top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-08

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

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

3 months ago

1559 upvotes – 591 comments

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

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

3 months ago

1061 upvotes – 870 comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

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

3 months ago

885 upvotes – 165 comments

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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

3 months ago

705 upvotes – 365 comments

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

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

3 months ago

622 upvotes – 294 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

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

3 months ago

523 upvotes – 187 comments

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

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

3 months ago

477 upvotes – 345 comments

Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house

https://abc7chicago.com/post/top-cop-driver-accused-dui-tracks-missing-laptop-illinois-state-police-trooper-kevin-bradleys-house/19060850/

3 months ago

447 upvotes – 376 comments

AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures

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

3 months ago

428 upvotes – 173 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

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

3 months ago

416 upvotes – 131 comments

Mojo 1.0 Beta

https://mojolang.org/

3 months ago

374 upvotes – 246 comments

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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

3 months ago

335 upvotes – 543 comments

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick tech company (2004)

https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html

3 months ago

334 upvotes – 93 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

3 months ago

334 upvotes – 222 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

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

3 months ago

279 upvotes – 73 comments

AWS says data center overheating in North Virginia disrupts services

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-cloud-unit-says-data-center-overheating-north-virginia-disrupts-services-2026-05-08/

3 months ago

265 upvotes – 201 comments

Teaching Claude Why

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why

3 months ago

265 upvotes – 159 comments

I hate soldering existentially

https://user8.bearblog.dev/rant/

3 months ago

264 upvotes – 226 comments

Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM

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

3 months ago

250 upvotes – 99 comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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

3 months ago

233 upvotes – 246 comments
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