Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-18
- I don’t think AI will make your processes go faster frederickvanbrabant.com - 406 comments 594 points
- Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit www.techspot.com - 258 comments 567 points
- At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 stateofsurveillance.org - 304 comments 426 points
- Native all the way, until you need text justsitandgrin.im - 281 comments 420 points
- AI is a technology not a product daringfireball.net - 178 comments 410 points
- AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise www.thestateofbrand.com - 388 comments 395 points
- I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation github.com - 171 comments 368 points
- Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep github.com - 112 comments 328 points
- GenCAD gencad.github.io - 79 comments 320 points
- Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter www.williamangel.net - 274 comments 316 points
- WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency www.nytimes.com - 190 comments 303 points
- CUDA Books github.com - 47 comments 196 points
- Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request twitter.com - 138 comments 195 points
- Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely idahonews.com - 194 comments 194 points
- VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont - 2025 spectrum.ieee.org - 48 comments 154 points
- EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data www.osnews.com - 67 comments 144 points
- Prolog Coding Horror www.metalevel.at - 57 comments 142 points
- WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound hellmood.111mb.de - 30 comments 138 points
- The occasional ECONNRESET movq.de - 24 comments 113 points
- Mistral’s CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America’s AI ‘vassal state’ www.businessinsider.com - 182 comments 107 points
- The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations www.jdhodges.com - 49 comments 100 points
- Most Americans don’t trust AI – or the people in charge of it - 2025 www.theverge.com - 76 comments 97 points
- Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD www.bbc.com - 103 comments 95 points
- Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages opencivics-labs.github.io - 27 comments 95 points
- An AI Hate Wave Is Here www.axios.com - 109 comments 87 points
- Design posters showcasing your country’s electrical grid github.com - 18 comments 85 points
- University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading www.theverge.com - 1 comments 84 points
- It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness www.noemamag.com - 212 comments 82 points
- The AI water issue is fake blog.andymasley.com - 55 comments 81 points
- Don’t Outsource the Learning addyosmani.com - 35 comments 72 points
May 18, 2026 ∙