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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. The Silver Swan

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  2. Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes

    37 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  3. Graphing Scientific Calculator Based on the ESP32

    37 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  4. Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity

    37 points • comment • may 25, 2026

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

    37 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  6. Colored Shadow Penumbra

    36 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  7. We are constantly broadcasting emotional data

    36 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  8. Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

    36 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  9. Nvidia Goes to Zero. – By JA Westenberg – Selfonomics

    36 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  10. UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

    36 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  11. Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

    36 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  12. Hoot 0.9.0 Released

    36 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  13. GrapheneOS isn't vulnerable to the 3 recent Linux memory logic vulnerabilities

    36 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  14. Codex is now available on mobile via ChatGPT app

    36 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  15. AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year

    36 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  16. YAML? That's Norway Problem

    36 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  17. Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal

    36 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  18. Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal

    36 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  19. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  20. We ended up with Palantir and how to replace it

    36 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  21. Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it

    36 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  22. White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

    36 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  23. Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore

    36 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  24. AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

    36 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  25. AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase

    36 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  26. Mathematical Patterns in African American HAIRSTYLEs

    36 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  27. Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot

    36 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  28. Skills in Web, iOS, and Android

    36 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  29. AI is wiping out entry-level jobs

    36 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  30. Meta Reassigns 7k Employees to Focus on A.I

    36 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  31. Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)

    36 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  32. JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it

    35 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  33. Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB

    35 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  34. Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts

    35 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  35. Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

    35 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  36. We used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso

    35 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  37. TempleOS WASM

    35 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  38. Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

    35 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  39. Inferno (Boards of Canada)

    35 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  40. Research on mildew contamination affecting the sound quality of analog tapes

    35 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  41. How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing

    35 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  42. Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

    35 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  43. Remove .zig Files from Bun

    35 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  44. SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

    35 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  45. Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup

    35 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  46. Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want

    35 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  47. FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate

    35 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  48. I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

    35 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  49. Nvidia Removes Gaming Revenue Category from Financial Reports

    35 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  50. $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs

    35 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  51. Bournegol??? (2014)

    35 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  52. How the ZX80 Works (2019)

    35 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  53. Roadside Attraction

    35 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  54. Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art

    35 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  55. French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

    35 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  56. Every American interacting with chatbot would need to upload a government ID

    34 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  57. Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel

    34 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  58. Forget the AI job apocalypse. AIs real threat is worker control and surveillance

    34 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  59. Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving

    34 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  60. Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  61. Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA

    34 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  62. More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More

    34 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  63. Why is Europe the fastest warming continent?

    34 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  64. Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

    34 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  65. Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

    34 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  66. Agent Memory: An Anatomy

    34 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  67. The 52-Page Memo That Nearly Destroyed OpenAI: Ilya Sutskever's Deposition

    34 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  68. The Boring Internet

    34 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  69. The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster

    34 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  70. Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S.

    34 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  71. The Moth Story Map

    34 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  72. TorQ: Kdb+ Production Framework

    34 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  73. Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years

    34 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  74. KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention

    34 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  75. We programmed a program to program new programs (2011)

    34 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  76. Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations

    33 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  77. Libwce: The entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own

    33 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  78. BLAS, Lapack and OpenMP

    33 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  79. Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents

    33 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  80. OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7

    33 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  81. Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today

    33 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  82. US troops are reportedly being targeted using location data, Pentagon says

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  83. Bun.Image

    33 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  84. Optimize for change not application performance

    33 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  85. Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  86. Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT

    33 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  87. Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies

    33 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  88. Sleep linked to slower ageing: study pinpoints the right amount

    33 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  89. Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  90. The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly

    33 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  91. Hetzner Price Adjustment

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  92. US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers

    33 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  93. Google Engineer Charged with Insider Trading on Polymarket

    33 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  94. Liverpool and Manchester Railway

    33 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  95. Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death

    33 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  96. Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust

    33 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  97. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo

    33 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  98. New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing

    33 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  99. California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants

    33 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  100. Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing the Skulls on Their Caps

    33 points • comment • may 01, 2026