Hacker News on Saturday, 16 May 2026

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS(jvns.ca)

645 points by mpweiher 5 months ago | 361 comments

Julia Evans' blog post about migrating sites away from Tailwind to semantic HTML and vanilla CSS, and what she learned about structuring CSS.

The quiet renovation at Bitwarden(blog.ppb1701.com)

608 points by DaSHacka 5 months ago | 269 comments

A personal blog post following up on Bitwarden doubling its Premium price and criticizing how the change was communicated to existing customers.

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust(crates.io)

535 points by gidellav 5 months ago | 295 comments

crates.io page for zerostack v1.0.0, a minimal Rust coding agent CLI supporting multiple LLM providers like OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Ollama.

We've made the world too complicated(user8.bearblog.dev)

412 points by James72689 5 months ago | 383 comments

A personal blog post on Bear Blog arguing that modern society and technology have become overly complicated.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format(kabir.au)

399 points by frays 5 months ago | 418 comments

Opinion blog post arguing that frontier AI models have broken open capture-the-flag competitions, making scoreboards no longer a clean measure of human skill.

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video(nvlabs.github.io)

384 points by mjgil 5 months ago | 145 comments

NVIDIA project page for SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model that generates minute-long 720p camera-controllable video from one image on a single GPU.

A nicer voltmeter clock(lcamtuf.substack.com)

345 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 45 comments

lcamtuf's Substack post describing building an improved voltmeter clock, an update to a 2019 project, with emphasis on its wooden enclosure.

Accelerando (2005)(antipope.org)

319 points by eamag 5 months ago | 177 comments

The full text of Charles Stross's 2005 science fiction novel Accelerando, published online under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens(openai.com)

313 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 320 comments

HTML Lists(blog.frankmtaylor.com)

281 points by speckx 5 months ago | 64 comments

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)(refractor.io)

279 points by breve 5 months ago | 197 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)(alexplescan.com)

242 points by ankitg12 5 months ago | 138 comments

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models(arxiv.org)

227 points by 44za12 5 months ago | 58 comments

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again(seangoedecke.com)

210 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 67 comments

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone(theregister.com)

203 points by _____k 5 months ago | 170 comments

Halt and Catch Fire(unstack.io)

170 points by ScottWRobinson 5 months ago | 84 comments

Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone(kv4p.com)

156 points by krupan 5 months ago | 66 comments

What Is Date:Italy?(aesthetikx.info)

140 points by jollyjerry 5 months ago | 57 comments

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

132 points by walterbell 5 months ago | 77 comments

Greek Alphabet Cards(labs.randomquark.com)

131 points by ricochet11 5 months ago | 59 comments

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes(electrek.co)

125 points by breve 5 months ago | 46 comments

Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server(blocksandfiles.com)

125 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 92 comments

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention(fil-c.org)

124 points by pizlonator 5 months ago | 24 comments

PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools(parttelescopes.web.app)

122 points by openrockets 5 months ago | 30 comments

MCP Hello Page(hybridlogic.co.uk)

116 points by Dachande663 5 months ago | 37 comments

US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI(bloomberg.com)

115 points by elsewhen 5 months ago | 131 comments

Futhark by example (2020)(futhark-lang.org)

115 points by tosh 5 months ago | 31 comments

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol(tangled.org)

91 points by tsiry 5 months ago | 39 comments

Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand(independent.co.uk)

90 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 54 comments

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors(theregister.com)

86 points by beardyw 5 months ago | 58 comments

My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs(george.mand.is)

83 points by meysamazad 5 months ago | 41 comments

Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations(github.com)

81 points by tosh 5 months ago | 17 comments

OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days(twitter.com)

76 points by eamag 5 months ago | 85 comments

A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)(sites.math.rutgers.edu)

75 points by susam 5 months ago | 13 comments

Why is this site named Antipope?(antipope.org)

62 points by turadg 5 months ago | 30 comments

I 3D Printed Origami [video](youtube.com)

60 points by Teever 5 months ago | 9 comments

Technofascism(third-bit.com)

59 points by speckx 5 months ago | 11 comments

Understanding Singleflight in Go(codingexplorations.com)

56 points by ghostbit 5 months ago | 8 comments

The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means(loup-vaillant.fr)

55 points by birdculture 5 months ago | 44 comments

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker(evanhahn.com)

53 points by zdw 5 months ago | 38 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype(publicdomainreview.org)

40 points by benbreen 5 months ago | 1 comments

Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques(petapixel.com)

37 points by ZeljkoS 5 months ago | 38 comments

Why is it called Kent House?(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

36 points by susam 5 months ago | 7 comments

Profunctor Equipment in Haskell(bartoszmilewski.com)

35 points by g0xA52A2A 5 months ago | 13 comments

Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

33 points by klez 5 months ago | 34 comments

Impeaching Every Federal Judge and Justice Who Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory(cmarmitage.substack.com)

30 points by fprog 5 months ago | 6 comments

I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties(github.com)

30 points by ztc00 5 months ago | 10 comments

Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators(techcrunch.com)

29 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 21 comments

California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants(zolairenergy.com)

28 points by zingerlio 5 months ago | 24 comments

A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there(sfstandard.com)

24 points by forrestbrazeal 5 months ago | 18 comments

Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon(danielmay.co.uk)

24 points by danielrmay 5 months ago | 4 comments

Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan(cp4space.hatsya.com)

23 points by c1ccccc1 5 months ago | 3 comments

Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview(cognitum.one)

15 points by unixhero 5 months ago | 8 comments