Top 10 Hacker News — Top Stories — May 16, 2026

On May 16, 2026, Hacker News erupted over a single polemic that captured the tech world’s collective anxiety: one user declared entire companies are suffering from 'AI psychosis,' pulling in 1,250 points and 595 comments. This daily snapshot of the tech community forum, which ranks stories by upvotes from its fiercely opinionated audience, reveals what engineers, founders, and VCs actually argue about—not press releases. Alongside that firestorm, Project Gutenberg quietly earned 898 points, proving that even in an AI-obsessed era, open-access literature remains a sacred cow. And a technical deep-dive on SQL fraud patterns cracked 157 points, showing fraud prevention still commands respect. The list is compiled from top-voted submissions within a single day, filtering out noise from Y Combinator’s own announcements.