top 20 hacker news stories for today

Technology creates an illusion of control that risks robbing us of meaning

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/editorials/punkt-losing-traction

39 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

917 upvotes – 387 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

12 hours ago

892 upvotes – 703 comments

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

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

6 hours ago

690 upvotes – 491 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

10 hours ago

659 upvotes – 442 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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

1 day ago

606 upvotes – 326 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

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

14 hours ago

603 upvotes – 242 comments

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

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

1 day ago

547 upvotes – 348 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/

11 hours ago

502 upvotes – 172 comments

Everything in C is undefined behavior

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

19 hours ago

474 upvotes – 618 comments

Apparently Google hates us now

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

8 hours ago

423 upvotes – 228 comments

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/

14 hours ago

396 upvotes – 143 comments

Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report

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

16 hours ago

383 upvotes – 225 comments

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

https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/

23 hours ago

362 upvotes – 78 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

13 hours ago

354 upvotes – 358 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

23 hours ago

340 upvotes – 155 comments

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

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

13 hours ago

308 upvotes – 132 comments

Google Declaring War on the Web

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

3 hours ago

308 upvotes – 191 comments

GitHub Compromised

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

20 hours ago

260 upvotes – 6 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

14 hours ago

250 upvotes – 172 comments
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