hcker.news — week

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

2026-05-05T07:34:55Z

1731 points by john-doe | 1128 comments

Article: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48019219

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

2026-05-06T15:44:13Z

1724 points by haunter | 588 comments

Article: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48037555

Appearing productive in the workplace

2026-05-06T16:18:29Z

1600 points by diebillionaires | 638 comments

Article: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48038001

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

2026-05-06T15:24:51Z

1567 points by CliffStoll | 242 comments

Article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037336
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48037336

Talking to strangers at the gym

2026-05-04T11:41:02Z

1533 points by thitran | 750 comments

Article: https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48007438

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

2026-05-02T19:57:26Z

1508 points by indrora | 850 comments

Article: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47989883

Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

2026-05-07T20:23:37Z

1283 points by PriorityLeft | 923 comments

Article: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48054423

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

2026-05-08T12:30:05Z

925 points by surprisetalk | 739 comments

Article: https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48062117

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

2026-05-07T22:22:21Z

898 points by stefanpie | 609 comments

Article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48055913

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

2026-05-03T14:43:27Z

858 points by teleforce | 510 comments

Article: https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47997418

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

2026-05-07T23:02:11Z

820 points by psxuaw | 437 comments

Article: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48056227

AI slop is killing online communities

2026-05-07T18:46:25Z

806 points by thm | 699 comments

Article: https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48053203

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

2026-05-07T19:21:32Z

802 points by flipped | 313 comments

Article: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48053623

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

2026-05-06T15:06:37Z

778 points by e12e | 873 comments

Article: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48037128

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

2026-05-02T04:38:04Z

775 points by buildbot | 299 comments

Article: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47983352

Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

2026-05-06T10:28:40Z

764 points by cianmm | 167 comments

Article: https://red-squares.cian.lol/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48034587

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

2026-05-07T14:06:10Z

753 points by speckx | 344 comments

Article: https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48049653

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

2026-05-05T20:16:35Z

745 points by warpspin | 408 comments

Article: https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48027897

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

2026-05-08T18:45:58Z

744 points by anonymousiam | 257 comments

Article: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48067119

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

2026-05-04T09:31:12Z

710 points by n1b0m | 693 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48006402

Zig → Rust porting guide

2026-05-05T01:08:17Z

708 points by SergeAx | 539 comments

Article: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48016880

Programming Still Sucks

2026-05-06T19:06:41Z

695 points by jeromechoo | 323 comments

Article: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48040269

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

2026-05-05T16:14:17Z

683 points by amrrs | 327 comments

Article: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48024540

StarFighter 16-Inch

2026-05-06T02:03:44Z

676 points by signa11 | 378 comments

Article: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48031261

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

2026-05-03T22:13:20Z

676 points by alattaran | 280 comments

Article: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48002136

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

2026-05-08T13:56:10Z

659 points by ribtoks | 335 comments

Article: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48063199

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

2026-05-06T03:10:33Z

654 points by rolph | 368 comments

Article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48031684

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

2026-05-06T21:58:43Z

649 points by whatisabcdefgh | 192 comments

Article: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48042434

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

2026-05-04T18:22:42Z

638 points by cft | 233 comments

Article: https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48012735

Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

2026-05-04T09:40:06Z

633 points by maxloh | 303 comments

Article: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48006445

Dav2d

2026-05-02T17:32:29Z

617 points by dabinat | 190 comments

Article: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47988504

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

2026-05-07T15:56:33Z

614 points by newsoftheday | 242 comments

Article: https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48050964

Let's Buy Spirit Air

2026-05-03T23:36:11Z

602 points by bjhess | 576 comments

Article: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48002777

The bottleneck was never the code

2026-05-04T10:46:15Z

577 points by Anon84 | 407 comments

Article: https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48006967

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

2026-05-07T16:43:35Z

573 points by bsuh | 285 comments

Article: https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48051562

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

2026-05-04T15:10:41Z

572 points by rdeboo | 531 comments

Article: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48009697

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

2026-05-03T18:54:28Z

570 points by dryadin | 554 comments

Article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48000152

AI didn't delete your database, you did

2026-05-05T14:07:50Z

543 points by Brajeshwar | 302 comments

Article: https://idiallo.com/blog/ai-didnt-delete-your-database-you-did
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48022742

Do_not_track

2026-05-02T17:40:55Z

543 points by RubyGuy | 167 comments

Article: https://donottrack.sh/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47988592

Three Inverse Laws of AI

2026-05-05T15:27:18Z

542 points by blenderob | 349 comments

Article: https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48023861

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

2026-05-08T12:37:05Z

540 points by mwheelz | 275 comments

Article: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48062178

NetHack 5.0.0

2026-05-02T18:03:42Z

525 points by rsaarelm | 180 comments

Article: https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47988776

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

2026-05-04T17:16:36Z

521 points by ZeidJ | 168 comments

Article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48011689

I am worried about Bun

2026-05-04T16:45:00Z

520 points by remote-dev | 349 comments

Article: https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48011184

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

2026-05-04T19:42:47Z

509 points by Sean-Der | 146 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48013919

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

2026-05-06T16:17:33Z

507 points by meetpateltech | 479 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48037986

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

2026-05-02T20:46:30Z

505 points by richardboegli | 150 comments

Article: https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47990318

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

2026-05-03T00:30:50Z

503 points by donsupreme | 473 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=47991981

Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

2026-05-07T11:10:24Z

503 points by Qem | 325 comments

Article: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48047981

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

2026-05-08T12:03:26Z

499 points by defrost | 98 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48061884