top 50% 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/

17 hours ago

965 upvotes – 482 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

★ 1.4kGoMIT
636 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

19 hours ago

520 upvotes – 161 comments

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

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

19 hours ago

469 upvotes – 228 comments

Anthropic Acquires Stainless

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

17 hours ago

455 upvotes – 316 comments

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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

23 hours ago

355 upvotes – 379 comments

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

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

21 hours ago

331 upvotes – 131 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

★ 523JavaScript
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

17 hours ago

315 upvotes – 547 comments

Click

https://clickclickclick.click/

11 hours ago

311 upvotes – 74 comments

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

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

20 hours ago

310 upvotes – 216 comments

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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

16 hours ago

307 upvotes – 105 comments

There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

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

1 day ago

289 upvotes – 714 comments

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/

15 hours ago

285 upvotes – 116 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

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

16 hours ago

269 upvotes – 214 comments

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/

1 day ago

266 upvotes – 354 comments

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/

13 hours ago

239 upvotes – 278 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

235 upvotes – 133 comments

Qwen 3.7 Preview

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753

18 hours ago

233 upvotes – 87 comments

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

11 hours ago

230 upvotes – 146 comments

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o

21 hours ago

221 upvotes – 62 comments

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633

22 hours ago

207 upvotes – 102 comments

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/shutterstock-pay-35-million-settle-ftc-allegations-over-illegal-subscription-cancellation-practices

14 hours ago

168 upvotes – 84 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp

15 hours ago

160 upvotes – 37 comments

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/multiple-commencement-speakers-booed-for-ai-comments-during-graduation-speeches-263486021518

1 day ago

154 upvotes – 165 comments

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

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

17 hours ago

153 upvotes – 108 comments

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/17/enough-with-the-ai-fomo-go-slow-mo-says-domo-cdo/5240840

21 hours ago

152 upvotes – 82 comments

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release

20 hours ago

★ 116CC0-1.0
143 upvotes – 90 comments

New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-hochul-tax-rich-a30833850bfdbd638634def266ca76dd

15 hours ago

142 upvotes – 204 comments

Learn Harness Engineering

https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/

22 hours ago

138 upvotes – 14 comments

No More JetBrains Products for Me

https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/jetbrains/

14 hours ago

134 upvotes – 181 comments

Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai

1 day ago

132 upvotes – 88 comments

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks

22 hours ago

123 upvotes – 31 comments

Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r

1 day ago

115 upvotes – 51 comments

Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/17/middleeast/iran-hormuz-undersea-cables-intl

16 hours ago

112 upvotes – 132 comments

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1

15 hours ago

111 upvotes – 22 comments

loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

https://loopmaster.xyz/

15 hours ago

106 upvotes – 25 comments

Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/you-can-bet-on-it-utah-lawmakers-form-united-front-in-push-to-ban-prediction-markets

23 hours ago

106 upvotes – 100 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf

1 day ago

103 upvotes – 79 comments

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era

https://spacedaily.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-voyager-spacecraft-code-in-a-1970s-era-programming-language-that-almost-nobody-on-earth-fully-understands-anymore-and-the-handful-of-engineers-who-do-are-now-in-their/

23 hours ago

98 upvotes – 100 comments

When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/when-kierkegaard-got-cancelled

22 hours ago

97 upvotes – 55 comments

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/

21 hours ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Don't Answer the First Question

https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/

1 day ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors

https://zanestjohn.com/blog/reing-with-claude-code

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus

16 hours ago

82 upvotes – 18 comments

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

https://www.thescientificdrop.com/2026/05/earths-radio-bubble-every-signal-weve.html

1 day ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Why bambu_networking violates the AGPL in Bambu Studio

https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab/blob/main/bambu_agpl.md

1 day ago

★ 541
67 upvotes – 35 comments

At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6pz60p996o

16 hours ago

67 upvotes – 28 comments

US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

https://electrek.co/2026/05/18/us-bill-would-overcharge-evs-to-pay-for-road-damage-they-arent-doing/

13 hours ago

65 upvotes – 79 comments

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

https://www.osnews.com/story/144985/haiku-os-runs-on-m1-macs-now/

16 hours ago

64 upvotes – 6 comments

Don't Sign in with Google

https://twitter.com/the_smart_ape/status/2055941633179283523

11 hours ago

64 upvotes – 11 comments

Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

https://baltazarstudios.com/calculator/

1 day ago

63 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

https://www.advanced-research.net/180db

15 hours ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-most-spoken-languages-after-english-and-spanish/

1 day ago

62 upvotes – 36 comments
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