Hacker News on Friday, 8 May 2026

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users(reclaimthenet.org)

1448 points by anonymousiam 5 months ago | 538 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that Google's reCAPTCHA now fails for de-Googled Android users, effectively requiring Google software to prove you're human.

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies(apnews.com)

949 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 753 comments

AP News article explaining how Poland grew to become one of the world's 20 largest economies since the fall of communism.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday(bbc.com)

841 points by defrost 5 months ago | 158 comments

BBC News article reporting on tributes led by King Charles and Queen Camilla for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged(privatecaptcha.com)

599 points by ribtoks 5 months ago | 290 comments

A Private Captcha blog post arguing that Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the reCAPTCHA successor announced in May 2026, revives the device attestation of Web Environment Integrity.

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking(sinceyouarrived.world)

495 points by mwheelz 5 months ago | 243 comments

An interactive web page that displays the information a browser reveals to websites automatically, such as device and environment details, without asking permission.

An Introduction to Meshtastic(meshtastic.org)

491 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 180 comments

Introduction page of the Meshtastic documentation, an open-source project using inexpensive LoRa radios for long-range off-grid mesh communication.

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures(jefftk.com)

403 points by speckx 5 months ago | 160 comments

Jeff Kaufman blog post on how AI acceleration strains both coordinated-disclosure and Linux's 'bugs are bugs' vulnerability cultures, using the Copy Fail bug as an example.

Cartoon Network Flash Games(webdesignmuseum.org)

397 points by willmeyers 5 months ago | 121 comments

A Web Design Museum exhibition page collecting playable Cartoon Network Flash browser games such as Scooby Snapshot and The Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor.

Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house(abc7chicago.com)

373 points by bryan0 5 months ago | 279 comments

ABC7 Chicago I-Team report on a DUI suspect who tracked his missing laptop to the home of the Illinois State Police trooper who arrested him.

Mojo 1.0 Beta(mojolang.org)

354 points by sbt567 5 months ago | 221 comments

Homepage of the Mojo programming language, a Python-like language for fast CPU and GPU code, announcing the 1.0.0b1 stable beta release.

Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

335 points by mittermayr 5 months ago | 270 comments

Ask HN post describing an apparent UUID v4 collision from the npm uuid package in a database of about 15,000 records, asking if others have seen this.

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos(war.gov)

318 points by david-gpu 5 months ago | 471 comments

U.S. Department of War site for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), hosting its first release of UAP documents and videos.

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)(slate.com)

311 points by downbad_ 5 months ago | 89 comments

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging(pcmag.com)

276 points by tcp_handshaker 5 months ago | 178 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await(clojurescript.org)

254 points by Borkdude 5 months ago | 60 comments

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved(cnbc.com)

254 points by christhecaribou 5 months ago | 180 comments

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM(btxx.org)

235 points by xngbuilds 5 months ago | 94 comments

Teaching Claude Why(anthropic.com)

224 points by pretext 5 months ago | 113 comments

I hate soldering(user8.bearblog.dev)

213 points by James72689 5 months ago | 171 comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2(nintendo.co.jp)

210 points by razorbeamz 5 months ago | 184 comments

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)(ze3tar.github.io)

200 points by MrBruh 5 months ago | 123 comments

The React2Shell Story(lachlan.nz)

198 points by mufeedvh 5 months ago | 41 comments

Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal(reuters.com)

183 points by scrlk 5 months ago | 132 comments

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs(openrouter.ai)

169 points by gmays 5 months ago | 50 comments

Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria(wired.com)

168 points by littlexsparkee 5 months ago | 69 comments

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years(nytimes.com)

167 points by nxobject 5 months ago | 48 comments

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer(tautme.github.io)

153 points by adm4 5 months ago | 86 comments

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off(theverge.com)

149 points by droidjj 5 months ago | 145 comments

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages(wix-ux.com)

145 points by luispa 5 months ago | 50 comments

PC Engine CPU(jsgroth.dev)

137 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 57 comments

AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs(duarteocarmo.com)

136 points by johnbarron 5 months ago | 68 comments

GeoJSON(geojson.org)

133 points by tosh 5 months ago | 65 comments

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video](youtube.com)

126 points by abstrus 5 months ago | 38 comments

Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider(joachimschipper.nl)

122 points by JoachimSchipper 5 months ago | 66 comments

Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning(imtomt.github.io)

114 points by theanonymousone 5 months ago | 36 comments

Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit(garrido.io)

111 points by ggpsv 5 months ago | 23 comments

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?(sigops.org)

108 points by mad 5 months ago | 27 comments

Bliss (Photograph)(en.wikipedia.org)

106 points by cainxinth 5 months ago | 43 comments

Let’s Encrypt – Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident(letsencrypt.status.io)

105 points by rbaudibert 5 months ago | 58 comments

The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)(acesounderglass.com)

102 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 15 comments

dBase: 1979-2026(delphinightmares.substack.com)

98 points by deeaceofbase 5 months ago | 43 comments

What we lost the last time code got cheap(poppastring.com)

96 points by speckx 5 months ago | 77 comments

Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads(neowin.net)

92 points by bundie 5 months ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Git for AI Agents(github.com)

88 points by doshay 5 months ago | 44 comments

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes(databricks.com)

84 points by sp_from_db 5 months ago | 24 comments

How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)(stroustrup.com)

79 points by theanonymousone 5 months ago | 67 comments

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE(github.com)

78 points by peter_d_sherman 5 months ago | 34 comments

Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors(thechipletter.substack.com)

77 points by klelatti 5 months ago | 30 comments

Discord Incident(discordstatus.com)

77 points by moelf 5 months ago | 36 comments

QBE – Compiler Back End(c9x.me)

73 points by smartmic 5 months ago | 21 comments

The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet(binj.news)

60 points by gnabgib 5 months ago | 8 comments

Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests(nhtsa.gov)

56 points by amanaplanacanal 5 months ago | 45 comments

Classification of amino acids(khanacademy.org)

52 points by kamaraju 5 months ago | 4 comments

When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions(0xkrt26.github.io)

52 points by denismenace 5 months ago | 12 comments

People Hate AI Art(mccue.dev)

47 points by 3dedb728-3f77 5 months ago | 24 comments

Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars(github.com)

46 points by Chemaclass 5 months ago | 12 comments

Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy(pietschsoft.com)

45 points by pabs3 5 months ago | 9 comments

Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs(flox.dev)

44 points by mathewpregasen 5 months ago | 12 comments

US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support(apnews.com)

43 points by OutOfHere 5 months ago | 22 comments

Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation(lwn.net)

42 points by signa11 5 months ago | 5 comments