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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. An AI Hate Wave Is Here

    68 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  2. Why airlines are always going bankrupt

    68 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  3. We accidentally recreated old Facebook

    68 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  4. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  5. Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

    68 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  6. The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious

    68 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  7. Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

    67 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  8. Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C

    67 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  9. Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks

    67 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  10. Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

    67 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  11. LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

    67 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  12. A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

    67 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  13. Boriel BASIC

    67 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  14. Build a radio wave detector with balls of aluminum foil

    67 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  15. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

    67 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  16. Don't Sign in with Google

    67 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  17. Microsoft's stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making

    67 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  18. German intelligence offices snub Palantir software

    67 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  19. What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

    67 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  20. The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van

    67 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  21. ReactOS

    67 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  22. A case against Boolean logic

    66 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  23. Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain

    66 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  24. RFK Jr. clears path for minors to use tanning beds, much to dermatologist dismay

    66 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  25. DAG Workflow Engine

    66 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  26. AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center

    66 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  27. ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board

    66 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  28. HTML-in-Canvas Demos

    66 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  29. Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team

    66 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  30. Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

    66 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  31. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

    66 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  32. There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

    66 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  33. Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s

    66 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  34. Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio

    66 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  35. Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

    66 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  36. Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM

    66 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  37. Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct

    66 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  38. New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.

    66 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  39. Google Hates You

    65 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  40. Removing fsync from our local storage engine

    65 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  41. Composer leaks contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens

    65 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  42. Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map

    65 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  43. When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions

    65 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  44. Show HN: Site Mogging

    65 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  45. IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]

    65 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  46. Solving the “Zork” Mystery

    65 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  47. An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

    65 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  48. Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91

    65 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  49. ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

    65 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  50. Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

    65 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  51. XLIDE: VBA without excel

    65 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  52. RISC-V and Floating-Point

    65 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  53. Testing UPS Output Waveforms

    65 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  54. Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

    64 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  55. Internet traffic in Iran increasing

    64 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  56. First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line

    64 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  57. Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers

    64 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  58. 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities

    64 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  59. Durable execution, the hard way

    64 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  60. DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

    64 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  61. Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

    64 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  62. It is time to build a new internet

    64 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  63. The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

    64 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  64. An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE"

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  65. The Road to a Billion-Token Context

    63 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  66. Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust

    63 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  67. Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

    63 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  68. Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?

    63 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  69. Finding success in industry as a chip designer

    63 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  70. Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad

    63 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  71. The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

    63 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  72. Canonical Under Attack

    63 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  73. Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores

    63 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  74. Productivity isn't about going faster

    63 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  75. FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop

    63 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  76. Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas"

    63 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  77. Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg

    63 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  78. Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense

    62 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  79. Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management

    62 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  80. Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006)

    62 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  81. Beyond Semantic Similarity

    62 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  82. AI keeps inventing fake cases. Lawyers keep citing them

    62 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  83. Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

    62 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  84. At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

    62 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  85. Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

    62 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  86. Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth

    61 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  87. Math-to-Manim

    61 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  88. Why Gentoo?

    61 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  89. HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver

    61 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  90. FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time

    61 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  91. The Best Engineers Write Less Code

    61 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  92. The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)

    61 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  93. Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin

    61 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  94. I manage teams without a single call

    61 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  95. Check Your Fucking Sources, People

    61 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  96. SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

    61 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  97. David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

    61 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  98. The VibeSec Reckoning

    61 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  99. Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?

    60 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  100. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

    60 points • comment • may 07, 2026