top 20 hacker news stories for today

Does Anybody Actually Like React?

https://jsx.lol

21 minutes ago

21 upvotes – 9 comments

Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021)

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400

2 hours ago

10 upvotes – 5 comments

She Can Mentally Time Travel. Why Did Everyone Think She Was Lying?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70866475/teenager-hyperthymesia-memory-condition/

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

An Open Call to Flipper Devices: Problems with Flipper and How They Can Improve

https://spicemesh.de/posts/open-call-to-flipper/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

Trump releases new batch of previously classified UFO files

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/23/trump-releases-new-batch-of-previously-classified-ufo-files

37 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto

https://secvant.com/

31 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)

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

16 hours ago

1347 upvotes – 759 comments

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

7 hours ago

663 upvotes – 295 comments

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/

13 hours ago

533 upvotes – 487 comments

The Eternal Sloptember

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

22 hours ago

445 upvotes – 353 comments

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/

12 hours ago

332 upvotes – 68 comments

Leave Me Behind

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

14 hours ago

323 upvotes – 284 comments

Jira Is Turing-Complete

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

22 hours ago

293 upvotes – 141 comments

Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

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

8 hours ago

270 upvotes – 43 comments

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

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

12 hours ago

266 upvotes – 69 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

203 upvotes – 77 comments

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

9 hours ago

194 upvotes – 266 comments

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

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

4 hours ago

189 upvotes – 39 comments

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

13 hours ago

168 upvotes – 161 comments

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

6 hours ago

165 upvotes – 76 comments
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