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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Egypt deploys jets to UAE as Iran war strains Arab alliances

    8 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  2. Phind.com has shut down completely

    8 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  3. OpenAI can't build working RSS feeds

    8 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  4. Cooking the Hashish Cookbook

    8 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  5. The Journal of Hendrick Hamel (1668)

    8 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  6. xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

    8 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  7. The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

    8 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  8. Backyard Star Wars (2010)

    8 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  9. Why do anxious people lean left?"

    7 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  10. EPA and HHS propose rescinding parts of Biden's PFAS limits in drinking water

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  11. Twitter user posts a real Monet and says it's AI

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  12. Starship's Twelfth Flight Test Livestream

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  13. FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  14. Show HN: TryPost – open-source Social Media Scheduler

    7 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  15. Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  16. Claude Opus 4.8 may have distilled Qwen

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  17. Canada admits bill C-22 would allow govt to secretly order microphone activation

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  18. Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  19. Consumer Confidence Diverging for Low- and High-Income Households

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  20. Blue Origin rocket, owned by Jeff Bezos, explodes during test in Florida

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  21. Grok falls flat in Washington, undercutting SpaceX's AI growth story

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  22. Google Cloud suspends Railway account causing major outage

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  23. What a 98-Year Old Children's Book Teaches Us About AI

    7 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  24. Electricity generation from solar could exceed coal in ERCOT for the first time

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  25. Simplifying our homepage helped increase trial signups by 84%

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  26. Musk's xAI Fails to Pay Staff $420 for Giving Their Tax Returns to Grok

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  27. Warren Buffett Warns That Prediction Markets Are 'Gambling,' Not Investing

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  28. Conway's Law and Cross-Hatching

    7 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  29. The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  30. Bornagain.com

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  31. 81yo Grandma Streaming Minecraft to Pay for Grandson's Cancer Swatted

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  32. Sigbovik 2026 Proceedings [pdf]

    7 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  33. Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  34. Should I take my car to the carwash 50M away or walk?

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  35. Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain

    7 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  36. Crossview 4.4.0 is now available

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  37. Cloudflare Bankrolls Fascism

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  38. Jane Street Designed Its New Data Center: A Tour with Dwarkesh Patel [video]

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  39. Age Assurance on the Internet: Identity, Privacy, and the Limits of Verification

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  40. Llama.cpp now has an official website: llama.app

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  41. CVE-2026-28910: Breaking macOS App Sandbox Data Containers and Hijacking Apps

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  42. What Satellite Images Reveal About Iran's Attacks on U.S. Bases [video]

    7 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  43. Reconstructing a Mixbook movie from its data API with FFmpeg

    7 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  44. Advice I WISH I'D BEEN Told (1999)

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  45. The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  46. Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026)

    7 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  47. Show HN: ANML – A machine-first markup language for the agentic web (IETF Draft)

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  48. Apache NetBeans 30

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  49. My Son's Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  50. ASMTP – SMTP for Agents

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  51. The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf]

    7 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  52. Join the Independent Science Society! (A New Kinda Science Society)

    7 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  53. My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  54. Blaise v0.7.0 (alpha) – Independent of Free Pascal compiler

    7 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  55. Starbucks to Take AI Usage into Account in Tech Workers' Bonuses

    7 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  56. Canceled by Hinge

    7 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  57. AI Has America's Oldest Monopoly Problem – Part 1

    7 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  58. Why I'm giving up on Facebook (2017)

    7 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  59. Recruiters, How do you vet resume in 2026?

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  60. Tesla's 4680 battery cells are underperforming and frustrating buyers

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  61. Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Inside the Skull

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  62. Midori, the first browser to offer a VPN with Mesh technology

    7 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  63. White House aliens website is scary

    7 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  64. The Home-Insurance Coin Flip: Nearly Half of Claims Result in Zero Payout

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  65. Dusklight is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of Twilight Princess

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  66. Fractals in Pure Lambda Calculus

    7 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  67. A clock that maps Earth's 4.5B year history onto 12 hours. 1s=0.105Myears

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  68. Microsoft Agrees to $250M Settlement with Activision Blizzard Shareholders

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  69. When Is "Next Friday"?

    7 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  70. LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  71. US citizen convicted of running secret Chinese 'police station' in NYC

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  72. Stellantis plans $17,500 small EV to revive European market

    7 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  73. Former congressman Barney Frank has died

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  74. Six Million Selections Later: How the DMA Is Giving People Browser Choice

    7 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  75. CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  76. Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  77. Iran Is Back Online

    7 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  78. Pixels I Have Known And Loved: Memorable pixel art from the Amiga demo scene

    7 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  79. Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  80. Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  81. Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say threat was already here

    7 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  82. Google TIG reports first example of AI used offensively for zero-day vulns

    7 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  83. Google Maps Satellite Imagery of Palisades Fire Area Reverts

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  84. Show HN: Self Publish Studio

    7 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  85. Leaked Documents Reveal Russian 'Cognitive Strikes' Against the West

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  86. AI bots ignore evidence. Can we trust them with science?

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  87. Has pancreatic cancer met its match?

    7 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  88. Secure Messaging Apps Have Solved Encryption. The Rest Is the Problem

    7 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  89. Markdown Is Not LaTeX

    7 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  90. Use a VPN, Says Canadian Government That Wants VPN Logs

    7 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  91. Atlassian HipChat (2017)

    7 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  92. If December Was Too Late to Fix Unconstitutional Gerrymandering Why Is May Okay?

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  93. Memory as Action: Autonomous Context Curation for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

    7 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  94. The XGO Programming Language

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  95. Honda posts first annual loss on $9B EV writedown, scraps EV sales goals

    7 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  96. Intel shares soar on Apple chip deal report

    7 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  97. Top universities hit after Canvas breach

    7 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  98. Agent Harness Engineering

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  99. Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

    7 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  100. Shira: Anti Phishing Training Platform

    7 points • comment • may 21, 2026