top 50% hacker news stories for today

Can we have the day off?

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

1 hour ago

275 upvotes – 177 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

1 hour ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

Woman without right hand charged for holding phone in right hand while driving

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-viral-tiktok-charges-dismissed-for-woman-without-right-hand-cited-for-holding-phone-while-driving-south-florida-texting-while-driving-wireless-communication-device

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 4 comments

Attrition: The Chinese Family Collapse

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/articles/2026052754034.aspx

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

StumbleTV: Chat Roulette but for Exposed Webcams

https://stumbletv.alectrocute.workers.dev/c/2e6ff336f1235cc1

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303252

21 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

I'm Tired of Talking to AI

https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/

15 hours ago

1843 upvotes – 899 comments

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/

9 hours ago

674 upvotes – 335 comments

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/

9 hours ago

655 upvotes – 798 comments

Last.fm is now independent

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

10 hours ago

629 upvotes – 177 comments

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/

10 hours ago

571 upvotes – 289 comments

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/

5 hours ago

542 upvotes – 323 comments

Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services

https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/

13 hours ago

438 upvotes – 492 comments

Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/canada-sweden-saab-globaleye-aircraft

9 hours ago

411 upvotes – 301 comments

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/

20 hours ago

375 upvotes – 228 comments

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391

17 hours ago

361 upvotes – 149 comments

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

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

1 day ago

310 upvotes – 220 comments

SimCity 3k in 4k

https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html

8 hours ago

285 upvotes – 107 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 day ago

268 upvotes – 296 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m

13 hours ago

261 upvotes – 193 comments

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

https://www.theverge.com/games/938340/valve-steam-deck-price-increase

8 hours ago

240 upvotes – 235 comments

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about

16 hours ago

232 upvotes – 80 comments

So, Where Does Next-Token Prediction Leave Us?

https://pop.rdi.sh/where-does-next-token-prediction-leave-us/

1 day ago

204 upvotes – 198 comments

PostHog will train AI models with your data (opt-in by default)

https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models

9 hours ago

194 upvotes – 131 comments

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273

16 hours ago

★ 134kGoBSD-3-Clause
191 upvotes – 145 comments

What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications

6 hours ago

178 upvotes – 182 comments

I found a second vote.gov – and it's registered to the White House

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

7 hours ago

166 upvotes – 11 comments

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-just-say-no-engineer-was-a-zirp-phenomenon/

22 hours ago

157 upvotes – 131 comments

Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/lombardy-introduces-increased-charges-of-up-to-200-per-cent-for-data-centre-construction-in-green-and-agricultural-areas-AI6Jp4ID

12 hours ago

136 upvotes – 200 comments

Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says

10 hours ago

132 upvotes – 202 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 day ago

128 upvotes – 22 comments

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle/

6 hours ago

105 upvotes – 11 comments

Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS

https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/

8 hours ago

91 upvotes – 45 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

1 day ago

81 upvotes – 22 comments

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html

2 hours ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08

9 hours ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation

https://tsduck.io/

23 hours ago

73 upvotes – 7 comments

Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server

https://github.com/craigmccaskill/posthorn

21 hours ago

★ 141GoApache-2.0
71 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

https://tinycld.org/

11 hours ago

70 upvotes – 32 comments

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/

6 hours ago

69 upvotes – 21 comments

On Labubu and the Hyperreal

https://2earth.github.io/website/20260525.html

6 hours ago

69 upvotes – 77 comments

Scientists say they've reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022018.htm

1 day ago

66 upvotes – 28 comments

Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio

https://codeberg.org/lindenii/tunecat/

1 day ago

★ 19Go
66 upvotes – 9 comments

Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family. You should too

https://help.delduca.org

11 hours ago

65 upvotes – 92 comments

Internet Traffic in Iran Increasing

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d

3 hours ago

63 upvotes – 56 comments

Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s

https://brilliantmaps.com/cia-maps-1980s/

11 hours ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

XLIDE: VBA without excel

https://github.com/WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vscode

13 hours ago

★ 28TypeScriptMIT
62 upvotes – 24 comments

The VibeSec Reckoning

https://martinfowler.com/articles/vibesec-reckoning.html

11 hours ago

61 upvotes – 18 comments
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