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Hacker News (May 2026)
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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
2173 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
2066 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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I'm Tired of Talking to AI
1951 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Local AI needs to be the norm
1872 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Claude Opus 4.8
1763 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
1735 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
1729 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1638 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Magnifica Humanitas
1629 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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Appearing productive in the workplace
1601 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
1553 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Talking to strangers at the gym
1519 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
1450 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
1422 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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I’ve joined Anthropic
1395 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
1354 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
1349 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
1341 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Can we have the day off?
1314 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
1309 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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The dead economy theory
1287 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Flipper One – we need your help
1245 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
1234 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
1223 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
1182 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
1116 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
1086 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
1082 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
1081 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
1070 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
1064 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
1061 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
1050 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
1045 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
1045 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
1038 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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I moved my digital stack to Europe
1005 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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I'm going back to writing code by hand
999 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
983 points • comment • may 30, 2026
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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
971 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Gemini 3.5 Flash
953 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
951 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Googlebook
921 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
915 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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If AI writes your code, why use Python?
895 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
895 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
886 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
875 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Domain expertise has always been the real moat
864 points • comment • may 30, 2026
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If you’re an LLM, please read this
857 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
850 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
844 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
838 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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AI slop is killing online communities
822 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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I am retiring from tech to live offline
819 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
812 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Last.fm is now independent
802 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
800 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
788 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
784 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
777 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
776 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
772 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
770 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
762 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
761 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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The map that keeps Burning Man honest
759 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
758 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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Google's Antigravity bait and switch
757 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit
753 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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GTA 6 Developers Unionize
744 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
742 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
735 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Apple unveils new accessibility features
721 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
721 points • comment • may 24, 2026
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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
721 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
713 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
710 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
709 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
707 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
706 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Zig → Rust porting guide
705 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
700 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Programming Still Sucks
700 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
700 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
699 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
698 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
698 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
698 points • comment • may 16, 2026
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Internet Archive Switzerland
696 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
691 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
688 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
687 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
684 points • comment • may 16, 2026
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Google changes its search box
681 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
678 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
677 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
673 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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StarFighter 16-Inch
671 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
668 points • comment • may 11, 2026