top 20 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/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

★ 2.8k Go MIT

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Anthropic Acquires Stainless

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/

5 months ago

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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

5 months ago

We let AIs run radio stations

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

5 months ago

Click

https://clickclickclick.click/

5 months ago

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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

5 months ago

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

★ 602 JavaScript

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2

5 months ago

There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/

5 months ago

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf

5 months ago

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html

5 months ago

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/2056415413077233983

5 months ago