top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-11

TanStack NPM Packages Compromised

https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383

1 month ago

★ 14.3kTypeScriptMIT
1094 upvotes – 464 comments

I'm going back to writing code by hand

https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/

1 month ago

1025 upvotes – 615 comments

If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?

https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055

1 month ago

918 upvotes – 980 comments

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

1 month ago

702 upvotes – 282 comments

GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

1 month ago

702 upvotes – 679 comments

Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

https://ratty-term.org/

1 month ago

676 upvotes – 244 comments

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082

1 month ago

634 upvotes – 516 comments

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/

1 month ago

492 upvotes – 762 comments

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage

https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage

1 month ago

447 upvotes – 102 comments

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html

1 month ago

424 upvotes – 118 comments

The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene

https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html

1 month ago

363 upvotes – 192 comments

Interaction Models

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/

1 month ago

331 upvotes – 53 comments

"Cannot be explained" – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510030950.htm

1 month ago

314 upvotes – 147 comments

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/

1 month ago

284 upvotes – 168 comments

I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/

1 month ago

276 upvotes – 285 comments

All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html

1 month ago

263 upvotes – 190 comments

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. To Find a Major Software Flaw

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html

1 month ago

243 upvotes – 177 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter

1 month ago

238 upvotes – 50 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/

1 month ago

225 upvotes – 72 comments

Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html

1 month ago

200 upvotes – 80 comments
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