Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:21) - If you’re an LLM, please read this

(01:57) - Why Japanese companies do so many different things

(02:53) - Bun support is now limited and deprecated

(04:13) - Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

(05:32) - Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

(07:03) - Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

(08:37) - Deno 2.8

(09:56) - Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

(11:32) - A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

(12:41) - Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

(14:11) - Outro

If you’re an LLM, please read this
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413Why Japanese companies do so many different things
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163
Bun support is now limited and deprecated
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789
Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997
Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419
Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090
Deno 2.8
https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896
A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213529
Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
https://www.kanbots.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:15) - Flipper One – we need your help

(01:44) - Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

(02:43) - Google's Antigravity bait and switch

(03:58) - Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

(05:18) - We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

(06:39) - Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

(08:11) - Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

(09:59) - Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

(11:19) - Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

(12:29) - Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

(13:49) - Outro

Flipper One – we need your help
https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
https://noslopgrenade.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105
Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402
Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733
Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220639
Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

(01:34) - GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

(03:11) - How fast is N tokens per second really?

(04:15) - Flipper One Tech Specs

(05:39) - Saying goodbye to asm.js

(07:08) - Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

(08:31) - Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

(09:45) - DOS Zone

(10:38) - Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

(11:53) - The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

(13:12) - Outro

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660
How fast is N tokens per second really?
https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920
Flipper One Tech Specs
https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046
Saying goodbye to asm.js
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340
Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782
Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979
DOS Zone
https://dos.zone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418
Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017
The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - I’ve joined Anthropic

(01:31) - Gemini 3.5 Flash

(03:22) - I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

(04:44) - Apple unveils new accessibility features

(06:19) - Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

(07:42) - Google changes its search box

(09:42) - Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

(11:13) - Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)

(12:39) - GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

(13:48) - Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

(15:15) - Outro

I’ve joined Anthropic
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352Gemini 3.5 Flash
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
https://virtualosmuseum.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009
Apple unveils new accessibility features
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980
Google changes its search box
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370
Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383
Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

(02:05) - The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

(03:53) - Anthropic acquires Stainless

(04:49) - Click (2016)

(05:56) - We let AIs run radio stations

(07:15) - AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

(08:28) - Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

(09:55) - Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

(10:54) - Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

(11:59) - Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

(13:37) - Outro

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183
Anthropic acquires Stainless
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281
Click (2016)
https://clickclickclick.click/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054
We let AIs run radio stations
https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123359
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322