Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-02
- The gay jailbreak technique - 2025 github.com - 201 comments 493 points
- Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables github.com - 141 comments 486 points
- Ti-84 Evo education.ti.com - 369 comments 420 points
- Grok 4.3 docs.x.ai - 516 comments 386 points
- City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children’s Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo www.404media.co - 104 comments 385 points
- Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months www.briefs.co - 446 comments 377 points
- AI uses less water than the public thinks californiawaterblog.com - 340 comments 371 points
- Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app x.com - 309 comments 371 points
- New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming www.newyorker.com - 183 comments 317 points
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? - May 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 270 comments 255 points
- Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests ij.org - 104 comments 248 points
- Your website is not for you websmith.studio - 177 comments 247 points
- Spotify adds ‘Verified’ badges to distinguish human artists from AI www.bbc.com - 262 comments 236 points
- An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open keepthingsopen.com - 13 comments 233 points
- Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks metin.nextc.org - 176 comments 216 points
- Ask.com has closed www.ask.com - 112 comments 210 points
- The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced midnightmurmurations.substack.com - 168 comments 183 points
- Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn’t have a warrant has a warrant www.youtube.com - 141 comments 182 points
- Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS status.canonical.com - 55 comments 172 points
- Apocalypse Early Warning System ews.kylemcdonald.net - 89 comments 167 points
- Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising www.citadelsecurities.com - 90 comments 164 points
- I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA news.ycombinator.com - 212 comments 153 points
- AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on arstechnica.com - 71 comments 144 points
- Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search github.com - 32 comments 140 points
- After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber techcrunch.com - 126 comments 139 points
- Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming github.com - 49 comments 137 points
- Running Adobe’s 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser www.pagetable.com - 29 comments 137 points
- Understand Anything github.com - 40 comments 131 points
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? - May 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 271 comments 126 points
- Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs github.com - 16 comments 123 points
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