Hacker News Highlights

5.20.26 | Joined Anthropic, Gemini 3.5 Flash, built virtual museum with many operating systems


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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2026.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:17) - I’ve joined Anthropic
  • (01:31) - Gemini 3.5 Flash
  • (03:22) - I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
  • (04:44) - Apple unveils new accessibility features
  • (06:19) - Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
  • (07:42) - Google changes its search box
  • (09:42) - Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
  • (11:13) - Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
  • (12:39) - GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
  • (13:48) - Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
  • (15:15) - Outro

  • I’ve joined Anthropic
    https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352

    Gemini 3.5 Flash
    https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570

    I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
    https://virtualosmuseum.org/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009

    Apple unveils new accessibility features
    https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224

    Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
    https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980

    Google changes its search box
    https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370

    Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
    https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383

    Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
    https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484

    GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
    https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316

    Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
    https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569

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