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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Predicting the 2026 Bristol Bay and Kodiak Salmon Runs

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  2. KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus

    13 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  3. NetBSD 11.0 RC4: Final release candidate before 11.0

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  4. Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  5. Confidence Scores for Exam Questions

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  6. Thunderbolt vs. USB-C: what the connector hides

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  7. Software Engineering Won't Be Over

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  8. Which country voted the best at Eurovision?

    13 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  9. Advice for 2026 commencement speakers: Don't bring up AI

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  10. Star Wars: Fall of the Empire by Stern Pinball

    13 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  11. If Windows were designed today, would the Registry exist? [video]

    13 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  12. A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5M bees underground

    13 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  13. Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021)

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  14. Ingesting 1Gbps of logs into ClickHouse for $180/month

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  15. Show HN: Modafinil - Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed

    13 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  16. AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  17. Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign

    13 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  18. Lawmakers' prescription data at risk after data breach

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  19. Accelerating the GraalVM Release Train

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  20. Just You Wait

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  21. Organized Dogmatism Controls the Message about Gender Bias in the Academy

    13 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  22. Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels

    13 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  23. Dieter Rams documentary streaming free on May 20

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  24. Broadcasting GPS on the Local Network

    13 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  25. Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  26. Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade

    13 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  27. Grafana says stolen GitHub token allowed attackers to download its codebase

    13 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  28. Russian drone crashes into apartment building in Romania

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  29. Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site

    13 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  30. Diamonds Suck (2006)

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  31. An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth – RNZ News

    13 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  32. Linus Torvalds Is Unhappy About the AI Influence in Linux Kernel Development

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  33. Meta Released a Reddit-Like App Built Around Facebook Groups

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  34. Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML

    13 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  35. Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?

    13 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  36. Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise

    13 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  37. Why does Amazon have no Western rivals?

    13 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  38. Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  39. Russia's top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling

    13 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  40. The AI Industry Just Walked into the Vatican

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  41. Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  42. The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf]

    13 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  43. Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, with a price increase for both models

    13 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  44. How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes

    13 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  45. Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  46. Show HN: I built a native macOS audio player and it changed my life

    13 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  47. Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime–Continuing into This Month

    13 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  48. Checkmate in Iran

    13 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  49. Why Don't Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

    13 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  50. My life was changed by four sentences in four books

    13 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  51. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

    13 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  52. We need to add 6k seats to Congress

    13 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  53. Aube – Node.js package manager in Rust

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  54. DeepSeek Slashes AI Costs to Cents

    13 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  55. Trying to preserve other peoples code

    13 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  56. How many e's are in strawberry?

    12 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  57. A zot extension that makes answering your coding agent's questions painless

    12 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  58. Invisible_playwright: Stealth Firefox that passes every bot detection test

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  59. Browse.sh, an open source catalog of browser skills

    12 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  60. Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and Colleges Nationwide

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  61. Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

    12 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  62. Adding Reflection to C

    12 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  63. U.S. bears brunt of Israel's missile defense, Pentagon assessments show

    12 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  64. Turning chess into a roguelike via design first principles

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  65. Show HN: Parrot – a fun, skeuomorphic audio recorder to hear yourself

    12 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  66. Key landmark regulations against 'forever' toxins removed by Trump admin

    12 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  67. Kushner's Thrive Capital Invests $100M in Shopify

    12 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  68. No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  69. The Silent Critic

    12 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  70. Building a custom mount for a telescoping webcam

    12 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  71. Taphouse – A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew

    12 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  72. Spirit Airlines says it's going out of business after 34 years

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  73. Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable

    12 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  74. AI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after

    12 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  75. AgentCRM – Headless CRM for Claude Code

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  76. Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems

    12 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  77. The exotic particles that could break the Standard Model

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  78. Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  79. Ho-scale slot car racing in the Santa Cruz Mountains

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  80. Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Purge Begins

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  81. Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with access bill

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  82. Another day, another universal Linux LPE

    12 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  83. Awesome Neuroscience

    12 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  84. Built to help my dad pass CCNA, now were changing how people learn networking

    12 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  85. Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  86. When Rails-way does not work anymore?

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  87. Iran's Internet Shutdown Enters Its 77th Day

    12 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  88. Psyllium husk is being touted as nature's Ozempic

    12 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  89. Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  90. Lake Tahoe residents to find a new power source after energy source redirects

    12 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  91. An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide to SSH

    12 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  92. Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required

    12 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  93. Snuffleupagus, a newly described species, is an adorable little predator

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  94. IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  95. Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

    12 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  96. U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2T this year just to continue functioning

    12 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  97. An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  98. Wizards of the Coast declines to voluntarily recognize Magic Arena union

    12 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  99. Use the Claude Agent SDK with Your Claude Plan

    12 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  100. New anti-tank round punches through high-tech explosive armor

    12 points • comment • may 08, 2026