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 https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287 2. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools 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. A nicer voltmeter clock https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432 4. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165295 5. Colossus: The Forbin Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142115 6. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166920 7. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392 8. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS 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 9. SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445 10. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147091