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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

    205 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  2. Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

    205 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  3. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

    205 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  4. On Rendering Diffs

    205 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  5. Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

    204 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  6. Halt and Catch Fire

    204 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  7. Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

    204 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  8. Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

    203 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  9. DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

    203 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  10. Coursera and Udemy are now one company

    203 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  11. Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

    203 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  12. The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

    203 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  13. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test

    202 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  14. CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

    202 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  15. Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us

    202 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  16. Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling

    202 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  17. Show HN: Rust but Lisp

    201 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  18. Why most product tours get skipped

    201 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  19. Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs

    200 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  20. Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

    200 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  21. OpenWarp

    200 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  22. Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

    199 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  23. WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound

    199 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  24. The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

    199 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  25. Squillions: How money laundering won

    199 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  26. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

    198 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  27. Prolog Coding Horror

    198 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  28. Security through obscurity is not bad

    198 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  29. Ten Basic Clouds

    197 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  30. White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

    197 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  31. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

    197 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  32. Going Full Time on Open Source

    196 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  33. The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

    196 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  34. The IBM-ification of Google?

    196 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  35. OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

    196 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  36. Life During Class Wartime

    196 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  37. Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

    196 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  38. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

    195 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  39. -​-dangerously-skip-reading-code

    195 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  40. Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

    194 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  41. AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers

    194 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  42. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

    194 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  43. Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts

    194 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  44. Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

    194 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  45. 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

    194 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  46. Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

    194 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  47. Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

    194 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  48. The locals don't know

    194 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  49. I found a second vote.gov – and it's registered to the White House

    193 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  50. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code

    193 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  51. The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)

    193 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  52. Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

    192 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  53. We should be more tired than the model

    192 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  54. Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

    192 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  55. "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage

    191 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  56. Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

    191 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  57. Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M

    191 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  58. How to convert between wealth and income tax

    191 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  59. Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

    191 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  60. Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

    190 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  61. UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations

    190 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  62. How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

    190 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  63. Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street

    190 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  64. Let's talk about LLMs

    189 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  65. Is AI Profitable Yet?

    189 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  66. Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates

    189 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  67. Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

    188 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  68. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

    188 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  69. Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

    188 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  70. The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

    188 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  71. Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request

    188 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  72. Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)

    187 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  73. Building Pi with Pi

    187 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  74. What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

    187 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  75. Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

    186 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  76. Slumber a TUI HTTP Client

    186 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  77. FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

    186 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  78. Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

    185 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  79. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

    185 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  80. Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

    185 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  81. Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)

    185 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  82. Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

    184 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  83. PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

    184 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  84. America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

    184 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  85. Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

    184 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  86. Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

    183 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  87. Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them

    183 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  88. Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

    183 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  89. Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

    183 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  90. The Self-Cancelling Subscription

    183 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  91. Text-to-CAD

    182 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  92. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

    182 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  93. Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking

    182 points • comment • may 26, 2026

  94. Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

    182 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  95. Open source does not imply open community

    182 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  96. Usborne 1980s Computer Books

    182 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  97. Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace

    182 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  98. Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets

    181 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  99. Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

    180 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  100. The AI Zombification of Universities

    180 points • comment • may 14, 2026