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• Gemini 3.5 Flash
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• Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
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• A nicer voltmeter clock
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• AI is a technology not a product
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• I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
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• Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
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• GenCAD
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• Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
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• Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
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• We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
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• Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We've made the world too complicated
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• Accelerando (2005)
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• OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
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• Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
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• Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
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• AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
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• Native all the way, until you need text
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• I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
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• Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
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• At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
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• Bun Rust rewrite: \"codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust\"
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• U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
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• ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
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• Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
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• 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
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• Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
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• Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
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• SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New Nginx Exploit
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• First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
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• Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
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• New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
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• A few words on DS4
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• UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
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• Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
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• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
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• Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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• I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A History of IDEs at Google
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• Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
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• The Emacsification of Software
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• Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
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• Claude for Small Business
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• Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
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• A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
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• RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
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• Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
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• AI is making me dumb
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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• Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
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• The Future of Obsidian Plugins
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• Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
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• CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
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• How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
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• Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
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• I moved my digital stack to Europe
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• Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
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• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
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• If AI writes your code, why use Python?
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• GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
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• They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
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• Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
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• Learning Software Architecture
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• EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
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• Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
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• Googlebook
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
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• Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
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• Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
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• Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
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• I'm going back to writing code by hand
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• Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
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• Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
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• Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
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• CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
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• TanStack NPM Packages Compromised
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs \"a loophole that needs closing\"
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• I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
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• LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
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• Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
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• I’ve banned query strings
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• Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
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• Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
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• Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
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• Local AI needs to be the norm
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• Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
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• OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
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• Mojo 1.0 Beta
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• An Introduction to Meshtastic
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• David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
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• Cartoon Network Flash Games
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• AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
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• A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
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• Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
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• Internet Archive Switzerland
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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• DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
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• Agents need control flow, not more prompts
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• Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
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• Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
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• Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
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• Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
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• A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
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• Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
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• Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
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• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
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• Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
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• Programming Still Sucks
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• SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
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• Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
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• The Burning Man MOOP Map
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• Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
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• AI slop is killing online communities
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• Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”
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• The bottleneck was never the code
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• Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
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• Three Inverse Laws of AI
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• Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
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• StarFighter 16-Inch
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• Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
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• Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
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• Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
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• Appearing productive in the workplace
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I am worried about Bun
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• US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
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• Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
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• How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
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• Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
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• Async Rust never left the MVP state
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• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
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• AI didn't delete your database, you did
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• Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
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• .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
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• BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
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• New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
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• DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
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• Let's Buy Spirit Air
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• GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
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• Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
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• Talking to strangers at the gym
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• Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
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• GitHub Is Down
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dav2d
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• Do_not_track
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• California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
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• NetHack 5.0.0
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• Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
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• This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
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• Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
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• A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
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• Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
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• Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Artemis II Photo Timeline
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• DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
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• The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
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• AI uses less water than the public thinks
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• New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
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• City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
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• Ti-84 Evo
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• Ask.com has closed
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• Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
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• VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
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• How an oil refinery works
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• Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
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• Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
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• How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
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• For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
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• LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
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• Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
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• Grok 4.3
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• Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-04-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on April 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
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• Mistral Medium 3.5
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• FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
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• Copy Fail
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• The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
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• Where the goblins came from
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• Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
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• Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
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• Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
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• Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention \"OpenClaw\"
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