5.26.26 | Magnifica Humanitas, California exempts Linux from age-verification law, Using AI to improve coding slowly

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Magnifica Humanitas (02:06) - California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (03:40) - Using AI to write better code more slowly (04:56) - Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (05:41) - Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (06:49) - Ferrari Luce (08:35) - Hacker News front page as a site (09:44) - What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (10:50) - Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (12:21) - How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (13:35) - Outro Magnifica Humanitashttps://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlashhttps://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-lawhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961Using AI to write better code more slowlyhttps://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272984Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollouthttps://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/creativity-walkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272670Ferrari Lucehttps://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-lucehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629Hacker News front page as a sitehttps://thefrontpage.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271127What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yardhttps://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267290Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM traininghttps://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270770How Shamir's Secret Sharing Workshttps://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272715