HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

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

    418 points · HN #48157559

  2. 02

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

    405 points · HN #48159445

  3. 03

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

    698 points · HN #48158400

  4. 04

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

    575 points · HN #48164287

  5. 05

    Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org)

    334 points · HN #48159241

  6. 06

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

    480 points · HN #48158065

  7. 07

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

    240 points · HN #48158506

  8. 08

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

    333 points · HN #48163392

  9. 09

    The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)

    238 points · HN #48132106

  10. 10

    Greek Alphabet Cards (randomquark.com)

    155 points · HN #48159354

  11. 11

    Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station (openculture.com)

    140 points · HN #48110804

  12. 12

    Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

    134 points · HN #48136000

  13. 13

    The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)

    205 points · HN #48155324

  14. 14

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

    125 points · HN #48158606

  15. 15

    Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution (github.com/chiennv2000)

    246 points · HN #48154865

  16. 16

    Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (ploopy.co)

    177 points · HN #48114208

  17. 17

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

    117 points · HN #48161881

  18. 18

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

    334 points · HN #48158494

  19. 19

    MCP Hello Page (hybridlogic.co.uk)

    134 points · HN #48164294

  20. 20

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

    138 points · HN #48161997

  21. 21

    Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (phoboslab.org)

    181 points · HN #48149259

  22. 22

    3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend (bfeldman.me)

    135 points · HN #48126431

  23. 23

    PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools (openrockets.com)

    129 points · HN #48160914

  24. 24

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

    280 points · HN #48160807

  25. 25

    Erlang/OTP 29.0 (erlang.org)

    257 points · HN #48155297

  26. 26

    SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)

    320 points · HN #48155212

  27. 27

    Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)

    131 points · HN #48130468

  28. 28

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

    286 points · HN #48158130

  29. 29

    'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens (kevinpatel.xyz)

    452 points · HN #48155690

  30. 30

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

    94 points · HN #48160211