top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-19

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

2 months ago

1428 upvotes – 617 comments

I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

2 months ago

969 upvotes – 224 comments

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/

2 months ago

961 upvotes – 657 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/

2 months ago

800 upvotes – 587 comments

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets

2 months ago

785 upvotes – 245 comments

New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/

2 months ago

726 upvotes – 382 comments

Google changes its search box

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/

2 months ago

699 upvotes – 932 comments

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge

2 months ago

★ 1.8kPythonMIT
687 upvotes – 252 comments

Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849

2 months ago

529 upvotes – 200 comments

Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/

2 months ago

498 upvotes – 244 comments

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/

2 months ago

476 upvotes – 182 comments

Disney Erased FiveThirtyEight

https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight

2 months ago

457 upvotes – 260 comments

OpenBSD 7.9 Released

https://www.openbsd.org/79.html

2 months ago

416 upvotes – 308 comments

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/

2 months ago

404 upvotes – 210 comments

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/

2 months ago

390 upvotes – 310 comments

Remove AI Watermarks

https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks

2 months ago

★ 2.5kPythonMIT
385 upvotes – 258 comments

Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack

https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai

2 months ago

337 upvotes – 98 comments

OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/

2 months ago

332 upvotes – 180 comments

Gemini Omni

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/

2 months ago

323 upvotes – 146 comments

Peter Neumann has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html

2 months ago

315 upvotes – 25 comments
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