Fri, May 1, 2026
The Gay Jailbreak Technique
It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks
I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
Apocalypse Early Warning System
The Smelly Baby Problem
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
Understand Anything
Show HN: AI CAD Harness
Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
Sally McKee, who coined the term "the Memory Wall", has died
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
Whimsical Animations Course Open House
Artemis II Fault Tolerance
A Letter from Dijkstra on APL
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
If I could make my own GitHub
Historic Tennessee Hotel Is Also Home to the Greatest Duck Tradition (2016)
The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
Grok 4.3
Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)
Your Website Is Not for You
Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine
Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign
Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation
Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
We Run iSCSI over the Internet
Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier.
The Internet Is Falling Down- CPanel/WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940
Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner's Guide to Sourcehut (2025)
OpenWarp
$500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs
The Shadow Glass
Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?
Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres
Show HN: Site Mogging
The Rotary Un-Smartphone
The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
Confessions of a Millennial in Tech
Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
Meta's Big Tobacco PR Tactics
ClawIRC – IRC Chat for Agents
Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Maladaptive Frugality
The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing
Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive)
Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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