top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-05-29

The Dead Economy Theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

4 months ago

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/

4 months ago

Please Use AI

https://shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai

4 months ago

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/

4 months ago

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/

4 months ago

What Is a Dickover?

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

4 months ago

Cars are trying to spy on you, and it's only just the beginning

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse

4 months ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821

4 months ago

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit

4 months ago

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert

4 months ago

★ 172 Jupyter Notebook

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/

4 months ago

You can just say it: the best definition of AI slop

https://noperator.dev/posts/you-can-just-say-it/

4 months ago

MCP Is Dead

https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead

4 months ago

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/

4 months ago

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967

4 months ago

★ 631 Python GPL-3.0

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

https://buildingbetter.tech/p/i-read-the-claude-code-source-code

4 months ago

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/danish-pension-fund-blacklists-spacex-citing-governance-issues

4 months ago

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-threatens-another-windows-exploit-dump/5248085

4 months ago

The Last Technical Interview

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564

4 months ago

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/

4 months ago