Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244434

Points: 54

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New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244220

Points: 26

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Is AI Profitable Yet?
Article URL: https://isaiprofitable.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243863

Points: 4

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FBI director’s Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a ‘ClickFix’ attack
Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293

Points: 16

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Why We’ve Filed a Referendum
Article URL: https://www.stopstratos.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242668

Points: 11

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Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
Article URL: https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997

Points: 7

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NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots’ voices
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-users-re-create-dead-pilots-voices-from-crash-investigation-docs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241501

Points: 12

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Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities
Article URL: https://github.com/anomalyco/models.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241172

Points: 3

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USCIS Will Grant ‘Adjustment of Status’ Only in Extraordinary Circumstances
Article URL: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-will-grant-adjustment-of-status-only-in-extraordinary

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240323](h … ⌘ Read more

Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
Article URL: https://www.kanbots.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413

Points: 8

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Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
Article URL: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

Points: 38

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Beggar-thy-neighbour
Beggar-thy-neighbour is an economic policy in which one country seeks to improve its own economic situation at the direct expense of another country.

“Beggar” = make poor | “Thy neighbour” = your neighbour or trading partner. ⌘ Read more

On the Money: Grant Baker’s book launch, Ray Smith, Nikhil Ravishankar, a great AI speech, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

It was not the easiest week to be a departmental chief executive. Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis signalled 9,000 public-sector jobs might go, and several agencies might be folded into on … ⌘ Read more

Meta begins 8,000 global job cuts in AI efficiency push
By Kurt Wagner, Riley Griffin and Olivia Fletcher

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at reducing costs while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more

E-hiking is here. You can tell by my 1,000-watt hips
By Nicole Nguyen

AI is entering the physical realm in a big way. Case in point: I spent Mother’s Day e-hiking with bionic leg boosters. ⌘ Read more

Hero to Xero
Spare a thought for Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the chief executive of Xero.

Since stepping into the role, she’s presided over a round-trip in stock price for the formerly high-flying, can-do-no-wrong, butter-wouldn’t-melt company. ⌘ Read more

You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238351

Points: 29

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Trump Mobile exposed customers’ personal data
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237684](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482376 … ⌘ Read more

How to convert between wealth and income tax
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/winc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237422

Points: 7

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A Forth-inspired language for writing websites
Article URL: https://robida.net/entries/2026/05/21/a-forth-inspired-language-for-writing-websites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236887

Points: 5

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[$] Custom page-cache policies with BPF
The kernel’s page cache is charged with maintaining pages (or, more
correctly, folios) containing copies of
data from files in the filesystem; its performance has a big effect on the
performance of the system as a whole. One of the key decisions the kernel
must make is when to evict folios from the page cache. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Tal Zussman ran a
memory-ma … ⌘ Read more

[$] Toward better handling of major page faults
A major page fault occurs when a process attempts to access a page that is
not currently present in RAM; satisfying such faults usually involves I/O, and can thus take some time. When many threads
sharing an address space are generating page faults, the result can be
significant lock contention while that I/O
takes place. During the memory-management track at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Barry Son … ⌘ Read more

Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 “Dual Edition” 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox), Debian (chromium, nss, openvpn, and thunderbird), Fedora (cockpit, kernel, and linux-firmware), Oracle (gdk-pixbuf2, kernel, and libsndfile), SUSE (container-suseconnect, cpp-httplib, dnsmasq, firefox, glibc, GraphicsMagick, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, mozjs115, php8, python-urllib3, rekor, rootlesskit, rsync, tiff, ucode-intel, util-linux, and xz), and Ubuntu (bind9, bubblewrap, libarchive, linux-intel-iot-realtime, postgre … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/sam-altman-won-in-court-against-elon-musk-but-really-we-all-lost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235361

Points: 7

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Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware
Article URL: https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-removes-free-horror-game-from-steam-after-players-discover-it-contains-malware-that-steals-your-data/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235033](https … ⌘ Read more

Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circle-medical/jobs/onMKAG9-mobile-engineer-android

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234688

Points: 0

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Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
Article URL: https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234287

Points: 6

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Tait Communications wins at Hi-Tech Awards
Tait Communications took out the top honour at Friday’s NZ Hi-Tech Awards, being named the 2026 PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year.

