Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

(01:36) - RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

(03:14) - Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

(04:53) - New Nginx Exploit

(06:23) - First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

(07:50) - Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app

(08:36) - A few words on DS4

(10:02) - UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system

(11:19) - Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

(12:17) - HDD Firmware Hacking

(13:44) - Outro

Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138136RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137145
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880
New Nginx Exploit
https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138268
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219
Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529
A few words on DS4
https://antirez.com/news/165
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108
UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
https://explorer.samismith.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129
HDD Firmware Hacking
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137553

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

(01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

(02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

(04:08) - A History of IDEs at Google

(05:54) - Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

(07:24) - The Emacsification of Software

(08:46) - Claude for Small Business

(10:03) - Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

(11:03) - Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

(12:37) - MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

(14:08) - Outro

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635
Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438
A History of IDEs at Google
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979
Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848
The Emacsification of Software
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727
Claude for Small Business
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950
Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694
Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617

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