Hacker News on Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence(reuters.com)

1037 points by thm 5 months ago | 477 comments

Reuters article on Spain blocking Polymarket and Kalshi for lacking gambling licences; the capture shows a captcha verification page instead of the article.

GitHub Actions down again today(githubstatus.com)

624 points by cebert 5 months ago | 315 comments

GitHub status page showing an incident with degraded availability of Actions and Pages caused by authentication issues blocking Actions runs.

The worst job interview I ever had(oliverio.dev)

587 points by oliverio 5 months ago | 470 comments

A personal blog post by a startup engineer recounting his worst job interview, a culture-fit interview that felt like an unsolicited psych evaluation.

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier(politico.eu)

530 points by vrganj 5 months ago | 209 comments

Politico Europe news article reporting that the Netherlands blocked a US company's takeover of a vital Dutch digital supplier.

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia(medium.com)

465 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 275 comments

Medium essay by Jake Orlowitz arguing Wikipedia/Wikimedia has adopted big tech's anti-labor practices; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank(science.org)

404 points by nooks 5 months ago | 174 comments

A Science blog post (In the Pipeline) about a methyl methacrylate tank; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

The real cost of owning a home(ericturner.dev)

364 points by ggcr 5 months ago | 740 comments

A personal blog post by Eric Turner breaking down the hidden costs of owning a home, using his actual expenses, to compare buying versus renting.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down(cnbc.com)

354 points by aghuang 5 months ago | 393 comments

CNBC article reporting that Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston will step down to become executive chairman, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi promoted to co-CEO.

Cloudflare Flagship(developers.cloudflare.com)

341 points by tjek 5 months ago | 165 comments

Cloudflare documentation overview for Flagship, a feature flag service with targeting rules and percentage rollouts evaluated in Workers, compatible with OpenFeature.

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes(9to5google.com)

320 points by Cider9986 5 months ago | 170 comments

9to5Google article reporting that Motorola phones are intercepting the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes, with a video demonstration.

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD(dynip.dev)

314 points by dynip 5 months ago | 116 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs(signalbloom.ai)

291 points by GodelNumbering 5 months ago | 310 comments

The user is visibly frustrated(pscanf.com)

273 points by croes 5 months ago | 243 comments

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled(blog.chrislewis.au)

272 points by GaggiX 5 months ago | 102 comments

Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”(gingerlime.com)

264 points by gingerlime 5 months ago | 168 comments

Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT(taoofmac.com)

258 points by zdw 5 months ago | 123 comments

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

253 points by prismatic 5 months ago | 122 comments

Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union(reuters.com)

235 points by onemoresoop 5 months ago | 133 comments

News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development(jeffgeerling.com)

227 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 181 comments

Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country(niemanlab.org)

223 points by cratermoon 5 months ago | 207 comments

What are locusts and what happened to them?(explosion-scratch.github.io)

217 points by explosion-s 5 months ago | 51 comments

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer(blog.prusa3d.com)

216 points by rented_mule 5 months ago | 68 comments

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine(myzopotamia.dev)

216 points by myzek 5 months ago | 25 comments

Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'(theverge.com)

204 points by berlianta 5 months ago | 102 comments

Does anybody like React?(jsx.lol)

182 points by brazukadev 5 months ago | 239 comments

A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs(arxiv.org)

178 points by juxtapose 5 months ago | 126 comments

Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml(coalton-lang.github.io)

172 points by b-man 5 months ago | 35 comments

Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?(dynomight.net)

167 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 183 comments

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up(earthiongame.com)

140 points by MrBuddyCasino 5 months ago | 69 comments

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking(sherwood.news)

137 points by geerlingguy 5 months ago | 203 comments

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)(arxiv.org)

132 points by KnuthIsGod 5 months ago | 170 comments

What color is your function? (2015)(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

129 points by tosh 5 months ago | 157 comments

Stop Advertising in Your Commits(akselmo.dev)

129 points by speckx 5 months ago | 122 comments

A portentous reunion(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

122 points by cafkafk 5 months ago | 32 comments

Orchestrating AI code review at scale(blog.cloudflare.com)

119 points by pramodbiligiri 5 months ago | 48 comments

Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes(padhye.org)

116 points by moarbugs 5 months ago | 18 comments

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn(seuros.com)

115 points by berlianta 5 months ago | 44 comments

BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass(badhost.org)

114 points by ylk 5 months ago | 41 comments

Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died(rollingstone.com)

110 points by boarsofcanada 5 months ago | 14 comments

Don't Subscribe So Casually(thebestworstcase.substack.com)

106 points by shmublu 5 months ago | 73 comments

It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)(fermatslibrary.com)

105 points by malshe 5 months ago | 47 comments

From Rust to Ruby(xlii.space)

104 points by xlii 5 months ago | 69 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT(owlposting.com)

102 points by crescit_eundo 5 months ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

101 points by widenrun 5 months ago | 69 comments

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)(imaginarytext.ca)

99 points by ankitg12 5 months ago | 21 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale(minicor.com)

98 points by fchishtie 5 months ago | 61 comments

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”(retrogamecoders.com)

85 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 11 comments

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC(tomshardware.com)

84 points by 01-_- 5 months ago | 19 comments

I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty(theguptalog.blogspot.com)

79 points by tjek 5 months ago | 37 comments

Incident with Actions and Pages(githubstatus.com)

79 points by hakube 5 months ago | 25 comments

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us(overreacted.io)

73 points by satvikpendem 5 months ago | 60 comments

Interleaved Deltas(mmapped.blog)

68 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 1 comments

Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd(osnews.com)

66 points by birdculture 5 months ago | 62 comments

AI tools are only as good as your judgment(theaileverageweekly.com)

60 points by talvardi7 5 months ago | 22 comments

Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team(vllm.ai)

60 points by berlianta 5 months ago | 20 comments

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war(platform.xiaomimimo.com)

60 points by mariopt 5 months ago | 36 comments

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us(retrogamecoders.com)

59 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 22 comments

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter(core77.com)

53 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 12 comments

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences(jeremykun.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 9 comments

Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal(ni5arga.com)

40 points by dsr12 5 months ago | 11 comments