Hacker News on Saturday, 30 May 2026

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion(consumerrights.wiki)

945 points by antipurist 4 months ago | 345 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki article on Microsoft's scheduled July 2026 conversion of perpetually licensed Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac into a view-only reduced functionality mode.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)

774 points by aaronbrethorst 4 months ago | 484 comments

Blog post arguing that agentic AI shifts software's binding constraint from building code to judging correctness, making domain expertise the real moat.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team(github.com)

448 points by sph 4 months ago | 168 comments

GitHub repository for openrsync, a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the rsync file synchronization tool from the OpenBSD project.

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B(openrouter.ai)

431 points by freeCandy 4 months ago | 206 comments

OpenRouter's announcement of a $113M Series B round led by investors including CapitalG, Andreessen Horowitz, and Menlo Ventures.

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation(reuters.com)

426 points by vrganj 4 months ago | 319 comments

Reuters article reporting that a Danish pension fund has excluded SpaceX from its investments, citing governance concerns and valuation.

Pandoc Templates(pandoc-templates.org)

423 points by ankitg12 4 months ago | 55 comments

A searchable gallery of Pandoc templates filterable by output format (LaTeX, PDF, HTML, DOCX, EPUB) and document type such as CV, letter, thesis, or slides.

Shantell Sans (2023)(shantellsans.com)

376 points by aleda145 4 months ago | 43 comments

Design process page telling the story of Shantell Sans, a handwriting-inspired marker-style typeface, with download links.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

Zig: Build System Reworked(ziglang.org)

353 points by tosh 4 months ago | 230 comments

Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley describing a reworked build system that splits zig build into a debug-compiled configurer process and a cached release-mode maker process.

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)(av2.aomedia.org)

331 points by ksec 4 months ago | 143 comments

Landing page for the AV2 video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media, the successor to AV1 offering improved compression efficiency.

Accenture to acquire Ookla(newsroom.accenture.com)

311 points by Garbage 4 months ago | 158 comments

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time(arstechnica.com)

299 points by mhalle 4 months ago | 220 comments

Voxel Space (2017)(s-macke.github.io)

294 points by davikr 4 months ago | 63 comments

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated(gptzero.me)

262 points by smartmic 4 months ago | 119 comments

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog(ziglang.org)

219 points by kristoff_it 4 months ago | 88 comments

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism(economist.com)

210 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 253 comments

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants(scientificamerican.com)

196 points by jordanpg 4 months ago | 474 comments

Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates(lloydslist.com)

160 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 124 comments

Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us(mechanical-pencil.com)

144 points by Muhammad523 4 months ago | 17 comments

Naphtha shortages in Japan(nippon.com)

137 points by takakaze 4 months ago | 97 comments

OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing(openfov.com)

135 points by mwit2023 4 months ago | 61 comments

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing(brie.gay)

131 points by sohkamyung 4 months ago | 35 comments

Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain(news.northwestern.edu)

124 points by gmays 4 months ago | 57 comments

Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster(iankduncan.com)

121 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard(ajin.im)

118 points by poppypetalmask 4 months ago | 22 comments

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping(remyhax.xyz)

114 points by jerrythegerbil 4 months ago | 55 comments

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange(righto.com)

113 points by pwg 4 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain(helios.southlondonscientific.com)

111 points by ruaraidh 4 months ago | 37 comments

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)(lowendmac.com)

110 points by tylerdane 4 months ago | 58 comments

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM(perryts.com)

107 points by 0x1997 4 months ago | 85 comments

Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal(github.com)

107 points by marekkowalczyk 4 months ago | 31 comments

Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9(github.com)

103 points by gattilorenz 4 months ago | 29 comments

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack(github.com)

100 points by aidangarske 4 months ago | 26 comments

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets(wsj.com)

100 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 89 comments

Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled(twilitrealm.dev)

95 points by shepherdjerred 4 months ago | 11 comments

CQL: Categorical Databases(categoricaldata.net)

91 points by noworriesnate 4 months ago | 32 comments

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)(fsgworkinprogress.com)

81 points by Michelangelo11 4 months ago | 25 comments

Design Engineering Magazine(interfaces.dev)

81 points by hnhsh 4 months ago | 9 comments

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks(musings.martyn.berlin)

73 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 88 comments

A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)(sigbovik.org)

71 points by kmstout 4 months ago | 4 comments

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law(matse.illinois.edu)

67 points by hhs 4 months ago | 38 comments

The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History(deadcarl.com)

61 points by baud147258 4 months ago | 50 comments

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map(notesfromtheroad.com)

57 points by bovermyer 4 months ago | 18 comments

Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits(mastodon.gamedev.place)

54 points by fooker 4 months ago | 37 comments

Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006)(mikeash.com)

51 points by sebg 4 months ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

49 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 39 comments

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers(jackmaguire.org)

47 points by LilBytes 4 months ago | 40 comments

Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework(movq.de)

42 points by zdw 4 months ago | 5 comments

“The Apple Boogie“ 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video](youtube.com)

42 points by 1970-01-01 4 months ago | 11 comments

Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)(musings.martyn.berlin)

42 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 44 comments

Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina(ft.com)

38 points by mmarian 4 months ago | 8 comments

Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM(arxiv.org)

35 points by dryarzeg 4 months ago | 4 comments

Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado(adaptivesupport.amd.com)

33 points by hasheddan 4 months ago | 7 comments

Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate(science.org)

32 points by XzetaU8 4 months ago | 1 comments

The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT(juniper.github.io)

32 points by thefilmore 4 months ago | 10 comments

BQN: What Is a Primitive?(mlochbaum.github.io)

31 points by tosh 4 months ago | 2 comments

Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it(claudefolio.com)

30 points by misterinfo 4 months ago | 14 comments

Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts(polypane.app)

28 points by eustoria 4 months ago | 2 comments

Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery(sciencedaily.com)

27 points by bookmtn 4 months ago | 2 comments

KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game(klzero.sarna.dev)

26 points by psarna 4 months ago | 8 comments