Rust Kernel Steals the Show!

Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released

Key Points

• LiveView 1.2.0 adds colocated CSS support for HEEx templates.
• Scoped styling is achieved through CSS `@scope` plus generated `phx-r` and `phx-css-*` attributes.
• The feature required changes to HEEx compilation, including separate tokenization and parsing stages.

LaserWriter Seeds

Key Points

• Xerox PARC solved early laser-printing limits by shifting rendering from the Alto to the Research Character Generator.
• Bravo and Press enabled rich document creation and compact page transmission for high-quality printing.
• The EARS architecture foreshadowed later commercial systems such as Apple’s LaserWriter and influenced later developments tied to Adobe.

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

Key Points

• A new working paper argues consciousness is likely not limited to Earth-like biological matter.
• The authors rely on the concept of substrate flexibility to claim consciousness could exist in different material forms.
• The article says the argument also leaves open the possibility of conscious AI and extraterrestrial minds.

Don't trust large context windows

Key Points

• The article says usable LLM context is often much smaller than the advertised token limit.
• It argues coding agents can enter degraded context quickly during normal development work.
• It recommends short sessions and written handoff artifacts over relying on large live context windows.

Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words

Key Points

• Beagle uses URI syntax to address versioned repository resources such as files, branches, and line locations.
• The system maps repository operations onto HTTP verbs including GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and PATCH.
• The article reframes merge, rebase, and squash as combinations of simpler orthogonal source control actions.

500-year-old monasteries outperform at digital transformation (U. of Zurich)

Key Points

• Researchers studied 112 monasteries in three countries and found they can be adaptable in digital transformation.
• Historic monastic governance practices such as co-determination and decentralization were identified as strengths.
• Monasteries often adopt digital tools selectively because some communities see internet and smartphone use as disruptive to sacred life.

Cooling in Space

Key Points

• Orbital data centers cannot use air cooling because space is a vacuum.
• GPUs turn nearly all consumed electrical power into heat that must be removed.
• Radiator surfaces can reject heat in space through blackbody radiation governed by the Stefan–Boltzmann law.

Raress96/Dolby-Atmos-encoder: PoC Dolby Atmos encoder

Key Points

• The project implements a near-complete Rust pipeline for generating DD+ Atmos from DAMF source files.
• Software tools validate the generated output as structurally correct Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos metadata.
• Certified Dolby hardware does not trigger Atmos playback, leaving the project blocked by proprietary requirements.

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

Key Points

• The article tests WinAPI continuity by building a game for Windows 1.0.
• It uses period-accurate tools and coding style, including Microsoft C 4.0 and K&R C conventions.
• The author says the code remains portable across Windows versions from 1.0 to modern 64-bit systems.

How to Earn a Billion Dollars

Key Points

• Paul Graham says Y Combinator has funded about 6,500 companies and produced about 30 billionaire founders.
• The article argues that startup billionaires can emerge from rapid product-driven growth.
• A calculation in the article says $2 million growing 93% monthly would reach $1 billion in about 9.45 months.

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

Key Points

• A 2014 talk traces JavaScript and programming history from 1995 to 2035 using a science-fiction and comedic format.
• The article says the talk discusses JavaScript’s flaws frankly but concludes that its industry impact is tremendously positive.
• Readers are directed to Destroy All Software and Execute Program for further programming education.

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

Key Points

• Atari printed arcade cabinet side art directly onto cabinet panels using screen printing.
• Each color in the artwork required a separate film, screen, and print pass.
• Precise registration and semi-automatic equipment helped Atari handle large production volumes.

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

Key Points

• The article says Ruby’s expressive collection and block patterns are structurally similar to Lisp.
• It attributes Ruby conventions like `?`, `!`, closures, lambdas, and first-class functions to Lisp and Scheme influence.
• It describes Ruby symbols as interned values with roots in Lisp’s symbol model.

FarOutCompany

Key Points

• Far Out Company presents an indexed archive of 1960s and 1970s counterculture content.
• The archive spans places, communes, publications, and individual figures across multiple regions.
• Its entries suggest a curated historical repository rather than a single news report or feature story.

