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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car

    15 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  2. Cash register makers seek 1% food tax rate, citing extra time needed for 0% rate

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  3. Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.–and So Is the Backlash

    15 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  4. Acer's launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games

    15 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  5. The Inference Shift

    15 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  6. Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

    15 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  7. Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi

    15 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  8. XS Programming Language

    15 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  9. Shelf Source: Tom MacWright

    15 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  10. Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm

    15 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  11. Web Serial Support in Firefox

    15 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  12. SubQ: Sub-Quadratic LLM

    15 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  13. OpenAI Finalizes $10B Joint Venture with PE Firms to Deploy AI

    15 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  14. As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

    14 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  15. AI Didn't Invent Slop – It Scaled It

    14 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  16. Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  17. Proton's password manager passes audit by top security firm – Proton

    14 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  18. An HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC

    14 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  19. Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill

    14 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  20. OpenAI Announces Rosalind Biodefense

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  21. The need for a socialist planned economy (2021)

    14 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  22. Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  23. Movies Are Too Long

    14 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  24. It's not just SpaceX: Big Tech is dominating bond markets too

    14 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  25. Canada's shortwave radio time standard station CHU to go dark June 22nd

    14 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  26. Alberta will vote on whether to remain part of Canada. What now?

    14 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  27. Google just spat in my face

    14 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  28. Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored

    14 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  29. Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018)

    14 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  30. Immer: Immutability the easy way (2018)

    14 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  31. Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own

    14 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  32. The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule

    14 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  33. Leaving the Sea of Nodes in the V8 JIT

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  34. We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  35. Objective metrics that change the most as we age

    14 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  36. Who Trusts Sam Altman?

    14 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  37. LibreOffice 26.2.3 Released – What Is New and What Was Fixed?

    14 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  38. Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal

    14 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  39. US Military personnel are being targeted using location data

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  40. California Police Can Start Ticketing Driverless Cars

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  41. New Linux LPE, 5.10 and above (ptrace_may_access mm-NULL + pidfd_getfd)

    14 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  42. WHO declares global health emergency over Congo Ebola outbreak

    14 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  43. ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis

    14 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  44. Nondeterminism's Not the Problem

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  45. The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.

    14 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  46. What do we lose when AI does our work?

    14 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  47. Emacs Bra Size Calculator

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  48. Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict

    14 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  49. Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows

    14 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  50. Trump spent nearly $2B of taxpayer money to undo wind projects underway

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  51. Minnesota passes the nation's first ban on 'nudification' apps

    14 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  52. Palindromes by Eric Harshbarger

    14 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  53. Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working for Valve

    14 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  54. Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

    14 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  55. A Luxury Survivalist Community Is Tearing Itself Apart

    14 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  56. The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed (2008)

    14 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  57. Five Banana Lessons

    14 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  58. Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases

    14 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  59. Data Parallel C++

    14 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  60. A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom

    14 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  61. Closure of Radio 4 on Long Wave (LW)

    14 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  62. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

    14 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  63. ALPR Mission Creep: School Residency, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

    14 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  64. U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops

    14 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  65. Poka-Yoke

    14 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  66. 'Rogue' Cursor AI agent loses control and wipes company's database

    14 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  67. A new hash table for Lwan

    14 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  68. The S in Interoperability

    14 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  69. Meta begins 8k job cuts in AI efficiency push

    14 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  70. A field manual for Deutsche Bahn

    14 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  71. Tony Gilroy, Andor creator doesn't want his work to become training data

    14 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  72. AWS reportedly to tuck Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  73. ASML to invest $1.5B in Mistral at over $11B valuation

    14 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  74. Driver intentionally drove Cybertruck into lake to use vehicle's 'Wade Mode

    14 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  75. Humble Tech Book Bundle: The Ultimate Functional Programming

    14 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  76. New Study Reveals the Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' of AI Chatbots

    14 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  77. Sam Altman: I was wrong, AI unlikely to lead to jobs apocalypse

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  78. Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to Argentina

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  79. When does learning from data work (math starting from basic probability)

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  80. What is Apache Kafka and how does it work?

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  81. Minimal Structures

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  82. Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize

    13 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  83. 2ality blog: temporarily offline due to AI stealing work

    13 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  84. Molecular quantum nanosensors functioning in living cells

    13 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  85. Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha

    13 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  86. Garden Grove chemical threat: 40000 evacuated as overheated tank faces explosion

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  87. Show HN: Open-Source Agentic QA Harness with Memory

    13 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  88. Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid

    13 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  89. A Girl Who Couldn't Draw Home

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  90. pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron

    13 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  91. Xbox Is Now XBOX

    13 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  92. Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight

    13 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  93. Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code for Command and Lunar Module

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  94. Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  95. Trial by Fire

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  96. A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)

    13 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  97. Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare

    13 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  98. Your Computer Doesn't Belong to You Anymore

    13 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  99. Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  100. TikTok's algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2026