121: DTF:HN for May 1, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 1, 2026. Featuring: After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables, Auto Polo, The Rotary Un-Smartphone, Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows, and more.

Stories covered:

1. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:25)
2. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:48)
3. Auto Polo
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:57)
4. The Rotary Un-Smartphone
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 11:05)
5. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
   (HN Discussion | 🎧 14:46)
6. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 17:49)
7. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 21:12)
8. Grok 4.3
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 24:54)
9. If I could make my own GitHub
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 27:55)
10. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 30:57)