This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Magnifica Humanitas
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961

Using AI to write better code more slowly
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272670

Ferrari Luce
https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629

Hacker News front page as a site
https://thefrontpage.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271127

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267290

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715