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Hacker News Best Stories

Updated: 2026-05-19 06:00:09 CST

# Title Score
1 Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools ▲793
2 I don't think AI will make your processes go faster ▲651
3 Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI ▲610
4 Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit ▲579
5 Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust ▲560
6 Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian ▲466
7 AI is a technology not a product ▲455
8 Native all the way, until you need text ▲444
9 At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 ▲440
10 Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep ▲427
11 GenCAD ▲425
12 I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation ▲424
13 Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting ▲421
14 AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise ▲409
15 A nicer voltmeter clock ▲361
16 We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag ▲349
17 Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter ▲334
18 Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation ▲332
19 WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency ▲321
20 Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels ▲314
21 Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS ▲311
22 Anthropic acquires Stainless ▲278
23 It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness ▲273
24 Actually, democracy dies in H.R. ▲269
25 Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? ▲251
26 Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller ▲250
27 Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us ▲246
28 Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely ▲239
29 CUDA Books ▲224
30 Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now ▲219
31 Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them ▲219
32 Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request ▲203
33 'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' ▲199
34 Prolog Coding Horror ▲190
35 Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' ▲188
36 Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait ▲185
37 WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound ▲185
38 AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] ▲180
39 Qwen 3.7 Preview ▲179
40 Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes ▲175
41 VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) ▲166
42 EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data ▲154
43 Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches ▲150
44 Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO ▲143
45 MCP Hello Page ▲132
46 Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) ▲126
47 The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers ▲122
48 The occasional ECONNRESET ▲114
49 Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' ▲114
50 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries ▲111
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