Hacker News Highlights

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

(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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206California 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://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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984
Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272670
Ferrari Luce
https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629
Hacker News front page as a site
https://thefrontpage.dev/
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://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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715

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

(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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
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://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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015
Migrating from Go to Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
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://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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912
Childhood Computing
https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597
Greg Brockman interview [video]
https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593
Jira Is Turing-Complete
https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263253

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

(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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241890On The
(2021)
https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325Time to talk about my writerdeck
https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208
My two-part desk setup (2025)
https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386
Wake up! 16b
https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060
80386 microcode disassembled
https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247004
Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309

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

(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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413Why Japanese companies do so many different things
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163
Bun support is now limited and deprecated
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997
Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090
Deno 2.8
https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896
A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft
https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213529
Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
https://www.kanbots.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413

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

(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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
https://noslopgrenade.com/
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://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://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://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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426