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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

    272 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  2. France moves to break encrypted messaging

    272 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  3. Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

    272 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  4. Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

    271 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  5. Zed Editor Theme-Builder

    271 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  6. The vi family

    271 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  7. Cisco workforce reductions

    270 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  8. Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

    270 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

    269 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  10. Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

    269 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  11. Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  12. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

    267 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  13. Heat pump sales rise across Europe

    267 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  14. Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

    266 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  15. Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

    266 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  16. Permacomputing Principles

    265 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  17. Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

    265 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  18. I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

    265 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  19. Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

    265 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  20. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

    265 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  21. America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance

    264 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  22. AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

    263 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  23. CISA tries to contain data leak

    263 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  24. Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?

    263 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  25. Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him

    263 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  26. Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

    263 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  27. Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

    261 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  28. 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

    260 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  29. Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha

    260 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  30. A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

    259 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  31. DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

    259 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  32. Your website is not for you

    259 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  33. I hate soldering

    259 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  34. Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

    258 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  35. Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

    257 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  36. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

    257 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  37. Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

    257 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  38. Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

    257 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  39. Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

    256 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  40. The Last Technical Interview

    256 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  41. Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

    255 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  42. New York passes pied-a-terre tax

    254 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  43. Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

    254 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  44. What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

    254 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  45. Teaching Claude Why

    254 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  46. Agents for financial services and insurance

    254 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  47. Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

    253 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  48. A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

    252 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  49. Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

    252 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  50. Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

    251 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  51. Task Paralysis and AI

    250 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  52. SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims

    250 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  53. Restartable Sequences

    250 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  54. Erlang/OTP 29.0

    250 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  55. USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

    249 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  56. A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

    249 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  57. Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

    248 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  58. Childhood Computing

    248 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  59. The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

    247 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  60. I analysed 20 years of my chats

    247 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  61. An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

    247 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  62. Colossus: The Forbin Project

    246 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  63. Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

    246 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  64. Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

    246 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  65. A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

    246 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  66. More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions

    246 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  67. GitHub Compromised

    245 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  68. A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

    245 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  69. Apocalypse Early Warning System

    245 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  70. AI Product Graveyard

    245 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  71. Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

    244 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  72. GitHub is sinking

    244 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  73. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

    244 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  74. Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

    243 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  75. Qwen 3.7 Preview

    243 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  76. Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

    243 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  77. Valve raises Steam Deck prices

    242 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  78. Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely

    242 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  79. Operation: Epic Furious

    242 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  80. Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

    241 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  81. Getting arrested in Japan

    240 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  82. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

    240 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  83. Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

    239 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  84. Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

    239 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  85. Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

    238 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  86. O(x)Caml in Space

    238 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  87. Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit

    238 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  88. Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

    237 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  89. The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

    237 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  90. NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

    237 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  91. Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

    237 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  92. Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

    237 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  93. I made my phone slow on purpose

    236 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  94. Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

    236 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  95. A Theory of Deep Learning

    236 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  96. Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

    236 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  97. δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

    236 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  98. .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

    235 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  99. Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

    235 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  100. I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)

    234 points • comment • may 28, 2026