Hacker News on Friday, 29 May 2026

The dead economy theory(owenmcgrann.com)

1210 points by WillDaSilva 5 months ago | 1326 comments

A Substack essay by Owen McGrann on his newsletter The Palimpsest titled "The Dead Economy Theory," arguing the idea should be taken seriously.

I am retiring from tech to live offline(openpath.quest)

711 points by PinkG 5 months ago | 489 comments

Blog post by Chad Whitacre announcing he is retiring from tech to live offline, saying AI took the last of the wind out of his open source efforts.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize(rockstarintel.com)

672 points by AndrewKemendo 5 months ago | 452 comments

Rockstar Intel news article reporting that GTA 6 developers at Rockstar Games have announced the formation of a union.

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows(obeli.sk)

664 points by tomasol 4 months ago | 365 comments

Obelisk blog post arguing that SQLite, backed up to S3, is sufficient for many durable workflow systems, responding to DBOS's Postgres argument.

Please Use AI(shawnsmucker.substack.com)

520 points by garycomtois 5 months ago | 201 comments

A Substack essay by writer Shawn Smucker titled "Please Use AI," published on his newsletter The Courage to Live It.

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test(twitter.com)

453 points by enraged_camel 5 months ago | 489 comments

An X post from NASASpaceflight reporting, with video, that Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded at LC-36 during a static fire test ahead of NG-4.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit(koenvangilst.nl)

449 points by vnglst 5 months ago | 196 comments

A personal blog post with notes and insights from attending Mistral AI's AI Now Summit in Paris, covering its full-stack strategy, compute, and open custom models.

Cars collect a startling amount of data about you(bbc.com)

444 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5 months ago | 231 comments

BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on how modern cars collect vast amounts of driver data and how this surveillance is expected to grow.

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert(github.com)

404 points by Hawzen 5 months ago | 106 comments

GitHub repository for a project about a seashell found in the desert, with an accompanying interactive website at shell.hawzen.me featuring shell data and figures.

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?(mastrojs.github.io)

388 points by xyzal 5 months ago | 318 comments

Blog post by Mauro Bieg on the Mastro site comparing AI's effect on programming jobs to frontend development's earlier deskilling and "lost decade."

What Is a Dickover?(daringfireball.net)

379 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 148 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball post coining "dickover" for modal popovers that obscure web content to force unwanted interactions like cookie consent or newsletter signups.

MCP is dead?(quandri.io)

372 points by nadis 4 months ago | 351 comments

Quandri engineering blog post by backend engineer Chloe Kim titled "MCP is dead," arguing about the Model Context Protocol for AI agents.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12(jeffgeerling.com)

367 points by watermelon0 5 months ago | 591 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post arguing the Framework 12 laptop is hard to justify on value compared to Apple's cheaper MacBook Neo.

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion(github.com)

339 points by Kwastie 5 months ago | 172 comments

GitHub issue on the homeassistant-volkswagencarnet integration reporting that login no longer works while the official Android app still does.

You can just say it(noperator.dev)

331 points by antirez 5 months ago | 172 comments

Personal blog essay by Caleb Gross arguing against valuing humans only for output quality that AI may eventually match, and for stating human value directly.

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You(buildingbetter.tech)

302 points by ankitg12 5 months ago | 60 comments

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding(inkandswitch.com)

250 points by justinweiss 5 months ago | 82 comments

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T(liquid.ai)

227 points by simjnd 5 months ago | 86 comments

The Last Technical Interview(steve-yegge.medium.com)

224 points by headalgorithm 4 months ago | 221 comments

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?(ft.com)

224 points by uxhacker 4 months ago | 302 comments

The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'(invenglobal.com)

221 points by TechTechTech 4 months ago | 222 comments

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek(fisheries.noaa.gov)

213 points by rawgabbit 4 months ago | 45 comments

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'(bloomberg.com)

199 points by leopoldj 5 months ago | 110 comments

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump(theregister.com)

197 points by Cider9986 4 months ago | 67 comments

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test(arstechnica.com)

197 points by benbreen 5 months ago | 105 comments

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request(blog.kog.ai)

189 points by NicoConstant 5 months ago | 88 comments

On Rendering Diffs(pierre.computer)

182 points by amadeus 4 months ago | 60 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997(fabiensanglard.net)

182 points by goranmoomin 5 months ago | 58 comments

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots(theverge.com)

176 points by evilsimon 4 months ago | 237 comments

We should be more tired than the model(vickiboykis.com)

171 points by tosh 5 months ago | 135 comments

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building(commonedge.org)

170 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 71 comments

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA(github.com)

170 points by yu3zhou4 4 months ago | 15 comments

A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf](cryptography101.ca)

162 points by jayhoon 5 months ago | 16 comments

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV(tvexplorer.live)

147 points by dtagames 5 months ago | 42 comments

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

142 points by supermatou 5 months ago | 31 comments

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)(dutchreview.com)

133 points by dotcoma 5 months ago | 116 comments

The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time(shkspr.mobi)

125 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 77 comments

Rothko for your current weather conditions(rothko.joonas.wtf)

120 points by jxmorris12 4 months ago | 12 comments

New Beam Spring Keyboards(modelfkeyboards.com)

115 points by recursivedoubts 5 months ago | 78 comments

Linux/M68k(linux-m68k.org)

113 points by doener 5 months ago | 25 comments

One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust(blog.nlnetlabs.nl)

112 points by Hasnep 5 months ago | 26 comments

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching(mpi.nl)

103 points by vi_sextus_vi 5 months ago | 52 comments

Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)(groups.google.com)

98 points by downbad_ 5 months ago | 24 comments

Expertise in the age of AI(moderndescartes.com)

97 points by brilee 5 months ago | 95 comments

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care(404media.co)

94 points by pavel_lishin 5 months ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)(github.com)

88 points by arrdalan 4 months ago | 21 comments

Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T(secret-archive.org)

86 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 9 comments

HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager(github.com)

86 points by peter_d_sherman 5 months ago | 32 comments

Is this sustainable?(jamiehurst.co.uk)

84 points by ColinEberhardt 5 months ago | 92 comments

Someone used my open source project to phish people(andrej.sh)

82 points by andrejsshell 5 months ago | 47 comments

Local Git remotes(cblgh.org)

80 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 66 comments

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks(techcrunch.com)

77 points by wapasta 4 months ago | 149 comments

Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness(zot.sh)

72 points by patriceckhart 5 months ago | 66 comments

EV Stupidity Checklist(hypercritical.co)

70 points by pchristensen 4 months ago | 60 comments

Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

70 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 86 comments

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents(research.roundtable.ai)

68 points by timshell 5 months ago | 55 comments

Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)(surrealdb.com)

67 points by itsezc 5 months ago | 24 comments

Ember.js 7.0(blog.emberjs.com)

64 points by satvikpendem 4 months ago | 16 comments

Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)(wellsoc.org)

57 points by backuprestore 5 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells(github.com)

57 points by Heavykenny 5 months ago | 47 comments