Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W18

In the latest week on Hacker News, the top story was "Copy Fail," which garnered 1,238 points and 516 comments, highlighting ongoing concerns with data copying issues. Following closely was "Where the goblins came from," with 1,072 points and 660 comments, sparking discussions about cybersecurity threats. Other notable topics included the delays in releasing black fan versions, the Zig project's anti-AI policy, and the DeepClaude code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, reflecting diverse interests across software, hardware, and policy debates.

#10

Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

413 pts, 298 comments

413 points · 298 comments · Add your take →

#11

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

388 pts, 1061 comments

388 points · 1061 comments · Add your take →

#12

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

379 pts, 131 comments

379 points · 131 comments · Add your take →

#13

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

365 pts, 231 comments

365 points · 231 comments · Add your take →

#14

Craig Venter has died

342 pts, 85 comments

342 points · 85 comments · Add your take →

#15

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

318 pts, 433 comments

318 points · 433 comments · Add your take →

#16

Who is hiring? (May 2026)

278 pts, 547 comments

278 points · 547 comments · Add your take →

#17

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

207 pts, 209 comments

207 points · 209 comments · Add your take →

#18

GCC 16 has been released

178 pts, 52 comments

178 points · 52 comments · Add your take →

#19

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 →

#20

Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

137 pts, 65 comments

137 points · 65 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Top Hacker News Stories – Week 2026-W18

Copy Fail

Where the goblins came from

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

Ti-84 Evo

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

Craig Venter has died

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

Who is hiring? (May 2026)

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

GCC 16 has been released

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

Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

AI CAD Harness

Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents

The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all

Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell

How an Oil Refinery Works

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks

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

Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author

Site Mogging

You can beat the binary search

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?

Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET

The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It

Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s

DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data

My Private GitHub on Postgres

Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

Claude.ai down again?

I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language

Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

World's biggest RC A380 [video]

Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?

SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D

Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock

Claude Code dies with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in cloud environment

Claude Pro expired and my $40 in prepaid Extra Usage credits vanished

SlothDB a 5X Faster Alternative to DuckDB, ClickHouse DB

Is AI resulting in net revenue gain for non-tech companies?

Five Banana Lessons

Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT

Tell HN: Happy May Day

GitHub flagged my org two weeks ago. No reason given, no appeal response

Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?

Tell HN: Claude account suspension after flagging duplicate billing

Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later

What Happened to the CS153 Videos

Is Anybody Using Codex?

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