top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-21

Flipper One – we need your help

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

5 months ago

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

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

5 months ago

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

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

5 months ago

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

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

5 months ago

No Slop Grenade

https://noslopgrenade.com/

5 months ago

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

AI is killing the cheap smartphone

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

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

5 months ago

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

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

5 months ago

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

https://freenet.org/

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

Hating AI Is Good

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

5 months ago

Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

BBEdit 16

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

5 months ago

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

https://veroniiiica.com/using-kagi-search-with-low-vision/

5 months ago

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221896

5 months ago

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/

5 months ago

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

https://www.wired.com/story/a-bipartisan-amendment-would-end-police-license-plate-tracking-nationwide/

5 months ago

US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions

5 months ago

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/

5 months ago

Google Is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-Ification of Google?)

https://zeroshot.bearblog.dev/google-is-shattering-under-its-own-weight-the-ibm-ification-of-google/

5 months ago

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir

5 months ago

Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/

5 months ago

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

https://github.com/helvesec/rmux

5 months ago

★ 1.2k Rust Apache-2.0

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind

5 months ago

★ 234 Rust Apache-2.0

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/spotify-will-start-reserving-concert-tickets-for-superfans-1236603106/

5 months ago

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136

5 months ago

Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6443103

5 months ago

Improving C# Memory Safety

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/improving-csharp-memory-safety/

5 months ago

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518362-earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades/

5 months ago

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460

5 months ago

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/openai-ipo-filing.html

5 months ago

C constructs that still don't work in C++

https://lospino.so/blog/c-constructs-that-still-dont-work-in-cpp/

5 months ago

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230104

5 months ago

Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C

https://github.com/boratanrikulu/gobee

5 months ago

★ 256 Go MIT

Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor

5 months ago

★ 965 TypeScript Apache-2.0

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

https://fatgid.io/

5 months ago

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

https://buffrr.dev/blog/are-we-self-sovereign-pki-yet/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

https://www.runtm.com/

5 months ago

Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026)

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026

5 months ago

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225596

5 months ago

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c

5 months ago

What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one

https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop

5 months ago

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

https://www.calculators.de/

5 months ago

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

https://rivet.dev/blog/2026-02-04-we-reverse-engineered-docker-sandbox-undocumented-microvm-api/

5 months ago

Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

https://colossal.com/colossal-biosciences-artificial-egg-dodo-moa/

5 months ago

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

https://www.thek6project.co.uk/

5 months ago

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

https://fabiensanglard.net/mtg/fun//index.html

5 months ago

AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3mmeysgcjbs2j

5 months ago

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-fabrication

5 months ago

Highest Random Weight in Elixir

https://jola.dev/posts/highest-random-weight-in-elixir

5 months ago

Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/05/getting-an-old-computer-online-with-android-ethernet-tethering/

5 months ago