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Hacker News (May 2026)

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

    42 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  2. Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  3. US DHS put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website

    42 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  4. West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis

    42 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  5. Why is it called Kent House?

    41 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  6. Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

    41 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  7. Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit

    41 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  8. The SpaceX IPO It's Worse Than You Think [video]

    41 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  9. Stateless Actors

    41 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  10. Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

    41 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  11. Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

    41 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  12. GitHub's take on age assurance for developers

    41 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  13. How Kepler built verifiable AI for financial services with Claude

    41 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  14. Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following

    41 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  15. Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

    41 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  16. Building the deployment tool I wish I had

    41 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  17. Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)

    41 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  18. BQN: What Is a Primitive?

    41 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  19. Phloto for My Photo Flow

    41 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  20. El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died

    40 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  21. Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill

    40 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  22. Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree

    40 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  23. What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?

    40 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  24. Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it

    40 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  25. Geography is four-dimensional

    40 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  26. A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi

    40 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  27. We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit

    40 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  28. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)

    40 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  29. Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM

    40 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  30. W – The European social network for verified humans

    40 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  31. Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate

    40 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  32. Thoughts on People and Blogs

    40 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  33. Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

    40 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  34. Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

    40 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  35. Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

    40 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  36. Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention

    40 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  37. Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]

    40 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  38. Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?

    40 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  39. Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?

    40 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  40. Data centers cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries

    39 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  41. Heretic has been served a legal notice by Meta, Inc

    39 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  42. Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore

    39 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  43. Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

    39 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  44. 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents will lose power to data centers

    39 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  45. I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

    39 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  46. Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output

    39 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  47. People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia

    39 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  48. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria

    39 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  49. Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data

    39 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  50. Visualize Any Hugging Face Model

    39 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  51. Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in Conversation (2018)

    39 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  52. I Will Never Use AI to Code

    39 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  53. Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges

    39 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  54. Texas Woman files lawsuit after arrest for Facebook post about polluted water

    39 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  55. How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?

    39 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  56. Printing Blogs

    39 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  57. NeuralNote

    39 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  58. Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)

    39 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  59. Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI

    39 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  60. For first time since World War II, US national debt now larger than its economy

    39 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  61. A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken

    39 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  62. There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US

    39 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  63. Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems

    39 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  64. Don't Build Your Own Lisp

    38 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  65. Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB

    38 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  66. The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video]

    38 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  67. Wall Street lawyers aided insider trading ring, say US prosecutors

    38 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  68. Supercollider

    38 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  69. Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents

    38 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  70. Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques

    38 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  71. Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta

    38 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  72. How you probably will find Satoshi

    38 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  73. Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting

    38 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  74. Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    38 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  75. WHO declares major outbreak of Ebola virus species an international emergency

    38 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  76. A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)

    38 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  77. Why the smart home bubble popped

    38 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  78. They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)

    38 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  79. Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files

    38 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  80. Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16

    38 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  81. CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing 'Lower-Value Human Capital' with AI

    37 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  82. Beware of Drunk Deer, French Police Say, Announcing Season of Inebriation

    37 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  83. I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care

    37 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  84. Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

    37 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  85. How Many Children Learned Mathematics from Kiselev's Textbooks?

    37 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  86. A history of obituaries in American newspapers

    37 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  87. An Engineer's Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

    37 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  88. The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

    37 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  89. What Is BusyBox?

    37 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  90. The Silver Swan

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  91. Rolling the Root Key

    37 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  92. Pentagon walks away from Canada-U.S. defence board

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  93. Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention

    37 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  94. Talking to Transformers

    37 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  95. Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  96. Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC

    37 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  97. Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity

    37 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  98. Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023

    37 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  99. From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

    37 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  100. U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2026