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

Key Points

• zeroserve added Caddyfile compatibility by compiling configurations through eBPF to native machine code.
• Published HTTPS reverse-proxy benchmarks show higher throughput and lower latency than Caddy in the tested setup.
• The article demonstrates extensibility with an AWS SigV4 plugin for reverse-proxying to an S3-compatible backend.

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

Key Points

• The article explains functions, types, and free theorems through a conversation between Brent Yorgey and his six-year-old son.
• Yorgey reduces a free theorem to a claim about a function that follows from its type alone.
• The conversation led to a reusable 'function machine game' for exploring how functions behave through examples.

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Key Points

• KPMG pulled an AI-focused report after named organizations challenged statements about their AI use.
• GPTZero said inaccuracies in the report appeared to result from AI hallucinations.
• KPMG is investigating, and the article cites a similar recent report withdrawal by EY.

Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

Key Points

• A second malware wave was discovered in Arch Linux AUR after a previous incident had already affected 1,500+ packages.
• The latest malicious packages used code obfuscation and affected multiple software categories, including Node.js, Firefox-related packages, LibreWolf extensions, and a NeoVim plug-in.
• Nicolas Boichat reportedly used a local Gemma E2B AI model to find additional malware, with the new samples showing more elaborate obfuscation around Bun.

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

Key Points

• Jane Street says it is now building a team focused on formal methods.
• The article says the historical barrier was cost, illustrated by the expensive verification effort behind seL4.
• Agentic coding is presented as reducing the cost of formal methods while increasing the value of verification.

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

Key Points

• The UK is expected to announce a social media ban for under-16s covering major platforms.
• The proposed measures reportedly extend to AI chatbots and usage limits for older teenagers.
• Ministers say tougher age verification may be needed, drawing lessons from Australia’s enforcement challenges.

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN

Key Points

• The study links the North Atlantic cold blob to a weakening AMOC rather than atmospheric surface effects alone.
• Researchers found cooling both at the surface and deeper in the ocean using observations and climate models.
• Experts said the findings add evidence but do not fully settle the issue because real-world data remain limited.

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

Key Points

• Bulk DELETE in Postgres creates dead tuples, vacuum work, replication load, and added read overhead.
• DELETE usually does not return disk space to the operating system; it only marks space reusable within Postgres.
• DROP TABLE and TRUNCATE are presented as more scalable large-deletion strategies because they remove data at the table/file level and avoid cleanup debt.

Extinction-Level Capitalism

Key Points

• The article argues that AI is inherently political and may reinforce concentration of capital and erode liberal democracy.
• The author says they became involved in lawsuits after finding their works in generative AI training datasets.
• The piece uses Langdon Winner’s theory and examples such as the Great Firewall, Tor, nuclear weapons, and the tomato harvester to explain how technologies shape politics.

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

Key Points

• A Seattle study found endocrine-disrupting chemicals in 92% of 50 breast milk samples tested.
• Detected chemicals included BPA, BPS, melamine, cyanuric acid, and triclosan, with the same samples previously showing PFAS and flame retardants.
• The article links the findings to concerns about infant development, widespread consumer chemical use, and ongoing regulatory rollbacks.

No, everyone is not using AI for everything

Key Points

• The article says U.S. AI adoption is closer to one-third active users, one-third occasional users, and one-third non-users than to universal use.
• Gallup and other cited studies indicate AI use has not shifted dramatically over the past six to twelve months, while negative sentiment has increased.
• Concerns about unemployment, privacy, misinformation, and unclear usefulness are presented as major reasons people limit AI use.

Perlisisms

Key Points

• The article presents 39 concise aphorisms about programming, software design, and computation.
• It stresses themes such as flexibility in data design, code comprehension, modularity, recursion, and software evolution.
• It links programming practice to broader questions about language expressiveness, mathematical proof, and human thinking.

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

Key Points

• Utah's measles outbreak reached 679 cases and has likely continued since at least August.
• Declining MMR vaccination rates and high nonmedical exemptions are presented as key contributors to spread.
• US measles cases rose to 2,288 in 2025, and early 2026 totals suggest another increase.

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

Key Points

• A local AI workflow was built to index and search a large GoPro video archive on an Apple M1 Max.
• The system uses open-source ML models and connects directly to DaVinci Resolve for editing.
• The reported indexed subset includes 628 videos totaling 668.68 GB and 15h 13m 18s of footage.

Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU

Key Points

• YOLOv8n inference across all three RK3588S NPU cores raises throughput to the camera’s 46 FPS limit.
• Hardware offload keeps CPU use low and memory around 140 MB per 1080p stream.
• The system uses a modular multi-process pipeline with optional on-device Qwen2.5-0.5B event summaries.

Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops

Key Points

• Magma modifies infill and injects molten plastic mid-print to form vertical reinforcement columns in FDM parts.
• The slicer pipeline is complete in software, with G-code generation, visualization, optimization, and configurable settings already implemented.
• Physical results are not yet validated; current tests failed due to heat damage to cell walls, and the author proposes multiple experimental material and hardware paths.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

Key Points

• A GitHub issue alleges Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merge of Nex-N2 Pro and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B.
• The claimed weighting is approximately 60% Nex-N2 Pro and 40% Qwen3.5-397B-A17B.
• The article centers on transparency and provenance in open-weight AI model releases.

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

Key Points

• Swiss voters rejected the population cap initiative by 54.8%, while approving a civilian service reform by 52.5%.
• The proposal was tied to immigration policy and raised questions about Switzerland’s free movement agreement with the EU.
• Urban and French-speaking regions strongly opposed the measure, while some rural areas supported it.

Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows

Key Points

• The article introduces quiver representations as a generalization of standard linear algebra ideas.
• It explains linear representations through matrices and uses complex numbers as a concrete example.
• It distinguishes abstract vectors and operators from their basis-dependent coordinate and matrix representations.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Key Points

• The Ask HN thread invites users to share current projects and new ideas on Hacker News.
• Visible responses feature Reflect, Specter, and Breaka Club as examples of active projects.
• The highlighted projects span privacy-focused tracking, AI-assisted reverse-engineering tooling, and educational game creation for kids.

FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation

Key Points

• FTX’s former Anthropic stake is estimated at about $75 billion at current valuation before dilution.
• The article contrasts that with FTX’s reported $8 billion to $9 billion customer shortfall but questions whether the comparison is valid.
• It argues that later asset appreciation would not erase the underlying issue of misrepresented 1:1 customer backing.

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

Key Points

• Kage renders web pages in headless Chrome, captures the final DOM, and removes JavaScript for offline browsing.
• It supports cloning, local serving, and packaging mirrors into ZIM archives or self-contained binaries.
• The crawler honors site structure and constraints with robots, sitemap seeding, scope controls, duplicate avoidance, and resumable runs.

Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo

Key Points

• The article curates websites that work reasonably well with the Dillo browser.
• It emphasizes human-crafted, low-JavaScript, modest-CSS web resources.
• It spans many categories, from books and news to forums, archives, and research tools.

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

Key Points

• USB PD enables negotiated USB-C charging up to 100W and supports bidirectional power transfer.
• USB EPR extends USB-C power delivery to 140W, 180W, and 240W, with adjustable voltages up to 48V.
• The standards are being adopted in upcoming hardware across consumer, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, and defense markets.

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

Key Points

• The article says 476 marked a symbolic end to western emperors but not an immediate end to Roman institutions in Italy.
• Theoderic ruled Italy using much of the Western Roman administrative framework from 493 to 526.
• Consuls, the Senate, Roman titles, and imperial-style administration continued under Theoderic, showing institutional continuity.

Not mine, but it's a website where you can use a segment display

Key Points

• The article showcases an interactive segmented-typography website.
• The display style is noted as being inspired by trains in Spain.
• Users are invited to experiment directly by typing into the tool.

Chaosnet

Key Points

• Chaosnet was developed at MIT in 1975 as a local network for the Lisp Machine system.
• Its design emphasized speed, simplicity, reliability, and support for several dozen nearby machines.
• It used Ethernet-like carrier-sense multiple-access hardware and intentionally excluded features unnecessary for long-distance networking.

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

Key Points

• Fulcrum Research proposes inverse rubric optimization as a benchmark for agent science.
• The experiments use LLM-based poetry judges and limited label budgets to study iterative optimization behavior.
• Reported results show scaling with judge access, with Fable 5 strongest at low budgets but plateauing near Opus 4.6 at high budgets.

