top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-05-18

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/

15 hours ago

952 upvotes – 467 comments

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md

19 hours ago

★ 1.4kGoMIT
632 upvotes – 309 comments

Garry Tan, the CEO of venture YC, accused me of unethical reporting

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-journalism

18 hours ago

519 upvotes – 159 comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

18 hours ago

468 upvotes – 227 comments

Anthropic Acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless

16 hours ago

450 upvotes – 301 comments

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-ceo-booed-graduation-speech-ai-rcna345585

22 hours ago

354 upvotes – 375 comments

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

19 hours ago

327 upvotes – 130 comments

I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)

https://github.com/stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove

21 hours ago

★ 522JavaScript
321 upvotes – 132 comments

Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Ship Insurance for Hormuz Strait

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-for-hormuz-strait

16 hours ago

311 upvotes – 541 comments

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html

19 hours ago

307 upvotes – 214 comments
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