It's 2026-05-18. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | comment
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting | comment
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag | comment
Anthropic acquires Stainless | comment
Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors | comment
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now | comment
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us | comment
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait | comment
Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent | comment
Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time | comment
ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline | comment
Cisco workforce reductions | comment
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format | comment
The Zulip Foundation | comment
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers | comment
Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? | comment
Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit | comment
Qwen 3.7 Preview | comment
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again | comment
Who will buy your services if you fire us all? | comment
How Claude Code works in large codebases | comment
Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha | comment
Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged | comment
Click (2016) | comment
Native all the way, until you need text | comment
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness | comment
Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints | comment
Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request | comment
Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials | comment
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract | comment
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | comment
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | comment
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis | comment
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better | comment
Appearing productive in the workplace | comment
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | comment
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | comment
Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid | comment
Googlebook | comment
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | comment
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | comment
Local AI needs to be the norm | comment
Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise | comment
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? | comment
StarFighter 16-Inch | comment
Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) | comment
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying | comment
RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? | comment
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | comment
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | comment
I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe | comment
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | comment
AI slop is killing online communities | comment
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | comment
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | comment
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | comment
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes | comment
AI is making me dumb | comment
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker | comment
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