5.30.26 | The dead economy theory, SQLite for durable workflows, Notes from Mistral AI Now Summit

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The dead economy theory (01:42) - SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (03:07) - Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (04:40) - Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (05:54) - It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (07:22) - MCP is dead? (08:48) - Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (10:02) - Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (11:18) - Pandoc Templates (12:19) - Zig: Build System Reworked (13:48) - Outro The dead economy theoryhttps://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712SQLite is all you need for durable workflowshttps://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326802Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summithttps://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuationhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333820It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869MCP is dead?https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiledhttps://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284494Bijou64: A variable-length integer encodinghttps://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323992Pandoc Templateshttps://pandoc-templates.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515Zig: Build System Reworkedhttps://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048