5.16.26 | Companies in AI psychosis, Project Gutenberg improving, California bill opposes publishers killing online games

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (02:06) - Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (03:14) - Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California (04:30) - A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 (06:25) - SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (07:35) - The sigmoids won't save you (08:52) - Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image (10:07) - Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (11:49) - The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (13:11) - The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (14:38) - Outro I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosishttps://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379Project Gutenberg – keeps getting betterhttps://www.gutenberg.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in Californiahttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148460SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraudhttps://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212The sigmoids won't save youhttps://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-youhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147021Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single imagehttps://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blasterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150069Frontier AI has broken the open CTF formathttps://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155324The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extremehttps://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106