top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-28

Claude Opus 4.8

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

4 months ago

1773 upvotes – 1373 comments

Can we have the day off?

https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/

4 months ago

1410 upvotes – 776 comments

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection

4 months ago

1386 upvotes – 621 comments

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

4 months ago

653 upvotes – 868 comments

GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-github-bans-security-researcher-who-posted-zero-day-windows-exploits-because-company-ruined-their-life-expert-claims-action-is-vindictive-and-promises-further-retaliation

4 months ago

566 upvotes – 256 comments

I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room (2025)

https://nick.winans.io/blog/nice-nano/

4 months ago

564 upvotes – 91 comments

Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims

https://lenz.io/research/llm-disagreement

4 months ago

505 upvotes – 347 comments

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

https://hallucinate.site

4 months ago

442 upvotes – 200 comments

Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue

https://llmgame.scalex.dev

4 months ago

386 upvotes – 162 comments

Various LLM Smells

https://shvbsle.in/various-llm-smells/

4 months ago

368 upvotes – 294 comments

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h

4 months ago

362 upvotes – 430 comments

Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution

4 months ago

357 upvotes – 145 comments

EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o

4 months ago

352 upvotes – 400 comments

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/

4 months ago

337 upvotes – 166 comments

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-insider-trading.html

4 months ago

324 upvotes – 212 comments

Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/

4 months ago

304 upvotes – 124 comments

New York Passes Tax on the Ultra-Wealthy

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/new-york-mamdani-pied-a-terre-tax-passes.html

4 months ago

278 upvotes – 441 comments

Bot Company allegedly trashing Airbnb rentals with their prototype robots

https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testing-robots-airbnbs-trashing-lawsuit-claims/

4 months ago

271 upvotes – 150 comments

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

4 months ago

257 upvotes – 94 comments

I hated writing–until I learned there's a science to it(2024)

https://www.science.org/content/article/i-hated-writing-until-i-learned-there-s-science-it

4 months ago

249 upvotes – 114 comments
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