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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. E-Hiking Is Here. You Can Tell by My 1k-Watt Hips. Hypershell's X Ultra S

    18 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  2. Apple Is Quietly Building the Most Profitable AI Toll Booth

    18 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  3. Apple Could Be Working on 'Spatial iPhone' with Holographic Display

    18 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  4. Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it

    18 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  5. I'm the CEO of Goldman Sachs. The AI Job Apocalypse Is Overblown

    18 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  6. Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves

    18 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  7. Show HN: I built an Android OS in the browser

    18 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  8. U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz blockade for months

    18 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  9. Do teachers need advanced degrees?

    18 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  10. Caio, a cleaner search engine for 500k+ tech jobs

    18 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  11. Apple raises Mac Mini starting price $599 to $799, 256GB storage discontinued

    18 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  12. Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux

    18 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  13. Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video]

    18 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  14. Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams

    18 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  15. What can singing mice say about human speech?

    18 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  16. Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT

    18 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  17. B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky

    18 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  18. AI Didn't Break College. It Exposed What College Was

    18 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  19. I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol

    18 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  20. New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers

    18 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  21. Show HN: I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain [video]

    18 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  22. Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

    18 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  23. Jury Sides with OpenAI, Sam Altman in Case Brought by Elon Musk

    18 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  24. Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores

    18 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  25. What Were Ancient Greco-Roman Curse Tablets?

    18 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  26. How Weak Evidence Is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth

    18 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  27. Gen Z soldiers' plastic surgeries strain Korea's military readiness

    18 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  28. Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

    18 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  29. Researchers who use hallucinated references to face ArXiv ban

    18 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  30. After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one's for you, Ned

    18 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  31. Sam Altman Is Taking a Lot of Punches on the Witness Stand

    18 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  32. W3C Leadership Transition

    18 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  33. Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked

    18 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  34. Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

    18 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  35. Anthropic,OpenAI meet religious leaders to discuss faith and AI

    18 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  36. Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents

    17 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  37. 70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with A Cap

    17 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  38. Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?

    17 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  39. Flathub prohibits AI-generated code

    17 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  40. American Agriculture Is Broken

    17 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  41. The Making of Indian Statistics

    17 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  42. RuView – See through walls with WiFi

    17 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  43. Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB

    17 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  44. Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies

    17 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  45. 1-Wire

    17 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  46. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

    17 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  47. Extending MySQL with VillageSQL

    17 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  48. Stackless coroutines for gamedev in ~200 lines of C++

    17 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  49. Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for not delivering AI Siri

    17 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  50. xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550k Nvidia GPUs

    17 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  51. Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks

    17 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  52. Area 51 just had 17 earthquakes in a single day

    17 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  53. Shakespeare’s World – I thought this would be simple but

    17 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  54. Chrome downloads a 4GB AI file without user consent, researcher alleges

    17 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  55. Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently

    17 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  56. Complexity Creates Risk: Why Simpler Infrastructure Is Safer Infrastructure

    17 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  57. Building an AWS Lambda-Like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs

    17 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  58. How Corrupt Is Trump? Here Are the Numbers

    17 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  59. SubQ – a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence

    17 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  60. A Simpler Parametrization for Modern Optimizers

    17 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  61. Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

    17 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  62. The timing of the impending crude crisis

    17 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  63. Microsoft admits Windows 11's dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows

    17 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  64. Show HN: Spec-Driven Development Workflow for Claude Code

    17 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  65. What Happened on the Hantavirus Cruise, According to a Doctor on Board

    17 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  66. Notepad++ Mac Port Renamed Nextpad++ After Trademark Row

    17 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  67. The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science

    17 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  68. Garden Grove chemical tank cools, risk of catastrophic explosion eliminated

    17 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  69. Cloudflare "issue" blocking legitimate access from humans for days

    17 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  70. Google Chrome silently installs 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model without consent

    17 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  71. Show HN: Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo

    17 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  72. Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users

    17 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  73. Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys

    17 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  74. Young people explicitly banned from openSUSE – urgent call for reversal

    17 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  75. New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

    17 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  76. Mass surveillance of foreigners in China revealed by abandoned demo dashboard

    17 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  77. Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?

    17 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  78. Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

    17 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  79. Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks

    17 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  80. Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq?

    17 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  81. The Protein Shortage Is Coming

    17 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  82. You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming

    17 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  83. Reflections on Building Forum Software

    17 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  84. Gray whale mortality along Pacific Northwest are at an increasing pace

    17 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  85. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

    17 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  86. DS4, a specialized inference engine for DeepSeek v4 Flash

    17 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  87. America's New Surveillance Dragnet

    17 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  88. Simpson's Gender-Equality Paradox

    17 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  89. 40% of Enterprises Will Demote or Decommission Autonomous AI Agents

    17 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  90. The Programming Language for Agents

    16 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  91. Omnisearch – A lightweight metasearch engine written in C

    16 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  92. A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF

    16 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  93. My Accessibility Stack and the Future on Wayland

    16 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  94. AI Productivity Fails

    16 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  95. Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64

    16 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  96. "They would never use the death star on us"

    16 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  97. Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste

    16 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  98. Kash Patel Touts AI Overhaul of FBI Crime-Fighting Operations

    16 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  99. New York state set to ban law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks

    16 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  100. Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9

    16 points • comment • may 29, 2026