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Hacker News (May 2026)
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The <Noscript> Element as a Trap
16 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force
16 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in at Least 4 Deadly Shootings
16 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Silicon Valley's Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School
16 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag
16 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Show HN: Filemat – an open-source web-based file manager
16 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
16 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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An Analysis of GrapheneOS's Server Infrastructure
16 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Show HN: NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android
16 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Constant Q Transform – A Visual Guide
16 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse
16 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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SQLite Archive Files
16 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video]
16 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Screw You Realtek
16 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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PyTorch simulator refutes an 18-year-old quantum theorem
16 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
16 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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Jewish American Security Act requires online platforms to moderate purge content
16 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Hallucinations Undermine Trust; Metacognition Is a Way Forward
16 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Show HN: Browser based sythesizer, drum machine and squencer
16 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified
16 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Agentic Engineering
16 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Mass NPM Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170 Packages
16 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%
16 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Replacing My ISP Router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max
16 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late
16 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
16 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine
16 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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US sells 30-year bonds at 5% yield for first time since 2007
16 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto
16 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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CT gov signs AI law to notify employees
16 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Google is its own worst enemy
16 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87
16 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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China Opens Rocket Launches to International Satellites
16 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Meta is dying. It's about time
16 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training
16 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?
16 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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I built a scanner that found 41 live AWS keys in 900 Terraform state files
16 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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The Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
16 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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US in closely-guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland
16 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Germany's spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir
16 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
16 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Made a Tool to Streams Changes from Microsoft SQL Server to Apache Kafka
16 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
16 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Cursed Browser: Rendering Engine Using Visual-LLMs
16 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Mythos 'Discovered' a CVE in Its Training Data and That's Still Worrying
16 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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SubQ: Sub-quadratic LLM built for 12M-token context
16 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
16 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Postgres FDW: Pushdown is a negotiation
16 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Drone Mishap with XM183 MiniBlast Redacted
15 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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X user tricks Grok into sending them $200k
15 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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ACLU Secures $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired over Charlie Kirk Post
15 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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Nvidia Surpasses Germany
15 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Show HN: The Front Page – Newspaper-style front page for Hacker News
15 points • comment • may 24, 2026
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
15 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved
15 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits
15 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Companies Will Stop Making Software
15 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Al-Khwarizmi didn't in any way originate, invent or create the algorithm
15 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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DMARC Fail: 7 Causes and How to Fix Each
15 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Tell HN: "Epstein files" is getting buried by deliberate suppresion-propaganda
15 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin
15 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Avoiding Death on the Yellow Brick Road
15 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?
15 points • comment • may 24, 2026
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Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
15 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff
15 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
15 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Russians make mass cash withdrawals amid internet shutdowns
15 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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What it would take to rebuild U.S. manufacturing might
15 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Amazon says restoring damaged Middle East cloud operations to take months
15 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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CERN's KiCad component library now open source
15 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Robot dogs with tech boss faces roam Berlin art exhibit
15 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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What it takes to preserve floppy disks
15 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever
15 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live
15 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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I hate the recent open-source rise
15 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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AI is becoming increasingly unpopular
15 points • comment • may 24, 2026
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Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain
15 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Google Is Killing ChromeOS: Aluminium OS, Its Android-Based Replacement
15 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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Nobody Reviews Compiler Output
15 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller
15 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
15 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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I built a live map for tracking military aircraft activity worldwide
15 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Tesla Self-Certifies Level 4 Autonomous Vehicles in Texas
15 points • comment • may 30, 2026
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Jetro – JSON query engine for Rust (jq-like DSL with compilation and VM)
15 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Why We Ignore Advice
15 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse
15 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability
15 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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U.K. Economy Accelerates to Outpace U.S. as War Headwinds Loom
15 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Datacenters slurping juice help drive 75% jump in PJM power prices
15 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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CATL says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs 60 GWh deal
15 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
15 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Mojo Language
15 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Show HN: Find local farms near you with raw dairy, pasture eggs, and more
15 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Claude Opus 4.8 distilled Alibaba Qwen models
15 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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La Machine
15 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Copyfail2
15 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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5 years of social media history required to enter the US
15 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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ICE may be at World Cup matches in U.S.
15 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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US Government openly schemes to indict Raúl Castro as prelude to invading Cuba
15 points • comment • may 16, 2026
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Why Julia's GPU Accelerated Ode Solvers Are 20x-100x Faster Than Jax and PyTorch
15 points • comment • may 31, 2026