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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone

    60 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  2. Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

    60 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  3. Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

    60 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  4. sRGB profile comparison

    60 points • comment • may 02, 2026

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

    60 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  6. The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

    60 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  7. Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices

    60 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  8. We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it

    60 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  9. A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman

    60 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  10. Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

    60 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  11. Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)

    59 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  12. Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

    59 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  13. Separate the Cord from the Device

    59 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  14. Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods

    59 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  15. Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025)

    59 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  16. It’s Toasted

    59 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  17. Scientists say they've reversed brain aging in mice with a nasal spray

    59 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  18. Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter

    59 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  19. When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court

    59 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  20. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

    59 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  21. 90% of the T Distribution

    59 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  22. DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

    59 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  23. Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

    59 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  24. Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight

    59 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  25. A Tiny E Reader

    58 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  26. Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web

    58 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  27. Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)

    58 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  28. An Apple (II) for Teacher

    58 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  29. Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

    58 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  30. Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm

    58 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  31. The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)

    58 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  32. Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

    58 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  33. Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)

    58 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  34. Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers

    58 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  35. Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium

    58 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  36. The Real Story of Troy

    58 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  37. Git Is Not Fine

    58 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  38. Why We've Filed a Referendum

    58 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  39. The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans

    58 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  40. Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits

    58 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  41. Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)

    58 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  42. Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker

    58 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  43. Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020)

    58 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  44. What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?

    58 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  45. Show HN: Race to the Bottom

    57 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  46. Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement

    57 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  47. Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade

    57 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  48. Digital identity management in Norway is a success but also a disaster

    57 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  49. Unicode 18.0.0 Beta

    57 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  50. Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

    57 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  51. Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  52. An Elephant Who Demonstrated That Her Species Might Be Self-Aware, Dies at 55

    57 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  53. 'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes

    57 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  54. Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  55. When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

    57 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  56. UK Government Kicks Out Palantir

    57 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  57. Finding the differences in a series of power supplies

    57 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  58. My domain got abused on GitHub Pages

    57 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  59. Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy

    57 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  60. Atomically precise mechanosynthesis of carbon structures on hydrogenated Silicon

    57 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  61. A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025)

    57 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  62. It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

    56 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  63. The Upper Middle Class Trap

    56 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  64. Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

    56 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  65. Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

    56 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  66. The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

    56 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  67. NanoTDB – Golang Append-Only Time Series DB

    56 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  68. Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)

    56 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  69. The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle

    56 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  70. Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

    56 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  71. Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents

    56 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  72. Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll

    56 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  73. Fully in-browser container builds

    55 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  74. A new book about humanity's obsession with gold

    55 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  75. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech

    55 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  76. Canada in Technical Recession

    55 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  77. Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better

    55 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  78. 86Box v6.0

    55 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  79. The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol"

    55 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  80. Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)

    55 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  81. Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

    55 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  82. Real wages start to shrink in developed countries

    55 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  83. Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79

    55 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  84. Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  85. Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

    55 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  86. 'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  87. Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun

    55 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  88. I am not a Software Engineer

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  89. Railway Is Having a Major Outage

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  90. They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  91. Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

    55 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  92. Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks

    55 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  93. The two oldest printing presses

    55 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  94. A new register allocator for ZJIT

    55 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  95. Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)

    55 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  96. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  97. Abstract Machines for Logic Programs

    54 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  98. Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  99. Ksharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#

    54 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  100. Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Vulnerability Discovery and Reproduction

    54 points • comment • may 27, 2026