top 50% 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

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

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

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

3 months ago

HDD Firmware Hacking

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465

3 months ago

The Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/

3 months ago

Hindenburg's Smoking Room

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/

3 months ago

Claude for Legal

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal

3 months ago

★ 7.4k Python Apache-2.0

Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada

3 months ago

Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/

3 months ago

Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-business-dealings-under-gop-scrutiny-ahead-of-openais-ipo-52c1cc4d

3 months ago

What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

https://nobodywho.ooo/posts/whats-in-a-gguf/

3 months ago

The AI Zombification of Universities

https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification

3 months ago

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html

3 months ago

Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/

3 months ago

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/

3 months ago

The Third Hard Problem

https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem

3 months ago

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/13/disgruntled-researcher-releases-two-more-microsoft-zero-days/5239758

3 months ago

Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

https://classic7.lol/

3 months ago

High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy

3 months ago

RISC-V Router

https://router.start9.com/

3 months ago

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connector-part-2-bypassing

3 months ago

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/

3 months ago

Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus

https://www.edna.land/blogs/posts/scanning/

3 months ago

Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/14/Cuba-says-oil-reserves-totally-drained/9311778746907/

3 months ago

Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay

https://numa.rs/blog/posts/odoh-anonymous-dns-without-an-account.html

3 months ago

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562

3 months ago

Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership

3 months ago

WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096

3 months ago

★ 7.5k C++ MIT

The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-eu-backs-italys-right-to-make-meta-pay-for-news/

3 months ago

Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1

3 months ago

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/

3 months ago

The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle

3 months ago

Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/ay/d5ay01801c

3 months ago

Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory

https://hghalebi.github.io/category_theory_transformer_rs/

3 months ago

Show HN: Nibble

https://github.com/glouw/nibble

3 months ago

★ 98 C MIT

Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderlanddead

https://storica.club/blog/alice-is-math-jokes/

3 months ago

LLM Policy for Rust Compiler

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040

3 months ago

★ 538 Rust Apache-2.0

OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control

https://www.openvehicles.com/home

3 months ago

The Other Half of AI Safety

https://personalaisafety.com/p/the-other-half-of-ai-safety

3 months ago

DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350

http://un0rick.cc/pic0rick

3 months ago

Grok Build

https://x.ai/news/grok-build-cli

3 months ago

You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It

https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/you-dont-align-an-ai-you-align-with-it

3 months ago

Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tcrmjs/rewrite_bun_in_rust_has_been_merged/

3 months ago

delta time

https://www.deltatime.life/

3 months ago

After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

https://github.com/noahgolmant/pytorch-hessian-eigenthings

3 months ago

★ 466 Python MIT

The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/14/1220

3 months ago

Myths about /dev/urandom

https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

3 months ago

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/points-are-a-weird-and-inconsistent-unit-of/

3 months ago

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

https://twitter.com/jediwolf/status/2054776716770320631

3 months ago

SQLite Code of Ethics

https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

3 months ago

Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain

https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

3 months ago

Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/linux-kernel-startup/

3 months ago

Scientists ID 'corkscrew killer' behind gruesome seal deaths

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-id-corkscrew-killer-behind-gruesome-seal-deaths

3 months ago

On The Conflation of Money and Things

https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/

3 months ago

German intelligence offices snub Palantir software

https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-offices-snub-us-based-palantir-software/a-77160897

3 months ago

LinkedIn Fanfiction

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_137_linkedin_fanfiction/

3 months ago

New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-california-pension-leaders-oppose-extreme-spacex-control-structure-2026-05-14/

3 months ago

Have a Coherent AI Policy

https://brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/have-a-coherent-ai-policy/

3 months ago

Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134808

3 months ago

Arena AI Model ELO History

https://mayerwin.github.io/AI-Arena-History/

3 months ago

What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?

https://tohippo.com/what-the-hell-was-going-on-with-cigarette-ads-in-the-70s/

3 months ago

They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."

https://nateglubish.substack.com/p/they-said-it-would-cost-54-million

3 months ago