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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
70
Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories • May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
29
Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial • May 20, 2026 at 1:57 PM • arstechnica.com • Lobsters
32
Notes on I2C • May 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM • rana-emaan.com • Lobsters
34
OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO in the coming weeks • May 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM • bloomberg.com • ~finance
92
Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM • thalia.dev • Hacker News
319P
Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 1:48 PM • usni.org • Hacker News
60
Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them • May 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM • projects.alesh.com • Hacker News
200
Why is Inkwell stuck in review • May 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM • manton.org • Hacker News
112
What's your favorite personal gaming memory? • May 20, 2026 at 1:25 PM • tildes.net • ~games
1098
Young men with same-sex parents are more likely to work in female-dominated industries, new study finds • May 20, 2026 at 1:21 PM • doi.org • r/science
144
Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler • May 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM • github.com/ClickHouse • Hacker News
42
OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO in the Coming Days or Weeks • May 20, 2026 at 1:13 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
23
Embracer Group has announced its intention to split into two public companies, with a new spin-off taking over its biggest game IPs, including Tomb Raider • May 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM • videogameschronicle.com • ~games
207
Why I don’t vibe code • May 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • jacobharr.is • Hacker News
33
Facebook is terrifyingly bad with privacy • May 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • gary.onl • Bear
228P
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban • May 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
285P
Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident? • May 20, 2026 at 12:50 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
133P
Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year • May 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
131
Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital' • May 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
750
Apparently Google hates us now • May 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM • twitter.com/pokemoncentral • Hacker News
611
OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon • May 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
123
ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor • May 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM • arcbrush.com • Hacker News
197
Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success • May 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM • pacifichorticulture.org • Hacker News
57
Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC • May 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM • appleinsider.com • Hacker News
33
The Hardware Lottery • May 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM • hardwarelottery.github.io • Hacker News
164
The first British person in space • May 20, 2026 at 11:47 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
78
Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model • May 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM • github.com/bytedance • Hacker News
171
SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) • May 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM • pvk.ca • Hacker News
176
Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops • May 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM • reubenbrooks.dev • Hacker News
122
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel • May 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM • lithub.com • Hacker News
115
Stable Audio 3 • May 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
42P
Russian Troops' Fear Grows as Ukraine AI "Slaughterbot" Drones Headhunt Them • May 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM • thelowdownblog.com • Hacker News
184
Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond • May 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
52
Lost in a sea of HVAC • May 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM • tildes.net • ~life.home_improvement
40
Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes • May 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM • techcrunch.com • build.slashdot
45
Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend • May 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM • github.com/ueberdosis • Hacker News
115
Testing distributed systems with AI agents • May 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM • github.com/shenli • Hacker News
1273P
Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit • May 20, 2026 at 10:30 AM • fire.org • Hacker News
90
Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more • May 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM • lwn.net • Hacker News
71P
We swapped one crutch for another and nobody wants to admit it • May 20, 2026 at 10:14 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
781P
A new approach to cancer vaccination yields more powerful T cells using mRNA vaccines. In studies in mice, the mRNA cancer vaccine completely eradicate most tumors, including bladder cancer, colon carcinoma, melanoma, and metastatic lung cancer. • May 20, 2026 at 10:06 AM • news.mit.edu • r/science
26
the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability • May 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM • w.on-t.work • Lobsters
78
Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ • May 20, 2026 at 9:54 AM • fortune.com • ~tech
69
Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now? • May 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
910
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension • May 20, 2026 at 9:49 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • r/webdev
118
Alternatives Pt. II - Social Networking • May 20, 2026 at 9:45 AM • technically-good.ca • Bear
1512
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension • May 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • Hacker News
41
Deutsche Bahn blocks Linux users • May 20, 2026 at 9:39 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
150
560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits • May 20, 2026 at 9:35 AM • bmjgroup.com • Hacker News
23
The road to non-directed kidney donation • May 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM • tildes.net • ~health
148P
America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen • May 20, 2026 at 9:19 AM • danieltan.weblog.lol • Hacker News
431
sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library • May 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM • spader.zone • Hacker News
23
Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM • ctf.gg • Lobsters
1718P
Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment • May 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM • lesnumeriques.com • Hacker News
1676
Study of 440,000+ people found lifetime cancer risk varies dramatically based on individual factors • May 20, 2026 at 8:55 AM • ascopubs.org • r/science
4859
