top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-11

TanStack NPM Packages Compromised

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

3 months ago

★ 14.3k TypeScript MIT

I'm going back to writing code by hand

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

3 months ago

If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?

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

3 months ago

GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values

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

3 months ago

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

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

3 months ago

Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

https://ratty-term.org/

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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

3 months ago

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Interaction Models

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

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

3 months ago

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/

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

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

3 months ago

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/

3 months ago

Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

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

3 months ago

Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-microsoft-israel-chief-leaves-amid-ethical-controversy-1001542602

3 months ago

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/

3 months ago

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/

3 months ago

Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway

3 months ago

★ 787 Go MIT

Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

https://github.com/mamba-studio/TypedMemory

3 months ago

★ 128 Java Apache-2.0

Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

https://interfaze.ai/blog/interfaze-a-new-model-architecture-built-for-high-accuracy-at-scale

3 months ago

590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/590-000-buyers-paid-59-223500998.html

3 months ago

Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux

https://benstoneonline.com/posts/porting-3d-movie-maker-to-linux/

3 months ago

The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco

https://asymco.com/2026/05/11/the-great-memory-panic-of-2026/

3 months ago

Killed by Apple

https://killedbyapple.theden.sh/

3 months ago

European Money Pours into Palantir

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/branded/2026-04-11/european-money-pours-into-palantir-over-100-asset-managers-and-banks-boost-their-investments-in-the-controversial-tech-company.html

3 months ago

7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/

3 months ago

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI

https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/

3 months ago

Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

https://github.com/ab-613/opengravity

3 months ago

★ 178 CSS GPL-3.0

ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

3 months ago

Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html

3 months ago

Saying Goodbye to one line of APL

https://homewithinnowhere.com/posts/2026-05-10-one-line.html#fnref1

3 months ago

Red Hot Chili Peppers sell music catalogue for $300M

https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-sell-music-catalogue/

3 months ago

What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue

https://www.devas.life/what-a-japanese-cooking-principle-taught-me-about-overcoming-ai-fatigue/

3 months ago

Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted-unlimited-access-to-nhs-patient-data/

3 months ago

Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

https://github.com/adamjgmiller/adamsreview

3 months ago

★ 198 Shell MIT

Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

https://github.com/jameslockman/Griffin-PowerMate-Driver

3 months ago

★ 113 Swift

The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-surprisingly-long-life-of-the

3 months ago

The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tree-house

3 months ago

Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/marco-polo

3 months ago

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work

https://acesounderglass.com/2025/10/13/the-biochemical-beauty-of-retatrutide-how-glp-1s-actually-work/

3 months ago

We Lose Our Friends as We Age

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/friendship-aging/673026/

3 months ago

GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/gm-just-laid-off-hundreds-of-it-workers-to-hire-those-with-stronger-ai-skills/

3 months ago