top 10 hacker news stories for today

The Morale of Tech Workers Is Plunging as Layoffs Mount

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/tech-layoffs-blind.html

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 3 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/

13 hours ago

444 upvotes – 199 comments

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/

1 day ago

428 upvotes – 149 comments

wake up! 16b

https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html

1 day ago

410 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/

21 hours ago

309 upvotes – 130 comments

Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier?

https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US

22 hours ago

302 upvotes – 182 comments

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares

9 hours ago

297 upvotes – 318 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/

1 day ago

268 upvotes – 149 comments

Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity

https://scienceaim.com/australia-just-proved-the-four-day-work-week-works-here-is-what-the-data-actually-says/

7 hours ago

235 upvotes – 198 comments

Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend

https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/

7 hours ago

230 upvotes – 173 comments
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