Hacker News on Friday, 1 May 2026

DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier(simonwillison.net)

575 points by indigodaddy 5 months ago | 348 comments

Simon Willison's blog post reviewing DeepSeek's V4 preview models, Pro and Flash, 1M-context MoE open-weights LLMs under MIT license, and their pricing.

Ti-84 Evo(education.ti.com)

569 points by thatxliner 5 months ago | 456 comments

Texas Instruments product page for the TI-84 Evo graphing calculator, with links to an online calculator, TI Connect Evo software, accessories, and support.

The gay jailbreak technique (2025)(github.com)

519 points by bobsmooth 5 months ago | 215 comments

A GitHub markdown document in the ZetaLib repository describing "The Gay Jailbreak Technique," a prompt method for bypassing LLM safety filters, with Claude 4 examples.

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables(github.com)

505 points by sleepingNomad 5 months ago | 146 comments

GitHub repository for WhatCable, an open-source macOS menu bar app that reports in plain English what each connected USB-C cable supports.

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming(newyorker.com)

432 points by XzetaU8 5 months ago | 255 comments

New Yorker essay by Shayla Love on research showing people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming, and whether we should learn in sleep.

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo(404media.co)

400 points by joshcsimmons 5 months ago | 104 comments

404 Media article reporting that a city learned Flock accessed cameras in a children's gymnastics room for a sales demo, yet renewed its contract anyway.

AI uses less water than the public thinks(californiawaterblog.com)

359 points by hirpslop 5 months ago | 320 comments

California WaterBlog post examining AI and data center water use, arguing concerns are overstated and drawing lessons for California water management.

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers(samcollins.blog)

358 points by samcollins 5 months ago | 126 comments

Blog post describing an "underdrawing" technique for getting accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images using Gemini 3.0 Pro.

Grok 4.3(docs.x.ai)

348 points by simianwords 5 months ago | 460 comments

xAI developer documentation page for the grok-4.3 model, listing modalities, a 1,000,000-token context window, pricing, and capabilities.

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app(x.com)

340 points by andruby 5 months ago | 264 comments

A tweet thread by Aaron Perris showing Apple shipped CLAUDE.md files in Apple Support app v5.13, then pushed v5.13.1 to remove them.

Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months(briefs.co)

329 points by lwhsiao 5 months ago | 358 comments

News article reporting that Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget on Anthropic's Claude Code within four months.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

279 points by whoishiring 5 months ago | 299 comments

Your website is not for you(websmith.studio)

238 points by pumbaa 5 months ago | 174 comments

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI(bbc.com)

224 points by reconnecting 5 months ago | 249 comments

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open(keepthingsopen.com)

219 points by tvararu 5 months ago | 13 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System(ews.kylemcdonald.net)

216 points by carlsborg 5 months ago | 100 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City(phys.org)

208 points by leopoldj 5 months ago | 72 comments

Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks(metin.nextc.org)

202 points by kodbraker 5 months ago | 170 comments

Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests(ij.org)

193 points by loteck 5 months ago | 62 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

186 points by proberts 5 months ago | 233 comments

OpenWarp(openwarp.zerx.dev)

180 points by zero-lab 5 months ago | 133 comments

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming(github.com)

172 points by wooster 5 months ago | 67 comments

Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant(youtube.com)

152 points by johnbarron 5 months ago | 108 comments

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March(blogs.windows.com)

146 points by jovial_cavalier 5 months ago | 417 comments

Text-to-CAD(github.com)

145 points by softservo 5 months ago | 38 comments

Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search(github.com)

142 points by peter_d_sherman 5 months ago | 35 comments

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS(status.canonical.com)

139 points by jtlebigot 5 months ago | 49 comments

Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case(arxiv.org)

139 points by mrtz 5 months ago | 125 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser(pagetable.com)

133 points by ingve 5 months ago | 29 comments

Understand Anything(github.com)

131 points by taubek 5 months ago | 41 comments

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on(arstechnica.com)

128 points by johnbarron 5 months ago | 61 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

124 points by whoishiring 5 months ago | 264 comments

The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced(midnightmurmurations.substack.com)

122 points by Teever 5 months ago | 116 comments

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf](mirandaheath.website)

120 points by susam 5 months ago | 46 comments

What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?(hpcwire.com)

111 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 37 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died(online-tribute.com)

110 points by deater 5 months ago | 26 comments

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber(techcrunch.com)

107 points by gbourne1 5 months ago | 82 comments

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs(github.com)

107 points by lastdong 5 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier(ghost.charity)

106 points by keepamovin 5 months ago | 62 comments

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games(easel.games)

105 points by BSTRhino 5 months ago | 37 comments

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm(lwn.net)

104 points by signa11 5 months ago | 29 comments

Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"(arstechnica.com)

103 points by RattlesnakeJake 5 months ago | 19 comments

Whimsical Animations Course Open House(courses.joshwcomeau.com)

97 points by SpyCoder77 5 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

94 points by mayerwin 5 months ago | 29 comments

Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language(evilgeniuslabs.ca)

88 points by andsoitis 5 months ago | 53 comments

A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life(quantamagazine.org)

88 points by worldvoyageur 5 months ago | 20 comments

Show HN: AI CAD Harness(fusion.adam.new)

83 points by zachdive 5 months ago | 85 comments

Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months(macrumors.com)

81 points by tosh 5 months ago | 63 comments

K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s(github.com)

80 points by rickcarlino 5 months ago | 36 comments

Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes(washingtonpost.com)

77 points by brandonb 5 months ago | 56 comments

Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows(github.com)

73 points by kernalix7 5 months ago | 37 comments

Artemis II fault tolerance(alearningaday.blog)

70 points by speckx 5 months ago | 36 comments

A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia(rightscon.org)

70 points by benbreen 5 months ago | 28 comments

If I could make my own GitHub(matduggan.com)

68 points by vinhnx 5 months ago | 46 comments

How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?(bbc.co.uk)

66 points by monooso 5 months ago | 35 comments

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down(theregister.com)

59 points by ndsipa_pomu 5 months ago | 44 comments

Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation(green.spacedino.net)

59 points by jfil 5 months ago | 17 comments

First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line(electrek.co)

57 points by m463 5 months ago | 53 comments

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine(lovable.dev)

56 points by vikeri 5 months ago | 30 comments

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway(theregister.com)

55 points by beardyw 5 months ago | 39 comments