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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Liverpool and Manchester Railway

    33 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  2. OpenClaw Had a Rough Week

    33 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  3. Optimize for change not application performance

    33 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  4. The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly

    33 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  5. Hetzner Price Adjustment

    33 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  6. Key chemistry question answered, no quantum computer required

    32 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  7. A Master's Degree Isn't the Job Guarantee It Used to Be

    32 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  8. U.S. Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live with Their Families

    32 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  9. Aperio Lang

    32 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  10. NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers

    32 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  11. Folding Beijing

    32 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  12. Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)

    32 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  13. What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is

    32 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  14. The OpenAI Deployment Company

    32 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  15. Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

    32 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  16. Easy Random Trees

    32 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  17. Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking

    32 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  18. Deutsche Bahn blocks Linux users

    32 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  19. More Dads Are Scaling Back at the Office for Kids and Housework

    32 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  20. AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)

    32 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  21. Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads

    32 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  22. What's Wrong with AI?

    32 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  23. Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

    32 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  24. 'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI

    32 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  25. The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers

    32 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  26. IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

    32 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  27. Spectre Programming Language

    32 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  28. Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia

    32 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  29. The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018)

    32 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  30. ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale

    32 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  31. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO in the Coming Days or Weeks

    32 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  32. Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil

    32 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  33. The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

    32 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  34. Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go

    32 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  35. Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering

    32 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  36. Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2

    32 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  37. Who's to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives into His Students?

    31 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  38. We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (2020)

    31 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  39. The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look

    31 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  40. US plans to halt immigration, customs processing at 'sanctuary city' airports

    31 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  41. Searching for Birds

    31 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  42. America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A Very Big Compilation

    31 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  43. Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD

    31 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  44. Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters

    31 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  45. Building a Memory Allocator from Scratch in C

    31 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  46. Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery

    31 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  47. Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs

    31 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  48. Why I collect DLES

    31 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  49. Power bills more than 250 per cent higher near data centres

    31 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  50. Mommy, Are the Inspirational Stories on LinkedIn Real?

    31 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  51. Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)

    31 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  52. Inkstravaganza

    31 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  53. Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

    31 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  54. Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service

    31 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  55. Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

    31 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  56. Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'

    31 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  57. The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left

    31 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  58. Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

    31 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  59. I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties

    31 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  60. Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"

    31 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  61. After a 40-year wait, technology enables three-sided zipper design

    31 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  62. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  63. Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  64. Reconciling Kubernetes cost estimates with CUR / FOCUS billing data

    30 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  65. Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85%

    30 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  66. RIP social media. What comes next is messy

    30 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  67. Charity – Categorical programming language (1998)

    30 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  68. Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News

    30 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  69. Nuke All Routers

    30 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  70. Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)

    30 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  71. Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API

    30 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  72. Native Instruments Is Bought Out

    30 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  73. Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'

    30 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  74. LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  75. China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War

    30 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  76. FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  77. Impeaching Every Federal Judge and Justice Who Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory

    30 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  78. Revised^7 Report on Scheme, Large: Procedural Fascicle Draft is now public

    30 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  79. 30 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  80. Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup

    30 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  81. A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease

    30 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  82. Oasis Linux

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  83. Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

    30 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  84. Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

    30 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  85. Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub

    30 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  86. Remove all LLM generated commits before people get hurt by this nonsense

    30 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  87. Three-Em Dash

    30 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  88. Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive

    29 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  89. Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

    29 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  90. Adding a feature to a closed-source app

    29 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  91. Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion

    29 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  92. Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?

    29 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  93. Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US

    29 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  94. Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks

    29 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  95. No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says

    29 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  96. "Dirty Frag" (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days

    29 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  97. Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?

    29 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  98. Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them

    29 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  99. Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car

    29 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  100. Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]

    29 points • comment • may 06, 2026