1096
595
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
727
357
Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian
https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
★ 2.8k Go MIT– 5 months ago
567
447
Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
564
205
Garry Tan, the CEO of venture YC, accused me of unethical reporting
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-journalism
531
382
Anthropic Acquires Stainless
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
499
237
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai
492
96
How fast is N tokens per second really?
https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
379
399
Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-ceo-booed-graduation-speech-ai-rcna345585
373
271
We let AIs run radio stations
https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
370
100
Click
https://clickclickclick.click/
360
141
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
347
686
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
339
236
Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html
338
146
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/
325
135
I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)
https://github.com/stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove
★ 602 JavaScript – 5 months ago
323
118
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2
316
764
There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'
https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
305
172
Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf
292
235
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
289
225
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/2056415413077233983
274
372
Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/
273
319
Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/
253
97
Qwen 3.7 Preview
https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753
233
64
'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o
220
Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI
216
104
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
213
46
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
187
94
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
182
121
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release
★ 190 CC0-1.0– 5 months ago
272
New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC
https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-hochul-tax-rich-a30833850bfdbd638634def266ca76dd
167
168
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
165
120
Your Most Improbable Life
https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/your-most-improbable-life
162
65
What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/
158
17
Learn Harness Engineering
https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/
156
85
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
154
No More JetBrains Products for Me
https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/jetbrains/
148
44
Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/
143
30
Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-programmer-whose-code-underpins-the-internet/
140
33
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks
133
89
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
61
Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
https://www.waterdictionary.net
132
32
loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE
https://loopmaster.xyz/
130
92
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf
129
35
Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP
https://yes-we-scan.app/details
128
23
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model
https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1
125
45
Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
https://silentshark.app/alpha/
124
19
Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)
https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
136
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
51
Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r
106
102
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
105
42
Why bambu_networking violates the AGPL in Bambu Studio
https://github.com/jarczakpawel/OrcaSlicer-bambulab/blob/main/bambu_agpl.md
★ 631 – 5 months ago
101
103
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/
66
When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/when-kierkegaard-got-cancelled
52
Don't Answer the First Question
https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/
95
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/
The Mercury logic programming system
https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury
★ 1k Mercury – 5 months ago
91
18
Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint
https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus
88
Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors
https://zanestjohn.com/blog/reing-with-claude-code
8
When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration
https://github.com/deng-ai-lab/SFHformer
★ 182 Python MIT– 5 months ago
81
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160
78
41
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
74
11
Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch
https://baltazarstudios.com/calculator/
14
Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++
https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/GOLDE/
Don't Sign in with Google
https://twitter.com/the_smart_ape/status/2055941633179283523
72
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/
71
80
Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
https://www.advanced-research.net/180db
At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6pz60p996o
