{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"5.12.26 | TanStack NPM supply-chain attack, GitLab workforce reduction and CREDIT end, AI-written code questions Python use","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/27b65bc1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":865,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlightsPostmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromisehttps://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT valueshttps://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500If AI writes your code, why use Python?https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077They Live (1988) inspired Adblockerhttps://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblockerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/shttps://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685Screenshots of Old Desktop OSeshttp://www.typewritten.org/Media/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428Interaction Modelshttps://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flawhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}