Hacker News Highlights

5.24.26 | Green card rules, On The (2021), Writerdeck discussion

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 24, 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) - Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says * (01:32) - On The (2021) * (02:42) - Time to talk about my writerdeck * (03:53) - The Art of Money Getting * (05:02) - My two-part desk setup (2025) * (06:05) - Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" * (07:13) - Wake up! 16b * (08:19) - 80386 microcode disassembled * (09:42) - Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out * (11:07) - Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? * (12:09) - Outro Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241890 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241890] On The (2021) https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/ [https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325] Time to talk about my writerdeck https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/ [https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144] The Art of Money Getting https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/ [https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208] My two-part desk setup (2025) https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/ [https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214311 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214311] Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/ [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386] Wake up! 16b https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html [https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060] 80386 microcode disassembled https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/ [https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247004 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247004] Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/ [https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254475 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254475] Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US [https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?language=en_US] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309 [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309]

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]