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

5 months ago

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/

5 months ago

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

https://explorer.samismith.com/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

★ 92.3k Rust

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/

5 months ago

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

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

5 months ago

The Zulip Foundation

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

5 months ago

The Sigmoids Won't Save You

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

5 months ago

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

https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm

5 months ago

★ 1.6k Python MIT

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

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

5 months ago

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

https://radicle.dev/

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha

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

5 months ago

Erlang/OTP 29.0

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

5 months ago