Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

(01:40) - Googlebook

(02:52) - Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

(04:21) - Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

(05:57) - Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

(07:25) - Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

(08:43) - The Future of Obsidian Plugins

(09:58) - How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

(11:01) - Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

(12:34) - CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

(14:00) - Outro

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224Googlebook
https://googlebook.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997
Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127
The Future of Obsidian Plugins
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970
How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895
Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

(01:58) - GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

(03:22) - If AI writes your code, why use Python?

(04:57) - UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

(06:04) - Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

(07:35) - They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

(08:48) - Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

(10:21) - Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

(11:30) - Interaction Models

(12:56) - Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

(14:20) - Outro

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500
If AI writes your code, why use Python?
https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433
UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261
Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700
Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428
Interaction Models
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524
Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

(01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm

(02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

(04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

(05:25) - I'm going back to writing code by hand

(07:16) - Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

(08:41) - Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

(09:51) - Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

(11:06) - The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

(12:35) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

(13:44) - Outro

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190Local AI needs to be the norm
https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201
Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082
I'm going back to writing code by hand
https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091
Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576
Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737
The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

(01:12) - EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

(02:51) - Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

(04:19) - I’ve banned query strings

(05:29) - LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

(06:47) - The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

(08:21) - Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

(09:37) - Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

(10:42) - Zed Editor Theme-Builder

(11:47) - Outro

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190
Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940
I’ve banned query strings
https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246
The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952
Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587
Zed Editor Theme-Builder
https://zed.dev/theme-builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

(01:39) - David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

(02:37) - An Introduction to Meshtastic

(03:42) - Mojo 1.0 Beta

(05:12) - Cartoon Network Flash Games

(06:05) - AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

(07:30) - A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

(08:58) - OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

(10:15) - US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

(11:40) - Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

(13:32) - Outro

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884
An Introduction to Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566
Mojo 1.0 Beta
https://mojolang.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901
Cartoon Network Flash Games
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
https://www.war.gov/UFO/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
https://www.wiisfi.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037760