top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-23

Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality

5 months ago

It's time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/

5 months ago

On The <dl>

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/

5 months ago

The Art of Money Getting

https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/

5 months ago

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

https://xcancel.com/josefprusa/status/2054602354851254330

5 months ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnea(2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/

5 months ago

Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

5 months ago

Italy Cancels Boeing Pegasus Order, Shifting to Airbus A330 MRTT

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/italy-moves-to-airbus-a330-tankers-in-major-nato-aligned-shift

5 months ago

80386 Microcode Disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

5 months ago

Is AI Profitable Yet?

https://isaiprofitable.com/

5 months ago

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old-son

5 months ago

I Miss Terry Pratchett

https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/

5 months ago

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

5 months ago

Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order

https://torrentfreak.com/spanish-court-declines-to-fine-nordvpn-over-laliga-piracy-blocking-order/

5 months ago

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/

5 months ago

The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-fbi-license-plate-reader-real-time-access/

5 months ago

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/

5 months ago

- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev

https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/

5 months ago

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html

5 months ago

FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware

5 months ago

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

https://github.com/amatsuda/rubish

5 months ago

★ 267 Ruby MIT

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-25-million-iris-scanning

5 months ago

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data

https://www.thonking.ai/p/strangely-matrix-multiplications

5 months ago

CA declares state of emergency as fire crews race to contain toxic chemical leak

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w2l249j8go

5 months ago

Don't Roll Your Own

https://susam.net/do-not-roll-your-own.html

5 months ago

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)

https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/

5 months ago

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the rust rewrite

https://twitter.com/i/status/2058064720553222567

5 months ago

Judson's Last Ride

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/22/judsons_last_ride_154150.html

5 months ago

DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost

https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely

5 months ago

My I3-Emacs Integration

https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html

5 months ago

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/

5 months ago

Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qmdvmq6o

5 months ago

Opaque Types in Python

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html

5 months ago

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html

5 months ago

Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak-now-third-largest-recorded-and-spreading-rapidly/

5 months ago

Lisp in Vim (2019)

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html

5 months ago

A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick)

https://old.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1td7yxl/i_built_a_fully_selfpowered_computer_in_actual/

5 months ago

The Steinwinter Supercargo

https://www.thedrive.com/article/12603/the-forgotten-steinwinter-supercargo-is-unlike-anything-on-the-road-today

5 months ago

New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us/

5 months ago

JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it

https://www.dusanmalusev.dev/blog/jwt-is-a-scam-and-your-app-doesnt-need-it

5 months ago

An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE"

https://twitter.com/LarryBundyJr/status/2058140468219707566

5 months ago

Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun

https://singularityhub.com/2026/05/22/data-centers-now-consume-6-of-electricity-in-the-us-and-the-backlash-has-begun/

5 months ago

Iowa lawmakers to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes

https://www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/iowa-lawmakers-move-mandate-students-take-center-intellectual-freedom-classes-amid-low-enrollment/

5 months ago

Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03066-1

5 months ago

New Attack "Megaladon" Compromises 5.5K+ GitHub Repos

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/22/megalodon-chums-the-waters-in-55k-github-repo-poisonings/5245342

5 months ago