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Stories from May 19, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
893 points by andreww591 23 hours ago | 194 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1384 points by dmarcos 1 day ago | 587 comments
3.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
707 points by interpol_p 1 day ago | 374 comments
4.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
892 points by spectraldrift 21 hours ago | 614 comments
5.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
764 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 576 comments
6.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
632 points by berkeleyjunk 21 hours ago | 870 comments
7.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
316 points by smooke 20 hours ago | 171 comments
8.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
307 points by doener 20 hours ago | 91 comments
9.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
739 points by ortusdux 20 hours ago | 228 comments
10.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
459 points by LelouBil 1 day ago | 179 comments
11.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
282 points by asar 1 day ago | 219 comments
12.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
508 points by danybittel 1 day ago | 193 comments
13.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
379 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 298 comments
14.
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com/wiltodelta)
346 points by janalsncm 17 hours ago | 216 comments
15.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
280 points by vi_sextus_vi 3 days ago | 118 comments
16.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
310 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 24 comments
17.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
290 points by cucho 1 day ago | 228 comments
18.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
146 points by gmays 1 day ago | 239 comments
19.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
431 points by 7777777phil 20 hours ago | 241 comments
20.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
126 points by pulkitsh1234 2 days ago | 12 comments
21.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
249 points by babel16 7 days ago | 133 comments
22.
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
175 points by krupan 3 days ago | 73 comments
23.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
133 points by zdw 2 days ago | 30 comments
24.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
130 points by akhuettel 1 day ago | 51 comments
25.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
141 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 42 comments
26.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
478 points by atombender 19 hours ago | 234 comments
27.
Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (turbifycdn.com)
96 points by bschne 2 days ago | 10 comments
28.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
403 points by bradley_taunt 1 day ago | 294 comments
29.
Polypad (amplify.com)
218 points by ivank 3 days ago | 24 comments
30.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
177 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 49 comments

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