top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-05-20

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

5 months ago

1429 upvotes – 1053 comments

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE

https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190

5 months ago

1079 upvotes – 469 comments

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/

5 months ago

1054 upvotes – 460 comments

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html

5 months ago

958 upvotes – 776 comments

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment

5 months ago

768 upvotes – 513 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7

5 months ago

720 upvotes – 290 comments

Google Declaring War on the Web

https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/

5 months ago

636 upvotes – 443 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685

5 months ago

634 upvotes – 339 comments

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

https://status.railway.com/?date=20260519

5 months ago

559 upvotes – 357 comments

Flipper One Tech Specs

https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs

5 months ago

523 upvotes – 177 comments
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