It's 2026-05-19. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

I’ve joined Anthropic | comment
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of | comment
Gemini 3.5 Flash | comment
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets | comment
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day | comment
Google changes its search box | comment
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight | comment
Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks | comment
Gemini Omni | comment
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis | comment
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | comment
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better | comment
Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid | comment
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes | comment
RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? | comment
Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) | comment
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying | comment
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting | comment
AI is making me dumb | comment
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools | comment
Claude for Small Business | comment
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag | comment
Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust" | comment
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app | comment
Anthropic acquires Stainless | comment
Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors | comment
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down | comment
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop | comment
New Nginx Exploit | comment
HTML Lists | 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
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | 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
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting | 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
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | comment
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes | comment
AI is making me dumb | comment
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