top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-25

Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

5 months ago

Using AI to write better code more slowly

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/

5 months ago

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

5 months ago

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk

5 months ago

Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/six-search-engines-worth-trying-now-that-google-isnt-really-google-anymore/

5 months ago

The Cost of Safetyism

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism

5 months ago

Jony Ive's Ferrari

https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce

5 months ago

The Eternal Sloptember

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html

5 months ago

Hacker News front page as a site

https://thefrontpage.dev/

5 months ago

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout

5 months ago

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/

5 months ago

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/

5 months ago

Leave Me Behind

http://androidessence.com/leave-me-behind/

5 months ago

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/

5 months ago

Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910

5 months ago

Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore

https://unix.foo/posts/nobody-cracks-open-a-programming-book/

5 months ago

Jira Is Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html

5 months ago

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

5 months ago

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/

5 months ago

Founder of 7/11 Japan, Toshifumi Suzuki, has died at age 93

https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Suzuki-Toshifumi-1932.html

5 months ago

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files

5 months ago

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality

https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/

5 months ago

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

https://eualternative.eu/guides/bootstrapper-free-tier-eu-stack/

5 months ago

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-online-age-pointless-privacy.html

5 months ago

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia

https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-plans-for-244-acre-data-center-in-caledonia-after-community-pushback

5 months ago

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/

5 months ago

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude

https://support.apple.com/en-us/127115

5 months ago

Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization"

https://variety.com/2026/biz/global/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-algorithms-threaten-dehumanisation-1236758186/

5 months ago

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

https://futurumgroup.com/insights/2-billion-chips-act-investment-in-quantum-bets-on-ibms-300mm-superconducting-silicon/

5 months ago

The Ask

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-ask/

5 months ago

The Most Unlikely School Bag

https://www.carryology.com/insights/carry-culture/the-tale-of-the-worlds-most-unlikely-school-bag/

5 months ago

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/

5 months ago

★ 287 Python

C array types are weird

https://anselmschueler.com/blogposts/2025-c-pointers/

5 months ago

Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/climate/new-orleans-sea-level-rise-relocation

5 months ago

What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable

https://www.servethehome.com/what-is-a-direct-attach-copper-dac-cable/

5 months ago

My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck

https://alexanderbjoy.com/horse-race-board-game/

5 months ago

US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/uss-big-bet-on-quantum-computing-may-not-be-entirely-legal/

5 months ago

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

https://medcurity.com/hipaa-security-rule-2026-update/

5 months ago

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

https://github.com/tantara/openbrief

5 months ago

★ 376 TypeScript AGPL-3.0