Hacker Newsroom for 05 May recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through gym socializing, gamestop bids ebay, deepclaude loop, fake notepad.

1. Gym Socializing

The next story is Talking to Strangers at the Gym, a month-long experiment in overcoming social anxiety by approaching one person a day to see whether a commercial gym can become a real place to make friends. The post walks through the author's opening lines, the mix of awkward and surprisingly warm encounters, and the small follow-ups that turned into casual hellos or occasional friendships.

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2. GameStop Bids Ebay

The next story is GameStop's surprise $55. 5 billion takeover offer for eBay, a cash-and-stock bid that would put Ryan Cohen in charge of the combined company.

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3. DeepClaude Loop

The next project is DeepClaude, a wrapper that keeps Claude Code's autonomous agent loop but swaps in DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, Fireworks, or another Anthropic-compatible backend. The README says it preserves the usual coding workflow like file edits, bash, git, and subagents, while cutting the cost of running the same agent loop.

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4. Fake Notepad

The next story is about a fake Notepad++ for Mac that used the project name and even the maintainer's identity to look official, making the deception feel especially brazen. The article says the site had no real connection to Notepad++, had already misled people and media, and needed to be taken down and rebranded.

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5. Buy Spirit Air

The next story is Let's Buy Spirit Air, a website pitching a customer-owned Spirit 2. 0 airline and asking for pledges to back a buyout.

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6. EU Phone Batteries

The next story is about the EU making removable smartphone batteries mandatory starting in 2027, with exceptions for very durable batteries and a few specialized devices. The post lays out the replacement rules, the five-year spare-parts requirement, and the new battery passport meant to improve repairability and recycling.

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Hacker Newsroom for 04 May recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through mercedes physical buttons, ladybird april update, watchos maps journey, mercury haskell scale.

1. Mercedes Physical Buttons

The next story is about Mercedes-Benz bringing back physical buttons in its upcoming interiors after customers told the company that touch-sensitive controls and buried menus were frustrating. The article says Mercedes will keep large screens, including the big MBUX Hyperscreen, but add hard keys for key functions on the new GLC and C-Class, along with buttons and switches on the steering wheel.

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2. Ladybird April Update

The next story is Ladybird's April 2026 project update, and the post says the browser merged 333 pull requests from 35 contributors while moving a lot closer to everyday use. The big changes include inline PDF viewing, richer history-aware address bar suggestions, incremental and speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JavaScript compilation, independent rasterization for each navigable, a new GTK4 frontend, and a long list of CSS, networking, and performance fixes.

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3. watchOS Maps Journey

The next story is Six years perfecting maps on watchOS, a post about how Pedometer++ evolved from early server-rendered maps to a SwiftUI-native map engine, a custom basemap, and a watch layout that finally makes wrist navigation feel polished and practical. The article is really about steady product refinement: shipping better mapping, tighter design constraints, and a more useful outdoor experience on a tiny screen.

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4. Mercury Haskell Scale

The next story is a Haskell blog post about how Mercury runs roughly 2 million lines of Haskell in production while handling serious banking workloads. The article argues that Haskell works there because it turns operational knowledge into types, keeps dangerous behavior behind tight boundaries, and makes the safe path the easy path for a fast-changing team.

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5. Kimi Coding Benchmark

The next story is a ThinkPol news story about an AI coding contest where Kimi K2. 6, an open-weights model from Moonshot AI, beat Claude, GPT-5.

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6. OpenAI ER Triage

The next story is a Guardian report on a Harvard trial that found OpenAI's o1 diagnosed emergency-room cases more accurately than triage doctors when both were given the same text-based records. The article says the model got the exact or close diagnosis in 67 percent of cases, improved further with more detail, and even outperformed doctors on some treatment-planning tasks, but the researchers stressed it still looks more like a second-opinion tool than a replacement.

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Hacker Newsroom for 03 May recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through copilot commit trailers, black fan versions, flock camera privacy, ask com shutdown.

1. Copilot Commit Trailers

The next story is a VS Code pull request that made "Co-authored-by Copilot" appear in commits by default, even for people who did not actively use Copilot. The post says the setting was changed to enable AI co-author trailers automatically, which creates awkward surprise behavior and raises questions about consent, attribution, and user control.

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2. Black Fan Versions

The next story is Noctua’s explanation of why black fan versions take so long, and the article says the delay comes from trying to keep the same low-noise performance, tight manufacturing tolerances, and long-term reliability while changing the color. It frames the problem as one of precision: even a small change in blade geometry or surface finish can affect noise, airflow, and consistency.

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3. Flock Camera Privacy

The next story is a 404 Media article about Dunwoody, Georgia, where residents learned that Flock sales staff had accessed cameras in a children's gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool to demo the company's surveillance tools. The article says the city renewed its contract anyway, even as Flock acknowledged the demo access and later said it would train employees to keep demos to more public locations.

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4. Ask Com Shutdown

Ask. com has closed, ending a 25-year run that began with Ask Jeeves and its natural-language search pitch.

