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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. YC's Biggest Scandals

    234 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  2. Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

    234 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  3. Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site

    234 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  4. Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

    233 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  5. Racket v9.2

    233 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  6. News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development

    233 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  7. BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

    233 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  8. Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

    233 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  9. Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

    232 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  10. A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft

    232 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  11. Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent

    232 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  12. What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

    232 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  13. Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

    232 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  14. HDD Firmware Hacking

    231 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  15. The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

    230 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  16. Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

    230 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  17. eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible

    230 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  18. Does anybody like React?

    230 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  19. EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

    229 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  20. How Claude Code works in large codebases

    229 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  21. The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

    229 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  22. Russia Poisons Wikipedia

    228 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  23. Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

    228 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  24. Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

    228 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  25. Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

    227 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  26. Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA

    227 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  27. Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

    227 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  28. Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

    226 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  29. Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

    226 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  30. 'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

    226 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  31. SecurityBaseline.eu

    226 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  32. Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

    226 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  33. US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

    225 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  34. I Miss Terry Pratchett

    225 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  35. CUDA Books

    225 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  36. Leaving the Physical World

    225 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  37. Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

    224 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  38. Use boring languages with LLMs

    224 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  39. Software Internals Book Club

    224 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  40. Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

    223 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  41. Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

    223 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  42. Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)

    223 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  43. Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

    223 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  44. Claude Platform on AWS

    223 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  45. Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

    222 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  46. Polypad

    222 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  47. Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

    222 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  48. Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

    222 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  49. The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

    221 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  50. Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

    221 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  51. Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence

    221 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  52. Local privilege escalation via execve()

    220 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  53. Claude for Legal

    219 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  54. Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar

    219 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  55. US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

    219 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  56. You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

    218 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  57. Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

    218 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  58. The React2Shell Story

    218 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  59. sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library

    218 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  60. Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

    217 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  61. Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

    217 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  62. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

    217 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  63. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

    216 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  64. US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate

    216 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  65. Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

    216 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  66. Extremely Low Frequencies

    215 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  67. Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]

    215 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  68. Think Linear Algebra (2023)

    215 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  69. ASCII by Jason Scott

    215 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  70. Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer

    215 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  71. Backpressure is all you need

    214 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  72. My graduation cap runs Rust

    213 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  73. Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

    213 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  74. Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

    213 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  75. Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

    212 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  76. 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

    212 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  77. Greg Brockman interview [video]

    212 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  78. Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

    212 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  79. We see something that works, and then we understand it

    212 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  80. What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

    212 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  81. Jank now has its own custom IR

    211 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  82. Dumb ways for an open source project to die

    211 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  83. The Permanent Upper Crow

    211 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  84. Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

    211 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  85. Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

    211 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  86. You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

    210 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  87. Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

    210 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  88. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

    210 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  89. Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

    210 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  90. Training our own AI models

    209 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  91. GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

    209 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  92. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

    208 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  93. A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

    207 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  94. Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints

    207 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  95. IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

    207 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  96. Where does next-token prediction leave us?

    206 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  97. The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

    206 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  98. C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

    206 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  99. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

    205 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  100. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

    205 points • comment • may 01, 2026