top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-05-26

CSS Minecraft

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/

1 year ago

German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal

https://www.politico.eu/article/german-court-vw-execs-prison-dieselgate-scandal-volkswagen-environment-illegal-pollution/

1 year ago

Owls in Towels

https://owlsintowels.org/

1 year ago

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp

https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/hacker-news-now-runs-on-top-of-common-lisp/

1 year ago

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP

https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability

1 year ago

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine

https://www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-from-the-trenches-of-the

1 year ago

Google shared my phone number

https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/

1 year ago

Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails

https://htxt.co.za/2025/05/duolingo-ceo-tries-to-walk-back-ai-first-comments-fails/

1 year ago

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air

https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers-discover-a-new-class-of-materials-that-passively-harvest-water-from-air/

1 year ago

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/

1 year ago

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters

https://github.com/ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo/blob/main/README.md

1 year ago

Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095189

1 year ago

Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly

https://velzie.rip/blog/celeste-wasm

1 year ago

GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/notes/

1 year ago

Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

https://mondaybits.com/lieferando-captured-6-percent-of-restaurant-related-domain-names/

1 year ago

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt/

1 year ago

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog

1 year ago

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial

https://www.science.org/content/article/sleep-apnea-pill-shows-striking-success-large-clinical-trial

1 year ago

Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ceo-football-piracy-blocks-will-claim-lives-i-pray-no-one-dies-250526/

1 year ago

Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories

https://twitter.com/lbeurerkellner/status/1926991491735429514

1 year ago

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech

https://spectrum.ieee.org/microled-optical-chiplet

1 year ago

Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric

https://www.gwintrob.com/power-failure-review/

1 year ago

Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu

https://github.com/idursun/jjui

1 year ago

Google is burying the web alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html

1 year ago

Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model

https://bagel-ai.org/

1 year ago

A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/JavaScriptScraperObstacles

1 year ago

Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/particle-life-simulation-in-browser-using-webgpu.html

1 year ago

Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only system

https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap

1 year ago

TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds

https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/

1 year ago

The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming

https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/

1 year ago

Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-ways

1 year ago

I think it's time to give Nix a chance

https://maych.in/blog/its-time-to-give-nix-a-chance/

1 year ago

Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware

https://www.zdnet.com/article/massive-data-breach-exposes-184-million-passwords-for-google-microsoft-facebook-and-more/

1 year ago

WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol

https://github.com/loopj/wavephoenix

1 year ago

The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets

https://www.everydayplastic.org/softplastic

1 year ago

The double standard of webhook security and API security

https://www.speakeasy.com/blog/webhook-security

1 year ago

Creating Debian packages from upstream Git

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/debian-packaging-from-git/

1 year ago

Grass Rendering Series

https://hexaquo.at/pages/grass-rendering-series-part-1-theory/

1 year ago

TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool

https://micahflee.com/telemessage-explorer-a-new-open-source-research-tool/

1 year ago

Accessing private GitHub repositories via MCP

https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability

1 year ago

Show HN: A minimalist web timer for focus and time tracking

https://iamlockedin.com/

1 year ago

Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098706

1 year ago

Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101385

1 year ago

Unlocking Ractors: class instance variables in Ruby

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/05/24/unlocking-ractors-class-variables.html

1 year ago

AI makes bad managers

https://staysaasy.com/management/2025/05/26/AI-management.html

1 year ago