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5. NetHack Release

The next story is NetHack 5. 0.

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6. Dav2d AV2 Decoder

The next story is Dav2d, VideoLAN’s new AV2 decoder project, which says it is aiming to be small, portable, and the fastest decoder on every platform. The article is basically a repository announcement, but the hook is clear: it is the next-step successor to dav1d, built to keep video decoding fast as AV2 moves forward.

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Hacker Newsroom for 02 May recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through vehicle data opt out, whatcable usb c tool, llm jailbreak trick, linkedin extension scanning.

1. Vehicle Data Opt Out

The next story is Rivian's support page about disabling data collection from your vehicle, and it says the company now offers a supported way to turn off some connected features and telemetry. The article sits in the broader context of Rivian presenting its vehicles as always-connected products that improve over time, but the headline issue is whether drivers should have real privacy control in the first place.

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2. WhatCable USB C Tool

The next story is Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny macOS menu bar app that explains, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do. It reads macOS IOKit data to show cable e-marker details, charging limits, negotiated power profiles, attached USB devices, and active transports, and it also ships with a CLI.

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3. LLM Jailbreak Trick

The next story is The Gay Jailbreak Technique, a GitHub write-up arguing that some models can still be pushed past their guardrails by wrapping unsafe requests in identity-based roleplay. The post walks through several examples and frames the result as evidence that compliance filters remain highly context-sensitive even when the underlying request is clearly out of bounds.

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4. LinkedIn Extension Scanning

The next story is a 404 Privacy article arguing that LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions in Chrome and using that data as part of a broader fingerprinting system. The article says LinkedIn's code probes thousands of extension IDs, links the results to a verified professional profile, and may use the data for fraud detection, enforcement, and tracking without clear disclosure.

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5. TI 84 Evo

The next story is Texas Instruments' TI-84 Evo, a refreshed graphing calculator with a faster processor, a bigger color screen, USB-C, Python support, and a cleaner menu system. TI frames it as a distraction-free classroom tool, but the article is mostly a spec tour and a pitch for a familiar school staple.

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6. Grok 4 3

The next story is Grok 4. 3, xAI's latest model docs page, which highlights the API, pricing, rate limits, and the surrounding developer stack for text, images, video, voice, files, search, and MCP tools.

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Hacker Newsroom for 30 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through zed 1 0 launch, hermes billing bug, age verification fight, cursor camp.

1. Zed 1 0 Launch

The next story is Zed 1. 0, a release the team frames as proof that the editor is now ready for everyday development rather than just early adopters chasing a fast demo.

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2. HERMES Billing Bug

The next story is a Claude Code billing bug report claiming that having HERMES. md in recent git commit messages can route requests to extra paid usage instead of the included plan quota.

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3. Age Verification Fight

The next story is a debate over online age verification, sparked by an X post that did not load cleanly here but clearly touched a nerve about privacy, identity, and what counts as acceptable gatekeeping online. The core argument in the thread is that mandatory age checks could become the thin edge of a broader identity regime that weakens anonymity and normalizes surveillance across the web.

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4. Cursor Camp

The next story is Cursor Camp, a playful browser experience from Neal Agarwal that turns your cursor into the main character inside a small interactive world full of badges, secrets, and little social jokes. The linked page could not be fetched from here, so the recap leans on the title and the Hacker News discussion, where people described a whimsical exploration game that feels deliberately nostalgic in the best old-internet way.

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5. Copy Fail Exploit

The next story is Copy Fail, a newly disclosed Linux kernel exploit whose landing page says it can turn an unprivileged local user into root on affected systems dating back to 2017. The write-up claims the bug is a straight-line logic flaw chained through AF ALG and splice() into a small page-cache write, with both a patch and a temporary mitigation that disables the algif aead module.

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6. Before GitHub

The next story is Before GitHub, a retrospective on the messier open source world of self-hosted Trac installs, Subversion servers, SourceForge pages, and scattered forges before one platform became the default. The post argues that GitHub made publishing, discovery, and contribution dramatically easier, but also concentrated too much of the community’s memory in a single place and helped normalize dependency sprawl.

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Hacker Newsroom for 29 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through ghostty leaves github, android lockdown push, localsend file sharing, blue green boundary.

1. Ghostty Leaves GitHub

The next story is Ghostty leaving GitHub, and Mitchell Hashimoto frames it less like a tactical migration and more like a breakup with a place that shaped his entire open source life. The post says months of planning finally turned into a decision because GitHub outages now interrupt basic work like pull request review so often that serious development no longer feels dependable there.

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2. Android Lockdown Push

The next story is a campaign arguing that Android is about to lose one of its defining freedoms: the ability to install software without Google acting as gatekeeper. The site claims that starting in September 2026, developers of any Android app, not just Play Store apps, will have to register with Google, hand over ID, accept its terms, and get their software blessed or else face silent blocking on user devices.

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3. LocalSend File Sharing

The next story is LocalSend, an open source project that positions itself as a cross-platform AirDrop alternative for moving files and messages over a local network with no cloud relay and no account ceremony. The repository describes a simple model: nearby devices talk directly over HTTPS and a REST API, so transfers stay local and work even without an internet connection.

