HN blogs - 14/5/26
Interactive Exploration of Scaling Options for Optical Lithography https://www.nhurwitz.com/writing/known-scaling-options-for-euv-lithography (HN source)
What’s the Ideal Analogy? https://alok.github.io/2026/04/28/whats-the-ideal-analogy/ (HN source)
Minimal Structures https://chefcinnamon.github.io/memo/posts/minimal-structures/ (HN source)
I owe my career to open-source. I’m not sure newcomers can say the same https://dhruvahuja.me/posts/ai-impact-on-oss/ (HN source)
An analysis of how Dishonored 2 renders a frame https://blog.simonrodriguez.fr/articles/2026/05/a_frame_analysis_of_dishonored_2.html (HN source)
How Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane and My Long Path to Recovery https://writing.samsonhu.com/how-poor-sleep-drove-me-insane-and-my-long-path-to-recovery/ (HN source)
Four tech waves. Six companies. Here’s what I’m building next https://www.tamccann.com/four-tech-waves-six-companies-heres-what-im-building-next/ (HN source)
Agents Can Reason. They Still Can’t Search https://dipkumar.dev/posts/agents/agent-search-problem/ (HN source)
Stop using user passwords for OpenStack automation https://thobias.org/2026/05/10/openstack_app_credentials.html (HN source)
May I recommend understanding Emacs’s patterns https://www.chiply.dev/post-emacs-carnival-may (HN source)
Req Is All You Need https://benreinhart.com/blog/req-is-all-you-need/ (HN source)
The cost of producing slop is falling, the cost of checking it isn’t https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/cheap-agents-alumni-shirts-and-elias-thorne/ (HN source)
Passwords suck. Can passkeys replace them? https://kerkour.com/passkeys (HN source)
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/ (HN source)
The Internet is not dead https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2026/the-internet-is-not-dead/ (HN source)
Working Hard https://joy.ente.com/working-hard/ (HN source)
Small Model Forensics https://blog.0xmmo.co/forensics/post.html (HN source)
How LLM Inference Works https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/how-llm-inference-works/ (HN source)
Don’t Be Discouraged to Code by Hand https://seongminpark.com/coding-by-hand/ (HN source)
The End of Claude Code Automation https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/the-end-of-claude-code-automation/ (HN source)