top 50% 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

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/

3 months 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

3 months ago

718 upvotes – 697 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://internetarchive.ch/

3 months 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/

3 months ago

662 upvotes – 446 comments

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

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

3 months ago

576 upvotes – 297 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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

3 months ago

528 upvotes – 274 comments

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

3 months ago

479 upvotes – 201 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

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

3 months 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

3 months ago

461 upvotes – 526 comments

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

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

3 months ago

425 upvotes – 399 comments

Apple is increasing my cortisol levels

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

3 months 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/

3 months ago

353 upvotes – 133 comments

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
292 upvotes – 85 comments

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

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

3 months ago

282 upvotes – 133 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder

3 months 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

3 months ago

265 upvotes – 129 comments

Getting Arrested in Japan

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

3 months ago

258 upvotes – 320 comments

FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()

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

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 107 comments

Rust but Lisp

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

3 months ago

★ 141 Rust
218 upvotes – 74 comments

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

3 months ago

190 upvotes – 78 comments

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-antibiotics-against-resistant-bacteria/

3 months ago

175 upvotes – 87 comments

Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml

3 months ago

164 upvotes – 106 comments

People Hate AI Art

https://mccue.dev/pages/5-8-26-ai-art

3 months ago

152 upvotes – 176 comments

CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomware-attack-on-44000-servers/

3 months ago

147 upvotes – 78 comments

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/

3 months ago

145 upvotes – 146 comments

Walking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be the Problem

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a

3 months ago

140 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig

3 months ago

★ 260 C GPL-2.0
122 upvotes – 28 comments

Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

http://wii.sjmulder.nl/

3 months ago

108 upvotes – 36 comments

Bun ported to Rust in 6 days

https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310

3 months ago

104 upvotes – 5 comments

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

https://x86.lol/generic/2022/11/26/lanzaboote.html

3 months ago

102 upvotes – 17 comments

Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC

https://github.com/pion/rtwatch

3 months ago

★ 528 Go MIT
97 upvotes – 14 comments

Docker images are MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM

https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/wasm-vs-docker/

3 months ago

96 upvotes – 75 comments

Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics

https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/erlang-counters-and-atomics/

3 months ago

87 upvotes – 4 comments

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/

3 months ago

87 upvotes – 24 comments

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

https://stonetools.ghost.io/pipedream-archimedes/

3 months ago

85 upvotes – 54 comments

Read Programming as Theory Building

https://codeutopia.net/blog/2026/05/09/you-should-read-programming-as-theory-building/

3 months ago

84 upvotes – 19 comments

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)

https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html

3 months ago

82 upvotes – 33 comments

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number

3 months ago

81 upvotes – 105 comments
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