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Hacker News (May 2026)

  1. Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml

    180 points • comment • may 26, 2026

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

    180 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  3. Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

    180 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  4. The AI Zombification of Universities

    180 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  5. A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

    179 points • comment • may 03, 2026

  6. All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot

    179 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  7. Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

    179 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  8. Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

    179 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  9. Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

    179 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  10. Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

    178 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  11. Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

    178 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  12. A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]

    178 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  13. Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

    178 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  14. Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

    178 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  15. Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

    177 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  16. Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

    177 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  17. Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data

    177 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  18. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

    177 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  19. The Vatican's Website in Latin

    177 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  20. Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

    177 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  21. Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

    177 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  22. What's a mathematician to do? (2010)

    176 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  23. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

    176 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  24. Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

    176 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  25. Google I/O

    176 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  26. Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

    176 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  27. The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

    176 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  28. Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife

    175 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  29. Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

    175 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  30. Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue

    175 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  31. Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster

    175 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  32. UnDUNE II

    175 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  33. The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

    175 points • comment • may 02, 2026

  34. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

    174 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  35. Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

    173 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  36. C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

    172 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  37. Traces Of Humanity

    172 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  38. Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria

    172 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  39. Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)

    172 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  40. Just Use Go

    171 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  41. Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

    171 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  42. I’m writing again

    171 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  43. The Disappearance of the Public Bench

    170 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  44. London Mayor Blocks Palantir

    170 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  45. Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

    170 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  46. An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins

    170 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  47. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

    169 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  48. Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

    169 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  49. CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices

    169 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  50. New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

    169 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  51. Peter Salus has died

    168 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  52. Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

    168 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  53. Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes

    168 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  54. GeoJSON

    168 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  55. It's Not Just X. It's Y

    167 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  56. Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center

    167 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  57. VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)

    167 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  58. Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action

    167 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  59. Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows

    167 points • comment • may 31, 2026

  60. CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude

    166 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  61. Haiku

    165 points • comment • may 13, 2026

  62. Improving C# Memory Safety

    165 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  63. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)

    165 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  64. Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

    165 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  65. “Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)

    164 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  66. Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County

    164 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  67. ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

    164 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  68. Humanoid Robot Actuators

    164 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  69. I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

    163 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  70. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

    163 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  71. Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

    163 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  72. 'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

    163 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  73. Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

    163 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  74. Understand Anything

    162 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  75. The death of the brick and mortar toy store

    161 points • comment • may 19, 2026

  76. Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket

    161 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  77. Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

    161 points • comment • may 07, 2026

  78. Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

    161 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  79. Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

    161 points • comment • may 29, 2026

  80. When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

    161 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  81. Naphtha shortages in Japan

    161 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  82. The Third Hard Problem

    160 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  83. Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

    159 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  84. SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

    159 points • comment • may 20, 2026

  85. Mastering Dyalog APL

    159 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  86. How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

    158 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  87. Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

    158 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  88. What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

    158 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  89. Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes

    158 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  90. As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

    158 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  91. 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

    158 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  92. Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

    158 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  93. GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

    157 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  94. I love my Bluetooth keyboard

    157 points • comment • may 22, 2026

  95. Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  96. The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

    157 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  97. Your Most Improbable Life

    157 points • comment • may 18, 2026

  98. The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)

    157 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  99. Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

    157 points • comment • may 04, 2026

  100. A Forth-inspired language for writing websites

    156 points • comment • may 22, 2026