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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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 geometryhttps://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extensionhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660How fast is N tokens per second really?https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920Flipper One Tech Specshttps://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046Saying goodbye to asm.jshttps://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting backhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-resultshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapershttps://github.com/kageroumado/phosphenehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215979DOS Zonehttps://dos.zone/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200https://twitter.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.