top 50% 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

US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202pgxx89lo

3 months ago

AI Pointer from DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

3 months ago

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/

3 months ago

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-an-anti-nuclear-anthem

3 months ago

eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/ebay-rejects-gamestop-s-56-billion-takeover-as-not-credible

3 months ago

Software Internals Book Club

https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html

3 months ago

EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

3 months ago

Claude Platform on AWS

https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws

3 months ago

Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html

3 months ago

Coursera and Udemy are now one company

https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-comprehensive-skills-platform/

3 months ago

UnDUNE II

https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2

3 months ago

Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data

https://github.com/gyroflow/gyroflow

3 months ago

★ 8.7k Rust GPL-3.0

Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/

3 months ago

The Rise of the Bullshittery

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/

3 months ago

Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?

https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650

3 months ago

When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/

3 months ago

Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room

https://thenoisyroom.com

3 months ago

Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/nearly-50-years-later-wkrp-in-cincinnati-becomes-a-real-radio-station.html

3 months ago

Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=372

3 months ago

Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

https://github.com/statewright/statewright

3 months ago

★ 335 Rust

Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us

https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab

3 months ago

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

https://dynomight.net/lifespan/

3 months ago

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321

3 months ago

Houses are for living, not for speculation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_are_for_living,_not_for_speculation

3 months ago

Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production

https://gagadget.com/en/709729-unitree-gd01-chinas-537k-rideable-transformer-robot-is-now-in-production/

3 months ago

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper

3 months ago

I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

https://gardinerbryant.com/i-bought-a-junk-psp-from-japan-heres-how-it-went/

3 months ago

A HN post with negative points – how?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663

3 months ago

YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey

3 months ago

★ 3.4k MIT