5.3.26 | VS Code adds 'Co-Authored-by Copilot'; Dav2d; Do_not_track
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This episode recaps the top posts on Hacker News from May 3, 2026, covering various technology topics.
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (01:50) - Dav2d (03:00) - Do_not_track (04:20) - This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (05:25) - Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (06:41) - Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (08:07) - How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (09:40) - A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (11:51) - Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) (12:58) - Outro VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883 Dav2d https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504 Do_not_track https://donottrack.sh/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592 This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318 Six Years Perfecting Maps on…
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