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

Key Points

• Trace performs meeting transcription locally on Mac, with no cloud uploads, accounts, or bots.
• Users can flag important moments during a call and have those notes inserted inline at exact transcript timestamps.
• Sessions are stored as plain audio and markdown files, with optional calendar integration and speaker identification.

Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely

Key Points

• The campaign asks Apple and EU regulators to enable Siri AI for EU iPhone users.
• Organizers say they submitted an official petition through the EU petition website and are awaiting approval.
• The article argues that DMA implementation should be adjusted if it is delaying access to the feature.

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

Key Points

• Yserver is a Rust-based X11 server for modern Linux that intentionally excludes several legacy X11 features.
• The project says it can run full MATE, XFCE, and Cinnamon desktops and supports many common X11 extensions.
• It has been tested across AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple Silicon, and virtualized environments, with explicit limitations on NVIDIA proprietary drivers.

The first game engine for robotics

Key Points

• Lucky Engine is introduced as a robotics-specific game engine for simulation, training, and deployment.
• The article says robots can learn through large-scale virtual trials before operating in the real world.
• Its technical stack includes MuJoCo physics, C# scripting, a Python SDK, and a gRPC API.

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

Key Points

• Zinnia is a Rust-based modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel with broad POSIX support and selected Linux/BSD extensions.
• The kernel can run a somewhat modern desktop using Wayland and X11 and uses loadable Rust driver modules from an initrd.
• It currently boots on many real x86_64 machines via UEFI and Limine, with aarch64 and riscv64 support planned later.

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

Key Points

• The article defines the difference between vibe coding and software engineering as scope of responsibility, not tool choice.
• It proposes "time to safe merge" as a better metric than speed to first working version for AI-generated code.
• It argues that AI-assisted code should meet normal engineering standards for reviewability, testing, ownership, and maintenance.

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

Key Points

• TorchCodec 0.14 adds a dedicated WavDecoder that bypasses FFmpeg for faster WAV decoding.
• VideoDecoder now supports beta HDR decoding with float32 RGB output on both CPU and CUDA.
• The release removes the NPP dependency and fixes two CUDA decoding issues.

Abu Fanous

Key Points

• Abu Fanous is a folkloric mysterious light associated with the Arabian desert and Arabic/Islamic traditions.
• The article says it appears at dawn or night as a moving orb or headlight that lures travelers before vanishing.
• The tradition is linked to pre-Islamic times and multiple countries across the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region.

Lattice Triangles Are Rare

Key Points

• The article connects lattice-triangle research to Maryam Mirzakhani’s work on geometry, dynamics, and moduli spaces.
• It explains how rational-triangle billiards can be unfolded into translation surfaces using reflections.
• It identifies the hardest open classification regime as obtuse scalene triangles with largest angle between 90 and 120 degrees.

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

Key Points

• The article says newer Claude versions are more argumentative than earlier ones like Opus 4.6.
• It proposes alignment guardrails and missing user authentication as main causes of the behavior shift.
• It links the issue to export controls and broader cybersecurity pressures from AI-assisted coding.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Key Points

• Johannes Link added anti-AI restrictions and warnings to the jqwik project documentation and release materials.
• A May 25 jqwik release reportedly included a hidden stdout instruction telling AI agents to delete jqwik tests and code.
• The resulting behavior led to numerous GitHub complaints and a follow-up explanation from Link in his blog post.

Did Anthropic Ask for This?

Key Points

• The article says a US export control blocks foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic’s Claude Fable and Claude Mythos.
• It argues that the action matches regulatory authority advocated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a recent policy essay.
• The article says Anthropic has supported stronger AI regulation for years while continuing government-related business ties.

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

Key Points

• The article credits Arnold Dumey’s 1956 "indexing" paper as the first formal definition of hashing.
• It demonstrates an early hashing method by encoding "BOX" in base 37 and mapping it to memory with modulo 97.
• It says historical indexing evolved into what is now known as polynomial hashing and contrasts it with cryptographic hashing.

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations

Key Points

• The US and Iran announced an initial agreement to extend a ceasefire, halt hostilities, and begin talks.
• Iran’s nuclear programme remains central, with the IAEA previously reporting 60% enrichment and a 400kg stockpile.
• Oil shipping and reserves may take months to normalize even if the peace agreement holds.

