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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

    325 points • comment • may 21, 2026

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

    325 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  3. Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

    324 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  4. AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills

    324 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  5. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

    324 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  6. Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)

    323 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  7. The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

    322 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  8. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

    322 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  9. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

    322 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  10. London's Free Roof Terraces

    322 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  11. Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

    321 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  12. Interaction Models

    321 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  13. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

    321 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  14. Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

    320 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  15. Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

    320 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  16. Leave Me Behind

    320 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  17. Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

    320 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  18. ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks

    319 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  19. I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC

    319 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  20. Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

    319 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  21. Actually, democracy dies in H.R.

    319 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  22. Southwest Headquarters Tour

    319 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  23. Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

    318 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  24. Accenture to acquire Ookla

    318 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  25. Gemini Omni

    318 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  26. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

    318 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  27. Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

    318 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  28. Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you

    316 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  29. Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels

    316 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  30. SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

    315 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  31. BBEdit 16

    315 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  32. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

    315 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  33. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

    315 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  34. WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency

    315 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  35. Starship V3

    314 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  36. AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

    314 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  37. Redis array: short story of a long development process

    314 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  38. Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

    313 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  39. How Monero’s proof of work works

    312 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  40. New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

    311 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  41. Peter Neumann has died

    310 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  42. EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

    308 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  43. The Zulip Foundation

    306 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  44. Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

    306 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  45. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

    305 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  46. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

    305 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  47. Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”

    305 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  48. PyInfra 3.8.0

    304 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  49. Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

    302 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  50. WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

    302 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  51. Jira Is Turing-Complete

    301 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  52. Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

    301 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  53. Go: Support for Generic Methods

    301 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  54. Voxel Space (2017)

    301 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  55. Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

    300 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  56. The user is visibly frustrated

    300 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  57. AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

    299 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  58. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

    299 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  59. The sigmoids won't save you

    299 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  60. Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

    299 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  61. Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'

    298 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  62. Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

    298 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  63. Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

    297 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  64. Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

    297 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  65. Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

    296 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  66. The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

    296 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  67. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

    294 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  68. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

    294 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  69. Oura says it gets government demands for user data

    292 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  70. Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

    291 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  71. The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

    290 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  72. Show HN: Hallucinopedia

    289 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  73. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

    288 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  74. Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

    288 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  75. RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

    288 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  76. Ted Turner has died

    287 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  77. Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)

    287 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  78. Cleve Moler has died

    287 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  79. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

    286 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  80. Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

    284 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  81. Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

    284 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  82. I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline

    284 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  83. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

    283 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  84. Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

    282 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  85. Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer

    282 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  86. Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

    282 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  87. Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

    281 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  88. I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

    281 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  89. Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers

    281 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  90. Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing

    281 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  91. Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

    279 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  92. Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

    278 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  93. What are locusts and what happened to them?

    277 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  94. I'm scared about biological computing

    277 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  95. Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks

    275 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  96. Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

    275 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  97. 80386 microcode disassembled

    274 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  98. ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

    273 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  99. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

    273 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  100. Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

    273 points • comment • may 16, 2026