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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)

    87 points • comment • may 16, 2026

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

    87 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  3. Coding on Paper

    86 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  4. Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  5. Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter

    86 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  6. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  7. A HN post with negative points – how?

    86 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  8. Discord Incident – Resolved

    86 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  9. We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  10. In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident

    86 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  11. Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  12. Lisp in Vim (2019)

    86 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  13. Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust

    85 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  14. Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  15. After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

    85 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  16. On Labubu and the Hyperreal

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  17. Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

    85 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  18. Local Git remotes

    85 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  19. The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

    85 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  20. What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

    85 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  21. Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged

    84 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  22. People Hate AI Art

    84 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  23. PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

    84 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  24. Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K

    84 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  25. Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act

    84 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  26. Is this sustainable?

    84 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  27. Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  28. CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

    83 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  29. The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare

    83 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  30. New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine

    83 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  31. Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

    83 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  32. I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty

    83 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  33. Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage

    83 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  34. UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around'

    83 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  35. Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

    83 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  36. Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game

    83 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  37. Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents

    83 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  38. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

    83 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  39. Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo

    82 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  40. The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

    82 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  41. California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply

    82 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  42. Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors

    82 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  43. England Runestones

    82 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  44. Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics

    82 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  45. Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer

    82 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  46. I 3D Printed Origami [video]

    82 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  47. Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

    82 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  48. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

    82 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  49. All the bugs they found

    82 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  50. Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

    82 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  51. Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

    81 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  52. Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting

    81 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  53. All means are fair except solving the problem

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  54. Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI

    81 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  55. Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does

    81 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  56. A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick)

    81 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  57. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

    81 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  58. Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

    81 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  59. Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)

    81 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  60. What Is Happening to Publishing?

    81 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  61. Creating for a niche

    81 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  62. What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue

    81 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  63. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

    80 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  64. Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  65. Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

    80 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  66. Your biggest vulnerability is your shitty compensation

    80 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  67. About LLMs at Zig Days

    80 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  68. Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process

    80 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  69. No way to parse integers in C (2022)

    80 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  70. Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

    80 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  71. Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services

    80 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  72. Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar

    80 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  73. Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)

    80 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  74. Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

    80 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  75. Read Programming as Theory Building

    80 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  76. AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

    79 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  77. Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

    79 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  78. Dehydration's role in learning and memory

    79 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  79. Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

    79 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  80. UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

    79 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  81. The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet

    79 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  82. Grafana Labs internal source code accessed

    79 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  83. AI tools are only as good as your judgment

    79 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  84. GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

    79 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  85. Grok Build

    79 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  86. The rise and fall of snake oil

    79 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  87. Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  88. Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti

    79 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  89. LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

    79 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  90. Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  91. A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

    78 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  92. Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)

    78 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  93. Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  94. Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS

    78 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  95. Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  96. IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

    78 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  97. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

    78 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  98. Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup

    78 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  99. TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  100. Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

    77 points • comment • may 26, 2026