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DTF:HN for May 20, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 20, 2026. Featuring: Everything in C is undefined behavior, Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025), Gemini 3.5 Flash, FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive, I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of, and more. Stories covered: 1. Everything in C is undefined behavior (Article [https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203698] | 🎧 0:25) 2. Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (Article [https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/01/rust-with-ai.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205415] | 🎧 4:36) 3. Gemini 3.5 Flash (Article [https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570] | 🎧 8:10) 4. FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (Article [https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201973] | 🎧 11:32) 5. I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (Article [https://virtualosmuseum.org/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009] | 🎧 14:43) 6. Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (Article [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202047] | 🎧 18:05) 7. Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (Article [https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203536] | 🎧 21:31) 8. Google changes its search box (Article [https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370] | 🎧 24:56) 9. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (Article [https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383] | 🎧 28:21) 10. Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (Article [https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569] | 🎧 31:17)

DTF:HN for May 19, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 19, 2026. Featuring: I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert, Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry, Polypad, Peter Neumann has died, The last six months in LLMs in five minutes, and more. Stories covered: 1. I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert (Article [https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-desert-93cc87d12314] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165797] | 🎧 0:30) 2. Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (Article [https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191602] | 🎧 0:56) 3. Polypad (Article [https://polypad.amplify.com/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166744] | 🎧 4:30) 4. Peter Neumann has died (Article [https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188787] | 🎧 8:37) 5. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (Article [https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183] | 🎧 12:09) 6. Click (2016) (Article [https://clickclickclick.click/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054] | 🎧 16:10) 7. Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (Article [https://www.kv4p.com/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161772] | 🎧 20:05) 8. The lasting influence of Netscape Time (Article [https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165283] | 🎧 23:50) 9. PyTorch Landscape (Article [https://pytorch.landscape2.io] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189178] | 🎧 27:05) 10. Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (Article [https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182516] | 🎧 30:04)

DTF:HN for May 18, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 18, 2026. Featuring: The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf], Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?, GenCAD, Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches, Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test, and more. Stories covered: 1. The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (Article [http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177300] | 🎧 0:23) 2. Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? (Article [https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177228] | 🎧 4:05) 3. GenCAD (Article [https://gencad.github.io/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429] | 🎧 8:00) 4. Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches (Article [https://www.nbcnews.com/video/multiple-commencement-speakers-booed-for-ai-comments-during-graduation-speeches-263486021518] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107] | 🎧 11:28) 5. Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (Article [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155450] | 🎧 14:29) 6. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (Article [https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140] | 🎧 17:57) 7. I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (Article [https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168668] | 🎧 21:28) 8. Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (Article [https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152754] | 🎧 24:38) 9. Jank now has its own custom IR (Article [https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151251] | 🎧 27:59) 10. kharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C# (Article [https://github.com/ERufian/ksharp] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166856] | 🎧 31:41)

DTF:HN for May 17, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 17, 2026. Featuring: Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust, Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools, A nicer voltmeter clock, Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller, Colossus: The Forbin Project, and more. Stories covered: 1. Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust (Article [https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287] | 🎧 0:28) 2. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (Article [https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166459] | 🎧 3:50) 3. A nicer voltmeter clock (Article [https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432] | 🎧 7:32) 4. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (Article [https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165295] | 🎧 10:54) 5. Colossus: The Forbin Project (Article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142115] | 🎧 14:58) 6. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (Article [https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166920] | 🎧 17:56) 7. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens (Article [https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392] | 🎧 21:04) 8. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (Article [https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158400] | 🎧 24:34) 9. SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video (Article [https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445] | 🎧 28:19) 10. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (Article [https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147091] | 🎧 31:17)

DTF:HN for May 16, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for May 16, 2026. Featuring: Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models, Futhark by Example, Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better, We've made the world too complicated, Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, and more. Stories covered: 1. Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (Article [https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158506] | 🎧 0:24) 2. Futhark by Example (Article [https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158606] | 🎧 4:01) 3. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (Article [https://www.gutenberg.org/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431] | 🎧 7:50) 4. We've made the world too complicated (Article [https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158065] | 🎧 11:22) 5. Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (Article [https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559] | 🎧 14:42) 6. I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (Article [https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379] | 🎧 18:11) 7. Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer (Article [https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114208] | 🎧 21:58) 8. The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (Article [https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106] | 🎧 25:22) 9. Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 (Article [https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149259] | 🎧 28:47) 10. EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits (Article [https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27012] | HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122657] | 🎧 32:29)