Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-05-23

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
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• Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
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• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
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• Apple unveils new accessibility features
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• I’ve joined Anthropic
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• I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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• Gemini 3.5 Flash
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• Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
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• Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
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• Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
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• GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
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• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
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• Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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• Flipper One – we need your help
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• AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
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• Google's Antigravity bait and switch
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• Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
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• If you’re an LLM, please read this
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• Why Japanese companies do so many different things
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• Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-05-16

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
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• I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
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• Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
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• Internet Archive Switzerland
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• Local AI needs to be the norm
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• Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
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• Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
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• Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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• I'm going back to writing code by hand
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• If AI writes your code, why use Python?
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• Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
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• Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
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• Googlebook
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• Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
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• I moved my digital stack to Europe
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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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• Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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• I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-05-09

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
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• VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
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• Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
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• Talking to strangers at the gym
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• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
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• DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
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• Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
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• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
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• Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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• Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
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• Appearing productive in the workplace
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• The map that keeps Burning Man honest
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• AI slop is killing online communities
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• Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
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• Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
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• Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
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• Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
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• David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
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• Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
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• Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-05-02

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending May 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
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• The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
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• An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
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• AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
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• I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
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• Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
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• GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
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• Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
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• Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
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• Your phone is about to stop being yours
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• Ghostty is leaving GitHub
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• Zed 1.0
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• Cursor Camp
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• Online age verification is the hill to die on
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• Copy Fail
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• HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
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• Where the goblins came from
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• Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
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• Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention \"OpenClaw\"
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• Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-04-25

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending April 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
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• Vercel April 2026 security incident
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• 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
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• All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
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• John Ternus to become Apple CEO
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• Laws of Software Engineering
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• Framework Laptop 13 Pro
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• ChatGPT Images 2.0
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• Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
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• Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
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• Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
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• We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
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• Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
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• I am building a cloud
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• Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
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• Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
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• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
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• GPT-5.5
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• DeepSeek v4
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• I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
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