top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-05-09

I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html

1 month ago

853 upvotes – 644 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

1 month ago

727 upvotes – 535 comments

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310

1 month ago

718 upvotes – 697 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://internetarchive.ch/

1 month ago

702 upvotes – 117 comments

EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/

1 month ago

662 upvotes – 446 comments

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html

1 month ago

576 upvotes – 297 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935

1 month ago

528 upvotes – 274 comments

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

1 month ago

479 upvotes – 201 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google

1 month ago

469 upvotes – 313 comments

Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html

1 month ago

461 upvotes – 526 comments
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