HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)

    962 points · HN #48196570

  2. 02

    I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)

    1431 points · HN #48194352

  3. 03

    I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)

    974 points · HN #48195009

  4. 04

    Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)

    726 points · HN #48192224

  5. 05

    Google changes its search box (blog.google)

    701 points · HN #48197370

  6. 06

    The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)

    804 points · HN #48188183

  7. 07

    Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)

    339 points · HN #48197995

  8. 08

    OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)

    332 points · HN #48198291

  9. 09

    Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)

    785 points · HN #48197980

  10. 10

    CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)

    478 points · HN #48190454

  11. 11

    Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com/wiltodelta)

    387 points · HN #48200569

  12. 12

    Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)

    530 points · HN #48191602

  13. 13

    Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)

    290 points · HN #48182516

  14. 14

    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)

    391 points · HN #48189368

  15. 15

    I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)

    287 points · HN #48165797

  16. 16

    Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)

    316 points · HN #48188787

  17. 17

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

    294 points · HN #48187201

  18. 18

    Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)

    457 points · HN #48197703

  19. 19

    Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)

    158 points · HN #48194098

  20. 20

    Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)

    133 points · HN #48172320

  21. 21

    Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)

    268 points · HN #48123359

  22. 22

    Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)

    147 points · HN #48170007

  23. 23

    Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)

    181 points · HN #48161772

  24. 24

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

    148 points · HN #48182872

  25. 25

    Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)

    133 points · HN #48194614

  26. 26

    Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)

    498 points · HN #48198551

  27. 27

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

    124 points · HN #48178390

  28. 28

    OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)

    418 points · HN #48192882

  29. 29

    Polypad (amplify.com)

    226 points · HN #48166744

  30. 30

    Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)

    184 points · HN #48136909