top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-22

Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html

5 months ago

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many

5 months ago

If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html

5 months ago

Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda

https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

5 months ago

Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5

5 months ago

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

5 months ago

Yt-dlp – [Announcement] Bun support is now limited and deprecated

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766

5 months ago

★ 166.5k Python Unlicense

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update

5 months ago

Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun

https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun

5 months ago

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/spacex-successfully-launches-prototype-of-starship-rocket-263835205505

5 months ago

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/

5 months ago

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-researchers-face-new-restrictions-publishing-foreign-collaborators

5 months ago

Deno 2.8

https://deno.com/blog/v2.8

5 months ago

The AI Elephant in the Room

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/email/wham-launch-005-elephant-2-p/

5 months ago

Cleve Moler (Matlab, MathWorks) passed away on May 20, 2026

https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html

5 months ago

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tracked-book-production-pipeline/

5 months ago

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

5 months ago

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/lawmakers-demand-answers-as-cisa-tries-to-contain-data-leak/

5 months ago

Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

https://www.kanbots.dev/

5 months ago

Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/

5 months ago

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar

https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126

5 months ago

dotNET (OK, C#) gets union types

https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-2-dotnet-gets-union-types/

5 months ago

Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/how-decades-sleep-research-led-new-sleep-apnea-drug

5 months ago

Use Boring Languages with LLMs

https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/

5 months ago

You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/

5 months ago

How to Convert Between Wealth and Income Tax

https://paulgraham.com/winc.html

5 months ago

The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't

https://libertas.software/en/knowledge-hub/19/the-companies-cutting-headcount-for-ai-will-lose-to-the-ones-who-didnt

5 months ago

Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/

5 months ago

Slumber a TUI HTTP Client

https://slumber.lucaspickering.me

5 months ago

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/adafruit/

5 months ago

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D301917

5 months ago

Don't just paste the AI at me

https://dontquotetheai.com/

5 months ago

Robert X Cringely is back to blogging

https://www.cringely.com/

5 months ago

Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat

5 months ago

★ 316 HTML

I love my Bluetooth keyboard

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/i-love-my-bluetooth-keyboard/

5 months ago

Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgze8n5dxko

5 months ago

A Forth-inspired language for writing websites

https://robida.net/entries/2026/05/21/a-forth-inspired-language-for-writing-websites

5 months ago

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/

5 months ago

Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities

https://github.com/anomalyco/models.dev

5 months ago

★ 4.4k TypeScript MIT

I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/05/i-keep-bouncing-off-the-scheme-language/

5 months ago

Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews

https://shmuplations.com/phantasystariv/

5 months ago

Sales and Dungeons: Thermal Printer Ttrpg Utility

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/

5 months ago

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%E2%80%93Shannon_divergence

5 months ago

TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election

https://www.psypost.org/tiktok-disproportionately-served-anti-democratic-videos-during-the-2024-election-study-finds/

5 months ago

1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation

https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/liquidation-of-simulators

5 months ago

AI errno(2) values

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ai-errno.html

5 months ago

Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/sam-altman-won-in-court-against-elon-musk-but-really-we-all-lost

5 months ago

Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/200-year-old-puzzle-tobacco-plants-nicotine/

5 months ago

The Spread of Christianity Animated

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/the-spread-of-christianity-animated-from-antiquity-until-today.html

5 months ago

A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto

https://security.apple.com/blog/formal-verification-corecrypto/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

https://github.com/superset-sh/superset

5 months ago

★ 11.4k TypeScript

CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19269

5 months ago

Chess Invariants

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/chess-invariants.html

5 months ago

Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware

https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-removes-free-horror-game-from-steam-after-players-discover-it-contains-malware-that-steals-your-data/

5 months ago

Thinking in an Array Language

https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/12-thinking-in-k.md

5 months ago

★ 214 C

Bicycling Boosts Well-Being: A Scoping Review

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2026.1807791/full

5 months ago

USCIS Will Grant 'Adjustment of Status' Only in Extraordinary Circumstances

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-will-grant-adjustment-of-status-only-in-extraordinary

5 months ago

How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/the-open-source-silicon-business

5 months ago

Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/aria-label-generic-elements

5 months ago

Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust

https://tritium.legal/blog/noroboto

5 months ago