Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2026-05-17login
Stories from May 17, 2026 (UTC)
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day.
1.
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
628 points by TheEdonian 1 day ago | 422 comments
2.
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)
767 points by WithinReason 1 day ago | 332 comments
3.
A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
350 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 46 comments
4.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
243 points by doener 3 days ago | 96 comments
5.
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
262 points by birdculture 3 days ago | 44 comments
6.
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
398 points by tech4bot 23 hours ago | 193 comments
7.
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
287 points by celsoazevedo 1 day ago | 300 comments
8.
CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
207 points by dariubs 1 day ago | 52 comments
9.
Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
216 points by crescit_eundo 3 days ago | 172 comments
10.
High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
141 points by leonidasrup 4 days ago | 24 comments
11.
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
242 points by zdw 1 day ago | 22 comments
12.
Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
428 points by dive 1 day ago | 284 comments
13.
Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
103 points by bushwart 1 day ago | 117 comments
14.
Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
204 points by ScottWRobinson 1 day ago | 106 comments
15.
AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
427 points by ch_sm 23 hours ago | 183 comments
16.
GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
369 points by dagenix 15 hours ago | 92 comments
17.
A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
109 points by bryanrasmussen 5 days ago | 10 comments
18.
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
322 points by datadrivenangel 1 day ago | 276 comments
19.
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
199 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 232 comments
20.
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
126 points by walterbell 2 days ago | 60 comments
21.
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
215 points by ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago | 220 comments
22.
 [dupe] Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
571 points by nolok 23 hours ago | 258 comments
23.
Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
159 points by RohanAdwankar 15 hours ago | 65 comments
24.
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
195 points by signa11 3 days ago | 158 comments
25.
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
398 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 392 comments
26.
The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
154 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 64 comments
27.
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
160 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 50 comments
28.
Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
82 points by Xcelerate 4 days ago | 19 comments
29.
Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
106 points by sebg 3 days ago | 54 comments
30.
WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)
306 points by zzzeek 23 hours ago | 195 comments

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: