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Hacker News (18 May 2026)

  1. Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

    971 points • 483 comments • may 18, 2026

  2. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

    639 points • 312 comments • may 18, 2026

  3. Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

    521 points • 161 comments • may 18, 2026

  4. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

    469 points • 229 comments • may 18, 2026

  5. Anthropic acquires Stainless

    457 points • 323 comments • may 18, 2026

  6. Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

    334 points • 131 comments • may 18, 2026

  7. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

    319 points • 130 comments • may 18, 2026

  8. Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

    317 points • 549 comments • may 18, 2026

  9. Click (2016)

    312 points • 76 comments • may 18, 2026

  10. Actually, democracy dies in H.R.

    310 points • 216 comments • may 18, 2026