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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. 1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

    48 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  2. Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers

    48 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  3. Ads on Apple Maps

    48 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  4. Uncle Bob: It's Over

    48 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  5. iPhones Running iOS 26 Are Freezing FaceTime Calls When They Detect Nudity

    47 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  6. Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

    47 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  7. X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay

    47 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  8. Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs

    47 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  9. Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal

    47 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  10. Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU

    47 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  11. Step 3.7 Flash

    47 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  12. Bullshit Machines

    47 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  13. As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury

    47 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  14. Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

    47 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  15. My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

    47 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  16. US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

    47 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  17. Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

    47 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  18. Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s

    46 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  19. Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)

    46 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  20. Boston and Bermuda

    46 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  21. Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World

    46 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  22. The Struggle Is Gone

    46 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  23. Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  24. Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams

    46 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  25. Clusters become personal (like PCs did)

    46 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  26. Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

    46 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  27. Linux Terminal Memory Usage

    46 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  28. Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

    46 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  29. Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.

    46 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  30. OpenData Vector: MIT-Licensed Vector Search on Object Storage

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  31. Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work

    46 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  32. Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B

    46 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  33. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI

    46 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  34. Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law

    46 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  35. Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

    46 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  36. Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket

    46 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  37. ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion

    45 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  38. What did you love about VB6?

    45 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  39. Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website

    45 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  40. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC)

    45 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  41. Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, incl violent assaults on cops

    45 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  42. D. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Running Felony Fraud Scheme Prosecutable in New York

    45 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  43. Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

    45 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  44. The SGI Buyer's Guide (2003)

    45 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  45. The PSP feels surprisingly present right now

    45 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  46. Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other

    45 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  47. Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM

    45 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  48. Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute

    45 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  49. ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts

    44 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  50. Extraordinary Ordinals

    44 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  51. Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement

    44 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  52. Handling the great code forge fragmentation

    44 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  53. The AI water issue is fake

    44 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  54. Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests

    44 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  55. New Attack "Megaladon" Compromises 5.5K+ GitHub Repos

    44 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  56. LoRA and Weight Decay (2023)

    44 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  57. Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web

    44 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  58. New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

    44 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  59. Pipes, Forks, and Zombies

    44 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  60. Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated

    44 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  61. Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL

    44 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  62. 'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims

    44 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  63. Our Continuation of MkDocs

    44 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  64. Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment

    44 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  65. Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations

    44 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  66. Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited

    44 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  67. CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language

    44 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  68. MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart

    44 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  69. Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions

    44 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  70. Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic

    44 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  71. The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA

    44 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  72. Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

    44 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  73. Oil-price bets ahead of Iran war news totalled $7B, reporting shows

    44 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  74. Logging Off

    43 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  75. Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]

    43 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  76. PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons

    43 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  77. KV Cache Is Becoming the Memory Hierarchy of Inference

    43 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  78. "openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn

    43 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  79. Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents

    43 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  80. Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

    43 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  81. New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions

    43 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  82. Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization

    43 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  83. SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

    43 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  84. Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention

    43 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  85. Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

    43 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  86. SQL: Incorrect by Construction

    43 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  87. Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

    43 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  88. The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT

    43 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  89. He Lost It at the Movies

    43 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  90. Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

    43 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  91. Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)

    42 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  92. I am against GenAI and everything it stands for

    42 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  93. Holding Community Space

    42 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  94. The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work

    42 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  95. Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'

    42 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  96. While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993

    42 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  97. Kagi Snaps

    42 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  98. The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window

    42 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  99. Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally

    42 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  100. The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls

    42 points • comment • may 05, 2026