5.21.26 | OpenAI disproves a discrete geometry conjecture, GitHub reports breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension, and analysis questions N tokens per second speed

5.29.26 | Claude Opus 4.8, theft of a $200k Lego collection, and a dorm room startup making a million

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights [https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights] * (00:00) - Intro * (00:18) - Claude Opus 4.8 * (01:44) - Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection * (03:03) - I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) * (04:09) - GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits * (05:34) - Cars collect a startling amount of data about you * (06:50) - Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue * (08:09) - Building durable workflows on Postgres * (09:49) - Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test * (11:07) - Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' * (12:21) - Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT * (13:40) - Outro Claude Opus 4.8 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 [https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647] Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection [https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136] I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) https://nick.winans.io/blog/nice-nano/ [https://nick.winans.io/blog/nice-nano/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314951 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314951] GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-github-bans-security-researcher-who-posted-zero-day-windows-exploits-because-company-ruined-their-life-expert-claims-action-is-vindictive-and-promises-further-retaliation [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-github-bans-security-researcher-who-posted-zero-day-windows-exploits-because-company-ruined-their-life-expert-claims-action-is-vindictive-and-promises-further-retaliation] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315968 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315968] Cars collect a startling amount of data about you https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481] Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue https://llmgame.scalex.dev [https://llmgame.scalex.dev] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308376 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308376] Building durable workflows on Postgres https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution [https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530] Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821 [https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774] Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/ [https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314002 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314002] Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730 [https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282180 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282180]

5.28.26 | YouTube labels AI videos, Anthropic and OpenAI find market fit, DuckDuckGo searches increase after Google's AI mode announcement

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 28, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights [https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights] * (00:00) - Intro * (00:19) - YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos * (01:50) - I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit * (03:15) - DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode * (04:59) - SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) * (06:01) - FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home * (07:10) - Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests * (08:27) - What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications * (09:43) - Mini Micro Fantasy Computer * (10:48) - Go: Support for Generic Methods * (11:55) - Outro YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/ [https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753] I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/ [https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794] DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/ [https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649] SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html [https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297645 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297645] FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302151 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302151] Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m [https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293080 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293080] What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications [https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299220 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299220] Mini Micro Fantasy Computer https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about [https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291947 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291947] Go: Support for Generic Methods https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273 [https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291575 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291575]

5.27.26 | Spain blocks prediction markets, worst job interview experience, interesting modern pixel fonts

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 27, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights [https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights] * (00:00) - Intro * (00:18) - Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence * (01:31) - The worst job interview I ever had * (02:38) - A few interesting modern pixel fonts * (03:52) - Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down * (05:20) - That Methyl Methacrylate Tank * (06:26) - I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline * (07:49) - Cloudflare Flagship * (09:02) - Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop * (10:03) - I'm Tired of Talking to AI * (11:19) - The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023) * (12:36) - Outro Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/ [https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316] The worst job interview I ever had https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had [https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285344 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285344] A few interesting modern pixel fonts https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/ [https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271448 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271448] Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279453 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279453] That Methyl Methacrylate Tank https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank [https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712] I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tracked-book-production-pipeline/ [https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tracked-book-production-pipeline/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238703 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238703] Cloudflare Flagship https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/ [https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468] Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop https://github.com/logannye/rosalind [https://github.com/logannye/rosalind] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222600 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222600] I'm Tired of Talking to AI https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/ [https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292224 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292224] The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023) https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/ [https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-forgotten-art-of-the-lan-party/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250300 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250300]

5.26.26 | Magnifica Humanitas, California exempts Linux from age-verification law, Using AI to improve coding slowly

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights [https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights] * (00:00) - Intro * (00:20) - Magnifica Humanitas * (02:06) - California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash * (03:40) - Using AI to write better code more slowly * (04:56) - Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout * (05:41) - Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) * (06:49) - Ferrari Luce * (08:35) - Hacker News front page as a site * (09:44) - What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard * (10:50) - Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training * (12:21) - How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works * (13:35) - Outro Magnifica Humanitas https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html [https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206] California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961] Using AI to write better code more slowly https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/ [https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984] Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout [https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580] Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk [https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walk] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272670 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272670] Ferrari Luce https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce [https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629] Hacker News front page as a site https://thefrontpage.dev/ [https://thefrontpage.dev/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271127 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271127] What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism [https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267290 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267290] Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910 [https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770] How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/ [https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715]

5.25.26 | DeepSeek native coding agent, drawing a line graph, AI memory costs increase

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 25, 2026. Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights [https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights] * (00:00) - Intro * (00:19) - DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost * (01:36) - I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph * (02:44) - Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs * (04:11) - Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web * (05:18) - Migrating from Go to Rust * (06:41) - Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links * (07:53) - Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation * (09:23) - Childhood Computing * (10:44) - Greg Brockman interview [video] * (12:07) - Jira Is Turing-Complete * (13:25) - Outro DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/ [https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953] I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html [https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223997 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223997] Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares [https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258684 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258684] Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1 [https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015] Migrating from Go to Rust https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/ [https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259808 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259808] Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/ [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253186 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253186] Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912] Childhood Computing https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html [https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597] Greg Brockman interview [video] https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/ [https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593] Jira Is Turing-Complete https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html [https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263253 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263253]