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 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158506 2. Futhark by Example https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158606 3. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better https://www.gutenberg.org/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431 4. We've made the world too complicated https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158065 5. Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 6. I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 7. Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114208 8. The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106 9. Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149259 10. EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27012 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122657