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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
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• A nicer voltmeter clock
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• AI is a technology not a product
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• I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
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• Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
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• GenCAD
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• Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
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• Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
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• We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
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• Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We've made the world too complicated
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• Accelerando (2005)
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• OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
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• Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
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• Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
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• AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
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• Native all the way, until you need text
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• I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
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• Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
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• At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
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• Bun Rust rewrite: \"codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust\"
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• U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
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• ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
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• Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
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• 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
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• Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
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• Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
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• SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New Nginx Exploit
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• First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
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• Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
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• New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
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• A few words on DS4
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• UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
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• Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
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• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
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• Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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• I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-05-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on May 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A History of IDEs at Google
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• Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
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• The Emacsification of Software
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• Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
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• Claude for Small Business
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• Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
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• A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
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• RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
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• Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
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• AI is making me dumb
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