Hacker News on Friday, 15 May 2026

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better(gutenberg.org)

1157 points by JSeiko 5 months ago | 272 comments

Homepage of Project Gutenberg, a volunteer-run library of over 75,000 free public-domain eBooks available in epub and Kindle formats or online.

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California(arstechnica.com)

531 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 346 comments

Ars Technica article on a California bill advancing that would require game publishers to offer independent play patches or refunds after shutting down servers.

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying(tmctmt.com)

521 points by RGBCube 5 months ago | 318 comments

Blog post explaining how Mullvad VPN deterministically assigns exit IPs based on a user's WireGuard key, making them usable as a fingerprinting vector.

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop(explorer.samismith.com)

484 points by smusamashah 5 months ago | 111 comments

A web app that lets users browse Wikipedia through a simulated Windows XP desktop interface with icons for Wikipedia, Media, and a Geofile Explorer.

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app(macdailynews.com)

423 points by tencentshill 5 months ago | 288 comments

MacDailyNews article reporting the U.S. DOJ demanding Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of a car-tinkering app as part of an emissions crackdown.

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10(projectzero.google)

421 points by happyhardcore 5 months ago | 223 comments

Google Project Zero blog post by Seth Jenkins describing a zero-click exploit chain achieving root on the Google Pixel 10, following an earlier Pixel 9 chain.

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"(github.com)

412 points by ndiddy 5 months ago | 285 comments

GitHub issue on the oven-sh/bun repository reporting that Bun's Rust codebase fails Miri checks and permits undefined behavior in safe Rust.

'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens(kevinpatel.xyz)

325 points by alligatorplum 5 months ago | 144 comments

A satirical blog post, in the style of The Onion, mocking npm for recurring supply chain attacks while claiming nothing could prevent them.

We are retiring our bug bounty program(turso.tech)

318 points by tjek 5 months ago | 232 comments

Turso blog post announcing the retirement of its $1,000 bug bounty program for data-corruption bugs, citing effects of AI.

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline(twitter.com)

316 points by cmsparks 5 months ago | 147 comments

The sigmoids won't save you(astralcodexten.com)

279 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 257 comments

Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks(fastcompany.com)

278 points by hackernj 5 months ago | 284 comments

The Zulip Foundation(blog.zulip.com)

274 points by boramalper 5 months ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks(github.com)

268 points by andyyyy64 5 months ago | 62 comments

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud(analytics.fixelsmith.com)

266 points by redbell 5 months ago | 95 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon(unplannedobsolescence.com)

261 points by birdculture 5 months ago | 44 comments

Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha(tristandc.com)

246 points by kspacewalk2 5 months ago | 92 comments

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git(radicle.dev)

236 points by KolmogorovComp 5 months ago | 86 comments

O(x)Caml in Space(gazagnaire.org)

230 points by yminsky 5 months ago | 51 comments

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution(github.com)

213 points by FranckDernoncou 5 months ago | 43 comments

Erlang/OTP 29.0(erlang.org)

209 points by pyinstallwoes 5 months ago | 38 comments

Jank now has its own custom IR(jank-lang.org)

201 points by DASD 5 months ago | 42 comments

ASCII by Jason Scott(ascii.textfiles.com)

194 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 22 comments

Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer(spectrum.ieee.org)

194 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 156 comments

Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video](fosdem.org)

193 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 202 comments

How Claude Code works in large codebases(claude.com)

192 points by shenli3514 5 months ago | 131 comments

Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts(askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org)

188 points by gaws 5 months ago | 22 comments

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For(lucisqr.substack.com)

183 points by signa11 5 months ago | 148 comments

Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints(writing.antonleicht.me)

181 points by thoughtpeddler 5 months ago | 176 comments

Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'(cnbc.com)

180 points by drob518 5 months ago | 176 comments

Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'(openculture.com)

172 points by diodorus 5 months ago | 126 comments

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)(dynomight.net)

171 points by tomjakubowski 5 months ago | 202 comments

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image(github.com)

165 points by MattRogish 5 months ago | 32 comments

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test(scientificamerican.com)

163 points by jumploops 5 months ago | 74 comments

Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials(thenational.scot)

161 points by Symbiote 5 months ago | 29 comments

Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue(revswap.ai)

160 points by tormeh 5 months ago | 120 comments

How to Write to SSDs [pdf](vldb.org)

157 points by matt_d 5 months ago | 19 comments

Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64(phoboslab.org)

154 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 21 comments

Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center(fortune.com)

138 points by logickkk1 5 months ago | 121 comments

Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos(kingy.ai)

130 points by chbint 5 months ago | 134 comments

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64(github.com)

118 points by xyru 5 months ago | 46 comments

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time(reclaimthenet.org)

110 points by Cider9986 5 months ago | 74 comments

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator(github.com)

108 points by gdevic 5 months ago | 35 comments

Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?(worseonpurpose.com)

107 points by prawn 5 months ago | 84 comments

Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

105 points by sochix 5 months ago | 97 comments

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born(baldurbjarnason.com)

99 points by speckx 5 months ago | 64 comments

Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms(dylan.gr)

94 points by James72689 5 months ago | 83 comments

UK sovereign LLM inference(relax.ai)

93 points by benjamintnorris 5 months ago | 101 comments

Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security(metabase.com)

91 points by salsakran 5 months ago | 67 comments

High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf](ams.org)

90 points by nill0 5 months ago | 33 comments

Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site(fastcompany.com)

89 points by gpi 5 months ago | 58 comments

NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)(gwern.net)

87 points by Ariarule 5 months ago | 36 comments

Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California(nytimes.com)

85 points by xnx 5 months ago | 46 comments

New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic(thedrive.com)

81 points by cf100clunk 5 months ago | 39 comments

How diamonds are made(diamond.jaydip.me)

80 points by lemonberry 5 months ago | 52 comments

The Aperiodic Table(blog.jgc.org)

76 points by jgrahamc 5 months ago | 34 comments

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops(discuss.grapheneos.org)

73 points by Cider9986 5 months ago | 45 comments

We don't know why Malawi is poor(newsletter.deenamousa.com)

71 points by alphabetatango 5 months ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI(ljtn.github.io)

70 points by jolaflow 5 months ago | 36 comments