Hacker News on Monday, 18 May 2026

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI(techcrunch.com)

1011 points by nycdatasci 5 months ago | 515 comments

TechCrunch news article reporting that Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian(github.com)

642 points by zakirullin 5 months ago | 312 comments

GitHub repository for files.md, an MIT-licensed open-source note-taking app that keeps your life in plain Markdown files, pitched as an Obsidian alternative.

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?(rosmine.ai)

540 points by apwheele 5 months ago | 417 comments

A personal ML blog post on Rosmine assessing whether building a $48K multi-GPU server was worth the cost.

Anthropic acquires Stainless(anthropic.com)

518 points by tomeraberbach 5 months ago | 362 comments

Anthropic announcement dated May 18, 2026 that it has acquired Stainless, the API SDK generation company.

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag(archestra.ai)

460 points by ildari 5 months ago | 217 comments

Archestra blog post about AI-generated spam contributions to open source repos and how they used Git's --author flag to stop AI bot PRs on GitHub.

How fast is N tokens per second really?(mikeveerman.github.io)

459 points by hexagr 5 months ago | 94 comments

Interactive web tool that simulates LLM output streaming at selectable tokens-per-second rates for code, text, thinking, and agent modes.

Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting(radleybalko.substack.com)

403 points by gok 5 months ago | 100 comments

Radley Balko's Substack post responding to Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's accusation that his reporting was unethical.

Click (2016)(clickclickclick.click)

360 points by andrewzeno 5 months ago | 91 comments

Click Click Click is an interactive web art piece showing a single green button that narrates and comments on the visitor's mouse behavior as they interact.

We let AIs run radio stations(andonlabs.com)

339 points by lukaspetersson 5 months ago | 256 comments

Andon Labs blog post describing an experiment where four AI agents autonomously run live radio stations, including broadcasting and the business side.

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us(blog.cloudflare.com)

321 points by Fysi 5 months ago | 124 comments

Cloudflare blog post by Grant Bourzikas on what the company learned from Project Glasswing and the Mythos frontier AI model for cybersecurity.

Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS(github.com)

308 points by stephenlthorn 5 months ago | 123 comments

Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait(bloomberg.com)

289 points by srameshc 5 months ago | 475 comments

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now(discuss.haiku-os.org)

283 points by tekkertje 5 months ago | 92 comments

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5(cursor.com)

272 points by asar 5 months ago | 197 comments

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation(nbcnews.com)

269 points by nothrowaways 5 months ago | 245 comments

It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness(noemamag.com)

268 points by ahalbert4 5 months ago | 653 comments

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)

268 points by topherjaynes 5 months ago | 146 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25(vaticannews.va)

261 points by cucho 5 months ago | 182 comments

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers(404media.co)

259 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 103 comments

Actually, democracy dies in H.R.(nytimes.com)

244 points by mitchbob 5 months ago | 167 comments

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?(indiepixel.de)

212 points by gizmo64k 5 months ago | 259 comments

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'(bbc.co.uk)

189 points by bauc 5 months ago | 50 comments

Qwen 3.7 Preview(twitter.com)

187 points by theanonymousone 5 months ago | 70 comments

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?(carette.xyz)

183 points by LucidLynx 5 months ago | 208 comments

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'(theregister.com)

180 points by jonbaer 5 months ago | 86 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp(hyperpolyglot.org)

179 points by veqq 5 months ago | 42 comments

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries(github.com)

173 points by exploraz 5 months ago | 114 comments

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions(ftc.gov)

153 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 69 comments

Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation(sundaylongread.com)

134 points by NaOH 5 months ago | 39 comments

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO(theregister.com)

132 points by Bender 5 months ago | 70 comments

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video](youtube.com)

129 points by CHB0403085482 5 months ago | 95 comments

Your Most Improbable Life(kevinkelly.substack.com)

129 points by jger15 5 months ago | 91 comments

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet(scientificamerican.com)

127 points by dxs 5 months ago | 28 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf](csl.sri.com)

121 points by rurban 5 months ago | 83 comments

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by baruchel 5 months ago | 51 comments

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model(odyssey.ml)

115 points by olivercameron 5 months ago | 22 comments

Learn Harness Engineering(walkinglabs.github.io)

112 points by redbell 5 months ago | 13 comments

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks(spectrum.ieee.org)

110 points by SVI 5 months ago | 29 comments

Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP(yes-we-scan.app)

100 points by gmac 5 months ago | 32 comments

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches(nbcnews.com)

99 points by wrxd 5 months ago | 85 comments

Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)(sep.turbifycdn.com)

92 points by bschne 5 months ago | 8 comments

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water(waterdictionary.net)

90 points by smugglerFlynn 5 months ago | 43 comments

Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?(reddit.com)

87 points by tgrowazay 5 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)(silentshark.app)

87 points by epaga 5 months ago | 25 comments

Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE(loopmaster.xyz)

86 points by stagas 5 months ago | 25 comments

Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks(plough.com)

85 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 43 comments

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era(spacedaily.com)

82 points by redbell 5 months ago | 74 comments

New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC(apnews.com)

80 points by geox 5 months ago | 74 comments

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint(modal.com)

78 points by charles_irl 5 months ago | 18 comments

The Mercury logic programming system(github.com)

77 points by Antibabelic 5 months ago | 17 comments

No More JetBrains Products for Me(matthewkosarek.xyz)

76 points by matthewkosarek 5 months ago | 86 comments

Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz(cnn.com)

74 points by ck2 5 months ago | 47 comments

When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)(github.com)

74 points by teleforce 5 months ago | 7 comments

Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets(theguardian.com)

74 points by thm 5 months ago | 56 comments

Don't answer the first question(lalitm.com)

71 points by lalitmaganti 5 months ago | 39 comments

Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)(theverge.com)

67 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 49 comments

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment(arxiv.org)

67 points by anigbrowl 5 months ago | 25 comments

At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo(bbc.com)

62 points by saikatsg 5 months ago | 19 comments

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space(thescientificdrop.com)

61 points by jonbaer 5 months ago | 32 comments

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI(404media.co)

57 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 17 comments