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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

    123 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  2. Words of Type

    123 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  3. Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now

    123 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  4. To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks

    122 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  5. Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

    122 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  6. C constructs that still don't work in C++

    122 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  7. Alert-driven monitoring

    122 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  8. Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

    122 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  9. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"

    121 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  10. Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

    121 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  11. Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire

    121 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  12. The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)

    121 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  13. A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

    121 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  14. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain

    121 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  15. Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

    121 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  16. Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

    121 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  17. A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

    121 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  18. Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

    121 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  19. Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

    121 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  20. Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  21. Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

    120 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  22. European Money Pours into Palantir

    120 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  23. Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled

    120 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  24. Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

    120 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  25. Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"

    120 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  26. Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay

    120 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  27. Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

    120 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  28. Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

    119 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  29. Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

    119 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  30. Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler

    119 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  31. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

    119 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  32. Biscuit

    119 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  33. Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

    119 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  34. OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

    119 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  35. I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

    119 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  36. Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

    118 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  37. Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms

    118 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  38. From Rust to Ruby

    118 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  39. A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

    118 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  40. Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

    118 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  41. WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

    117 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  42. A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto

    117 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  43. Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

    117 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  44. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

    117 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  45. Killed by Apple

    117 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  46. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  47. NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)

    117 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  48. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

    116 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  49. Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

    116 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  50. Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

    116 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  51. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

    116 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  52. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

    116 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  53. Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)

    116 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  54. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

    115 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  55. Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

    115 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  56. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP

    115 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  57. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

    115 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  58. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

    115 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  59. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

    115 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  60. What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)

    115 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  61. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters

    114 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  62. Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)

    114 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  63. Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?

    114 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  64. What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

    114 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  65. Colonization of Venus

    114 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  66. The occasional ECONNRESET

    114 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  67. Looking at the data behind prediction markets

    114 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  68. DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts

    113 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  69. Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git

    113 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  70. Show HN: Git for AI Agents

    113 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  71. Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

    113 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  72. Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake

    113 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  73. Illusions of understanding in the sciences

    113 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  74. Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security

    113 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  75. AI is too expensive

    113 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  76. Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

    112 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  77. OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

    112 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  78. I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

    112 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  79. A molecule with half-Möbius topology

    112 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  80. wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

    112 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  81. New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire

    112 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  82. What makes a good smartphone camera?

    111 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  83. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M

    111 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  84. Make your own microforest (2025)

    111 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  85. Dithering with CSS

    111 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  86. The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map

    110 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  87. Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  88. Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

    110 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  89. Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads

    110 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  90. Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

    110 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  91. Someone used my open source project to phish people

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  92. Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

    110 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  93. Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

    110 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  94. Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

    110 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  95. Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

    110 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  96. Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

    109 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  97. Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

    109 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  98. Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images

    109 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  99. Judge bars Kars4Kids from broadcasting 'misleading' ads in California

    109 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  100. Zugzwang

    109 points • comment • may 02, 2026