top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-15

Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578

2 months ago

2102 upvotes – 1267 comments

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/

2 months ago

1233 upvotes – 280 comments

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/

2 months ago

601 upvotes – 387 comments

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/

2 months ago

595 upvotes – 484 comments

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

https://explorer.samismith.com/

2 months ago

538 upvotes – 122 comments

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719

2 months ago

★ 92.3kRust
488 upvotes – 345 comments

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/

2 months ago

475 upvotes – 367 comments

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html

2 months ago

448 upvotes – 240 comments

Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks

https://www.fastcompany.com/91541586/amazon-workers-pressured-to-up-ai-use-extraneous-tasks

2 months ago

398 upvotes – 433 comments

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208

2 months ago

390 upvotes – 171 comments

The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program

https://turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of-ai

2 months ago

362 upvotes – 285 comments

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 130 comments

The Zulip Foundation

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/

2 months ago

314 upvotes – 80 comments

The Sigmoids Won't Save You

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you

2 months ago

307 upvotes – 286 comments

Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks

https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm

2 months ago

★ 1.6kPythonMIT
283 upvotes – 68 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 59 comments

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

https://radicle.dev/

2 months ago

273 upvotes – 93 comments

Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site

https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down

2 months ago

269 upvotes – 141 comments

Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha

https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php

2 months ago

267 upvotes – 104 comments

Erlang/OTP 29.0

https://www.erlang.org/news/188

2 months ago

257 upvotes – 61 comments
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