Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
• (01:34) - GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
• (03:11) - How fast is N tokens per second really?
• (04:15) - Flipper One Tech Specs
• (05:39) - Saying goodbye to asm.js
• (07:08) - Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
• (08:31) - Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
• (09:45) - DOS Zone
• (10:38) - Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
• (11:53) - The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
• (13:12) - Outro

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660

How fast is N tokens per second really?
https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920

Flipper One Tech Specs
https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046

Saying goodbye to asm.js
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340

Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
https://github.com/kageroumado/phosphene
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979

DOS Zone
https://dos.zone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016