top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-26

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/

2 months ago

1082 upvotes – 512 comments

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had

2 months ago

657 upvotes – 550 comments

GitHub Actions down again today

https://www.githubstatus.com/?today

2 months ago

655 upvotes – 1 comments

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/

2 months ago

607 upvotes – 233 comments

Big Tech's Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

2 months ago

575 upvotes – 345 comments

The Cost of Owning a Home

https://ericturner.dev/posts/cost-of-home-ownership/

2 months ago

440 upvotes – 865 comments

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank

2 months ago

431 upvotes – 190 comments

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/

2 months ago

406 upvotes – 232 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html

2 months ago

373 upvotes – 442 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/

2 months ago

349 upvotes – 176 comments

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

https://dynip.dev/

2 months ago

340 upvotes – 128 comments

Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-frontier-labs/

2 months ago

323 upvotes – 371 comments

The User Is Visibly Frustrated

https://pscanf.com/s/354/

2 months ago

305 upvotes – 274 comments

Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/937116/uber-ai-investment-hard-to-justify

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 159 comments

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-strange-melancholy-of-slaying-monsters/

2 months ago

298 upvotes – 144 comments

Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/uber-lyft-drivers-massachusetts-form-first-us-ride-share-union-2026-05-26/

2 months ago

295 upvotes – 205 comments

What Happened to the Locusts?

https://explosion-scratch.github.io/locusts/

2 months ago

285 upvotes – 75 comments

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 109 comments

Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 127 comments

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

https://myzopotamia.dev/navier-stokes-fluid-simulation-explained-with-godot

2 months ago

243 upvotes – 33 comments
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