top 50% 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

The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-passes-game-protection-bill

4 months ago

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

https://www.ft.com/content/2205e2d0-50dc-4e80-9bf7-78d0272276c0

4 months ago

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b

4 months ago

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/decades-effort-restore-steelhead-and-salmon-passage-californias-alameda-creek

4 months ago

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/

4 months ago

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/

4 months ago

On Rendering Diffs

https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs

4 months ago

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-just-exploded-during-a-static-fire-test/

4 months ago

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm

4 months ago

★ 748 C++ Apache-2.0

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/

4 months ago

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

https://tvexplorer.live

4 months ago

We should be more tired than the model

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/

4 months ago

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-training-data-startup-shift-free-cleaning

4 months ago

A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]

https://cryptography101.ca/wp-content/uploads/lattice-based-cryptography.pdf

4 months ago

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/

4 months ago

Rothko for your current weather conditions

https://rothko.joonas.wtf/

4 months ago

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

https://minimaxir.com/2026/05/openrouter-hy3/

4 months ago

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house

https://dutchreview.com/culture/tulip-mania-netherlands/

4 months ago

The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/

4 months ago

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

https://github.com/secluso/core

4 months ago

★ 1.5k Rust GPL-3.0

One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/

4 months ago

Expertise in the Age of AI

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/ai_and_expertise/

4 months ago

New Beam Spring Keyboards

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/beam-spring-b104-keyboard/

4 months ago

Linux/M68k

http://www.linux-m68k.org/

4 months ago

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

4 months ago

EV Stupidity Checklist

http://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist

4 months ago

Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/QX_dxElrVNs

4 months ago

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks/

4 months ago

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

https://www.mpi.nl/news/italians-and-dutch-share-same-gestural-instinct-teaching

4 months ago

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people

https://andrej.sh/posts/phishing-through-my-open-source-project

4 months ago

HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL

4 months ago

★ 6k Pascal GPL-2.0

Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8

https://www.zot.sh

4 months ago

Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-the-economies-of-scale

4 months ago

Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

https://secret-archive.org/

4 months ago

Is This Sustainable?

https://jamiehurst.co.uk/2026-05-24_ai-sustainable

4 months ago

Local Git Remotes

https://cblgh.org/posts/local-git-remotes/

4 months ago

The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

https://thewalrus.ca/the-internet-has-become-too-american-to-trust/

4 months ago

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

https://research.roundtable.ai/captchas-detect-ai/

4 months ago

Ember.js 7.0

https://blog.emberjs.com/ember-released-7-0/

4 months ago

Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)

https://surrealdb.com/blog/surrealdb-3-x-by-the-numbers

4 months ago

Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

https://github.com/scanaislop/aislop

4 months ago

★ 327 TypeScript MIT

Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/reviving-teletext-for-ham-radio

4 months ago

To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain (1809)

https://wellsoc.org/society-member-pages/anecdotes-of-wellington/

4 months ago

Canada in Technical Recession

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352

4 months ago

Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/microsoft-data-suggests-using-ai-225900743.html

4 months ago