HN Top 10 — May 14, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. Claude for Small Business
⭐ 280 💬 204 👤 neilfrndes 🔗 Discuss on HN
We’re launching Claude for Small Business—a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses depend on—to help small business owners take full advantage of AI and cross off items on the to-do list. Small businesses account for 44% of U.S. GDP and employ nearly half the private-sector workforce, but their adoption of AI has lagged behind larger…
2. Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
⭐ 275 💬 100 👤 meshko 🔗 Discuss on HN
Scorched Earth 2000 is a browser-based multiplayer tank warfare game, a beloved classic from the late 1990s now ported to HTML. Players command tanks on a destructible 2D battlefield, taking turns launching projectiles at opponents while accounting for wind and terrain. The web version lets you create or join multiplayer lobbies directly from your browser — no download required — with active rooms visible on the lobby page.
3. Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
⭐ 759 💬 490 👤 haunter 🔗 Discuss on HN
This article explains how Linux gaming performance has been steadily closing the gap with Windows, largely because key Windows APIs — like DirectXTK and parts of DXGI — are being upstreamed into the Linux kernel itself. Rather than relying solely on translation layers like Proton or DXVK, Linux is gaining native support for Windows graphics and compute APIs directly in the kernel. This structural shift means Windows games can run on Linux with fewer abstraction layers, reducing overhead and improving frame rates. The trend represents a fundamental reversal: instead of Linux adapting to Windows, parts of the Windows ecosystem are becoming first-class Linux citizens.
4. Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay
⭐ 4 💬 0 👤 rdme 🔗 Discuss on HN
Anonymous DNS without an account: shipping ODoH client + relay in one Rust binary If you run Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, or any forwarding resolver, every one of your queries goes through one operator who sees both your IP address and the question. If you switch to a recursive resolver like Unbound, your IP gets exposed to every authoritative nameserver instead - .com learns you exist, google.com learns you exist, and so does every CDN edge in…
5. Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
⭐ 567 💬 176 👤 speckx 🔗 Discuss on HN
In the US, can get a domain name like somename.city.state.us for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the Interim .US Domain Template to the delegated manager for your locality to register one, then point DNS entries at your webhost. A locality domain is a domain name that’s associated with a location in the United States, such as frederick.seattle.wa.us (which currently redirects to…
6. Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
⭐ 68 💬 59 👤 jandeboevrie 🔗 Discuss on HN
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 (IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021) modification made to look 1:1 to Windows 7. It has all of the goodies that Windows 7 had along with some extras included! Classic 7 features a 1:1 OOBE recreation, meaning it’ll feel just like your PC simplified once more.
7. Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems
⭐ 12 💬 1 👤 tobr 🔗 Discuss on HN
As a first step towards establishing this map, we present six dimensions that can be used to characterize and evaluate live feedback in programming systems: granularity, reactivity, velocity, moldability, bidirectionality, and materiality.
8. MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
⭐ 234 💬 259 👤 tosh 🔗 Discuss on HN
Updated: May 8th, 2026 with pricing and availability update Preface: I’m not really a Mac guy. But I have deep respect for what Apple has done with their silicon, and I’ve been following their CPU journey since the Motorola 68k days through PowerPC, the Intel transition, and now their in-house Apple Silicon. What they’ve accomplished in the last five years is genuinely remarkable.
9. A History of IDEs at Google
⭐ 378 💬 248 👤 laurentlb 🔗 Discuss on HN
Some of the information might be approximative, I’ll update it if there are reports. This blog post focuses on the main monorepo at Google (google3).` A fragmented ecosystem Like in many companies, engineers at Google have been able to pick their IDE of choice, and this resulted in a lot of fragmentation. In 2011, some of the most senior engineers were asked a question: “Is there a way to get a good uniform IDE for all Googlers?“ The answer…
10. The Emacsification of Software
⭐ 312 💬 206 👤 rdslw 🔗 Discuss on HN
You want a good Markdown viewer more than you think you do. We’re all reading a ton of Markdown. It’s been the lingua franca of software development since long before LLMs. But now agents have led us into a cursed renaissance of TUI tooling, and the reading experience has become intolerable.