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Saturday, 07 June 2025

• Low-Level Optimization with Zig
  alloc.dev · Discuss

• Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)
  michaelhorowitz.com · Discuss

• Ziina (YC W21) the Series A fintech is hiring product engineers
  ziina.notion.site · Discuss

Friday, 06 June 2025

• The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
  joost.blog · Discuss

• Tesla AI VP Milan Kovac Resigns After 9 Years Leading FSD and Optimus Projects
  gearmusk.com · Discuss

• Good pixel art can be one-shotted by AI now
  gametorch.app · Discuss

• Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012)
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon
  theedgemalaysia.com · Discuss

• Getting Past Procrastination
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client
  tensorzero.com · Discuss

• Why are smokestacks so tall?
  practical.engineering · Discuss

• Weebly is decaying
  articulation.blog · Discuss

• Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious
  byronsharman.com · Discuss

• What “working” means in the era of AI apps
  a16z.com · Discuss

• I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits
  maxemitchell.com · Discuss

• Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)
  atlasobscura.com · Discuss

• Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
  flightaware.engineering · Discuss

• Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics
  japannews.yomiuri.co.jp · Discuss

• 600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s
  old.reddit.com · Discuss

• Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data
  nbcnews.com · Discuss

• Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
  storytotell.org · Discuss

• Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off
  doc.searls.com · Discuss

• United States Digital Service Origins
  usdigitalserviceorigins.org · Discuss

• A year of funded FreeBSD development
  daemonology.net · Discuss

• Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator
  godmodeai.cloud · Discuss

• How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?
  nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com · Discuss

• Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo
  veitner.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square
  thisiscolossal.com · Discuss

• Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
  sutro.sh · Discuss

• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
  ml-site.cdn-apple.com · Discuss

• SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
  rwsdk.com · Discuss

• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts
  economist.com · Discuss

• Series C and scale
  cursor.com · Discuss

• Exa (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Physical Design Engineer to Build Chips for AI
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf]
  newyorklifeinvestments.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
  about.gitlab.com · Discuss

• 4-7-8 Breathing
  breathbelly.com · Discuss

• Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
  mozillafoundation.org · Discuss

• VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV
  torrentfreak.com · Discuss

• Why Bell Labs Worked
  links.fabiomanganiello.com · Discuss

• Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer
  blocksandfiles.com · Discuss

• OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Too Many Open Files
  mattrighetti.com · Discuss

• Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study
  science.org · Discuss

• An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting
  blog.sagyamthapa.com.np · Discuss

• Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
  blog.pkh.me · Discuss

• Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro
  mikechambers.com · Discuss

• Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'
  oregonlive.com · Discuss

• A masochist's guide to web development
  sebastiano.tronto.net · Discuss

• Curate your shell history
  esham.io · Discuss

• Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
  odyc.dev · Discuss

• Small Programs and Languages
  ratfactor.com · Discuss

• Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
  wordsmith.social · Discuss

• Being fat is a trap
  federicopereiro.com · Discuss

• Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build an AI-powered data notebook
  deepnote.com · Discuss

• Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts
  propublica.org · Discuss

• Editing astrophotography
  astroimagery.com · Discuss

• How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app
  edm115.dev · Discuss

• Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake
  layer22.com · Discuss

• Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen)
  tigerbeetle.com · Discuss

• What you need to know about EMP weapons
  aardvark.co.nz · Discuss

• Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
  boostsecurity.io · Discuss

• Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
  jepsen.io · Discuss

• AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
  phoronix.com · Discuss

• The Coleco Adam Computer
  dfarq.homeip.net · Discuss

• Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law
  tomsguide.com · Discuss

• Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration
  portal.gov.cz · Discuss

• Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup
  freightwaves.com · Discuss

• A maths proof that is only true in Japan
  newscientist.com · Discuss

Thursday, 05 June 2025

• Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon
  nature.com · Discuss

• Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon
  neowin.net · Discuss

• Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle
  heise.de · Discuss

• Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024)
  tiddlywiki.com · Discuss

• Homeless but self taught full stack developer
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Switch 2 rooted on day 1
  bsky.app · Discuss

• How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?
  quantamagazine.org · Discuss

• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
  jeffgeerling.com · Discuss

• Building an AI Server on a Budget
  informationga.in · Discuss

• Open Source Distilling
  opensourcedistilling.com · Discuss

• How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy
  openai.com · Discuss

• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• I do not remember my life and it's fine
  aethermug.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations
  masonyarbrough.com · Discuss

• What a developer needs to know about SCIM
  tesseral.com · Discuss

• Show HN: String Flux – Simplify everyday string transformations for developers
  stringflux.io · Discuss

• Tokasaurus: An LLM inference engine for high-throughput workloads
  scalingintelligence.stanford.edu · Discuss

• APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)
  scharenbroch.dev · Discuss

• How Common Is Multiple Invention?
  construction-physics.com · Discuss

• Myanmar's chinlone ball sport threatened by conflict and rattan shortages
  aljazeera.com · Discuss

• Converge (YC S23) Well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers
  runconverge.com · Discuss

• !Camera
  notbor.ing · Discuss

• SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software
  rtl-sdr.com · Discuss

• Eleven v3
  elevenlabs.io · Discuss

• Neuromorphic computing
  lanl.gov · Discuss

• I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)
  softwaredoug.com · Discuss

• Reproducing the deep double descent paper
  stpn.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API
  thescreentimenetwork.com · Discuss

• Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX
  clickhouse.com · Discuss

• ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]
  itp.cdn.icann.org · Discuss

• Millions in west don't know they have aggressive fatty liver disease, study says
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
  lapcatsoftware.com · Discuss

• CircuitHub (YC W12) is hiring full-stack robotics engineers
  workatastartup.com · Discuss

• X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05
  deepmind.google · Discuss

• Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss
  nature.com · Discuss

• Google restricts Android sideloading
  puri.sm · Discuss

• Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old
  cbc.ca · Discuss

• I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now
  blog.glyph.im · Discuss

• Seven Days at the Bin Store
  defector.com · Discuss

• Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL)
  fossa.com · Discuss

• Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Claude Gov Models for U.S. National Security Customers
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• The impossible predicament of the death newts
  crookedtimber.org · Discuss

• Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
  mjg59.dreamwidth.org · Discuss

• Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
  bioengineer.org · Discuss

• Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
  daringfireball.net · Discuss

• AtoB (YC S20) – Stripe for Transportation – is hiring engineers
  jobs.ashbyhq.com · Discuss

• Track Errors First
  bugsink.com · Discuss

• Sodern launches Astradia, a star tracker for GNSS-denied navigation
  sodern.com · Discuss

• Experimenting with no-build Web Applications
  andregarzia.com · Discuss

• 10 Years of Betting on Rust
  tably.com · Discuss

• DNS4EU for Public Is Available
  joindns4.eu · Discuss

• From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
  networkedartifacts.com · Discuss