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We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.

TechCrunch May 4, 2026 Connie Loizos
Technology May 3, 2026

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

Article URL: https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 3, 2026

Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTPv4sI_Jc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002839 Po...

Technology May 3, 2026

Let's Buy Spirit Air

Article URL: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777 Points: 44 # Com...

Technology May 3, 2026

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

Article URL: https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 3, 2026

Agentic Coding Is a Trap

Article URL: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology May 3, 2026

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper

Article URL: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136 Points:...

Technology May 3, 2026

Introduction to Atom

Article URL: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002089 P...

Technology May 3, 2026

‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art

The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."

Technology May 3, 2026

Make Your Own Microforest

Article URL: https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 3, 2026

Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"

Article URL: https://guessingheadlights.com/colorado-grandma-keeps-getting-pulled-over-because-police-cameras-cannot-te...

Technology May 3, 2026

Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-f...

Technology May 3, 2026

Why TUIs Are Back

Article URL: https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 3, 2026

The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left

Article URL: https://death-of-scrum.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999880 Points: 24 # Comme...

Technology May 3, 2026

Talking to Transformers

Article URL: https://miraos.org/blog/2026/05/02/talking-to-transformers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 3, 2026

How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-kepler-built-verifiable-ai-for-financial-services-with-claude Comments URL: ht...

Technology May 3, 2026

Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

Article URL: https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999656 ...

Technology May 3, 2026

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

Article URL: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999...

Technology May 3, 2026

In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate diagnoses than emergency room doctors

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room c...

Technology May 3, 2026

LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

Article URL: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999520...

Technology May 3, 2026

I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999460 Po...

Technology May 3, 2026

The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-oscars-just-banned-ai-from-winning-acting-and-writing-awards-2000753740 Comments U...

Technology May 3, 2026

What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?

Article URL: https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999006 Points: 27 #...

Technology May 3, 2026

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars (2023)

Article URL: https://etsc.eu/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-in-new-cars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology May 3, 2026

Southwest Headquarters Tour

Article URL: https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html Comments URL: https://...

Technology May 3, 2026

Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service

Article URL: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/16/WS69e0ee90a310d6866eb43dd4.html Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology May 3, 2026

Metal Gear Solid 2's Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan

Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 3, 2026

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-real-time-2...

Technology May 3, 2026

Uncle Bob: It's Over

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1srfqm0/uncle_bob_its_over/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology May 3, 2026

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0... (https://archive.ph/0QYbN) Comments URL: https://news....