top 20 hacker news stories for today

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

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

8 hours ago

847 upvotes – 358 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

8 hours ago

845 upvotes – 678 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

6 hours ago

598 upvotes – 384 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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

21 hours ago

598 upvotes – 318 comments

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

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

20 hours ago

544 upvotes – 344 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

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

10 hours ago

537 upvotes – 210 comments

Everything in C is undefined behavior

https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html

15 hours ago

452 upvotes – 597 comments

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/

10 hours ago

357 upvotes – 128 comments

Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/

19 hours ago

356 upvotes – 78 comments

Apparently Google hates us now

https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250

4 hours ago

355 upvotes – 178 comments

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

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

2 hours ago

354 upvotes – 223 comments

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/college-students-drown-out-ai-praising-commencement-speeches-with-boos-deal-with-it-one-speaker-fires-back-as-students-heckle-positive-pitches-for-ais-role

9 hours ago

344 upvotes – 344 comments

Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage

12 hours ago

330 upvotes – 199 comments

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan

19 hours ago

327 upvotes – 148 comments

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html

9 hours ago

266 upvotes – 116 comments

GitHub Compromised

https://twitter.com/i/status/2056949168208552080

17 hours ago

260 upvotes – 6 comments

Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/

8 hours ago

226 upvotes – 184 comments

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results

10 hours ago

215 upvotes – 158 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/

7 hours ago

214 upvotes – 67 comments

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/

15 hours ago

154 upvotes – 42 comments
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