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HN Daily - May 20, 2026

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Wednesday roundup: An OpenAI model disproves an 80-year-old conjecture in discrete geometry (the Erdős unit-distance problem) GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repos breached via a malicious VS Code extension on an employee device; TeamPCP demanding $50k Railway 8-hour outage as GCP auto-suspends their production account; cached routes expired and cascaded to AWS + bare metal Meta geo-blocks ALQST and other human rights accounts from Saudi Arabia and UAE; X has not complied with similar requests SpaceX S-1: $1.75T-$2T target valuation on ~$15-16B revenue and ~$8B profit; 30% retail allocation Qwen3.7-Max: agentic coding model with a 35-hour, 1,000+ tool-call autonomous run, compared head-to-head against Claude Opus 4.6 Max SpiderMonkey says goodbye to asm.js after 13 years — Firefox 148 disables OdinMonkey, removal tracked in bug "Ragnarök"

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