top 50% 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

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

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

3 months ago

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

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

3 months ago

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

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

3 months ago

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

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

3 months ago

An Introduction to Meshtastic

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

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

AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures

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

3 months ago

Cartoon Network Flash Games

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

3 months ago

Mojo 1.0 Beta

https://mojolang.org/

3 months ago

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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

3 months ago

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

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

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

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

3 months ago

Teaching Claude Why

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

3 months ago

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

I hate soldering existentially

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

3 months ago

Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM

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

3 months ago

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

Just Fucking Use Go

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

3 months ago

The React2Shell Story

https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

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

3 months ago

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html

3 months ago

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-goma-interview.html

3 months ago

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html

3 months ago

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

3 months ago

GeoJSON

https://geojson.org/

3 months ago

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ

3 months ago

PC Engine CPU

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/pc-engine-cpu/

3 months ago

Lets Encrypt Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

3 months ago

Amália and the Future of European Portuguese LLMs

https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms

3 months ago

Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit

https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/

3 months ago

Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

https://www.joachimschipper.nl/Stop%20MITM%20on%20the%20first%20SSH%20connection,%20on%20any%20VPS%20or%20cloud%20provider.html

3 months ago

Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

3 months ago

Bliss (Photograph)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(photograph)

3 months ago

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up

3 months ago

★ 57 C

DBase: 1979-2026

https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/dbase-1979-2026

3 months ago

Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service

https://probablydance.com/2026/05/01/apple-is-holding-my-pictures-hostage-until-i-accept-their-new-terms-of-service/

3 months ago

Show HN: Git for AI Agents

https://github.com/regent-vcs/re_gent

3 months ago

★ 505 Go Apache-2.0

The Boring Part of Bell Labs

https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/

3 months ago

What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time-code-got-cheap

3 months ago

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/

3 months ago

5x perf increase on writes with FPW disabled in Postgres

https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-architecture-delivers-5x-faster-postgres-writes

3 months ago

Hackers breach JDownloader website to serve malware-laced downloads

https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-downloaded-this-popular-software-recently-you-might-have-installed-malware/

3 months ago

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

https://github.com/graemeg/blaise

3 months ago

★ 162 Pascal Apache-2.0

Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/08/court-to-doge-bros-asking-chatgpt-yo-is-this-dei-is-not-proper-legal-process-also-a-first-amendment-violation/

3 months ago

QBE – Compiler Back End

https://c9x.me/compile/

3 months ago

Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks?

https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#memory-leaks

3 months ago

Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/tesla-model-y-first-vehicle-pass-nhtsa-new-advanced-driver-assistance-system-tests

3 months ago

Discord Incident

https://discordstatus.com

3 months ago

Eight More 8-bit Era Microprocessors (2024)

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/eight-more-8-bit-era-microprocessors

3 months ago

The Boston Library Where You Still Can Borrow a Giant Puppet

https://binj.news/2026/05/06/the-boston-library-where-you-still-can-borrow-a-giant-puppet/

3 months ago

US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support

https://apnews.com/article/passports-unpaid-child-support-penalty-state-department-42d90cfa8a06ee349bb9145f668919b6

3 months ago

Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-humanities-funding-cuts-dda1383436c41be08da3bbf7cc08818e

3 months ago

When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/05/08/birthday-problem.html

3 months ago