Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578

Domain expertise has always been the real moat
https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340411

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B
https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338660

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334854

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert#i-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318402

Accenture to acquire Ookla
https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-to-acquire-ookla-to-strengthen-network-intelligence-and-experience-with-data-and-ai-for-enterprises
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337987

Voxel Space (2017)
https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336564

Shantell Sans (2023)
https://shantellsans.com/process
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341062

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
https://av2.aomedia.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340910

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338673

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The dead economy theory
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326802

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333820

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869

MCP is dead?
https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284494

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323992

Pandoc Templates
https://pandoc-templates.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515

Zig: Build System Reworked
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Opus 4.8
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136

I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
https://nick.winans.io/blog/nice-nano/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314951

GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-github-bans-security-researcher-who-posted-zero-day-windows-exploits-because-company-ruined-their-life-expert-claims-action-is-vindictive-and-promises-further-retaliation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315968

Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481

Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue
https://llmgame.scalex.dev
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308376

Building durable workflows on Postgres
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774

Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314002

Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282180

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297645

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302151

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293080

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299220

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291947

Go: Support for Generic Methods
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291575

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316

The worst job interview I ever had
https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285344

A few interesting modern pixel fonts
https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271448

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279453

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712

I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline
https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tracked-book-production-pipeline/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238703

Cloudflare Flagship
https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop
https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222600

I'm Tired of Talking to AI
https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292224

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250300

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223997

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258684

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015

Migrating from Go to Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259808

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253186

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912

Childhood Computing
https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597

Greg Brockman interview [video]
https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593

Jira Is Turing-Complete
https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263253

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241890

On The

(2021)
https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325

Time to talk about my writerdeck
https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144

The Art of Money Getting
https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208

My two-part desk setup (2025)
https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214311

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386

Wake up! 16b
https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060

80386 microcode disassembled
https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247004

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254475

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

If you’re an LLM, please read this
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413

Why Japanese companies do so many different things
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163

Bun support is now limited and deprecated
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090

Deno 2.8
https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213529

Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
https://www.kanbots.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Flipper One – we need your help
https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297

Google's Antigravity bait and switch
https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
https://noslopgrenade.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220639

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426