Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-03

  1. VS Code inserting ‘Co-Authored-by Copilot’ into commits regardless of usage github.com - 524 comments 1108 points
  2. Dav2d code.videolan.org - 122 comments 451 points
  3. NetHack 5.0.0 nethack.org - 133 comments 438 points
  4. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights arxiv.org - 171 comments 323 points
  5. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws www.bbc.com - 299 comments 293 points
  6. Do_not_track donottrack.sh - 95 comments 293 points
  7. This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 ladybird.org - 50 comments 285 points
  8. Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS www.david-smith.org - 59 comments 267 points
  9. Russia Poisons Wikipedia www.bettedangerous.com - 193 comments 248 points
  10. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? eclecticlight.co - 86 comments 244 points
  11. America’s Expanding Domestic Surveillance www.wsj.com - 134 comments 242 points
  12. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge thinkpol.ca - 108 comments 240 points
  13. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings www.cnbc.com - 136 comments 229 points
  14. Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla’s FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him electrek.co - 100 comments 221 points
  15. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? - 2015 devblogs.microsoft.com - 91 comments 200 points
  16. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine github.com - 88 comments 199 points
  17. Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago - 2025 www.universiteitleiden.nl - 65 comments 173 points
  18. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury blog.haskell.org - 66 comments 170 points
  19. A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout www.bbc.com - 93 comments 160 points
  20. Open source does not imply open community blog.feld.me - 40 comments 144 points
  21. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores www.nytimes.com - 76 comments 139 points
  22. Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies techcrunch.com - 139 comments 132 points
  23. Zugzwang en.wikipedia.org - 70 comments 107 points
  24. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction arxiv.org - 38 comments 107 points
  25. An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years 32bits.substack.com - 2 comments 104 points
  26. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad? news.ycombinator.com - 149 comments 100 points
  27. Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement www.clojuriststogether.org - 10 comments 97 points
  28. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters hnup.date - 50 comments 95 points
  29. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox www.mendral.com - 73 comments 94 points
  30. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents flueframework.com - 51 comments 89 points