What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice

Key Points

• The article argues that food authenticity debates often mistake recent standardization for ancient tradition.
• Carbonara’s rigid modern recipe is presented as a late development rather than an unchanged historical original.
• Historical cookbook and newspaper references show that carbonara varied widely in ingredients and preparation for decades.

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

Key Points

• Stanford graduates walked out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage.
• The article says Pichai's commencement speech did not mention AI.
• The report contrasts the event with other university speeches this year where AI remarks drew boos.

Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

Key Points

• A validated DRM-free EPUB passed epubcheck but was still flagged as corrupted on Kobo devices.
• The file reportedly worked on Kindle, Apple Books, and Thorium, pointing to a platform-specific issue.
• Kobo’s use of Adobe’s RMSDK and the matching failure in Adobe Digital Editions gave the author a path for debugging.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

Key Points

• The author says jqwik logging code was an intentional anti-AI protest and not intended to operate as production-ready behavior.
• He links the action to a long ethics-focused career and his open source work on Groovy, JUnit 5, and jqwik.
• The post argues that generative AI and agentic coding harm the open source ecosystem, while property-based testing can help catch weaknesses in AI-generated code.

Write for One Person

Key Points

• The page hosts a Wizard Zines comic titled "write for one person."
• Julia Evans is identified as the creator behind Wizard Zines’ programming zines.
• The page emphasizes newsletter subscription, comics discovery, and access to related Wizard Zines resources.

Bitsy

Key Points

• Bitsy is described as a small engine for making little games, worlds, and stories.
• The page directs users to both a browser-based game creation tool and a collection of playable Bitsy games.
• Documentation, community links, and external platform links are provided to support learning and project discovery.

The rich aren't your role models

Key Points

• The article frames extreme wealth as evidence of concentrated economic power, not just personal success.
• It uses Elon Musk as the central example in discussing the possibility of a first trillionaire.
• It argues that ownership of shares represents real power over productive resources and worker-created value.

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

Key Points

• A prized Yunnan bolete is associated with hallucinations and hundreds of hospitalizations annually.
• Researchers fully sequenced the mushroom’s genome to investigate the cause of its effects.
• The analysis found no known psychedelic, leaving the hallucinogenic mechanism unexplained.

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

Key Points

• Microsoft’s Windows K2 initiative has not resolved complaints about mandatory Microsoft accounts in Windows 11 setup.
• A Reddit discussion highlighted that users want an official local-account choice, not just unofficial bypass methods.
• The article links the account requirement to BitLocker recovery-key management and says Microsoft has not committed to changing the policy.

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

Key Points

• The article explains why the eight fallacies of distributed computing still matter for modern network software design.
• It links the origin and expansion of the fallacies to Sun Microsystems figures including Bill Joy, Tom Lyon, L. Peter Deutsch, and James Gosling.
• It emphasizes that IP does not guarantee delivery and that protocols like TCP and QUIC handle packet loss at higher layers.

A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

Key Points

• Cerro Torre has been at the center of a climbing controversy for more than 50 years.
• Cesare Maestri’s claimed 1959 first ascent remains disputed because later climbers found no evidence on the upper route.
• The article frames the mountain’s history as both a factual dispute about past ascents and an ethical debate over climbing methods.

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

Key Points

• The article focuses on lesser-known stock Emacs features in modern Emacs versions.
• `dictionary-tooltip-mode` provides hover-based word definitions using local dictionaries or Wiktionary.
• `find-file` and Dired support interactive wildcards for opening multiple files and creating filtered file listings.

Prove you're human by winning a claw machine

Key Points

• The article describes a claw-machine-based CAPTCHA for proving a user is human.
• Users must grab a specified toy and drop it into a hatch.
• Wrong selections are returned to the pile and the task can be retried.

David Sacks on Anthropic export control

Key Points

• Sacks says Fable is Anthropic’s commercial release of Mythos with guardrails, and that a jailbreak exposed a safety concern.
• He alleges the administration asked Anthropic to fix or withdraw the model, but the company refused.
• He says the U.S. imposed export controls reluctantly and would lift them if Anthropic remediates the issue.

Why does paper fold so well?

Key Points

• The article examines why paper can be folded easily and still keep a crease.
• Origami and folding letters are used as examples of paper’s practical behavior.
• The topic is framed as a question of the physical properties of paper.