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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. A Forth-inspired language for writing websites

    156 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  2. LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

    156 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  3. Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada

    156 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  4. Don't just paste the AI at me

    156 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  5. Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

    155 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  6. Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux

    155 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  7. What Is Date:Italy?

    155 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  8. Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

    154 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  9. First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

    154 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  10. Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

    154 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  11. Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

    154 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  12. Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?

    154 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  13. The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

    153 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  14. Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"

    153 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  15. I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

    153 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  16. Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

    152 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  17. The Rise of the Bullshittery

    152 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  18. Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

    152 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  19. Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

    152 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  20. Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

    152 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  21. AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

    152 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  22. Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

    152 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  23. Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

    152 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  24. Greek Alphabet Cards

    151 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  25. Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities

    151 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  26. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

    150 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  27. Don't Roll Your Own

    150 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  28. Omarchy Is Not A Distro

    150 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  29. The C64 Dead Test Font

    150 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  30. Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

    150 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  31. London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

    149 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  32. Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism

    149 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  33. OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

    149 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  34. Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  35. Toxicity on Social Media

    149 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  36. AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  37. ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?

    148 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  38. Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard

    148 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  39. Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

    148 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  40. Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

    148 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  41. High-Entropy Alloy

    148 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  42. Why is Inkwell stuck in review

    147 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  43. Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

    147 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  44. Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

    147 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  45. Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

    147 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  46. Learn Harness Engineering

    147 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  47. Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews

    146 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  48. Patching my guitar amp's firmware

    146 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  49. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

    146 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  50. Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation

    146 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  51. A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot

    145 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  52. Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

    145 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  53. Ruby for Good

    145 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  54. Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

    145 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  55. Rothko for your current weather conditions

    145 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  56. Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

    145 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  57. Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down

    145 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  58. A portentous reunion

    144 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  59. Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility

    144 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  60. “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?

    144 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  61. Human Bottlenecks

    144 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  62. Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

    144 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  63. RISC-V Router

    144 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  64. The quadratic sandwich

    144 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  65. Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

    144 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  66. AI sticker shock hits corporate America

    144 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  67. The Ask

    144 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  68. PC Engine CPU

    143 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  69. CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

    143 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  70. Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS

    143 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  71. Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

    143 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  72. Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

    143 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  73. Forking the Web

    143 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  74. Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

    143 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  75. Incident with Actions – Resolved

    142 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  76. RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

    142 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  77. Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

    142 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  78. How LEDs are made (2014)

    142 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  79. Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

    142 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  80. Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond

    142 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  81. Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

    142 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  82. Orchestrating AI code review at scale

    142 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  83. Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

    142 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  84. Proton Meet

    141 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  85. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

    141 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  86. Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study

    141 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  87. Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say

    141 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  88. AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs

    140 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  89. Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

    140 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  90. ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)

    140 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  91. Jensen–Shannon Divergence

    140 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  92. OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

    140 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  93. New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

    139 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  94. You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)

    139 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  95. Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

    139 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  96. Judson's Last Ride

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  97. Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes

    139 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  98. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

    139 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  99. Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

    139 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  100. Announcing Rust 1.96

    139 points • comment • may 28, 2026