--- title: "CSS, Now It’s Got Your 8086" url: https://daily.dev/posts/css-now-it-s-got-your-8086-6jxq0vjdt source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/27/css-now-its-got-your-8086/ type: article source: "Hackaday" published: 2026-02-27T09:24:00.160Z updated: 2026-02-27T09:24:19.222Z tags: ["css"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 177 comments: 10 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CSS, Now It’s Got Your 8086 **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 177 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary Developer Lyra Rebane has built an 8086 CPU emulator written in pure CSS, demonstrating CSS's Turing completeness in a novel and experimental way. The project runs in Chrome-based browsers (using CSS functions not yet available in Firefox) and uses a tiny JavaScript snippet only for clock stability. While not practically useful, it showcases the extreme limits of CSS as a computational medium and invites speculation about more capable minimalist RISC designs using the same approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mr\_guy** · 12 upvotes > When developer go into that "hold my beer" mode, they tend to create remarkable tools and software **@heckert** · 9 upvotes > Wonderful! **@code\_chimp** · 7 upvotes > The true spirit of hacking **@sodj** · 4 upvotes > can it run doom tho **@varactor** · 4 upvotes > Epic! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [x86CSS](https://daily.dev/posts/x86css-qw7roije1) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Visual 6502 in JavaScript](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-6502-in-javascript-xnvvgdyxv) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/css-now-it-s-got-your-8086-6jxq0vjdt)