Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-27

  1. Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence www.reuters.com - 425 comments 918 points
  2. GitHub Actions was down www.githubstatus.com - 1 comments 649 points
  3. Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier www.politico.eu - 218 comments 558 points
  4. Big tech’s anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia medium.com - 285 comments 494 points
  5. The real cost of owning a home ericturner.dev - 740 comments 364 points
  6. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down www.cnbc.com - 368 comments 347 points
  7. That Methyl Methacrylate Tank www.science.org - 126 comments 328 points
  8. The worst job interview I ever had www.oliverio.dev - 246 comments 295 points
  9. Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs www.signalbloom.ai - 303 comments 284 points
  10. Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ www.theverge.com - 138 comments 281 points
  11. Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union www.reuters.com - 196 comments 276 points
  12. Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud” www.gingerlime.com - 179 comments 274 points
  13. Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country www.niemanlab.org - 213 comments 225 points
  14. Cloudflare Flagship developers.cloudflare.com - 108 comments 215 points
  15. A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs arxiv.org - 133 comments 199 points
  16. Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”? dynomight.net - 212 comments 197 points
  17. AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn www.seuros.com - 107 comments 195 points
  18. Where does next-token prediction leave us? pop.rdi.sh - 142 comments 180 points
  19. Stop Advertising in Your Commits akselmo.dev - 156 comments 178 points
  20. Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking sherwood.news - 234 comments 164 points
  21. The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon www.seangoedecke.com - 114 comments 145 points
  22. What color is your function? - 2015 journal.stuffwithstuff.com - 155 comments 123 points
  23. Don’t Subscribe So Casually thebestworstcase.substack.com - 88 comments 118 points
  24. From Rust to Ruby xlii.space - 87 comments 114 points
  25. Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died www.rollingstone.com - 15 comments 111 points
  26. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99% platform.xiaomimimo.com - 123 comments 109 points
  27. The Ballad of TIGIT www.owlposting.com - 20 comments 104 points
  28. Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC www.tomshardware.com - 29 comments 102 points
  29. Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd www.osnews.com - 122 comments 97 points
  30. Incident with Actions and Pages www.githubstatus.com - 376 comments 95 points