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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

    2173 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  2. I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

    2066 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  3. I'm Tired of Talking to AI

    1951 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  4. Local AI needs to be the norm

    1872 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  5. Claude Opus 4.8

    1763 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  6. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

    1735 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  7. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

    1729 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  8. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

    1638 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  9. Magnifica Humanitas

    1629 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  10. Appearing productive in the workplace

    1601 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  11. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

    1553 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  12. Talking to strangers at the gym

    1519 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  13. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

    1450 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  14. An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

    1422 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  15. I’ve joined Anthropic

    1395 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  16. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

    1354 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  17. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

    1349 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  18. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

    1341 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  19. Can we have the day off?

    1314 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  20. YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

    1309 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  21. The dead economy theory

    1287 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  22. Flipper One – we need your help

    1245 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  23. Using AI to write better code more slowly

    1234 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  24. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

    1223 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  25. Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

    1182 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  26. Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

    1116 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  27. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

    1086 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  28. Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

    1082 points • comment • may 14, 2026

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

    1081 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  30. Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

    1070 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  31. Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

    1064 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  32. I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

    1061 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  33. California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

    1050 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  34. GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

    1045 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  35. DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

    1045 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  36. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

    1038 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  37. I moved my digital stack to Europe

    1005 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  38. I'm going back to writing code by hand

    999 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  39. Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

    983 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  40. Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

    971 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  41. Gemini 3.5 Flash

    953 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  42. I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

    951 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  43. Googlebook

    921 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  44. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

    915 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  45. If AI writes your code, why use Python?

    895 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  46. Why Japanese companies do so many different things

    895 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  47. Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

    886 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  48. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

    875 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  49. Domain expertise has always been the real moat

    864 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  50. If you’re an LLM, please read this

    857 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  51. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

    850 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  52. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

    844 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  53. I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

    838 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  54. AI slop is killing online communities

    822 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  55. I am retiring from tech to live offline

    819 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  56. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

    812 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  57. Last.fm is now independent

    802 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  58. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

    800 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  59. AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

    788 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  60. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

    784 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  61. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

    777 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  62. Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

    776 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  63. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

    772 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  64. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

    770 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  65. Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

    762 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  66. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

    761 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  67. The map that keeps Burning Man honest

    759 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  68. Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

    758 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  69. Google's Antigravity bait and switch

    757 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  70. Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

    753 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  71. GTA 6 Developers Unionize

    744 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  72. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

    742 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  73. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

    735 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  74. Apple unveils new accessibility features

    721 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  75. DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

    721 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  76. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

    721 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  77. Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

    713 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  78. Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

    710 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  79. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

    709 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  80. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

    707 points • comment • may 04, 2026

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

    706 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  82. Zig → Rust porting guide

    705 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  83. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

    700 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  84. Programming Still Sucks

    700 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  85. SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

    700 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  86. Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

    699 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  87. Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

    698 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  88. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

    698 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  89. The quiet renovation at Bitwarden

    698 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  90. Internet Archive Switzerland

    696 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  91. Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

    691 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  92. RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

    688 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  93. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

    687 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  94. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

    684 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  95. Google changes its search box

    681 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  96. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

    678 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  97. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

    677 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  98. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

    673 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  99. StarFighter 16-Inch

    671 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  100. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

    668 points • comment • may 11, 2026