Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-05
- Talking to strangers at the gym thienantran.com - 628 comments 1322 points
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay www.bbc.co.uk - 643 comments 673 points
- Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac notepad-plus-plus.org - 280 comments 605 points
- Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 www.ecopv-eu.com - 504 comments 555 points
- Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused twitter.com - 183 comments 518 points
- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants techcrunch.com - 155 comments 478 points
- I am worried about Bun wwj.dev - 314 comments 477 points
- Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust github.com - 317 comments 452 points
- Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved www.githubstatus.com - 259 comments 421 points
- How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale openai.com - 123 comments 390 points
- Days without GitHub incidents www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com - 155 comments 371 points
- Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI - 0.6%? daringfireball.net - 46 comments 299 points
- How Monero’s proof of work works blog.alcazarsec.com - 196 comments 279 points
- Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks www.nber.org - 256 comments 274 points
- Redis array: short story of a long development process antirez.com - 89 comments 274 points
- PyInfra 3.8.0 github.com - 89 comments 268 points
- Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don’t want to economist.com - 168 comments 266 points
- Heat pump sales rise across Europe www.pv-magazine.com - 154 comments 244 points
- Agent Skills addyosmani.com - 100 comments 233 points
- Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability www.strix.ai - 80 comments 194 points
- What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt - So Far margaretstorey.com - 109 comments 188 points
- Train Your Own LLM from Scratch github.com - 21 comments 180 points
- UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations www.fuelinsight.co.uk - 83 comments 174 points
- 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working ‘Full Self-Driving’ electrek.co - 122 comments 164 points
- Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight stripe.dev - 83 comments 163 points
- Let’s talk about LLMs www.b-list.org - 137 comments 160 points
- “Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” - 2025 www.space.com - 59 comments 155 points
- Newton’s law of gravity passes its biggest test www.science.org - 133 comments 146 points
- ‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level www.theguardian.com - 145 comments 133 points
- About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them walzr.com - 100 comments 126 points
May 5, 2026 ∙