top 20 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

3 months ago

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://internetarchive.ch/

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

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

3 months ago

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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

3 months ago

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

3 months ago

A History of IDEs at Google

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

3 months ago

Apple is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels

3 months ago

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/

3 months ago

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

3 months ago

★ 423 Go MIT

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging

3 months ago

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder

3 months ago

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014

3 months ago

Getting Arrested in Japan

https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan

3 months ago

FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc

3 months ago

Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp

3 months ago

★ 141 Rust