Hacker News Top Stories Today
A live, ranked snapshot of the Hacker News front page for Sunday, May 31, 2026. Pulled from news.ycombinator.com, deduplicated, and refreshed hourly — every story links straight to the article and its HN comment thread.
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Top 30 Hacker News stories — Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 01EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated (gptzero.me)2026-05-31
- 02Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates (www.lloydslist.com)2026-05-31
- 03Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)2026-05-31
- 04OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (openrouter.ai)2026-05-31
- 05Accenture to acquire Ookla (newsroom.accenture.com)2026-05-31
- 06Voxel Space (2017) (s-macke.github.io)2026-05-31
- 07Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)2026-05-31
- 08Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine (myzopotamia.dev)2026-05-31
- 09Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com)2026-05-31
- 10IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (www.engadget.com)2026-05-31
- 11Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time (arstechnica.com)2026-05-31
- 12Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (www.economist.com)2026-05-31
- 13What are locusts and what happened to them? (explosion-scratch.github.io)2026-05-31
- 14Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)2026-05-31
- 15Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)2026-05-31
- 16Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (www.reuters.com)2026-05-31
- 17Naphtha shortages in Japan (www.nippon.com)2026-05-31
- 18WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (www.scientificamerican.com)2026-05-31
- 19What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)2026-05-31
- 20Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (blog.chrislewis.au)2026-05-31
- 21MCP is dead? (www.quandri.io)2026-05-31
- 22You can just say it (noperator.dev)2026-05-31
- 23Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (www.theregister.com)2026-05-31
- 24The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (www.invenglobal.com)2026-05-31
- 25Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (www.liquid.ai)2026-05-31
- 26SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)2026-05-31
- 27Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)2026-05-31
- 28The dead economy theory (www.owenmcgrann.com)2026-05-31
- 29GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)2026-05-31
- 30Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (www.bloomberg.com)2026-05-31
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Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focused on computer science, startups, and tech entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator since 2007. Its front page is the de facto attention map of the global software-developer community: a post that hits #1 on HN can drive 10,000+ developer visits in a day. OrangeBot.AI aggregates the top stories from HN every day, deduplicates against the other 7 sources, and surfaces the headlines in this daily digest. The full HN comment thread is the real value — we link directly so you can click through. No login required, no paywall, no algorithm reorder.
Hacker News top stories — FAQ
- What are the top stories on Hacker News today?
- As of Sunday, May 31, 2026, the #1 story on the Hacker News front page is “EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated (gptzero.me).” The full ranked list of today's top 30 HN stories is above, each linking to the original article and its HN comment thread.
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