The judges commented that the 57-year-old company continued to innovate and move at speed, not an easy achievement for a well-established business. ⌘ Read more

The case against boolean logic
Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/boolean-thinking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234128

Points: 5

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FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233939

Points: 5

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Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563

Points: 14

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Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/radnor-high-school-pennsylvania-ai-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-material/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233177

Points: 12

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NZ sharemarket down almost 4% year to date
The retirement village stocks stole the show as the New Zealand sharemarket ended a volatile week with a gain of nearly 1%.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed strongly in the late afternoon and closed at 12,991.31, up 113.24 points or 0.88%. ⌘ Read more

**Le Conseil constitutionnel désosse la loi de simplification **
L’institution de la rue de Montpensier a censuré pas moins de 25 articles de loi de simplification de la vie économique, qui en comptait 84, au motif qu’ils étaient hors sujet. La suppression des zones à faibles émissions, notamment, a été annulée. ⌘ Read more

Slumber a TUI HTTP Client
Article URL: https://slumber.lucaspickering.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231938

Points: 4

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SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231815

Points: 6

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Asset Plus loss narrows as Munroe Lane leasing and FFO improve
Asset Plus has narrowed its full-year, after-tax loss and says its main focus is on leasing the balance of its Munroe Lane development in Albany amid challenging market conditions.

“Management has made measurable progress during the year in improving the company’s underlying operating performance,” chair Bruce Cotterill said. ⌘ Read more

It is time to build a new internet
Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231226

Points: 4

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Forsyth Barr downgrades Tower Insurance on weaker premium growth forecast
Forsyth Barr has downgraded Tower Insurance from outperform to neutral on the back of expected weaker premium growth.

Although Tower’s March 31, 2026, half-year results were in line with expectations, its gross written premium (GWP) growth guidance for the year ended S … ⌘ Read more

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Article URL: https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230892

Points: 18

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RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson resigns
RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson has resigned. He will leave the public broadcaster at the end of the year.

“Our highly respected chief executive and editor-in-chief, Paul Thompson, has tendered his resignation and will leave RNZ on December 31,” RNZ staff were told in an email from chair Jim Mather on Friday morning. ⌘ Read more

Oceania Healthcare posts record result but still no dividend
Oceania Healthcare says the year to March 31 marked a “step-change” in financial performance, although free cash flow remains negative and dividends are still off the table.

The retirement village and aged care service operator’s proforma underlying ebitda lifted 20% to $97.7 million, while proforma underlying net profit lifted 34% to $64.1m. ⌘ Read more

Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries
Article URL: https://www.dontbeasucker.blog/p/the-butterflies-in-your-stomach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229260

Points: 18

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QuiznessDesk, Friday, May 22
What is the most popular sport in the world?
In which American city is the largest settlement of Chinese people outside of Asia?
How is the chaparral cock, a ground cuckoo native of Mexico, better known?
What was the title of the first Harry Potter book?
Which element has the chemical symbol Fe?
The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest point in which ocean?
How many legs does a lobster have? Four, Eight or Ten?
Who is said to have founded Rome after killing his brother? R … ⌘ Read more

Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers
Michael Catanzaro has disclosed a\
command-injection vulnerability affecting a number of GTK-based PDF
readers; exploits included:

They contain a script for building malicious polyglot PDFs that are
simultaneously both valid PDF files and also valid ELF
binaries. When the user opens the PDF in the PDF viewer and clicks
on a malicious link embedded in the PDF, the PDF abuses the command
inject … ⌘ Read more

AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3mmeysgcjbs2j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227773

Points: 12

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Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]
Article URL: https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227068

Points: 3

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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network
Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588

Points: 41

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Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid
Article URL: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226038

Points: 8

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