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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (04:08) - A History of IDEs at Google (05:54) - Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent (07:24) - The Emacsification of Software (08:46) - Claude for Small Business (10:03) - Scorched Earth 2000 – Web (11:03) - Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (12:37) - MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (14:08) - Outro Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel featureshttps://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being firedhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438A History of IDEs at Googlehttps://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-googlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedenthttps://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848The Emacsification of Softwarehttps://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727Claude for Small Businesshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-businesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950Scorched Earth 2000 – Webhttp://www.scorch2000.com/web/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamblehttps://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.