Hacker News on Saturday, 23 May 2026

Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality(reclaimthenet.org)

621 points by abawany 5 months ago | 269 comments

Reclaim The Net article about a Texas woman arrested over a Facebook post criticizing her town's water quality; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.

Time to talk about my writerdeck(veronicaexplains.net)

479 points by hggh 5 months ago | 285 comments

Blog post by Veronica Explains describing her writerdeck, a terminal-only laptop set up with vim for distraction-free writing.

On The <dl> (2021)(benmyers.dev)

427 points by ravenical 5 months ago | 124 comments

Ben Myers' 2021 blog post explaining the HTML <dl> description list element, its uses for name-value pairs, and accessibility considerations.

Wake up! 16b(hellmood.111mb.de)

406 points by MaximilianEmel 5 months ago | 31 comments

Writeup of "wake up! 16b", a 16-byte x86 assembly intro producing a Matrix-style digital rain effect, released at Outline Demoparty 2026.

The Art of Money Getting(kk.org)

370 points by dxs 5 months ago | 203 comments

A Cool Tools "Book Freak" post excerpting P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting and its golden rules for making money.

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork(xcancel.com)

355 points by Tomte 5 months ago | 132 comments

Josef Prusa's X thread (via xcancel) alleging BambuStudio violates PrusaSlicer's AGPL license and linking it to Chinese national intelligence and data laws.

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

316 points by kelseyfrog 5 months ago | 147 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links(techcrunch.com)

300 points by spike021 5 months ago | 172 comments

80386 microcode disassembled(reenigne.org)

260 points by nand2mario 5 months ago | 49 comments

Oura says it gets government demands for user data(this.weekinsecurity.com)

249 points by donohoe 5 months ago | 142 comments

Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers(euronews.com)

233 points by embedding-shape 5 months ago | 83 comments

I Miss Terry Pratchett(mahl.me)

225 points by gorgmah 5 months ago | 220 comments

Is AI Profitable Yet?(isaiprofitable.com)

189 points by poyu 5 months ago | 128 comments

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees(fortune.com)

184 points by nreece 5 months ago | 43 comments

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems(ohwr.org)

183 points by michaelsbradley 5 months ago | 44 comments

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate(dutchnews.nl)

180 points by zqna 5 months ago | 131 comments

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son(theguardian.com)

180 points by Michelangelo11 5 months ago | 52 comments

-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code(olano.dev)

173 points by fagnerbrack 5 months ago | 167 comments

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby(github.com)

170 points by winebarrel 5 months ago | 98 comments

Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)(horace.io)

163 points by tosh 5 months ago | 59 comments

Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)(thonking.ai)

159 points by tosh 5 months ago | 46 comments

The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers(wired.com)

144 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 70 comments

Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order(torrentfreak.com)

140 points by gslin 5 months ago | 90 comments

The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)(superjumpmagazine.com)

140 points by susam 5 months ago | 68 comments

Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County(bbc.com)

135 points by borski 5 months ago | 99 comments

Judson's Last Ride(realclearpolitics.com)

122 points by NaOH 5 months ago | 5 comments

Opaque Types in Python(blog.glyph.im)

117 points by lumpa 5 months ago | 53 comments

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies(projectsaltbox.com)

113 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 31 comments

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode(nand2mario.github.io)

112 points by wicket 5 months ago | 22 comments

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite(twitter.com)

107 points by bundie 5 months ago | 119 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980(righto.com)

104 points by elpocko 5 months ago | 21 comments

Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash(bbc.com)

101 points by baal80spam 5 months ago | 75 comments

DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost(cato.org)

99 points by malshe 5 months ago | 86 comments

My I3-Emacs Integration(khz.ac)

94 points by nosolace 5 months ago | 40 comments

Don't Roll Your Own(susam.net)

84 points by adunk 5 months ago | 70 comments

The Steinwinter Supercargo(thedrive.com)

80 points by itronitron 5 months ago | 26 comments

Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly"(arstechnica.com)

71 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 65 comments

New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.(washingtonpost.com)

64 points by michaelsbradley 5 months ago | 44 comments

A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick)(old.reddit.com)

52 points by gnabgib 5 months ago | 4 comments

Byrne's Euclid(c82.net)

47 points by layer8 5 months ago | 14 comments

Lisp in Vim (2019)(susam.net)

46 points by whent 5 months ago | 6 comments

Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms(nature.com)

44 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 2 comments

Bun.Image(bun.com)

30 points by chakintosh 5 months ago | 10 comments

Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants(apnews.com)

27 points by logickkk1 5 months ago | 0 comments

Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment(kcrg.com)

26 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 22 comments

Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company(zero-arr.vercel.app)

24 points by not-chatgpt 5 months ago | 10 comments

The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video](youtube.com)

23 points by zdw 5 months ago | 7 comments

API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates(developer.chrome.com)

23 points by theanonymousone 5 months ago | 8 comments

The analog computer museum's online library(analogmuseum.org)

21 points by nill0 5 months ago | 0 comments

Evaluating Spec CPU2026(chipsandcheese.com)

21 points by zdw 5 months ago | 3 comments

We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB(the-practical-developer.online)

19 points by milkikomasiko 5 months ago | 4 comments

Building an AWS Lambda-Like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs(medium.com)

17 points by nreece 5 months ago | 3 comments

You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video](youtube.com)

16 points by bwidlar 5 months ago | 10 comments

Trying to preserve other peoples code(github.com)

13 points by random__duck 5 months ago | 2 comments

Software Engineering at the Tipping Point(io.google)

12 points by michaelchisari 5 months ago | 9 comments

Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It(cambridge.org)

10 points by openrockets 5 months ago | 2 comments