Moderate to heavy drinking tends to be associated with increased bodily inflammation, even for individuals who maintain a highly nutritious diet. The study provides evidence that eating well might not be enough to counter the harmful physical effects of frequent alcohol consumption. • May 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM • psypost.org • r/science
70
Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium • May 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM • theconsensus.dev • Hacker News
49P
Erasing Existentials • May 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM • wolfgirl.dev • Lobsters
1544P
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE • May 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM • alqst.org • Hacker News
147
Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
507
Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order • May 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
126
New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire • May 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
29590
Adults should aim to do between 560-610 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks and stroke (3-4 times higher than the current public health recommendation of 150 minutes ), suggest the findings of an observational study • May 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM • bmjgroup.com • r/science
160
The quadratic sandwich • May 20, 2026 at 8:06 AM • fedemagnani.github.io • Hacker News
565
Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Hacker News
429
Railway has new term of service • May 20, 2026 at 7:59 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
99
Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs • May 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM • bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com • Hacker News
57
Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Lobsters
753
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos • May 20, 2026 at 7:51 AM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
5426
Once-A-Day Pill Effective In Treating Sleep Apnea Without CPAP. In clinical trials, people taking the pill saw their breathing interruptions decrease by about 44% compared to almost 18% for those taking a placebo. Nearly 1 in 5 taking the pill achieved complete relief from sleep apnea • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • site.thoracic.org • r/science
216
Virtual Museum with Every Operating System You Can Think Of • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • virtualosmuseum.org • r/programming
40
LLemdashes • May 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM • wil.to • Lobsters
171
New NGINX Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated RCE • May 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM • cybersecuritynews.com • r/programming
97
I used to think experienced developers had perfectly organized reusable code systems. • May 20, 2026 at 7:01 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
69
Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans • May 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM • theregister.com • Slashdot
546
Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back • May 20, 2026 at 6:57 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
618
Map of Metal • May 20, 2026 at 6:47 AM • mapofmetal.com • Hacker News
1005
Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier • May 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
192
No way to parse integers in C (2022) • May 20, 2026 at 6:28 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
66
"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout • May 20, 2026 at 6:17 AM • cosmiciron.github.io • Hacker News
395
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 6:04 AM • zfhuang99.github.io • Hacker News
93
Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds • May 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM • kcl.ac.uk • Hacker News
137
A new book about humanity's obsession with gold • May 20, 2026 at 5:09 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
162
Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) • May 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM • horses.extension.org • Hacker News
711
Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension • May 20, 2026 at 4:37 AM • blog.railway.com • Hacker News
59
Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages • May 20, 2026 at 4:13 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
28
Github: internal repositories have been accessed • May 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM • nitter.net • Lobsters
83P
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech • May 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
46
Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies • May 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM • phys.org • science.slashdot
62
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame. • May 20, 2026 at 2:27 AM • bbc.com • ~enviro
66
Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:26 AM • blog.habets.se • Lobsters
81
GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code • May 20, 2026 at 2:08 AM • cybersecuritynews.com • Lobsters
1200
Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
152
Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates • May 20, 2026 at 1:56 AM • macobserver.com • Hacker News
3624
Complex decisions: The faster the better - When it comes to complex strategic decisions, a shorter thinking time is associated with a higher quality of decisions. • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 AM • lmu.de • r/science
221
Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy • May 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM • news.infomaniak.com • Hacker News
156P
There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going • May 20, 2026 at 1:33 AM • kottke.org • Hacker News
227
India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark • May 20, 2026 at 1:07 AM • hindustantimes.com • Hacker News
31
Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows • May 20, 2026 at 12:51 AM • andlukyane.com • Hacker News
106P
Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad • May 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
268
GitHub Compromised • May 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
75
Oversharing in personal sites • May 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM • radarambles.bearblog.dev • Bear
68
Fast Factorial Algorithms • May 19, 2026 at 11:55 PM • luschny.de • Hacker News
56
If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024) • May 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Lobsters
33
trying to imagine sisyphus happy • May 19, 2026 at 11:36 PM • tiramisu.bearblog.dev • Bear
132P
Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets • May 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM • npr.org • yro.slashdot
8078
Taking psychedelic substances with a romantic partner is associated with a deeper sense of mutual understanding and enhanced relationship quality. In contrast, using these substances alone might leave partners out of sync, potentially contributing to relationship dissolution later on. • May 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM • psypost.org • r/science
105
Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years • May 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM • caio.ca • Lobsters
29
Evals will break • May 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM • wanglun1996.github.io • Hacker News
98
Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion? • May 19, 2026 at 10:43 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
75P
Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal • May 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM • prestonbyrne.com • Hacker News
71
Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization • May 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM • aresluna.org • Hacker News
524
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame • May 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
461
FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive • May 19, 2026 at 9:34 PM • fivethirtyeightindex.com • Hacker News
907
Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] • May 19, 2026 at 8:23 PM • status.railway.com • Hacker News
456
Railway is down, their google cloud account got blocked • May 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
91
El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died • May 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM • respublicamgz.substack.com • Hacker News
51
Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down • May 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
966
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories • May 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
93
HTML-in-Canvas Demos • May 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM • github.com/GoogleChromeLabs • Hacker News
96
Railway Is Having a Major Outage • May 19, 2026 at 7:01 PM • status.railway.com • Hacker News
89
Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750 • May 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM • nerds.xyz • Slashdot
440
Railway is down • May 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
28
Any fellow XCP-ng users here? • May 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
636
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images • May 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM • github.com/wiltodelta • Hacker News
53P
IRS Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family • May 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
78
Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years • May 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM • nytimes.com • Slashdot
37
Solo Dev Kills YouTube Ask • May 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM • neotube.ai • Hacker News
59
1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried • May 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM • popsci.com • Hacker News
798
Kids who take risks at play make faster, smarter decisions in traffic • May 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM • news.ubc.ca • r/science
71P
Donald Trump and sons to be 'forever' exempt from tax audits • May 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
4120P
Grokipedia was launched by Elon Musk last October with a promise that the AI-written encyclopedia systematically “fixes” left-leaning biases in Wikipedia. New study found Grokipedia is selectively drawing on more-right leaning news sources on the topics of religion, history, literature and art. • May 19, 2026 at 5:32 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
84
Is it worth it still to start your own web agency? • May 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
3433P
Contrary to the rhetoric of anti-wind groups, there is no evidence that proximity to wind turbines leads to adverse health outcomes [Data: longitudinal health surveys of 120,000+ households and consumer spending records of people living near wind turbines]. • May 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM • pnas.org • r/science
302
PHP's Oddities • May 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM • flowtwo.io • Hacker News
41
Java: Rethink Domain Primitives with Valhalla • May 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM • dfa1.github.io • Hacker News
622
CISA accidentally leaked their own keys on GitHub • May 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM • krebsonsecurity.com • r/programming
142
What Is Happening to Publishing? • May 19, 2026 at 4:23 PM • resobscura.substack.com • Hacker News
64
Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription • May 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
81
I am not a Software Engineer • May 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM • huronbikes.mataroa.blog • Hacker News
90P
US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers • May 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
67
Battery costs just plunged 70% — this changes everything • May 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM • youtube.com • ~enviro
90
Solving the “Zork” Mystery • May 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM • dpolakovic.space • Hacker News
738
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day • May 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM • autonocion.com • Hacker News
31
Show HN: Yt-x v0.8.0 – Browse, play, and download YouTube from the terminal • May 19, 2026 at 3:44 PM • github.com/Benexl • Hacker News
29
Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery • May 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM • research.google • Hacker News
511
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool • May 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
931
The entry level dev jobs are disappearing. • May 19, 2026 at 3:25 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
357
Dumb ways for an open source project to die • May 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM • nesbitt.io • Hacker News
43P
Nothing New Under the Algorithm-Sycophancy, Toxic Positivity & the Industry of Yes • May 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM • thecynicalnerd.bearblog.dev • Bear
432
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI • May 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM • emmi.ai • Hacker News
1024P
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets • May 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM • npr.org • Hacker News
34
QUIC has a lot going for it, but it is a large library (six figure LoC) • May 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM • twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack • Hacker News
57
I am not a Software Engineer • May 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM • huronbikes.mataroa.blog • Lobsters
708P
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight • May 19, 2026 at 2:56 PM • natesilver.net • Hacker News
102
The TTY Demystified (2008) • May 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM • linusakesson.net • Hacker News
38
Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB • May 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM • github.com/xataio • Hacker News
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Google changes its search box • May 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
48
pgBackRest will continue • May 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM • pgbackrest.org • Lobsters
56
Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements • May 19, 2026 at 2:18 PM • boston25news.com • Hacker News
220
How Cities: Skylines uses a stock-market analogy to drive almost everything in the game • May 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM • jkm.dev • r/programming
67
Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map • May 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM • obayashi.co.jp • Hacker News
604
Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 • May 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM • developers.googleblog.com • Hacker News