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Hacker News (May 2026)

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

    109 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  2. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

    109 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  3. High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]

    108 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  4. The Ballad of TIGIT

    108 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  5. CQL: Categorical Databases

    108 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  6. The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations

    108 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  7. Roman Letters

    107 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  8. Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD

    107 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  9. K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  10. Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

    107 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  11. We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin

    107 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  12. A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life

    107 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  13. Farewell to a Giant of Botany

    107 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  14. After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

    107 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  15. Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership

    107 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  16. Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost

    106 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  17. 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

    106 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  18. Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

    106 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  19. The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars

    106 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  20. Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

    106 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  21. Squares in Squares

    106 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  22. What we lost the last time code got cheap

    106 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  23. The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  24. CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  25. Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

    105 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  26. World's biggest RC A380 [video]

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  27. Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  28. Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

    105 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  29. Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

    104 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  30. The first British person in space

    104 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  31. An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years

    104 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  32. FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

    104 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  33. Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

    104 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  34. Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

    104 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  35. Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

    103 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  36. Whimsical Animations Course Open House

    103 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  37. The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news

    103 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  38. We replaced Zendesk

    103 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  39. U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

    103 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  40. UK sovereign LLM inference

    103 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  41. Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

    103 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  42. My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck

    102 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  43. HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  44. Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

    102 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  45. Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

    102 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  46. Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2

    102 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  47. Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?

    102 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  48. Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

    102 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  49. Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors

    102 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  50. The Serial TTL connector we deserve

    102 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  51. Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]

    102 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  52. A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began

    102 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  53. Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

    102 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  54. Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory

    101 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  55. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

    101 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  56. Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

    101 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  57. A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

    101 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  58. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

    101 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  59. PySimpleGUI 6

    101 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  60. Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)

    101 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  61. Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

    100 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  62. Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

    100 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  63. Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

    100 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  64. Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

    100 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  65. A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism

    100 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  66. What it takes to transpose a matrix

    100 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  67. Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

    100 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  68. The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)

    100 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  69. Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did

    99 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  70. How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  71. Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)

    99 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  72. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability

    99 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  73. 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

    99 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  74. How diamonds are made

    99 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  75. Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

    99 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  76. Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

    99 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  77. Thinking in an array language (2022)

    98 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  78. ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

    98 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  79. Design Engineering Magazine

    98 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  80. Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants

    98 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  81. reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops

    98 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  82. NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era

    98 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  83. Chess invariants

    98 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  84. The lasting influence of Netscape Time

    98 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  85. Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks

    97 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  86. Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

    97 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  87. When networking doesn't work

    97 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  88. US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

    97 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  89. Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

    97 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  90. The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

    97 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  91. Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

    97 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  92. Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware

    96 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  93. Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

    96 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  94. Ripgrep AI Policy

    96 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  95. SICP Video Lectures (1986)

    96 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  96. Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us

    96 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  97. A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

    96 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  98. The other half of AI safety

    96 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  99. Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

    96 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  100. Stable Audio 3

    96 points • comment • may 20, 2026