top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-31

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting

4 months ago

Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC

https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217

4 months ago

The Website Specification

https://specification.website/

4 months ago

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929

4 months ago

★ 4.7k C

Dav2d

https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/

4 months ago

Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%

https://thesciverse.org/scientists-found-that-the-creatine-supplement-millions-take-for-muscle-gains-is-quietly-raising-brain-energy-levels-and-slowing-early-alzheimers-cognitive-decline-by-30/

4 months ago

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b

4 months ago

United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/

4 months ago

Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/

4 months ago

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

4 months ago

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/

4 months ago

London's Free Roof Terraces

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html

4 months ago

ChatGPT for Google Sheets Exfiltrates Workbooks

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/gpt-for-google-sheets-data-exfiltration

4 months ago

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

https://fagnerbrack.com/learn-sql-once-use-it-for-30-years-9aceb0bdee03

4 months ago

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/meta-officially-launches-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp-subscriptions-with-more-to-come-including-ai-plans/

4 months ago

Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer

https://github.com/krauseler/muxcard

4 months ago

★ 834

Restartable Sequences

https://justine.lol/rseq/

4 months ago

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus

4 months ago

★ 61.3k Python MIT

Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA

https://deflock.org/

4 months ago

'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/backrooms-box-office-record-opening-weekend-obsession-jumps-star-wars-crumbles-1236763355/

4 months ago

Mechanical Pencin: A website about the hidden engineering in everyday objects

https://mechanical-pencil.com/

4 months ago

Backpressure is all you need

https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpressure-is-all-you-need

4 months ago

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

https://github.com/s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps

4 months ago

★ 59 Assembly MIT

Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M

https://peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherton-spent-145k-to-delay-caltrain-electrification-the-rest-of-us-paid-400-million-and-waited-3-extra-years/

4 months ago

Squillions: How Money Laundering Won

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions

4 months ago

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai

4 months ago

It's Not Just X. It's Y

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/

4 months ago

Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial

4 months ago

US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/us-healthcare-still-stupidly-expensive-with-pathetic-outcomes-study-finds/

4 months ago

Patching my guitar amp's firmware

https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html

4 months ago

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

https://paulgraham.com/boss.html

4 months ago

A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492

4 months ago

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

https://tomotama.com/kiki

4 months ago

Avian Visitors

https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/

4 months ago

Words of Type

https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/

4 months ago

Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire

https://github.com/viggy28/streambed

4 months ago

★ 246 Go Apache-2.0

Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git

https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/claude-code-and-codex-can-have-real-time-conversation-via-git-f95b696c1c05

4 months ago

SICP Video Lectures (1986)

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

4 months ago

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

https://blog.washi.dev/posts/custom-attributes-and-why-they-suck/

4 months ago

Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111336

4 months ago

I'm So Tired of Ads

https://blog.absurdpirate.com/im-so-tired-of-ads/

4 months ago

New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260530053418.htm

4 months ago

Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock

https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/

4 months ago

UA flight – 'turn Bluetooth off or we're turning around'

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_flight_turn_bluetooth_off_or_were_turning/

4 months ago

Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up

https://www.learnix-os.com/ch02-03-implementing-the-bitfields-proc-macro.html

4 months ago

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

4 months ago

DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/shadow-walker-biped-humanoid-robot

4 months ago

Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'

https://fortune.com/article/sergey-brin-60-hour-work-week-ai-rto/

4 months ago

Frost: [Browser] Fingerprinting Remotely Using OPFS-Based SSD Timing [pdf]

https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf

4 months ago

Anyone seen a CC- serial prefix on legacy networking hardware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342117

4 months ago

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

https://kenforthewin.github.io/atomic-editor/

4 months ago

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly

https://ariadne.space/2023/04/12/writing-portable-arm-assembly.html

4 months ago