top 20 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

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

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

5 months ago

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

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

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

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

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

5 months ago

Google Declaring War on the Web

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

5 months ago

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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

5 months ago

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

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

5 months ago

Flipper One Tech Specs

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

5 months ago

Apparently Google hates us now

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

5 months ago

Everything in C is undefined behavior

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

5 months ago

Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report

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

5 months ago

SpaceX S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm

5 months ago

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/

5 months ago

I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene

5 months ago

★ 686 Swift MIT

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

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

5 months ago

Declining America

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/19/Declining-America

5 months ago

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

https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/

5 months ago

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

5 months ago