Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-19
- Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI techcrunch.com - 469 comments 952 points
- Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian github.com - 309 comments 632 points
- Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting radleybalko.substack.com - 160 comments 519 points
- We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git’s –author flag archestra.ai - 228 comments 468 points
- Anthropic acquires Stainless www.anthropic.com - 302 comments 452 points
- The last six months in LLMs in five minutes simonwillison.net - 288 comments 423 points
- Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation www.nbcnews.com - 375 comments 354 points
- Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us blog.cloudflare.com - 130 comments 329 points
- Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS github.com - 132 comments 321 points
- Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait www.bloomberg.com - 543 comments 314 points
- Actually, democracy dies in H.R. www.nytimes.com - 214 comments 307 points
- Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now discuss.haiku-os.org - 103 comments 304 points
- Click - 2016 clickclickclick.click - 71 comments 299 points
- The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers www.404media.co - 116 comments 282 points
- Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? indiepixel.de - 353 comments 266 points
- We let AIs run radio stations andonlabs.com - 209 comments 261 points
- Who will buy your services if you fire us all? carette.xyz - 275 comments 235 points
- Qwen 3.7 Preview twitter.com - 87 comments 233 points
- AI eats the world - Spring 26 - pdf static1.squarespace.com - 123 comments 225 points
- Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 www.vaticannews.va - 130 comments 223 points
- ‘We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs’ www.bbc.co.uk - 62 comments 220 points
- Linux security mailing list ‘almost unmanageable’ www.theregister.com - 102 comments 207 points
- Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions www.ftc.gov - 83 comments 167 points
- Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp hyperpolyglot.org - 37 comments 157 points
- Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches www.nbcnews.com - 165 comments 154 points
- Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO www.theregister.com - 82 comments 152 points
- Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 cursor.com - 101 comments 144 points
- 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries github.com - 87 comments 143 points
- New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC apnews.com - 204 comments 138 points
- Learn Harness Engineering walkinglabs.github.io - 14 comments 137 points
May 19, 2026 ∙