Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-22

  1. Flipper One – we need your help blog.flipper.net - 442 comments 1149 points
  2. Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart valhovey.github.io - 193 comments 885 points
  3. AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale axelk.ee - 686 comments 782 points
  4. Google’s Antigravity bait and switch www.0xsid.com - 300 comments 671 points
  5. Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations noslopgrenade.com - 352 comments 605 points
  6. We’re testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot blog.google - 540 comments 602 points
  7. Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police prismreports.org - 186 comments 457 points
  8. Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines blog.changs.co.uk - 184 comments 375 points
  9. Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B - 50GB swap blog.simbastack.com - 113 comments 374 points
  10. Shunning AI is the human choice www.thehandbasket.co - 507 comments 357 points
  11. Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored spectrum.ieee.org - 104 comments 346 points
  12. Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods techcrunch.com - 390 comments 309 points
  13. BBEdit 16 www.barebones.com - 93 comments 303 points
  14. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps freenet.org - 172 comments 282 points
  15. News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism www.niemanlab.org - 95 comments 282 points
  16. Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD crocidb.com - 148 comments 280 points
  17. US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds www.theguardian.com - 202 comments 242 points
  18. A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide www.wired.com - 85 comments 239 points
  19. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking news.ycombinator.com - 46 comments 229 points
  20. Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar qz.com - 174 comments 220 points
  21. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can www.osnews.com - 188 comments 212 points
  22. Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess www.loopwerk.io - 105 comments 199 points
  23. Using Kagi Search with Low Vision veroniiiica.com - 64 comments 195 points
  24. London Mayor Blocks Palantir www.theguardian.com - 59 comments 187 points
  25. The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics davidoks.blog - 201 comments 185 points
  26. The IBM-ification of Google? zeroshot.bearblog.dev - 128 comments 171 points
  27. Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid discover.swns.com - 93 comments 171 points
  28. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK github.com - 83 comments 171 points
  29. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades www.newscientist.com - 145 comments 157 points
  30. Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans www.hollywoodreporter.com - 297 comments 148 points