HN Top 10 — May 04, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
⭐ 178 💬 110 👤 n1b0m 🔗 Discuss on HN
The cash and stock offer values eBay at $125 a share, $20 more than the shares were valued at when New York trading ended on Friday, GameStop said in a statement on Sunday. GameStop’s chief executive Ryan Cohen said he is prepared to take the bid directly to shareholders if eBay’s board rejects the approach. GameStop rose to…
2. ASML’s Best Selling Product Isn’t What You Think It Is
⭐ 36 💬 14 👤 johncole 🔗 Discuss on HN
There is a machine in the Netherlands that is essentially the heartbeat of the modern world. It’s called an Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool, and it’s built by ASML. [![Image 1: ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines have more than 100,000 parts and sell for up to $400 million.
3. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
⭐ 220 💬 90 👤 maxloh 🔗 Discuss on HN
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org Let me be blunt: This site has absolutely nothing to do with Notepad++. It’s not authorized, not endorsed, and not affiliated with the project in any way. [![Image 3: Screenshot of fake Notepad++ for Mac…
4. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
⭐ 268 💬 92 👤 samcollins 🔗 Discuss on HN
I discovered a technique for generating reliable text and numbers in AI generated images. For example, the following image is considered impossible with state of the art image models. But I made this with Gemini 3.0 Pro (plus one extra step I’m going to explain below).
5. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
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Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming processes: analysis, combination, generalization, abstraction and simulation. By using this site you are consenting to their use and accept our policies. Learn more….
6. World’s biggest RC A380 [video]
⭐ 25 💬 3 👤 NaOH 🔗 Discuss on HN
A YouTube video showcasing the world’s biggest RC A380 aircraft. Built by RC enthusiasts, this massive remote-controlled replica of Airbus’s flagship plane demonstrates impressive scale and engineering. Note: the original video link may no longer be available.
7. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
⭐ 511 💬 202 👤 alattaran 🔗 Discuss on HN
DeepClaude swaps the brain of Claude Code while keeping the body intact: it routes Claude Code’s autonomous agent loop through DeepSeek V4 Pro ($0.87/M tokens) instead of Anthropic ($15/M). Everything works — file reading, editing, bash execution, subagent spawning, and multi-step coding loops — at a fraction of the cost.
8. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
⭐ 397 💬 130 👤 nullagent 🔗 Discuss on HN
nullagent from DataParty announced the BYOMesh — billed as the world’s smallest and most capable LoRa companion dev kit. It combines the SX1276 (sub-1GHz ISM band) with the SX1281 (high-speed 2.4GHz LoRa) on a single tiny board, supporting MeshCore, Meshtastic, Reticulum, and MeshTNC protocols.
9. Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
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While hard drives have been around since the 1950s, the current 3.5″ form factor (actually 4″ wide) appeared in the early 1980s. Since then, the capacity of a 3.5″ drive has increased by about 10 6 times (from 10 MB to about 10 TB), sequential throughput by about 10 3 times, and access times by about 10 1 times. Although the basic concept of spinning magnetic disks accessed by a movable stack of disk heads has not changed, hard drives have…
10. A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
⭐ 45 💬 6 👤 worldvoyageur 🔗 Discuss on HN
Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — is transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. The long protrusions look plant-like but are actually a colony of small worm-shaped animals housed in branching organic tubes. Han Zeng/Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences R oughly 540 million…