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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video]

    77 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  2. Ember.js 7.0

    77 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  3. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

    77 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  4. SQLite Code of Ethics

    77 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  5. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

    77 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  6. NHS Goes to War Against Open Source

    77 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  7. DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Feared

    77 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  8. Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application

    77 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  9. Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors

    77 points • comment • may 18, 2026

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

    77 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  11. Highest Random Weight in Elixir

    77 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  12. Google tools for customizing searches

    76 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  13. GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

    76 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  14. OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

    76 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  15. Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

    76 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  16. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

    76 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  17. The current AI pricing was always going to go away

    76 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  18. Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  19. Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business

    75 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  20. Why is this site named Antipope?

    75 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  21. Surfel-based global illumination on the web

    75 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  22. What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

    75 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  23. Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone

    75 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  24. Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

    75 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  25. OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)

    75 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  26. I'm So Tired of Ads

    75 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  27. Interleaved Deltas

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  28. A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there

    75 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  29. GPT‑5.5 Instant

    75 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  30. Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates

    75 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  31. Technofascism

    75 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  32. The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

    74 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  33. Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)

    74 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  34. The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

    74 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  35. Everyone Against Us (2023)

    74 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  36. Artemis II fault tolerance

    74 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  37. Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data

    74 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  38. The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream

    74 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  39. How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

    74 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  40. Selling SaaS in Germany

    74 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  41. Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium

    73 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  42. Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

    73 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  43. Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness

    73 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  44. A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

    73 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  45. Microscale Thermite Reaction

    73 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  46. When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

    73 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  47. The conflation of money and things

    73 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  48. The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

    73 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  49. The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

    73 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  50. The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube

    72 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  51. Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

    72 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  52. The Green Side of the Lua

    72 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  53. Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

    72 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  54. Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer

    72 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  55. How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?

    72 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  56. FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  57. Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

    72 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  58. DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors

    72 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  59. Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

    72 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  60. VGA Memory Access Is Complicated

    72 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  61. Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  62. The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

    71 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  63. Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++

    71 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  64. How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

    71 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  65. USCIS Will Grant 'Adjustment of Status' Only in Extraordinary Circumstances

    71 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  66. A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos

    71 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  67. Understanding Singleflight in Go

    71 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  68. Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)

    71 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  69. Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried

    70 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  70. Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce)

    70 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  71. Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

    70 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  72. Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  73. Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering

    70 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  74. Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs

    70 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  75. Houses are for living, not for speculation

    70 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  76. Building a UMatrix Replacement

    70 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  77. The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards

    70 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  78. Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

    70 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  79. Welcome to Hell Developer

    70 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  80. Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

    69 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  81. pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest

    69 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  82. The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work

    69 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  83. Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs

    69 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  84. I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

    69 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  85. LinkedIn Fanfiction

    69 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  86. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python

    69 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  87. Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

    69 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  88. Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

    69 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  89. Shunting-Yard Animation

    69 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  90. Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount

    69 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  91. CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting

    69 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  92. Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

    69 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  93. FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf]

    69 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  94. If I could make my own GitHub

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  95. Arena AI Model ELO History

    69 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  96. Have a Coherent AI Policy

    68 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  97. From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control

    68 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  98. What Gets Kept

    68 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  99. The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  100. Why airlines are always going bankrupt

    68 points • comment • may 05, 2026