WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
566 pts, 168 comments
566 points · 168 comments · Add your take →
Top Hacker News Stories – May 1, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include WhatCable, a small menu bar app designed for inspecting USB-C cables, which garnered 566 points and 168 comments. The TI-84 Evo calculator also gained attention with 492 points and 482 comments, reflecting ongoing interest in educational tech. Additionally, discussions around using “underdrawings” for precise text and number rendering received 379 points, while job-related threads such as “Who is hiring?” and “Who wants to be hired?” attracted significant engagement, with over 270 points and more than 500 comments each. Other notable topics included GhostBox, a disposable device available through the Global Free Tier, and improvements in Bluetooth MIDI functionality for Windows.
Ti-84 Evo
492 pts, 482 comments
492 points · 482 comments · Add your take →
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
379 pts, 131 comments
379 points · 131 comments · Add your take →
Who is hiring? (May 2026)
278 pts, 547 comments
278 points · 547 comments · Add your take →
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
177 pts, 250 comments
177 points · 250 comments · Add your take →
Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
129 pts, 544 comments
129 points · 544 comments · Add your take →
GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
126 pts, 140 comments
126 points · 140 comments · Add your take →
Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
102 pts, 40 comments
102 points · 40 comments · Add your take →
AI CAD Harness
101 pts, 96 comments
101 points · 96 comments · Add your take →
Site Mogging
70 pts, 77 comments
70 points · 77 comments · Add your take →
Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
58 pts, 12 comments
58 points · 12 comments · Add your take →
My Private GitHub on Postgres
42 pts, 24 comments
42 points · 24 comments · Add your take →
Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
12 pts, 6 comments
12 points · 6 comments · Add your take →
SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB
11 pts, 10 comments
11 points · 10 comments · Add your take →
Tell HN: Happy May Day
7 pts, 5 comments
7 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response
6 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing
6 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
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