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Hacker News (May 2026)
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YC's Biggest Scandals
234 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
234 points • comment • may 01, 2026
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Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
234 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
233 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Racket v9.2
233 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
233 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
233 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
233 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle
232 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft
232 points • comment • may 25, 2026
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Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
232 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
232 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
232 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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HDD Firmware Hacking
231 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
230 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
230 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible
230 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Does anybody like React?
230 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
229 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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How Claude Code works in large codebases
229 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
229 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Russia Poisons Wikipedia
228 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
228 points • comment • may 30, 2026
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Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
228 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
227 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
227 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
227 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
226 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
226 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
226 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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SecurityBaseline.eu
226 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
226 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
225 points • comment • may 21, 2026
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I Miss Terry Pratchett
225 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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CUDA Books
225 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Leaving the Physical World
225 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers
224 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Use boring languages with LLMs
224 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Software Internals Book Club
224 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order
223 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
223 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)
223 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
223 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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Claude Platform on AWS
223 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog
222 points • comment • may 30, 2026
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Polypad
222 points • comment • may 17, 2026
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Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
222 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
222 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
221 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
221 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence
221 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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Local privilege escalation via execve()
220 points • comment • may 09, 2026
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Claude for Legal
219 points • comment • may 14, 2026
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Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
219 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
219 points • comment • may 01, 2026
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You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
218 points • comment • may 22, 2026
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Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
218 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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The React2Shell Story
218 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
218 points • comment • may 20, 2026
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Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores
217 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book
217 points • comment • may 11, 2026
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For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
217 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
216 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate
216 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
216 points • comment • may 29, 2026
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Extremely Low Frequencies
215 points • comment • may 12, 2026
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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
215 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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Think Linear Algebra (2023)
215 points • comment • may 10, 2026
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ASCII by Jason Scott
215 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer
215 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Backpressure is all you need
214 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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My graduation cap runs Rust
213 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
213 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
213 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
212 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
212 points • comment • may 31, 2026
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Greg Brockman interview [video]
212 points • comment • may 24, 2026
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Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
212 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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We see something that works, and then we understand it
212 points • comment • may 06, 2026
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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
212 points • comment • may 05, 2026
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Jank now has its own custom IR
211 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Dumb ways for an open source project to die
211 points • comment • may 19, 2026
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The Permanent Upper Crow
211 points • comment • may 28, 2026
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Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
211 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
211 points • comment • may 18, 2026
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You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
210 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
210 points • comment • may 02, 2026
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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
210 points • comment • may 07, 2026
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Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
210 points • comment • may 13, 2026
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Training our own AI models
209 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
209 points • comment • may 08, 2026
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Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
208 points • comment • may 03, 2026
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A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs
207 points • comment • may 26, 2026
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Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
207 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
207 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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Where does next-token prediction leave us?
206 points • comment • may 27, 2026
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The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers
206 points • comment • may 23, 2026
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C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
206 points • comment • may 15, 2026
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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
205 points • comment • may 04, 2026
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Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS
205 points • comment • may 01, 2026