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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Why banning the recycling logo is progress in the fight against plastic waste

    12 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  2. Limerick

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  3. Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public

    12 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  4. "At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, non-Chinese were routinely excluded"

    12 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  5. Amazon Powers ICE. Its Workers Aren't Happy

    12 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  6. The Open/Closed Problem in AI

    12 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  7. 'A Four-Eyed World' Review: The Story of Spectacles

    12 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  8. 2026 is the year you stop reading code

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  9. Spirit Airlines' Abandoned Azure Booking APIs and Exposed Phishing Domains

    12 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  10. Show HN: Kanban CLI (A local-first, agent-first task manager for the terminal)

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  11. Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making

    12 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  12. They don't look like me

    12 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  13. Stop 'tokenmaxxing' and deploy AI sensibly instead

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  14. Revenge of the Business Idiot

    12 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  15. How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

    12 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  16. Drone Swarms: Uncomfortably Plausible

    12 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  17. Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing

    12 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  18. Meteor explodes off coast of Massachusetts, causing loud boom – CBS Boston

    12 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  19. Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log (EML)

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  20. Miranda's Rescue was paid to save dogs, but is accused of killing them instead

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  21. Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return

    12 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  22. MCP for sandboxed, reproducible envs for agentic-first coding workflows

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  23. Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  24. Google Discover's headline rewrites strike again

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  25. Germany's far-left war on infrastructure

    12 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  26. Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  27. Amazon rolls out Claude Code and Codex internally

    12 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  28. TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense

    12 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  29. Judge Halts Colorado AI Law After xAI First Amendment Challenge

    12 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  30. Malicious Postinstall Hook Found in 700 GitHub Repos, Including Node Projects

    12 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  31. ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal

    12 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  32. Clickup Reduced Headcount by 22%

    12 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  33. Enlicitide lowers LDL by 60% with little side effect

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  34. Notable Properties of Specific Numbers

    12 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  35. Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust

    12 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  36. Marx's Theory of Alianation of Labor

    12 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  37. Setting up server monitoring for a Rails app on Hatchbox

    12 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  38. Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Information Retrieval

    12 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  39. 148,421 posts later: A model to predict the Hacker News front page

    11 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  40. Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice

    11 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  41. Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI

    11 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  42. Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek V4-Pro select Buddhism as preferred religion

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  43. Pardon MIE?

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  44. Nobody Cares, Write Anyway

    11 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  45. Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy claims

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  46. Why China Believes America Will Flame Out

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  47. Open source project contains hidden instruction for "AI" agents: delete my code

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  48. CSS Rhythmic Sizing Module Level 1

    11 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  49. U.S. is using more of its resources to defend Israel than Israel is itself

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  50. AI models are free, private, and will never say 'no'

    11 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  51. Show HN: xxUTF – SIMD Unicode Normalization

    11 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  52. Learning OCaml: PPX for Mere Mortals

    11 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  53. Tagging Blog Posts with BERTopic and LLMs

    11 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  54. Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)

    11 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  55. James Schuyler's Genius

    11 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  56. Show HN: I solved my study problems by talking to a goose

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  57. Prosecutors Investigating Drugs-for-Votes Scheme Were Told Not to Pursue Charges

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  58. Orbitals from Entanglement: Quantum Information gives rise to Chemical bonds

    11 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  59. Google API keys can remain usable for up to 23 minutes after deletion

    11 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  60. High-precision HDC reference instrument for the Sol Star System

    11 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  61. The Enshittification of History

    11 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  62. Let the AI Cook

    11 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  63. Nordstjernen Web Browser

    11 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  64. Drone breaks world speed record with 453 MPH in test run

    11 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  65. Apple's Security Has Been Tough to Crack. Mythos Helped Find a Way In

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  66. Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows

    11 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  67. Parsing IPv6 Addresses Crazily Fast with AVX-512

    11 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  68. Sci-Hub has created a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  69. Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  70. Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A dha

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  71. Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  72. Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  73. Building a peer-to-peer alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels with edge TLS certs

    11 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  74. Pentagon CTO demonstrates Palantir's Maven system, used for military operations [video]

    11 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  75. North Korea drops references to unification from constitution

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  76. Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years

    11 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  77. Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium

    11 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  78. America is experiencing a productivity miracle

    11 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  79. OpenAI's KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture with a Smiley Face

    11 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  80. Students Create a Self-Balancing, Self-Driving Bicycle

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  81. Hormuz closure extends well beyond oil to threaten Chinese EVs

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  82. Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative

    11 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  83. Building a LangGraph pipeline for production data engineering

    11 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  84. Australian police officers can be tracked via taser and body-cam bluetooth

    11 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  85. Adonis was Sumerian before he was Greek

    11 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  86. MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us

    11 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  87. xkcd: Well 2

    11 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  88. 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives root on most Linux machines

    11 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  89. White House ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees' govt phones

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  90. Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  91. SprintiQ – open-source sprint planning for Claude Code

    11 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  92. GrapheneOS: The Linux kernel is a fundamentally anti-security project

    11 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  93. US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows

    11 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  94. Parsing IPv6 Addresses Crazily Fast with AVX-512

    11 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  95. Computer game cuts risk of dementia by 25% and it's free

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  96. ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains first time since 2012

    11 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  97. The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes

    11 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  98. Hosting an Open Alternative to Google Docs for Digital Sovereignty

    11 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  99. Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes

    11 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  100. Slimcc: C23 compiler with C2y/GNU extensions for x86-64 Linux/BSD, written in C9

    11 points • comment • may 25, 2026