top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-16

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

5 months ago

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/

5 months ago

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0

5 months ago

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/

5 months ago

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens

https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/

5 months ago

The CTF scene is dead

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead

5 months ago

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/

5 months ago

A Nicer Voltmeter Clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock

5 months ago

You don't know HTML Lists

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/

5 months ago

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html

5 months ago

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials

https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/

5 months ago

OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/

5 months ago

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681

5 months ago

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/

5 months ago

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/

5 months ago

Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357

5 months ago

Halt and Catch Fire

https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire

5 months ago

Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver

https://www.kv4p.com/

5 months ago

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes

https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-after-bankruptcy/

5 months ago

US Is Starting to See Heavy Job Losses in Roles Exposed to AI

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/us-is-starting-to-see-heavy-job-losses-in-roles-exposed-to-ai

5 months ago

OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905

5 months ago

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

https://fil-c.org/calling_convention

5 months ago

What Is Date:Italy?

http://aesthetikx.info/blog/date_italy.html

5 months ago

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/

5 months ago

Technofascism

https://third-bit.com/2026/05/15/technofascism/

5 months ago

Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/magical-realism-nothern-exposure-25-years-later

5 months ago

Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5240574

5 months ago

MCP Hello Page

https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page

5 months ago

How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools

https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is-making-radio-astronomy-affordable-for-rural-schools-4894opuisyhfdisubgi/?b=2

5 months ago

NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things

https://gwern.net/vaping

5 months ago

Futhark by Example

https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html

5 months ago

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735

5 months ago

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

https://www.popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/

5 months ago

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky

5 months ago

A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there

https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/05/15/meta-employee-gets-real-horror-working-right-now/

5 months ago

My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs

https://george.mand.is/2026/05/my-favorite-bugs-invalid-surrogate-pairs/

5 months ago

New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-nightmare-just-dropped-3d-animated-ads-on-trucks-in-traffic

5 months ago

Accelerate

https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate

5 months ago

★ 1k Haskell

A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion82.html

5 months ago

Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/

5 months ago

I 3D Printed Origami [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVBK7-h9Fs

5 months ago

Why is Charlie Stross's site named Antipope?

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html

5 months ago

Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164173

5 months ago

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means

https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/lava-lamps-and-randomness

5 months ago