The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2026

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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler grapheneos.social · ChuckMcM · 10 May 2026

2.2k pts 755 comments

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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis twitter.com · reasonableklout · 15 May 2026

2.1k pts 1.3k comments

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I'm Tired of Talking to AI orchidfiles.com · theorchid · 27 May 2026

2k pts 950 comments

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Local AI needs to be the norm unix.foo · cylo · 10 May 2026

1.9k pts 749 comments

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Claude Opus 4.8 anthropic.com · craigmart · 28 May 2026

1.8k pts 1.4k comments

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent thatprivacyguy.com · john-doe · 5 May 2026

1.8k pts 1.1k comments

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license digitalfoundry.net · haunter · 6 May 2026

1.7k pts 593 comments

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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated CliffStoll · 6 May 2026

1.7k pts 258 comments

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Magnifica Humanitas vatican.va · theletterf · 25 May 2026

1.7k pts 965 comments

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Appearing productive in the workplace nooneshappy.com · diebillionaires · 6 May 2026

1.6k pts 652 comments

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users reclaimthenet.org · anonymousiam · 8 May 2026

1.6k pts 591 comments

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Talking to strangers at the gym thienantran.com · thitran · 4 May 2026

1.6k pts 753 comments

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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage github.com · indrora · 2 May 2026

1.5k pts 850 comments

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I’ve joined Anthropic twitter.com · dmarcos · 19 May 2026

1.4k pts 618 comments

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry openai.com · tedsanders · 20 May 2026

1.4k pts 1.1k comments

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Can we have the day off? mlsu.io · mlsu · 28 May 2026

1.4k pts 776 comments

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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract jeffgeerling.com · rubenbe · 12 May 2026

1.4k pts 428 comments

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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection mybricklog.com · philips · 28 May 2026

1.4k pts 624 comments

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The dead economy theory owenmcgrann.com · WillDaSilva · 29 May 2026

1.4k pts 1.4k comments

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce reuters.com · PriorityLeft · 7 May 2026

1.4k pts 998 comments

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YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos blog.youtube · nopg · 27 May 2026

1.3k pts 826 comments

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Flipper One – we need your help blog.flipper.net · sandebert · 21 May 2026

1.3k pts 482 comments

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Using AI to write better code more slowly nolanlawson.com · signa11 · 25 May 2026

1.3k pts 446 comments

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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better gutenberg.org · JSeiko · 15 May 2026

1.2k pts 286 comments

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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart valhovey.github.io · speleo · 21 May 2026

1.2k pts 244 comments

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Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says nytimes.com · tlhunter · 22 May 2026

1.1k pts 2k comments

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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI techcrunch.com · nycdatasci · 18 May 2026

1.1k pts 595 comments

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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise tanstack.com · varunsharma07 · 11 May 2026

1.1k pts 465 comments

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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit simonwillison.net · simonw · 27 May 2026

1.1k pts 1.2k comments

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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid arkadiyt.com · arkadiyt · 14 May 2026

1.1k pts 585 comments

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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence reuters.com · thm · 26 May 2026

1.1k pts 512 comments

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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE alqst.org · giuliomagnifico · 20 May 2026

1.1k pts 470 comments

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DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode pcgamer.com · HelloUsername · 27 May 2026

1.1k pts 525 comments

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash tomshardware.com · rbanffy · 25 May 2026

1.1k pts 499 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies apnews.com · surprisetalk · 8 May 2026

1.1k pts 875 comments

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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension bleepingcomputer.com · Timofeibu · 20 May 2026

1.1k pts 460 comments

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I moved my digital stack to Europe monokai.com · monokai_nl · 13 May 2026

1k pts 610 comments

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I'm going back to writing code by hand blog.k10s.dev · dropbox_miner · 11 May 2026

1k pts 617 comments

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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion consumerrights.wiki · antipurist · 30 May 2026

1k pts 376 comments

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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features xda-developers.com · haunter · 10 May 2026

980 pts 663 comments

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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of virtualosmuseum.org · andreww591 · 19 May 2026

974 pts 224 comments

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Gemini 3.5 Flash blog.google · spectraldrift · 19 May 2026

962 pts 658 comments

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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment lesnumeriques.com · healsdata · 20 May 2026

959 pts 777 comments

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Googlebook googlebook.google · tambourine_man · 12 May 2026

932 pts 1.6k comments

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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data theverge.com · stefanpie · 7 May 2026

921 pts 648 comments

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If AI writes your code, why use Python? medium.com · indigodaddy · 11 May 2026

919 pts 980 comments

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Why Japanese companies do so many different things davidoks.blog · d0ks · 22 May 2026

910 pts 407 comments

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If you’re an LLM, please read this annas-archive.gl · janandonly · 22 May 2026

891 pts 454 comments

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David Attenborough's 100th Birthday bbc.com · defrost · 8 May 2026

886 pts 164 comments

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Domain expertise has always been the real moat brethorsting.com · aaronbrethorst · 30 May 2026

884 pts 549 comments

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I am retiring from tech to live offline openpath.quest · PinkG · 29 May 2026

877 pts 586 comments

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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons drive.com.au · teleforce · 3 May 2026

862 pts 511 comments

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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left fourlightyears.blogspot.com · andrewstuart · 9 May 2026

854 pts 650 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit xeiaso.net · psxuaw · 7 May 2026

854 pts 470 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities rmoff.net · thm · 7 May 2026

834 pts 734 comments

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Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise nair.sh · nilirl · 12 May 2026

826 pts 333 comments

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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale axelk.ee · speckx · 21 May 2026

824 pts 733 comments

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Last.fm is now independent support.last.fm · twistslider · 27 May 2026

822 pts 220 comments

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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE openwall.com · flipped · 7 May 2026

819 pts 332 comments

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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools blog.mozilla.org · WithinReason · 17 May 2026

808 pts 356 comments