HN Top 10 — May 01, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. Your Website Is Not for You
⭐ 22 💬 12 👤 pumbaa
A developer reflects on watching decision-makers override designer research in favor of personal taste. Websites aren’t art for founders to admire — they’re tools built for users you’ve never met, and every design choice either helps or hinders them from accomplishing their goal.
2. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
⭐ 41 💬 6 👤 mayerwin 🔗 Discuss on HN
A free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the Windows MIDI Services stack, solving the problem where Windows pairs with BLE-MIDI but no DAW can see the device. Built with .NET 10 and Avalonia — single ~21 MB exe, no installer, no telemetry, no account.
3. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
⭐ 148 💬 47 👤 sleepingNomad
A macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do. Open source with 196 stars — just plug in a cable and see its capabilities at a glance instead of wondering if your mystery USB-C cable supports charging, display, or data.
4. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
⭐ 622 💬 208 👤 the-mitr
Book excerpt about Mark Klein, the AT&T engineer who discovered and exposed Room 641A — the NSA surveillance facility inside an AT&T building in San Francisco. The whistleblower’s account of how he uncovered the government’s mass surveillance program and alerted the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
5. Grok 4.3
⭐ 136 💬 168 👤 simianwords
xAI announces Grok 4.3 with structured outputs and a “thinking” mode where the model reasons before responding. Pricing at $1.25/M input tokens and $2.50/M output tokens. Supports response formatting in specific organized structures for more reliable API integrations.
6. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
⭐ 88 💬 54 👤 giuliomagnifico
A newly discovered manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn was found in the National Central Library of Rome, dating from between 800-830 AD — making it the third oldest surviving text of what is considered the earliest known poem in English, written roughly 1,300 years ago.
7. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
⭐ 521 💬 418 👤 ori_b
A thread on oss-security discussing how Linux kernel vulnerabilities are patched without advance notice to distributions. Long-term kernels (6.12, 6.6, 6.1, 5.15, 5.10) often don’t receive backported fixes in a timely manner, leaving many systems exposed.
8. If I could make my own GitHub
⭐ 23 💬 53 👤 matricaria
A thought piece on redesigning GitHub after reading about Ghostty leaving the platform. Proposes pre-commit feedback loops, non-boolean PR approvals, stacked PRs as first-class citizens, smaller modular hosting units, and signed/hash-verified CI actions that work offline.
9. OpenWarp
⭐ 109 💬 93 👤 zero-lab
A community fork of Warp terminal that lets you plug in any AI provider of your choice. Supports 6 API protocols natively (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, Groq) with custom model routing, dynamic system prompts via minijinja templates, and 100% local credential storage.
10. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
⭐ 406 💬 147 👤 j12y
A supply chain attack compromised the ‘lightning’ PyPI package — a widely-used deep learning framework — affecting versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 published on April 30, 2026. Teams building image classifiers, fine-tuning LLMs, or running diffusion models were potentially affected by the malicious dependency.