top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-08

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened

https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa

14 hours ago

914 upvotes – 736 comments

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

8 hours ago

692 upvotes – 245 comments

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/

13 hours ago

652 upvotes – 333 comments

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

14 hours ago

534 upvotes – 275 comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o

15 hours ago

475 upvotes – 97 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

15 hours ago

379 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054

19 hours ago

302 upvotes – 259 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games

10 hours ago

296 upvotes – 98 comments

Mojo 1.0 Beta

https://mojolang.org/

1 day ago

296 upvotes – 187 comments

AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures

9 hours ago

267 upvotes – 114 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release

20 hours ago

263 upvotes – 68 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

15 hours ago

240 upvotes – 378 comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html

20 hours ago

227 upvotes – 227 comments

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis

1 day ago

201 upvotes – 63 comments

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/926741/tesla-cybertruck-cheaper-recall

13 hours ago

199 upvotes – 253 comments

Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/

12 hours ago

197 upvotes – 84 comments

Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-intel-have-reached-preliminary-chip-making-deal-wsj-reports-2026-05-08/

9 hours ago

196 upvotes – 133 comments

Just Fucking Use Go

https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/

13 hours ago

186 upvotes – 162 comments

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-shuts-down-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-messaging

5 hours ago

171 upvotes – 118 comments

GeoJSON

https://geojson.org/

17 hours ago

149 upvotes – 71 comments
show: top 10 top 20 top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: date score comments