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Hacker News (18 May 2026)
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
670 points • 349 comments • may 18, 2026
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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
499 points • 263 comments • may 18, 2026
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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
444 points • 126 comments • may 18, 2026
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
370 points • 177 comments • may 18, 2026
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Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
314 points • 130 comments • may 18, 2026
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Anthropic acquires Stainless
306 points • 218 comments • may 18, 2026
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Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
291 points • 280 comments • may 18, 2026
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It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
275 points • 661 comments • may 18, 2026
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Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
274 points • 193 comments • may 18, 2026
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Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
254 points • 92 comments • may 18, 2026