top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-14

Removing the Modem and GPS from My 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/

3 months ago

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412

3 months ago

★ 92.1k Rust

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/

3 months ago

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055

3 months ago

MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students

https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline

3 months ago

God Damn AI is making me dumb

https://jpain.io/god-damn-ai-is-making-me-dumb/

3 months ago

Claude for Small Business

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business

3 months ago

'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o

3 months ago

Work with Codex from Anywhere

https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/

3 months ago

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption

3 months ago

New Nginx Exploit

https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift

3 months ago

★ 773 Python

A Few Words on DS4

https://antirez.com/news/165

3 months ago

Scorched Earth 2000 is back

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/

3 months ago

Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-trader-recovers-usd400-000-using-claude-ai-after-losing-wallet-password-11-years-ago-bot-tried-3-5-trillion-passwords-before-decrypting-an-old-wallet-backup

3 months ago

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771

3 months ago

Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-bitlocker-protected-drives-can-now-be-opened-with-just-some-files-on-a-usb-stick-yellowkey-zero-day-exploit-demonstrates-an-apparent-backdoor

3 months ago

Cisco Workforce Reductions

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/our-path-forward

3 months ago

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-harvest-1972-due-plains-drought

3 months ago

A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

3 months ago

★ 1.9k Shell CC-BY-4.0

More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html

3 months ago