top 50% hacker news stories for today

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-proposes-new-rules-giving-political-appointees-final-say-on-research-grants/

2 hours ago

89 upvotes – 50 comments

Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02783/

2 hours ago

45 upvotes – 15 comments

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

https://www.perryts.com/

1 hour ago

18 upvotes – 9 comments

Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/05/28/britain-has-crushed-immigration-and-harmed-itself

4 hours ago

16 upvotes – 1 comments

US strike campaign against drug boats tops 200 deaths

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/drug-boat-strikes-cocaine-trafficking-b2986243.html

2 hours ago

12 upvotes – 4 comments

US to Appeal Judge's Order for Broad Refund of Trump Tariffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/us-to-appeal-judge-s-order-for-broad-refund-of-trump-tariffs

4 hours ago

9 upvotes – 3 comments

TempleOS WASM

https://templeos.reiko.app/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust

https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode

1 hour ago

★ 617RustMIT
6 upvotes – 0 comments

Orbitals from Entanglement: Quantum Information gives rise to Chemical bonds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15699

3 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

John Cornyn loses GOP primary

https://liveclip.substack.com/p/john-cornyn-loses-gop-primary-brief

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments
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