1429
1053
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
5 months ago
1079
469
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE
https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190
1054
460
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/
958
776
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
768
513
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
720
290
Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7
636
443
Google Declaring War on the Web
https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/
634
339
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
559
357
Railway Blocked by Google Cloud
https://status.railway.com/?date=20260519
523
177
Flipper One Tech Specs
https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
507
253
Apparently Google hates us now
https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250
505
715
Everything in C is undefined behavior
https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
456
265
Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report
https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
377
SpaceX S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm
448
189
Map of Metal
https://mapofmetal.com/
427
106
I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
★ 686 Swift MIT– 5 months ago
409
158
Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
384
175
Declining America
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/19/Declining-America
380
88
Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/
379
386
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
364
166
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
356
223
My two-part desk setup
https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
355
81
DOS Zone
https://dos.zone/
215
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
306
351
Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
https://xcancel.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
303
54
The Letter S, by Donald Knuth [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
280
232
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/
268
82
A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft
262
6
GitHub Compromised
https://twitter.com/i/status/2056949168208552080
226
79
Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
https://legiscan.com/CO/bill/SB051/2026
225
211
Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves
https://spader.zone/sp/
201
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
https://www.science.org/content/article/not-alive-not-dead-disembodied-human-brains-used-drug-testing
213
154
None of Starbucks' 'Widely Recyclable' Cups Ended Up at a Recycling Facility
https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
205
407
OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-preparing-to-file-for-an-ipo-very-soon-0ec95af5
197
124
Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/missile-genius-america-lost-and-china-gained
190
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/01/rust-with-ai.html
180
105
Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210590
176
48
Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/
161
11
SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)
https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/
153
Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success
https://pacifichorticulture.org/articles/mycorrhizal-fungi-natures-key-to-plant-survival-and-success/
49
Why is Inkwell stuck in review
https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html
151
61
Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.0.0
146
15
The Quadratic Sandwich
https://fedemagnani.github.io/math/2026/04/08/the-quadratic-sandwich.html
145
41
Wi-Wi Is Wireless Time Sync at 1 Nanosecond
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/wi-wi-is-wireless-time-sync-less-than-5ns/
144
34
Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
https://reubenbrooks.dev/blog/structural-backpressure-beats-smarter-agents/
123
21
Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler
https://github.com/ClickHouse/silk
★ 189 C++ – 5 months ago
120
46
Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof
https://horses.extension.org/blood-pumping-mechanism-of-the-hoof/
108
Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12
109
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban
https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban/
118
112
India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indias-hottest-district-banda-shuts-at-10-am-as-mercury-breaches-48-degrees-celsius-mark-101779240653594.html
117
Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-i-choose-which-cloudflare-employees-to-replace-with-ai-40a197e5
115
13
New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/
107
59
The surprising story behind the first British person in space
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260518-helen-sharman-the-story-behind-the-first-british-person-in-space
103
45
Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-science-spaghetti-neutron-gluten-free.html
102
32
Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hormuz-closure-could-trigger-agrifood-shock-price-crisis-within-year-fao-warns-2026-05-20/
99
18
Stable Audio 3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991
26
ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor
https://arcbrush.com/
98
I Don't Vibe Code
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code
97
Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos
https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap
★ 240 Python Apache-2.0– 5 months ago
96
23
Testing distributed systems with AI agents
https://github.com/shenli/distributed-system-testing
★ 206 MIT– 5 months ago
95
7
Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs
https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/comparing-an-lz4-decompressor-on-four-legacy-cpus/
94
56
America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen
https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/americas-greatest-strategic-blunder-the-imprisonment-of-qian-xuesen
90
70
Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates
https://www.macobserver.com/news/ex-apple-software-engineer-claims-apple-deliberately-slows-down-old-iphone-models/
