Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-21
- An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry openai.com - 834 comments 1153 points
- Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE www.alqst.org - 431 comments 1020 points
- Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment www.lesnumeriques.com - 728 comments 920 points
- GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension www.bleepingcomputer.com - 344 comments 830 points
- Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit www.fire.org - 467 comments 732 points
- Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier qwen.ai - 261 comments 663 points
- Google Declaring War on the Web tante.cc - 356 comments 523 points
- Apparently Google hates us now twitter.com - 238 comments 472 points
- Map of Metal mapofmetal.com - 162 comments 421 points
- Saying goodbye to asm.js spidermonkey.dev - 145 comments 376 points
- Flipper One Tech Specs docs.flipper.net - 132 comments 371 points
- SpaceX S-1 www.sec.gov - 291 comments 365 points
- College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos www.tomshardware.com - 364 comments 362 points
- Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back www.bbc.com - 193 comments 312 points
- Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple’s video wallpapers github.com - 59 comments 276 points
- Anna’s Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order torrentfreak.com - 210 comments 262 points
- DOS Zone dos.zone - 53 comments 256 points
- Declining America www.tbray.org - 123 comments 219 points
- Colorado Amended SB051 - Age Verification Bill to Exclude Open Source Projects legiscan.com - 64 comments 207 points
- Tracking Starbucks’ ‘widely recyclable’ cups: none ended up at recycling www.beyondplastics.org - 145 comments 205 points
- Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 twitter.com - 178 comments 199 points
- Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI techcrunch.com - 140 comments 190 points
- Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing www.science.org - 164 comments 187 points
- Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained - 2025 www.usni.org - 90 comments 174 points
- Ask HN: Shouldn’t Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident? news.ycombinator.com - 95 comments 164 points
- The Letter S, by Donald Knuth - 1980 - pdf gwern.net - 21 comments 164 points
- SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard - 2014 pvk.ca - 8 comments 152 points
- Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI - 2025 zfhuang99.github.io - 166 comments 151 points
- Why is Inkwell stuck in review www.manton.org - 46 comments 142 points
- Node.js 26.0.0 - Now with Temporal nodejs.org - 45 comments 136 points
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