Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you
https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly/issues/3292
https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly/issues/3292
GitHub
Extension silently disables competitor extensions globally with no cleanup on uninstall · Issue #3292 · facebook/pyrefly
On activation, Pyrefly silently writes disableLanguageServices = true to the user's global VS Code settings for three named third-party extensions, without prompting the user or notifying them ...
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html
CNBC
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
Roblox is facing over 140 federal lawsuits accusing it of failing to prevent child exploitation, and last month settled with Alabama and West Virginia.
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go
Bbc
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Under the new rules, police will be able to issue tickets directly to the car's manufacturer when an autonomous vehicle breaks a traffic law.
Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
Leiden University
Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published…
Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
https://hnup.date/hn-sota
https://hnup.date/hn-sota
hnup.date
HN SOTA — Model popularity | HN Update
LLM model popularity from Hacker News: how we detect models from the OpenRouter catalog and score sentiment from discussions.
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
www.clojuriststogether.org
Q2 2026 Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers
https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai
https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai
GitHub
GitHub - mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖 - mahimairaja/voiceai
Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage
https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with-south-bay-mans-luggage-after-trunk-fails-to-open/
https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with-south-bay-mans-luggage-after-trunk-fails-to-open/
SFiST
Waymo Drives Off With South Bay Man’s Luggage After Trunk Fails to Open
A Sunnyvale man says the Waymo that took him to the airport neglected to open the trunk for him to retrieve his luggage before driving off. The company wants him to pay for shipping, or take two complimentary Waymo rides to the depot in SF to retrieve it.
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
The Haskell Programming Language's blog
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | The Haskell Programming Language's blog
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
Nytimes
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
A state law that goes into effect in October prohibits grocery stores and third-party delivery services from using consumer data to boost prices.
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
Makefile.feld
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable…
Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API
https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
ThinkPol
An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge
By Rohana Rezel I'm running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major …