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

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

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

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

1 month ago

425 upvotes – 399 comments

Apple is increasing my cortisol levels

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

1 month ago

396 upvotes – 283 comments

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

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

1 month ago

353 upvotes – 133 comments

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

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

1 month ago

★ 423GoMIT
292 upvotes – 85 comments

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

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

1 month ago

282 upvotes – 133 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder

1 month ago

274 upvotes – 83 comments

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

1 month ago

265 upvotes – 129 comments

Getting Arrested in Japan

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

1 month ago

258 upvotes – 320 comments

FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()

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

1 month ago

225 upvotes – 107 comments

Rust but Lisp

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

1 month ago

★ 141Rust
218 upvotes – 74 comments
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