top 50% 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

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-e-readers-2026-05-19/

5 months ago

Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html

5 months ago

Google I/O

https://io.google/2026/

5 months ago

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

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

5 months ago

Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html

5 months ago

The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store

https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/05/the-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-toy-store/

5 months ago

Why is almost everyone right-handed?

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why-is-almost-everyone-right-handed-the-answer-may-lie-in-how-we-learned-to-walk

5 months ago

AI Is Too Expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

5 months ago

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/28/gcc-16-improved-error-messages-sarif-output

5 months ago

PHP's Oddities

https://flowtwo.io/post/php%27s-oddities

5 months ago

Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/05/19/copy-fail-fragnesia-vulnerabilities.html

5 months ago

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars

https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/fender-cease-and-desist-lsl-instruments

5 months ago

The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529

5 months ago

Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

https://apnews.com/article/ai-college-commencement-anxiety-boo-35aec9bac660eaeb05c5b8d392db2cac

5 months ago

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.70079

5 months ago

Colonization of Venus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus

5 months ago

Google Search as you know it is over

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

5 months ago

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/

5 months ago

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-that-ive-witnessed-u-s-cybersecurity-agency-leaves-its-digital-keys-out-in-public-on-github-2000760330

5 months ago

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/go-http2-cleartext-h2c-cloud-run

5 months ago

Codex-Maxxing

https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/

5 months ago

War Game Exposed U.S. Vulnerability to Low-Tech Warfare

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2024-11-01/rigged-war-game-exposed-us-vulnerability-low-tech-warfare

5 months ago

PyTorch Landscape

https://pytorch.landscape2.io

5 months ago

The TTY Demystified (2008)

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

5 months ago

Railway Is Having a Major Outage

https://status.railway.com/#/

5 months ago

Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/anthropic-ipo-developers-should-be-worried-v2/

5 months ago

Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

https://setpose.com/

5 months ago

All the bugs they found

https://andreapivetta.com/posts/all-the-bugs-they-found.html

5 months ago

What Is Happening to Publishing?

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publishing

5 months ago

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

https://vas-blog.pages.dev/qwen-censorship/

5 months ago

Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/iran-demands-big-tech-pay-fees-for-undersea-internet-cables-in-strait-of-hormuz/

5 months ago

'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/18/big-tech-monopolies-democracy-mordecai-kurz

5 months ago

IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-struggles-to-throttle-endless-feed-of-soldiers-posting-misdeeds-on-social-media/

5 months ago