Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Flipper One – we need your help (01:44) - Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (02:43) - Google's Antigravity bait and switch (03:58) - Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (05:18) - We're te...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (01:34) - GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (03:11) - How fast is N tokens per second really? (04:15) - Flippe...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - I’ve joined Anthropic (01:31) - Gemini 3.5 Flash (03:22) - I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (04:44) - Apple unveils new accessibility features (06:19) - Minnesota becomes...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (02:05) - The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (03:53) - Anthropic acquires Stainless (04:49) - Click (2016) (05:56) - We let AIs run radio stations...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 18, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (01:43) - I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (03:09) - Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than gre...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 17, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (02:11) - Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (03:11) - SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (04:36) - W...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (02:06) - Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (03:14) - Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California (04:30) - A 0-cl...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid (01:36) - RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? (03:14) - Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying (04:53) - New Nginx Exploit (06:23) - First public macOS...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after bein...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (01:40) - Googlebook (02:52) - Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (04:21) - Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Mode...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (01:58) - GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (03:22) - If AI writes your code, why use Python? (04:57) - UCLA discovers first stroke re...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm (02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left (04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES (05:25) - I'm going back to writing co...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (01:12) - EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (02:51) - Using Claude Code: The unreasonable eff...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (01:39) - David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (02:37) - An Introduction to Meshtastic (03:42) - Mojo 1.0 Beta (05:12) - Cartoon Network Flash Games (06:05) - AI is br...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:13) - Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (01:31) - AI slop is killing online communities (02:52) - Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (04:26) - The map that keeps Burning Man honest (05:37) - D...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (01:23) - Appearing productive in the workplace (02:42) - Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (04:09) - Google C...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (01:34) - Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (02:59) - Three Inverse Laws of AI (04:36) - Computer Use is 45x more expensive t...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Talking to strangers at the gym (01:50) - Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (03:03) - How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (04:12) - Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Sh...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (01:42) - DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (03:12) - New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag (04:48...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (01:50) - Dav2d (03:00) - Do_not_track (04:20) - This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (05:25) - Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (06:41) -...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ti-84 Evo (01:39) - New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (02:58) - Ask.com has closed (04:13) - Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (05:10) - Artemis II Ph...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 1, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (01:40) - Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (03:04) - Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (04:34) - How M...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 30, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Zed 1.0 (01:47) - HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (03:13) - Copy Fail (04:41) - Cursor Camp (05:35) - Where the goblins came from (06:53) - We need a federation of forges (...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 29, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Ghostty is leaving GitHub (01:41) - Your phone is about to stop being yours (03:21) - Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop (05:00) - Before GitHub (06:25) - UAE to leave OPEC (07:53) - Who o...

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (01:53) - GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (03:15) - Men who stare at walls (04:28) - Is my blue your blue? (05:39) - 4TB of voice sampl...