Archive
May 2026
- Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
- Rotten Dot Com
- Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount
- Task Paralysis and AI
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
- Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
- France moves to break encrypted messaging
- Getting arrested in Japan
- Local privilege escalation via execve()
- Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
- I’ve banned query strings
- Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
- The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
- GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch
- The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
- Internet Archive Switzerland
- Forking the Web
- Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
- LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
- I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
- EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
- Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
- Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
- A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
- People Hate AI Art
- Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
- You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
- What we lost the last time code got cheap
- Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
- Teaching Claude Why
- AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
- Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
- Cartoon Network Flash Games
- Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
- Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
- Just Use Go
- A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
- Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
- US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
- David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
- An Introduction to Meshtastic
- Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
- Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
- AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
- Mojo 1.0 Beta
- Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
- Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
- Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
- Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
- AI slop is killing online communities
- Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
- Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
- OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
- California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply
- Agents need control flow, not more prompts
- Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
- I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
- Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
- DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
- Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
- I want to live like Costco people
- AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
- The map that keeps Burning Man honest
- Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
- Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
- LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
- Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
- Permacomputing Principles
- The Vatican's Website in Latin
- The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
- What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
- UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing
- The Disappearance of the Public Bench
- SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
- Inkscape 1.4.4
- Programming Still Sucks
- BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
- Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
- From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
- Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
- Life During Class Wartime
- Show HN: Hallucinopedia
- Appearing productive in the workplace
- Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
- Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
- Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
- Ted Turner has died
- RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both
- Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
- Knitting bullshit
- 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
- Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
- Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
- StarFighter 16-Inch
- Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
- YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
- NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address
- Write some software, give it away for free
- Why most product tours get skipped
- DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
- California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
- Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
- IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
- Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
- Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
- I'm scared about biological computing
- Three Inverse Laws of AI
- Agents for financial services and insurance
- It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
- The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
- AI didn't delete your database, you did
- iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
- Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
- When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
- Async Rust never left the MVP state
- Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
- Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
- Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
- CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
- What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
- The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars
- Zig → Rust porting guide
- Agent Skills
- 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level
- Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
- How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
- White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
- Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
- Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
- Days without GitHub incidents
- Heat pump sales rise across Europe
- Let's talk about LLMs
- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
- Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to
- I am worried about Bun
- OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
- Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
- Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
- Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
- 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
- Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
- Redis array: short story of a long development process
- How Monero’s proof of work works
- PyInfra 3.8.0
- Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
- Talking to strangers at the gym
- Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
- Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision
- The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
- Let's Buy Spirit Air
- The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
- Agentic Coding Is a Trap
- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
- New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
- Why TUIs are back
- BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
- LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
- Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
- For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
- A desktop made for one
- Security through obscurity is not bad
- Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
- Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
- Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
- Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
- Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
- Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
- Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)
- Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores
- A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
- OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
- A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
- Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
- The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
- The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
- Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
- This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
- Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
- VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
- Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake
- NetHack 5.0.0
- California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
- Do_not_track
- Dav2d
- Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
- Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
- New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
- Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
- America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
- Russia Poisons Wikipedia
- How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
- Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
- Ask.com has closed
- Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
- Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
- Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
- Ti-84 Evo
- City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
- New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
- The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
- Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
- AI uses less water than the public thinks
- The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
- DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
- Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
- Apocalypse Early Warning System
- Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
- Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
- I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
- Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
- Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
- Your website is not for you
- After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
- Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
- Grok 4.3
- Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
- OpenWarp