top 50% 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/

5 months ago

The worst job interview I ever had

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

5 months ago

GitHub Actions down again today

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

5 months ago

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

The Cost of Owning a Home

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

5 months ago

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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

5 months ago

Cloudflare Flagship

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

5 months ago

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

https://dynip.dev/

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

The User Is Visibly Frustrated

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

What Happened to the Locusts?

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

5 months ago

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

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

5 months ago

Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

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

5 months ago

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

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

5 months ago

Does Anybody Actually Like React?

https://jsx.lol

5 months ago

News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development – Jeff Geerling

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/news-about-raspberry-pi-6-and-microcontroller-development/

5 months ago

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

https://blog.prusa3d.com/our-new-open-source-colormix-model-in-prusaslicer-and-easyprint_136079/

5 months ago

Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/

5 months ago

Language Models Need Sleep

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099

5 months ago

Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml

https://coalton-lang.github.io/

5 months ago

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-human-who-made-the-difference/

5 months ago

Stop Advertising in Your Commits

https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/

5 months ago

Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI

https://wiert.me/2026/05/26/stack-overflows-forum-is-dead-thanks-to-ai-but-the-companys-still-kicking-thanks-to-ai-sherwood-news/

5 months ago

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

https://earthiongame.com/

5 months ago

Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

5 months ago

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275508

5 months ago

A Portentous Reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/

5 months ago

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/

5 months ago

Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes

https://padhye.org/raft-minority/

5 months ago

What Color is Your Function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/

5 months ago

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/docs/en-US/news/v2.5-price-update

5 months ago

Don't Subscribe So Casually

https://thebestworstcase.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-so-casually

5 months ago

From Rust to Ruby

https://xlii.space/eng/from-rust-to-ruby/

5 months ago

It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/it-takes-two-neurons-to-ride-a-bicycle#email-newsletter

5 months ago

BadHost – CVE-2026-48710 Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass

https://mcp-scan.nemesis.services/

5 months ago

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modern-blu-ray-drives-can-now-rip-gamecube-wii-and-xbox-360-games-to-pc-third-party-firmware-unlocks-game-rips-from-physical-media-on-select-players

5 months ago

A New Typst Template for Pandoc

https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2025/typst-templates-for-pandoc/

5 months ago

The Ballad of TIGIT

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit

5 months ago

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/

5 months ago

Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd

https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

5 months ago

Incident with Actions and Pages

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gnftqj9htp0g

5 months ago

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View"

https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/

5 months ago

I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty

https://theguptalog.blogspot.com/2026/04/i-bypassed-aws-api-gateway-auth-with.html

5 months ago

Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/26/ferrari-luce-ev-jony-ive-design-sports-car

5 months ago

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

https://retrogamecoders.com/zero-lines-maze/

5 months ago

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war

https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/docs/en-US/welcome

5 months ago

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves

5 months ago

Interleaved Deltas

https://mmapped.blog/posts/51-interleaved-deltas

5 months ago

Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-05-26-eagle-3-1

5 months ago

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

https://www.core77.com/posts/143832/An-Obsessive-Focus-on-UX-Pilots-Pressure-Regulating-Kire-Na-Highlighter

5 months ago

Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-childfree-adults-to-pay-more-for-elder-care/live-77292208

5 months ago

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog

5 months ago

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, incl violent assaults on cops

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5834992

5 months ago

Real wages start to shrink in developed countries

https://www.ft.com/content/e126f744-3db9-4305-8871-31f83ebc4ed7

5 months ago

Show HN: A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes

https://congress.kadoa.com/

5 months ago