Hacker News on Sunday, 3 May 2026

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons(drive.com.au)

801 points by teleforce 5 months ago | 460 comments

Drive news article reporting that Mercedes-Benz will bring back physical buttons for frequently used controls after customer feedback against touch-sensitive controls.

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro(github.com)

623 points by alattaran 5 months ago | 263 comments

GitHub repository for DeepClaude, a tool that runs Claude Code's agent loop against DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or other Anthropic-compatible backends.

Let's Buy Spirit Air(letsbuyspiritair.com)

529 points by bjhess 5 months ago | 506 comments

Campaign site 'Spirit 2.0' collecting non-binding pledges to buy the collapsed Spirit Airlines and run it as a people-owned airline.

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag(smithsonianmag.com)

498 points by dryadin 5 months ago | 489 comments

Smithsonian Magazine news article about a new statue attributed to Banksy, a suited man blinded by a flag walking off a ledge, installed overnight in central London.

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth(partyon.xyz)

465 points by nullagent 5 months ago | 149 comments

Mastodon post announcing BYOMesh, a tiny LoRa companion dev kit combining SX1276 sub-GHz and SX1281 2.4GHz radios on one board.

A desktop made for one(isene.org)

408 points by xngbuilds 5 months ago | 235 comments

A blog post by Geir Isene titled "A desktop made for one," about building a personal desktop computing environment tailored to a single user.

Why TUIs are back(wiki.alcidesfonseca.com)

357 points by rickcarlino 5 months ago | 358 comments

Blog post by Alcides Fonseca discussing why terminal user interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback, referencing DHH's Omarchy distro.

Agentic Coding Is a Trap(larsfaye.com)

312 points by ayoisaiah 5 months ago | 215 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour(katherinemichel.github.io)

305 points by KatiMichel 5 months ago | 91 comments

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge(thinkpol.ca)

303 points by bazlightyear 5 months ago | 163 comments

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan(thegamer.com)

239 points by rishabhd 5 months ago | 114 comments

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility(xogium.me)

230 points by SpyCoder77 5 months ago | 96 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML(acai.sh)

226 points by brendanmc6 5 months ago | 241 comments

Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores(nytimes.com)

197 points by doener 5 months ago | 176 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions(jdgr.net)

196 points by jdgr 5 months ago | 102 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors(coe.gatech.edu)

194 points by gnabgib 5 months ago | 83 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors(citizenlab.ca)

191 points by miohtama 5 months ago | 20 comments

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs(tomshardware.com)

179 points by GavinAnderegg 5 months ago | 171 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web(github.com)

171 points by bring-shrubbery 5 months ago | 42 comments

For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day(christophermeiklejohn.com)

170 points by azhenley 5 months ago | 121 comments

How far behind is each major Chromium browser?(chromium-drift.pages.dev)

166 points by skaul 5 months ago | 58 comments

Security through obscurity is not bad(mobeigi.com)

164 points by mobeigi 5 months ago | 186 comments

A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout(bbc.com)

162 points by 1659447091 5 months ago | 96 comments

Open source does not imply open community(blog.feld.me)

150 points by RohanAdwankar 5 months ago | 42 comments

Introduction to Atom(validator.w3.org)

121 points by susam 5 months ago | 55 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video](youtube.com)

119 points by cyrc 5 months ago | 39 comments

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives(bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)

116 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 26 comments

Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study(sciencex.com)

107 points by pseudolus 5 months ago | 81 comments

Alert-driven monitoring(simpleobservability.com)

104 points by khazit 5 months ago | 39 comments

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases(academy.dair.ai)

102 points by omarsar 5 months ago | 12 comments

Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels(newsonjapan.com)

98 points by mikhael 5 months ago | 38 comments

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction(lelanthran.com)

96 points by lelanthran 5 months ago | 89 comments

Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery(newsroom.porsche.com)

94 points by Amorymeltzer 5 months ago | 37 comments

Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security(ft.com)

91 points by JumpCrisscross 5 months ago | 97 comments

Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)(retrocoding.net)

89 points by phendrenad2 5 months ago | 91 comments

Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

87 points by zdw 5 months ago | 17 comments

Make your own microforest (2025)(ambrook.com)

86 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 17 comments

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds(news.mit.edu)

85 points by gmays 5 months ago | 62 comments

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP(github.com)

83 points by bschoepke 5 months ago | 54 comments

Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal(unsung.aresluna.org)

74 points by zdw 5 months ago | 30 comments

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share(fshot.org)

59 points by victorkulla 5 months ago | 3 comments

Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer(physicsworld.com)

59 points by zeristor 5 months ago | 11 comments

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time(reuters.com)

57 points by thedebuglife 5 months ago | 16 comments

Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services(github.com)

55 points by thunderbong 5 months ago | 14 comments

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph(mohibulsblog.netlify.app)

54 points by celurian92 5 months ago | 27 comments

Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades(yusufaytas.com)

53 points by owenbuilds 5 months ago | 25 comments

Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020)(marijnhaverbeke.nl)

52 points by luu 5 months ago | 7 comments

The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)(phsne.org)

51 points by geuis 5 months ago | 20 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)(americanscientist.org)

50 points by whycome 5 months ago | 12 comments

Why I Created phpc.tv(afilina.com)

46 points by luu 5 months ago | 11 comments

The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards(gizmodo.com)

46 points by ZeidJ 5 months ago | 18 comments

Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video](youtube.com)

42 points by areoform 5 months ago | 37 comments

Business Owners Are Worst Clients(zencapital.substack.com)

39 points by zenincognito 5 months ago | 38 comments

Uncle Bob: It's Over(old.reddit.com)

35 points by lopespm 5 months ago | 26 comments

Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)(audubon.org)

32 points by thunderbong 5 months ago | 14 comments

I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now(hoeijmakers.net)

28 points by robhoeijmakers 5 months ago | 34 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023)(academic.oup.com)

25 points by danny00 5 months ago | 0 comments

Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"(guessingheadlights.com)

25 points by chasil 5 months ago | 3 comments

The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left(death-of-scrum.net)

24 points by mantyx 5 months ago | 19 comments

Talking to Transformers(miraos.org)

23 points by taylorsatula 5 months ago | 2 comments