HN Top 10 — May 27, 2026
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1. I’m Tired of Talking to AI
⭐ 54 💬 22 👤 theorchid 🔗 Discuss on HN
I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what to do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub.
2. Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
⭐ 45 💬 19 👤 nicoloren 🔗 Discuss on HN
Mini Micro is a neo-retro fantasy computer — a virtual machine where hobbyists can learn to code, play games, and join a friendly community. It runs MiniScript, a simple programming language designed for beginners, offering both a downloadable ROM and browser-based demos.
3. The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
⭐ 117 💬 41 👤 prismatic 🔗 Discuss on HN
From “Shadow of the Colossus” to “Undertale,” video games have turned one of their oldest rituals into an ethical dilemma. Wander stabbing the third colossus while holding onto it in the 2018 remake of “Shadow of the Colossus” (originally developed by Team Ico, 2005; remade by Bluepoint Games/Japan Studio, 2018). Listen to this article 0:00Audio 3 During my…
4. Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes
⭐ 36 💬 4 👤 moarbugs 🔗 Discuss on HN
By Rohan Padhye (@moarbugs on X) tl;dr — This post describes a (wacky) modification to the Raft consensus protocol such that progress can be made even if fewer than a majority of nodes are actively participating, given some constraints on exactly which minority of nodes are active. The math behind this comes from the same place as the card game Spot It! (Dobble). Raft Consensus…
5. BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass
⭐ 67 💬 24 👤 ylk 🔗 Discuss on HN
Thousands of FastAPI and Starlette applications are affected, including vLLM, LiteLLM, MCP servers, and AI agent frameworks. Full AI Infrastructure Scan Automatically discovers MCP endpoints and common inference API paths (vLLM, LiteLLM, OpenAI-compatible). Best for scanning AI infrastructure where the exact stack is unknown. Scans MCP servers only.
6. Cloudflare Flagship
⭐ 237 💬 124 👤 tjek 🔗 Discuss on HN
Ship features safely with feature flags. Flagship is Cloudflare’s feature flag service. It lets you control feature visibility in your applications without redeploying code.
7. That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
⭐ 339 💬 135 👤 nooks 🔗 Discuss on HN
A behind-the-scenes look at a massive industrial tank used for storing methyl methacrylate, a key monomer in acrylic plastic production. The Science.org blog post explores the engineering and logistics of handling large-scale chemical storage facilities.
8. What Gets Kept
⭐ 43 💬 29 👤 lermontov 🔗 Discuss on HN
Joyce Johnson, who knew Jack Kerouac personally, reflects on what survives after a writer dies — from the ashes of his last cigarette to the manuscript of “On the Road” recently sold for $12 million. A Weekend Essay on fame, memory, and the things we keep.
9. The worst job interview I ever had
⭐ 363 💬 272 👤 oliverio 🔗 Discuss on HN
May 26, 2026 The worst job interview I ever had wasn’t a knowledge meltdown, coding assessment failure, or a complete language misunderstanding with the interviewer (although I’ve had all of those, too). No, the worst job interview I had was something I can only describe as an unsolicited psych evaluation. I’m an engineer, primarily working for small startups.
10. A few interesting modern pixel fonts
⭐ 362 💬 78 👤 zdw 🔗 Discuss on HN
Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono, “fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.” There used to be this classic pixel font that you’d see everywhere in the 1990s on hi-fi equipment: VCRs, TVs, camcorders, etc. The fringing was once an artifact of subpixel rendering, but now it is meant to evoke nostalgia or just as an interesting visual element in and of itself. (Perhaps adjacent to chromatic aberration?)…