Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-16
- I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis twitter.com - 598 comments 1252 points
- Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better www.gutenberg.org - 189 comments 898 points
- Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop explorer.samismith.com - 113 comments 506 points
- California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down arstechnica.com - 289 comments 460 points
- U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app macdailynews.com - 282 comments 416 points
- Bun Rust rewrite: “codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust” github.com - 271 comments 384 points
- A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 projectzero.google - 181 comments 366 points
- We are retiring our bug bounty program turso.tech - 278 comments 349 points
- Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks www.fastcompany.com - 388 comments 345 points
- ‘No way to prevent this,’ says only package manager where this regularly happens kevinpatel.xyz - 156 comments 334 points
- ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline twitter.com - 147 comments 329 points
- Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks github.com - 63 comments 279 points
- The Zulip Foundation blog.zulip.com - 67 comments 262 points
- Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git radicle.dev - 81 comments 236 points
- O- xCaml in Space gazagnaire.org - 56 comments 233 points
- Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its site www.fastcompany.com - 126 comments 225 points
- Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer spectrum.ieee.org - 174 comments 203 points
- Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials www.thenational.scot - 62 comments 196 points
- The sigmoids won’t save you www.astralcodexten.com - 187 comments 192 points
- Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they ‘drive into standing water’ www.cnbc.com - 179 comments 186 points
- ASCII by Jason Scott ascii.textfiles.com - 22 comments 185 points
- Erlang/OTP 29.0 www.erlang.org - 29 comments 182 points
- Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue www.revswap.ai - 152 comments 177 points
- Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center fortune.com - 153 comments 173 points
- SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud analytics.fixelsmith.com - 43 comments 158 points
- Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image github.com - 31 comments 154 points
- Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? www.worseonpurpose.com - 129 comments 149 points
- “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive? kingy.ai - 173 comments 146 points
- The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born www.baldurbjarnason.com - 137 comments 143 points
- London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time reclaimthenet.org - 101 comments 140 points
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