Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660

How fast is N tokens per second really?
https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920

Flipper One Tech Specs
https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046

Saying goodbye to asm.js
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340

Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979

DOS Zone
https://dos.zone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183

Anthropic acquires Stainless
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281

Click (2016)
https://clickclickclick.click/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054

We let AIs run radio stations
https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123359

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168221

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168668

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169874

GenCAD
https://gencad.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429

Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165980

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147091

Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142115

Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140556

Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173468

CUDA Books
https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168485

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158400

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445

We've made the world too complicated
https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158065

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166459

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158506

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392

A nicer voltmeter clock
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432

Halt and Catch Fire
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162468

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148460

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212

The sigmoids won't save you
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147021

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150069

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155324

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138136

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137145

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880

New Nginx Exploit
https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138268

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219

Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529

A few words on DS4
https://antirez.com/news/165
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108

UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
https://explorer.samismith.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129

HDD Firmware Hacking
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137553

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438

A History of IDEs at Google
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848

The Emacsification of Software
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727

Claude for Small Business
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224

Googlebook
https://googlebook.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127

The Future of Obsidian Plugins
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500

If AI writes your code, why use Python?
https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428

Interaction Models
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524

Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641