HN Daily - May 18, 2026

HN Daily - May 29, 2026

Friday roundup: * The Dead Economy Theory — when AI eliminates labor faster than productivity grows * Notes from Mistral's AI Now Summit in Paris * Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B with 38T training tokens * SQLite Is All You Need For Durable Workflows responds to yesterday's DBOS post * Is AI Causing A Repeat Of Frontend's Lost Decade * Over 600 UC faculty demand the SAT come back for STEM majors * Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens July 14 drop * GTA 6 developers at Rockstar unionize

HN Daily - May 28, 2026

Thursday roundup: * Claude Opus 4.8 lands with fast mode and dynamic workflows * Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B post-money valuation * YouTube starts auto-labeling AI-generated videos * EU fines Temu €200M for letting illegal products on the platform * DBOS argues Postgres is all you need for durable execution * Various LLM Smells — the writing tells of generated prose * Continue Y/N: a 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue * Raspberry Pi 6 pushed to 2028 as DRAM shortage bites

HN Daily - May 22, 2026

Friday roundup: * Anthropic's Project Glasswing and the Mythos Preview model that found 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in a month * CISA's vulnerability-data leak gets worse as lawmakers demand answers * yt-dlp deprecates Bun after the maintainer ships a vibe-coded Rust rewrite * Antigravity 2.0 dominates the OpenSCAD Pantheon benchmark * DeepSeek V4 Pro slashes API pricing * U.S. researchers face new restrictions on foreign collaborators * Anna's Archive publishes an llms.txt aimed at AI labs * Project Hail Mary's interactive stellar navigation chart hits the front page

HN Daily - May 21, 2026

Thursday roundup: * Flipper One asks the community to help finish an open Linux pocket cyberdeck (8-core RK3576, NPU, 8 GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, dual GbE, M.2 expansion, mainline kernel) * Google's Antigravity 2.0 silently replaces the IDE with a chatbot via background update; engineer's chat history and settings purged * Seattle Shield: SPD-operated intelligence network shares surveillance bulletins with Amazon, Facebook, ICE, FBI, NYPD, and hundreds of others — 17 years, zero publicly cited arrests * Google packs new ad formats into AI Mode: Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, Business Agent for Leads, expanded Direct Offers * Waymo pauses Atlanta and San Antonio because robotaxis keep driving into floods; the recall last week didn't fix it * Python 3.15 quietly ships: asyncio.TaskGroup.cancel(), threading.serialize_iterator / concurrent_tee, frozendict, json.loads(array_hook=...), Counter xor * A 2021 M1 Max MacBook indexes a year of video locally with Gemma 4 31B Q4 — 28.4 GB model in RAM, 50.89 GB of swap, $140/mo cloud bill cut to $22 * No Slop Grenade publishes the AI-etiquette manifesto: stop pasting AI-generated walls of text into conversations

HN Daily - May 20, 2026

Wednesday roundup: * An OpenAI model disproves an 80-year-old conjecture in discrete geometry (the Erdős unit-distance problem) * GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repos breached via a malicious VS Code extension on an employee device; TeamPCP demanding $50k * Railway 8-hour outage as GCP auto-suspends their production account; cached routes expired and cascaded to AWS + bare metal * Meta geo-blocks ALQST and other human rights accounts from Saudi Arabia and UAE; X has not complied with similar requests * SpaceX S-1: $1.75T-$2T target valuation on ~$15-16B revenue and ~$8B profit; 30% retail allocation * Qwen3.7-Max: agentic coding model with a 35-hour, 1,000+ tool-call autonomous run, compared head-to-head against Claude Opus 4.6 Max * SpiderMonkey says goodbye to asm.js after 13 years — Firefox 148 disables OdinMonkey, removal tracked in bug "Ragnarök"