hacker news

Monday, May 4, 2026

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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

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38 points

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an hour ago

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9 comments

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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

notepad-plus-plus.org

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73 points

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40 minutes ago

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11 comments

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Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

samcollins.blog

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246 points

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3 days ago

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81 comments

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Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]

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23 points

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11 hours ago

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12 comments

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BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

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383 points

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16 hours ago

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124 comments

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Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

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47 points

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2 days ago

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1 comment

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DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

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470 points

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12 hours ago

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185 comments

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From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control

evilgeniuslabs.ca

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21 points

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2 days ago

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24 comments

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Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

blog.stuffedcow.net

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95 points

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4 days ago

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5 comments

10.

Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

goodmorningamerica.com

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34 points

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2 hours ago

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27 comments

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A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life

quantamagazine.org

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37 points

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3 days ago

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4 comments

12.

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

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173 points

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11 hours ago

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73 comments

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Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

blog.jim-nielsen.com

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50 points

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6 hours ago

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27 comments

14.

Humanoid Robot Actuators

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129 points

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7 hours ago

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55 comments

15.

Southwest Headquarters Tour

katherinemichel.github.io

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254 points

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17 hours ago

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79 comments

16.

A desktop made for one

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352 points

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19 hours ago

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182 comments

17.

Let's Buy Spirit Air

letsbuyspiritair.com

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347 points

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11 hours ago

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329 comments

18.

The Road to a Billion-Token Context

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7 points

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2 days ago

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4 comments

19.

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

tomshardware.com

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353 points

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6 days ago

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209 comments

20.

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

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155 points

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3 days ago

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61 comments

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OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

theguardian.com

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400 points

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a day ago

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348 comments

22.

K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s

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59 points

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3 days ago

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18 comments

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Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

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110 points

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4 days ago

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74 comments

24.

Introduction to Atom

validator.w3.org

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100 points

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12 hours ago

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34 comments

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Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

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155 points

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18 hours ago

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11 comments

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Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense

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16 points

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3 days ago

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0 comments

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New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

smithsonianmag.com

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409 points

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15 hours ago

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361 comments

28.

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

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714 points

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20 hours ago

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395 comments

29.

Text-to-CAD

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119 points

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3 days ago

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32 comments

30.

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

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232 points

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10 hours ago

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97 comments