top 50% hacker news stories for today

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

https://www.gingerlime.com/2026/stripe-seem-friendly-to-friendly-fraud/

1 hour ago

66 upvotes – 18 comments

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-country/

1 hour ago

61 upvotes – 39 comments

Sonny Rollins, Jazz's Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sonny-rollins-jazz-legend-saxophone-colossus-dead-obit-1234715446/

1 hour ago

36 upvotes – 6 comments

Agent Memory: An Anatomy

https://brgsk.xyz/agent-memory-anatomy/

1 hour ago

36 upvotes – 17 comments

Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao – The Anatomy of Ideological Capture

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipedia-whitewashes-mao

1 hour ago

21 upvotes – 5 comments

AI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Judgment – and That's the Point

https://theaileverageweekly.com/posts/your-ai-tools-are-only-as-good-as-your-judgment-and-that-s-the-point.html

2 hours ago

13 upvotes – 6 comments

Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-ebola-kenya.html

55 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 5 comments

theta: a humble approach to harness agnostic configuration

https://github.com/tamarillo-ai/theta

1 hour ago

★ 4Rust
5 upvotes – 1 comments

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/

12 hours ago

780 upvotes – 356 comments

GitHub Actions down again today

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

14 hours ago

648 upvotes – 1 comments

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

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

14 hours ago

531 upvotes – 209 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

365 upvotes – 216 comments

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

https://dynip.dev/

18 hours ago

318 upvotes – 116 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

301 upvotes – 151 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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

12 hours ago

295 upvotes – 326 comments

The Cost of Owning a Home

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

9 hours ago

292 upvotes – 634 comments

The User Is Visibly Frustrated

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

21 hours ago

277 upvotes – 245 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/

10 hours ago

269 upvotes – 186 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

262 upvotes – 134 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/

13 hours ago

246 upvotes – 269 comments

Does Anybody Actually Like React?

https://jsx.lol

1 day ago

232 upvotes – 322 comments

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

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

6 hours ago

226 upvotes – 86 comments

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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

12 hours ago

191 upvotes – 107 comments

Language Models Need Sleep

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099

10 hours ago

185 upvotes – 131 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

177 upvotes – 197 comments

Stop Advertising in Your Commits

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

7 hours ago

164 upvotes – 146 comments

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

https://earthiongame.com/

22 hours ago

146 upvotes – 70 comments

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/

8 hours ago

145 upvotes – 216 comments

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

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

20 hours ago

140 upvotes – 94 comments

The worst job interview I ever had

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

5 hours ago

137 upvotes – 126 comments

Don't Subscribe So Casually

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

11 hours ago

108 upvotes – 77 comments

What Color is Your Function? (2015)

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

10 hours ago

95 upvotes – 116 comments

Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd

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

16 hours ago

94 upvotes – 118 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT

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

10 hours ago

93 upvotes – 19 comments

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

7 hours ago

90 upvotes – 24 comments

Incident with Actions and Pages

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

14 hours ago

89 upvotes – 372 comments

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

15 hours ago

87 upvotes – 39 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

79 upvotes – 80 comments

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View"

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

12 hours ago

78 upvotes – 11 comments

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

https://www.minicor.com/

11 hours ago

71 upvotes – 47 comments

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble

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

15 hours ago

70 upvotes – 87 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

64 upvotes – 21 comments

Real wages start to shrink in developed countries

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

21 hours ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/

21 hours ago

61 upvotes – 12 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

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

2 hours ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

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

9 hours ago

57 upvotes – 100 comments

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

10 hours ago

54 upvotes – 165 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

52 upvotes – 5 comments

A Portentous Reunion

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

20 hours ago

49 upvotes – 19 comments

'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

https://www.thelocal.se/20260525/incredible-milestone-reached-as-sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country

10 hours ago

46 upvotes – 34 comments

Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal

https://ni5arga.com/blog/posts/hacking-cbse/

16 hours ago

44 upvotes – 13 comments
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