137: 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 | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:28)
2. Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:50)
3. A nicer voltmeter clock
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 7:32)
4. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 10:54)
5. Colossus: The Forbin Project
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 14:58)
6. Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 17:56)
7. OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 21:04)
8. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 24:34)
9. SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 28:19)
10. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 31:17)