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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

    96 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  2. Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

    95 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  3. 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

    95 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  4. Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

    95 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  5. India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark

    95 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  6. A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being

    95 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  7. ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor

    95 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  8. The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers

    95 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  9. University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading

    95 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  10. Show HN: Nibble

    95 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  11. SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice

    94 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  12. Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC

    94 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  13. Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

    94 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  14. Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

    94 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  15. Don't answer the first question

    94 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  16. PyTorch Landscape

    94 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  17. My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs

    94 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  18. Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd

    94 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  19. Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs

    94 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  20. Don’t Outsource the Learning

    94 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  21. Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid

    93 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  22. What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

    93 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  23. Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

    93 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  24. DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350

    93 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  25. Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways

    93 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  26. Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

    93 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  27. Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

    93 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  28. The Mercury logic programming system

    93 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  29. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

    93 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  30. Codex-maxxing

    93 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  31. Show HN: AI CAD Harness

    93 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  32. Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

    93 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  33. A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks

    92 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  34. QBE – Compiler Back End

    92 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  35. Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"

    92 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  36. 2-D Mathematical Curves

    92 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  37. 60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster

    92 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  38. LLM Policy for Rust Compiler

    92 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  39. I work in Hollywood. Everyone who used to make TV is now training AI

    92 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  40. Saying Goodbye to one line of APL

    92 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  41. Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs

    92 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  42. C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

    92 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  43. EV Stupidity Checklist

    92 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  44. Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

    92 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  45. OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control

    91 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  46. How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)

    91 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  47. We don't know why Malawi is poor

    91 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  48. Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

    91 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  49. Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

    91 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  50. The river otter's remarkable comeback

    91 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  51. Michael Keating has died

    91 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  52. Google Search as you know it is over

    91 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  53. Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year

    91 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  54. Show HN: Agent-desktop – Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents

    91 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  55. Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations

    91 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  56. The TTY Demystified (2008)

    91 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  57. Testing distributed systems with AI agents

    91 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  58. The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

    91 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  59. Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs

    91 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  60. Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

    90 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  61. The Aperiodic Table

    90 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  62. Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production

    90 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  63. Modern C++ Programming: Busato

    90 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  64. Why I don’t vibe code

    90 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  65. Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

    90 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  66. Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages

    90 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  67. K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s

    90 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  68. delta time

    89 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  69. A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)

    89 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  70. The soul of maintaining a new machine

    89 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  71. Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog

    89 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  72. Incident with Actions and Pages

    89 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  73. Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  74. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

    89 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  75. Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

    89 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  76. Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  77. What is a Demand Coop

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  78. Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

    88 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  79. Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

    88 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  80. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

    88 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  81. Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  82. I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

    88 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  83. Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)

    88 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  84. The Lone Lisp Heap

    88 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  85. Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests

    88 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  86. Make some art with your phone sensors

    88 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  87. Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

    88 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  88. Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  89. Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  90. The Steinwinter Supercargo

    87 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  91. The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  92. When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)

    87 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  93. ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  94. Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

    87 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  95. Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler

    87 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  96. You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  97. Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

    87 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  98. America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen

    87 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  99. Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

    87 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  100. Bun ported to Rust in 6 days

    87 points • comment • may 09, 2026