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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

    396 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  2. Chuwi Minibook X

    395 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  3. AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise

    394 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  4. Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

    393 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  5. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

    392 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  6. Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

    391 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  7. Grok 4.3

    391 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  8. Mythical Man Month

    390 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  9. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

    390 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  10. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

    390 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  11. Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

    388 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  12. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

    388 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  13. MCP is dead?

    387 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  14. How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

    387 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  15. It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

    387 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  16. Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

    386 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  17. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

    384 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  18. Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

    383 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  19. Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

    382 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  20. Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

    381 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  21. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

    380 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  22. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

    380 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  23. Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors

    380 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  24. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

    379 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  25. You can just say it

    378 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  26. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

    378 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  27. Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

    378 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  28. Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

    378 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  29. ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

    377 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  30. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue

    375 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  31. FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

    373 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  32. Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months

    372 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  33. Agent Skills

    371 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  34. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

    371 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  35. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

    371 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  36. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

    369 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  37. Write some software, give it away for free

    369 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  38. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

    369 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  39. Mojo 1.0 Beta

    368 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  40. Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

    368 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  41. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)

    368 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  42. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

    367 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  43. Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

    367 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  44. Click (2016)

    367 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  45. I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

    366 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  46. Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

    364 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  47. Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

    364 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  48. Vivaldi 8.0

    362 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  49. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

    361 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  50. An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

    361 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  51. Days without GitHub incidents

    361 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  52. The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

    360 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  53. Scrcpy v4.0

    360 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  54. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

    360 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  55. A nicer voltmeter clock

    359 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  56. The One Dollar Counterfeiter

    359 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  57. We let AIs run radio stations

    359 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  58. Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

    359 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  59. Debian must ship reproducible packages

    358 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  60. Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

    358 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  61. Zig: Build System Reworked

    357 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  62. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

    357 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  63. Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

    357 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  64. The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

    356 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  65. My two-part desk setup (2025)

    356 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  66. Various LLM Smells

    356 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  67. Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

    353 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  68. The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

    352 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  69. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

    349 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  70. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

    349 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  71. DOS Zone

    348 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  72. Cloudflare Flagship

    347 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  73. Building durable workflows on Postgres

    346 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  74. We are retiring our bug bounty program

    345 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  75. HTML Lists

    341 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  76. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

    340 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  77. EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

    340 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  78. Inkscape 1.4.4

    340 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  79. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

    340 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  80. GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

    338 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  81. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

    338 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  82. Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

    335 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  83. Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

    335 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  84. I want to live like Costco people

    335 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  85. Declining America

    335 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  86. Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

    335 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  87. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

    333 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  88. DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

    333 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  89. Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

    333 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  90. Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

    333 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  91. College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

    332 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  92. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

    330 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  93. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

    329 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  94. Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

    329 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  95. Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

    329 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  96. Accelerando (2005)

    328 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  97. OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

    328 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  98. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

    326 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  99. News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

    326 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  100. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

    325 points • comment • may 05, 2026