top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-28

Claude Opus 4.8

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

4 months ago

Can we have the day off?

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

4 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

https://hallucinate.site

4 months ago

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

https://llmgame.scalex.dev

4 months ago

Various LLM Smells

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

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

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

Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'

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

4 months ago

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

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

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

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

Racket v9.2 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/05/racket-v9-2.html

4 months ago

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions

https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walking-back-ai-jobs-apocalypse-prophecies-ipo/

4 months ago

I made my phone slow on purpose

https://vinewallapp.com/notes/i-made-my-phone-slow-on-purpose/

4 months ago

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/05/22/only-17-of-all-64-bit-integers-are-products-of-two-32-bit-integers/

4 months ago

The Permanent Upper Crow

https://permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu.ink/

4 months ago

Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code

4 months ago

What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

https://blog.lauramichet.com/what-its-like-to-have-the-machine-that-keeps-you-alive-die-while-youre-on-vacation/

4 months ago

The Four Programming Questions from My 1994 Microsoft Internship Interview (2023)

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-four-programming-questions-from

4 months ago

Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace

https://blainsmith.com/articles/httptrace-with-go/

4 months ago

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife

https://github.com/BurntSushi/biff

4 months ago

★ 662 Rust Unlicense

AI sticker shock hits corporate America

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

4 months ago

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot

https://iisc.ac.in/a-eureka-machine-that-thinks-like-nature-and-explores-what-ai-cannot/

4 months ago

Announcing Rust 1.96

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/28/Rust-1.96.0/

4 months ago

Social Animus

https://justine.lol/animus/

4 months ago

Zendesk forced a customer from 2016 to pay 4X more, they rebuilt it in 48 hours

https://tradecore.com/resources/blog/we-replaced-zendesk-in-48-hours

4 months ago

Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

https://ipvm.com/reports/bipartisan-alpr-amendment-killed

4 months ago

Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

https://bitburner-official.github.io/

4 months ago

Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/endive

4 months ago

★ 201 Java Apache-2.0

The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-genius-of-the-barn-owls-feathers/

4 months ago

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/current-crisis-what-s-happening-science-america

4 months ago

The Lone Lisp Heap

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/lone-lisp-heap

4 months ago

Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents

https://github.com/Kaelio/ktx

4 months ago

★ 868 TypeScript Apache-2.0

Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

4 months ago

What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives

4 months ago

Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

4 months ago

About LLMs at Zig Days

https://kristoff.it/blog/llms-at-zig-days/

4 months ago

Protestware for Coding Agents

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.html

4 months ago

Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html

4 months ago

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores

https://www.ft.com/content/b1a62a7f-6df5-4c90-94ce-64ce9c9961b6

4 months ago

Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/10/jeb251935/371741/Associative-learning-switches-DEET-valence-from

4 months ago

Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/garnix-is-shutting-down-not-oc/77895

4 months ago

Microsoft's stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making

https://doublepulsar.com/microsofts-stance-on-zero-day-exploits-is-a-dumpster-fire-of-their-own-making-0946117940a4

4 months ago

Google Hates You

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/new-google-ai-22279112.php

4 months ago

Why Gentoo?

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/

4 months ago

Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct

https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot/tree/master

4 months ago

★ 1.7k Rust LGPL-2.1

Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315206

4 months ago

Durable Execution the Hard Way

https://github.com/hatchet-dev/durable-execution-the-hard-way

4 months ago

★ 137 Go MIT