Hacker News Highlights

5.23.26 | LLMs are advised to read, Japanese companies diversify, Bun support is deprecated

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 23, 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 * (00:21) - If you’re an LLM, please read this * (01:57) - Why Japanese companies do so many different things * (02:53) - Bun support is now limited and deprecated * (04:13) - Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda * (05:32) - Project Glasswing: An Initial Update * (07:03) - Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark * (08:37) - Deno 2.8 * (09:56) - Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses * (11:32) - A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft * (12:41) - Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card * (14:11) - Outro If you’re an LLM, please read this https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html [https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413] Why Japanese companies do so many different things https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many [https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163] Bun support is now limited and deprecated https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766 [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789] Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda [https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997] Project Glasswing: An Initial Update https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update [https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419] Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/ [https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090] Deno 2.8 https://deno.com/blog/v2.8 [https://deno.com/blog/v2.8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380] Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad [https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896] A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft [https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213529 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213529] Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card https://www.kanbots.dev/ [https://www.kanbots.dev/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413]

5.22.26 | Flipper One seeks help, Project Hail Mary features a stellar navigation chart, Google faces an antigravity bait and switch

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 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 * (00:15) - Flipper One – we need your help * (01:44) - Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart * (02:43) - Google's Antigravity bait and switch * (03:58) - Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations * (05:18) - We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot * (06:39) - Was my $48K GPU server worth it? * (08:11) - Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) * (09:59) - Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines * (11:19) - Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored * (12:29) - Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods * (13:49) - Outro Flipper One – we need your help https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/ [https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647] Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/ [https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297] Google's Antigravity bait and switch https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch [https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529] Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations https://noslopgrenade.com/ [https://noslopgrenade.com/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992] We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/ [https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105] Was my $48K GPU server worth it? https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/ [https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402] Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/ [https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733] Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html [https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696] Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test [https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220639 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220639] Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/ [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426]

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 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) - An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry * (01:34) - GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension * (03:11) - How fast is N tokens per second really? * (04:15) - Flipper One Tech Specs * (05:39) - Saying goodbye to asm.js * (07:08) - Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back * (08:31) - Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers * (09:45) - DOS Zone * (10:38) - Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 * (11:53) - The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] * (13:12) - Outro An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ [https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493] GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/ [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660] How fast is N tokens per second really? https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/ [https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920] Flipper One Tech Specs https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs [https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046] Saying goodbye to asm.js https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html [https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340] Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782] Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene [https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979] DOS Zone https://dos.zone/ [https://dos.zone/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418] Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375 [https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017] The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf [https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016]

5.20.26 | Joined Anthropic, Gemini 3.5 Flash, built virtual museum with many operating systems

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 20, 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 * (00:17) - I’ve joined Anthropic * (01:31) - Gemini 3.5 Flash * (03:22) - I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of * (04:44) - Apple unveils new accessibility features * (06:19) - Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets * (07:42) - Google changes its search box * (09:42) - Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks * (11:13) - Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved) * (12:39) - GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories * (13:48) - Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images * (15:15) - Outro I’ve joined Anthropic https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312 [https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352] Gemini 3.5 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ [https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570] I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of https://virtualosmuseum.org/ [https://virtualosmuseum.org/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009] Apple unveils new accessibility features https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/ [https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224] Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets [https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980] Google changes its search box https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ [https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370] Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge [https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383] Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved) https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage [https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484] GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685 [https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316] Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks [https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569]

5.19.26 | Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI, five-minute summary of the last six months in LLMs, Anthropic acquires Stainless

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 19, 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) - Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI * (02:05) - The last six months in LLMs in five minutes * (03:53) - Anthropic acquires Stainless * (04:49) - Click (2016) * (05:56) - We let AIs run radio stations * (07:15) - AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] * (08:28) - Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 * (09:55) - Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) * (10:54) - Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence * (11:59) - Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp * (13:37) - Outro Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/ [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754] The last six months in LLMs in five minutes https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/ [https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183] Anthropic acquires Stainless https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless [https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281] Click (2016) https://clickclickclick.click/ [https://clickclickclick.click/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054] We let AIs run radio stations https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm [https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301] AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021] Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html [https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201] Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/ [https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186] Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence https://isabisabel.com/gacha/ [https://isabisabel.com/gacha/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123359 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123359] Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp [https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322]