top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-19

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

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

5 months ago

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

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

5 months ago

Gemini 3.5 Flash

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

5 months ago

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

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

5 months ago

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

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

5 months ago

New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

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

5 months ago

Google changes its search box

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

5 months ago

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

https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge

5 months ago

★ 1.8k Python MIT

Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

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

5 months ago

Disney Erased FiveThirtyEight

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

5 months ago

OpenBSD 7.9 Released

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

5 months ago

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

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

5 months ago

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

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

5 months ago

Remove AI Watermarks

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

5 months ago

★ 2.5k Python MIT

Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Gemini Omni

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

5 months ago

Peter Neumann has died

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

5 months ago