top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-12

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

3 months ago

Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook

https://googlebook.google/

3 months ago

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise

3 months ago

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle

3 months ago

★ 2.2k Python MIT

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/

3 months ago

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab

3 months ago

★ 5.9k C++ AGPL-3.0

Learning Software Architecture

https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html

3 months ago

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker

3 months ago

★ 422 JavaScript GPL-3.0

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/

3 months ago

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html

3 months ago

How to make your text look futuristic

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/

3 months ago

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/

3 months ago

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

3 months ago

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to Keep Wayback Machine

https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

3 months ago

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol

3 months ago

Operation: Epic Furious

https://www.epicfurious.com/

3 months ago

Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare

3 months ago

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html

3 months ago

Scrcpy v4.0

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0

3 months ago

★ 141.9k C Apache-2.0

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers

3 months ago