top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-06

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license

3 months ago

1747 upvotes – 593 comments

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037336

3 months ago

1676 upvotes – 258 comments

Appearing Productive in the Workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/

3 months ago

1633 upvotes – 651 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/

3 months ago

787 upvotes – 884 comments

Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

https://red-squares.cian.lol/

3 months ago

767 upvotes – 167 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

3 months ago

725 upvotes – 336 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter

3 months ago

686 upvotes – 389 comments

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html

3 months ago

663 upvotes – 192 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

3 months ago

658 upvotes – 368 comments

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex

3 months ago

509 upvotes – 485 comments

Knitting Bullshit

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/

3 months ago

485 upvotes – 206 comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

https://www.wiisfi.com/

3 months ago

411 upvotes – 103 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/

3 months ago

409 upvotes – 441 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies

3 months ago

403 upvotes – 663 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css

3 months ago

367 upvotes – 44 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4 Is Out

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html

3 months ago

354 upvotes – 107 comments

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html

3 months ago

353 upvotes – 120 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken

3 months ago

340 upvotes – 116 comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/

3 months ago

308 upvotes – 130 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/

3 months ago

306 upvotes – 267 comments
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