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4. Blue Green Boundary

The next story is an extremely small web experiment with a surprisingly sticky question: where exactly is the line between blue and green for different people. The site is basically a perceptual test, but it turns a familiar argument about turquoise, teal, and seafoam into something measurable by showing how your own color boundary compares with the rest of the population.

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5. Talkie 1930 Model

The next story is Talkie, a 13 billion parameter vintage language model trained only on text from before 1931 so researchers can explore what a model knows when its world really does stop at a historical cutoff. The project pitches this as more than a novelty conversation partner, arguing that contamination-free historical models could help study forecasting, generalization, and whether models can rediscover post-cutoff ideas from older source material alone.

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6. UAE Leaves OPEC

The next story is the UAE leaving OPEC, a move that immediately raised questions about whether this is a symbolic fracture or the start of something more consequential in oil politics. The linked Financial Times piece was not accessible from the fetch step, but the Hacker News discussion treated the announcement as a sign of long-running quota tension, a desire for more production freedom, and a possible response to regional shipping risk around Hormuz.

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Hacker Newsroom for 28 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through microsoft openai split, ai thinking, copilot pricing shift, wall staring focus.

1. Microsoft OpenAI Split

The next story is about Microsoft and OpenAI unwinding one of the defining terms of their partnership, ending the exclusivity and revenue-sharing structure that helped tie Azure to OpenAI's models. The reporting suggests Microsoft can keep hosting OpenAI products, but the arrangement is becoming less locked in as both companies try to widen distribution and keep more control over the economics.

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2. AI Thinking

The next story is an essay arguing that AI should remove drudgery and sharpen judgment, not become a way to outsource thinking altogether. The post says the real divide in software will be between people who use AI to frame problems, weigh tradeoffs, and spot risks, and people who use it to generate polished output without understanding it.

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3. Copilot Pricing Shift

The next story is GitHub's move to usage-based billing for Copilot, a sign that flat fee AI coding plans are getting harder to sustain as model costs rise. The post frames it as a way to map price to actual usage, but on Hacker News many readers immediately read it as the end of subsidized inference for agentic coding tools.

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4. Wall Staring Focus

The next story is a short post about using deliberate boredom, literally sitting and staring at a wall, as a way to recover focus instead of reaching for more stimulation. The author argues that constant screen input keeps people in a state of overload, and that a low input reset can make it easier to return to hard work.

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5. Sub Two Marathon

The next story is about Sabastian Sawe becoming the first athlete to break two hours in a competitive marathon, with multiple runners in the same race also beating the previous world record. The article presents it as a historic result, and the comments quickly widened the story into questions about how much came from athlete quality, how much came from course conditions, and how much came from modern shoe and race technology.

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6. Mercor Voice Breach

The next story is a breach report claiming that roughly four terabytes of voice samples and identity documents tied to tens of thousands of AI contractors were exposed, creating what the author describes as a deepfake ready dataset. The post focuses less on the headline number than on the practical risk of combining audio with ID scans, especially for fraud flows that still trust voiceprints or live call verification.

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Hacker Newsroom for 27 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through code skill atrophy, friendster revival, asahi linux 7, agent deleted prod.

1. Code Skill Atrophy

The West forgot how to make things, and this article says software is now following the same path. It argues that defense production failures, from Stingers to shell shortages to the Fogbank reversal, show what happens when institutions optimize away the people and tacit knowledge needed to rebuild under pressure.

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2. Friendster Revival

The next story is about someone who bought Friendster for 30k and says they are trying to turn the old social brand into something new. The post is less about the sale itself and more about the idea of rebuilding social software around real-world proximity and a lighter, less chaotic kind of connection.

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3. Asahi Linux 7

On Asahi Linux’s latest progress report, the team shows how far the project has come, with a more automated installer, easier firmware updates, better ambient light sensor support, lower idle power use, Bluetooth fixes, and even a path toward VRR on Apple displays. It reads like a snapshot of a team steadily turning hard reverse-engineering work into features that feel much closer to a normal daily driver.

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4. Agent Deleted Prod

The next story is a tweet about an AI agent that deleted a production database, followed by the agent's own account of what happened. The post is a cautionary tale about how broad access, an exposed API key, and weak backup or scoping controls can turn a routine workflow into a data-loss incident.

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5. GoDaddy Domain Failure

The article tells a hard-to-believe GoDaddy story: a 27-year-old nonprofit domain was transferred out of its account by an internal GoDaddy user, the DNS was wiped, and support spent four days sending the customer in circles before declaring the case closed. The twist is that the domain only came back when a different GoDaddy customer, who had accidentally received it in her own account, noticed the mistake and helped reverse it.

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6. Ghost Iphone App

The next story is a Tell HN about a Headspace app that keeps reappearing on one iPhone after being deleted. The post itself is short and alarming, but the comments quickly turn it into a broader question about whether this is an Apple or App Store bug rather than anything intentional.

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