Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2026-05-26login
Stories from May 26, 2026 (UTC)
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day.
1.
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)
1205 points by signa11 1 day ago | 443 comments
2.
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)
588 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 232 comments
3.
Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)
1046 points by thm 1 day ago | 479 comments
4.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)
396 points by zdw 1 day ago | 94 comments
5.
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)
385 points by subract 1 day ago | 81 comments
6.
Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)
306 points by GodelNumbering 1 day ago | 338 comments
7.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank (science.org)
388 points by nooks 20 hours ago | 172 comments
8.
I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline (djspeckhals.com)
276 points by dustin1114 4 days ago | 70 comments
9.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)
585 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 227 comments
10.
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)
180 points by samuell 6 days ago | 52 comments
11.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)
522 points by obscurette 2 days ago | 590 comments
12.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down (cnbc.com)
363 points by aghuang 1 day ago | 420 comments
13.
The worst job interview I ever had (oliverio.dev)
517 points by oliverio 19 hours ago | 385 comments
14.
Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)
221 points by evakhoury 5 days ago | 161 comments
15.
The real cost of owning a home (ericturner.dev)
397 points by ggcr 1 day ago | 786 comments
16.
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)
333 points by dynip 1 day ago | 121 comments
17.
Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia (medium.com/jakeorlowitz)
539 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 315 comments
18.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)
151 points by MrBuddyCasino 1 day ago | 78 comments
19.
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)
133 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 123 comments
20.
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)
390 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 226 comments
21.
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)
132 points by tosh 1 day ago | 174 comments
22.
The user is visibly frustrated (pscanf.com)
294 points by croes 1 day ago | 257 comments
23.
A portentous reunion (dtrace.org)
130 points by cafkafk 1 day ago | 36 comments
24.
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View” (retrogamecoders.com)
92 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 15 comments
25.
 [dupe] GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)
650 points by cebert 1 day ago | 1 comment
26.
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)
98 points by fchishtie 1 day ago | 61 comments
27.
The Steinwinter Supercargo (thedrive.com)
82 points by itronitron 3 days ago | 27 comments
28.
C array types are weird (anselmschueler.com)
118 points by signa11 2 days ago | 117 comments
29.
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)
146 points by speckx 5 days ago | 60 comments
30.
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)
124 points by lumpa 4 days ago | 57 comments

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

Search: