Hacker News: Besthttps://news.ycombinator.com/bestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 09:22:49 +0000<![CDATA[A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro]]>https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605

https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262

Points: 278

# Comments: 141

]]>Sat, 09 May 2026 02:41:42 +0000https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/_alternator_https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262<![CDATA[Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users]]>Related: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

also: Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119

Points: 994

# Comments: 328

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:45:58 +0000https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-usersanonymousiamhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119<![CDATA[AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures]]>Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524

Points: 327

# Comments: 132

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:08 +0000https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-culturesspeckxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524<![CDATA[Cartoon Network Flash Games]]>Article URL: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360

Points: 340

# Comments: 107

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:29:52 +0000https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-gameswillmeyershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360<![CDATA[Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged]]>Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199

Points: 675

# Comments: 341

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:56:10 +0000https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/ribtokshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199<![CDATA[A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking]]>Article URL: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062178

Points: 566

# Comments: 279

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:37:05 +0000https://sinceyouarrived.world/takenmwheelzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062178https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062178<![CDATA[Poland is now among the 20 largest economies]]>Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117

Points: 967

# Comments: 773

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:30:05 +0000https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aasurprisetalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117<![CDATA[US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos]]>https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re...

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938

Points: 293

# Comments: 432

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:10:25 +0000https://www.war.gov/UFO/david-gpuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938<![CDATA[David Attenborough's 100th Birthday]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884

Points: 616

# Comments: 125

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:03:26 +0000https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5odefrosthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884<![CDATA[An Introduction to Meshtastic]]>Article URL: https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566

Points: 445

# Comments: 158

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:22:11 +0000https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/ColinWrighthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566<![CDATA[Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...]]>I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but...

This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no.

The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a new document with a fresh UUIDv4 and it came up with the exact same one:

b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cd

We're using this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid

I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen, and since we're not modifying the UUIDs in any way, I really wonder how that.... is possible!? We're literally only calling:

import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";

const document_id = uuidv4();

... and then insert into the database, that's it.

Additionally, the database only has about 15.000 records, and now one collision. Statistically... impossible.

Has that ever happened to anyone?! What in the...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054

Points: 360

# Comments: 283

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 07:57:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054mittermayrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054<![CDATA[Mojo 1.0 Beta]]>Article URL: https://mojolang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901

Points: 345

# Comments: 221

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:49:01 +0000https://mojolang.org/sbt567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901<![CDATA[Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit]]>Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227

Points: 825

# Comments: 443

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:02:11 +0000https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/psxuawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227<![CDATA[Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data]]>https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hackers-deface-school-logi...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913

Points: 904

# Comments: 614

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:22:21 +0000https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breachstefanpiehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913<![CDATA[Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce]]>https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423

Points: 1297

# Comments: 932

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:23:37 +0000https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/PriorityLefthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423<![CDATA[Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE]]>Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623

Points: 803

# Comments: 315

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:21:32 +0000https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8flippedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623<![CDATA[AI slop is killing online communities]]>Article URL: https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203

Points: 811

# Comments: 707

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:46:25 +0000https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/thmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203<![CDATA[Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text]]>Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537

Points: 363

# Comments: 119

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:54:02 +0000https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencodersinstagrahamhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537<![CDATA[Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard]]>Article URL: https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371

Points: 387

# Comments: 342

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:42:58 +0000https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/wslhhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371<![CDATA[OpenAI’s WebRTC problem]]>Article URL: https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951

Points: 302

# Comments: 76

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:11:59 +0000https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/atgctghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951<![CDATA[Agents need control flow, not more prompts]]>Article URL: https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562

Points: 577

# Comments: 285

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:43:35 +0000https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/bsuhhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562<![CDATA[Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview]]>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozil...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079

Points: 351

# Comments: 159

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:05:33 +0000https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/HieronymusBoschhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079<![CDATA[Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers]]>Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050964

Points: 621

# Comments: 244

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:56:33 +0000https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/newsofthedayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050964<![CDATA[DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal]]>Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/ds4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751

Points: 482

# Comments: 151

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:40:24 +0000https://github.com/antirez/ds4tamndhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751<![CDATA[Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI]]>Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25-percent-as-chipmakers-strangle-enthusiast-pc-market-to-build-more-ai-chips-asus-projected-to-sell-5-million-fewer-boards-in-2025-gigabyte-msi-and-asrock-also-expected-to-see-reduced-sales-numbers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540

Points: 292

# Comments: 340

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:23:23 +0000https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25-percent-as-chipmakers-strangle-enthusiast-pc-market-to-build-more-ai-chips-asus-projected-to-sell-5-million-fewer-boards-in-2025-gigabyte-msi-and-asrock-also-expected-to-see-reduced-sales-numbersspeckxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540<![CDATA[I want to live like Costco people]]>Article URL: https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499

Points: 332

# Comments: 711

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:19:27 +0000https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/speckxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499<![CDATA[AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields]]>Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050278

Points: 321

# Comments: 144

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:02:20 +0000https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/berliantahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050278https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050278<![CDATA[The map that keeps Burning Man honest]]>Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653

Points: 756

# Comments: 344

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:06:10 +0000https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/speckxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653<![CDATA[Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria]]>Related: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00796-2 (https://archive.ph/otvAa)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049208

Points: 382

# Comments: 306

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:30:04 +0000https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00720-8surprisetalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049208<![CDATA[Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense]]>Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047981

Points: 506

# Comments: 326

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:10:24 +0000https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futuresQemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047981