top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-21

Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/

2 months ago

1264 upvotes – 482 comments

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/

2 months ago

1195 upvotes – 243 comments

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

https://axelk.ee/ai-is-just-unauthorised-plagiarism-at-a-bigger-scale/

2 months ago

822 upvotes – 735 comments

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch

2 months ago

768 upvotes – 341 comments

No Slop Grenade

https://noslopgrenade.com/

2 months ago

712 upvotes – 417 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html

2 months ago

663 upvotes – 103 comments

Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/

2 months ago

630 upvotes – 572 comments

AI is killing the cheap smartphone

https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone

2 months ago

543 upvotes – 649 comments

Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/

2 months ago

491 upvotes – 205 comments

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/

2 months ago

470 upvotes – 142 comments

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html

2 months ago

429 upvotes – 219 comments

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test

2 months ago

423 upvotes – 121 comments

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

https://freenet.org/

2 months ago

388 upvotes – 269 comments

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/

2 months ago

373 upvotes – 231 comments

Hating AI Is Good

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually

2 months ago

371 upvotes – 537 comments

Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/

2 months ago

370 upvotes – 246 comments

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/

2 months ago

367 upvotes – 474 comments

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/uv-ux-mess/

2 months ago

334 upvotes – 149 comments

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-access-to-their-journalism/

2 months ago

332 upvotes – 124 comments

BBEdit 16

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 112 comments
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