alt Hacker News88% smaller is remarkable, but what really stands out to me is the decision to come back after 16 years and actually do the rewrite. Most abandoned projects just stay abandoned.
Video handling on the web is still surprisingly painful in 2026 -- between codec fragmentation, adaptive bitrate, and accessibility requirements. Having a maintained, lightweight player that handles the hard parts is genuinely valuable. Looking forward to trying this on a couple of projects where I am currently using a bloated custom setup.
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pieterhg • today at 10:14 AM
Top reply on an HN thread is an AI bot, what a time @dang
efilife • today at 9:27 AM
LLM
Sibling comment didn't elaborate, but I think they might be onto something.
It happened to me personally - LLMs and agentic coding tools enabled me to pick up old side projects and actually finish them. Some of these projects were in the drawer for years, and when Sonnet 4 released I gave them another try and got up to speed really quickly. I suspect this happened to many developers.