HN Daily - May 19, 2026

Tuesday roundup: Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead a new Claude-helping-build-Claude pre-training research group Gemini 3.5 Flash lands as Google's "frontier intelligence with action" — and gets repriced like Pro Google reinvents the Search box: dynamic expansion, multimodal input, AI Mode by default CISA contractor leaks AWS GovCloud admin keys, plaintext passwords, and internal credentials on a public GitHub repo named "Private-CISA" Tesla's Robstown lithium refinery wastewater turns up hexavalent chromium and abnormal lithium/vanadium not on the permit Disney erased FiveThirtyEight: Silver estimates ~200k person-hours of work deleted Virtual OS Museum: 1,700+ pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM Minnesota becomes the first state to ban prediction markets; CFTC sues