A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

54 vikas-sharma 2026-06-13 10:35:10 UTC research.google Llama Share 20

Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

Leaving Mozilla

288 martey 2026-06-13 06:35:10 UTC blog.unitedheroes.net Llama Share 167

The user, a Mozilla employee leaving after 15 years, expresses concerns about the company's direction and leadership, citing a focus on chasing big ideas and emulating other companies rather than staying true to its open-source and community-driven roots. They urge Mozilla to refocus on its core strengths, shore up its core features, and reconnect with its community, rather than trying to be ...

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

9 stagas 2026-06-13 12:13:10 UTC hallucinate.site Full Share 1

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Electric motors with no rare earths

529 bestouff 2026-06-12 22:35:10 UTC renaultgroup.com Llama Share 153

Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

25 mahirsaid 2026-06-13 10:35:10 UTC areweguiyet.com Llama Share 12

Several Rust GUI frameworks exist, including Azul, CXX-Qt, Leptos, and Ribir, offering various features and performance. These frameworks aim to provide fast, cross-platform, and native GUI development for desktop, web, and mobile applications.

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

2556 Dylan1312 2026-06-13 01:35:10 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1842

The US government has issued a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to a potential jailbreak method, citing national security concerns. Anthropic is complying with the directive but disagrees with the decision, stating it's a misunderstanding and is working to restore access as soon as possible.

Thoughts on AI and Jobs

4 k1m 2026-06-13 12:23:10 UTC blog.keyvan.net Prefix Share 2

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. I have sympathy for people worried about losing their livelihoods. But at the same time I struggle to sympathise with the idea that jobs themselves are something sacred we should be fighting for. I've always found it odd how much of our lives is devoted to jobs. A job is simply a means of survival. Jobs are inherently ...

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

860 gmays 2026-06-12 15:35:10 UTC innovativegenomics.org Llama Share 191

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have developed a CRISPR-based approach to selectively destroy cancer cells with a specific mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. This method, called RNA-triggered chromatin shredding, can target "undruggable" cancers and potentially open up new targets for cancer therapy.

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

37 pikann22 2026-06-13 10:35:10 UTC github.com/paca-ai Llama Share 19

Paca is a self-hosted project management platform that enables AI agents and humans to collaborate as equal teammates in a Scrum team. It offers a configurable and extendable workflow, data model, and UI via plugins.

Open source AI must win

1110 vednig 2026-06-13 02:35:10 UTC opensourceaimustwin.com Llama Share 346

The public risks losing operational freedom if AI access depends on closed institutions and shifting terms. America must maintain freedom to run, inspect, and modify AI infrastructure with global open standards.

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

323 theahura 2026-06-13 05:35:10 UTC 12gramsofcarbon.com Llama Share 286

The US government has banned access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models due to national security concerns, citing a potential method of bypassing the models. This move has sparked concerns about government regulation of AI and the potential restriction of strong language models for public use.

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

25 qwertox 2026-06-13 11:57:10 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 2

Arch Linux's AUR repository saw over 1,500 user-contributed packages compromised with malware. Developers have deleted all known malicious commits, but some affected packages may still exist.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

397 kkm 2026-06-12 18:35:10 UTC ikyle.me Llama Share 99

User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

The computer science degree isn’t dead

114 jnord 2026-06-13 02:35:10 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 106

Recent engineering graduates face a 6.1% unemployment rate, but underemployment is low at below 20%. Engineers rank among the top fields for overall labor market outcomes despite a mismatch between job postings and actual hiring.

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

205 ellg 2026-06-12 23:35:10 UTC putt.day Full Share 88

A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

411 marc__1 2026-06-12 16:35:10 UTC twitter.com/jsrailton Llama Share 225

Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.

The Riemann Hypothesis – interactive explanation

3 lifty 2026-06-13 11:35:10 UTC riemann.adilmoujahid.com Prefix Share 0

The curve above is the Riemann zeta function, tracing its path through the complex plane. Every time it threads the marked origin, it reveals a secret about the prime numbers. The Riemann Hypothesis — unproven since 1859, with a million-dollar prize on its head — says those crossings follow a single, perfect rule. Five levels, each self-contained. Beginners start at the top with Level 1; if ...

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

209 DASD 2026-06-12 20:35:10 UTC swift.org Llama Share 97

Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift to improve security and performance, achieving a 13% speed increase and exact compatibility with the C implementation. The Swift interpreter's design and optimizations, such as using noncopyable structures and Span, demonstrate the language's ability to balance safety, ergonomics, and performance, making it suitable ...

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

246 pera 2026-06-13 08:35:10 UTC reuters.com Full Share 120

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Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

233 redbell 2026-06-12 22:35:10 UTC depthfirst.com Llama Share 149

Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, including 8 with assigned CVEs, using a specialized security agent that analyzes code and generates concrete, reproducible PoC inputs. The agent found a heap buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AV1 RTP depacketizer that can be triggered by a single 183-byte packet, allowing an attacker to redirect execution and ...

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

46 arcb 2026-06-12 20:35:10 UTC bitboard.work Llama Share 21

Generate dashboards and analysis in BitBoard using AI chat or coding agents to create connected assets. Store connections, queries, and code for reproducible analysis and collaborate with teams in the browser.

H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office

229 Cider9986 2026-06-12 19:35:10 UTC eff.org Llama Share 81

The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would change the US Copyright Office's structure and make it more political. The bill would transfer power from the Library of Congress to the Register of Copyrights, a presidential appointee.

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

103 vnglst 2026-06-13 06:35:10 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 93

User tested Anthropic model with a personal game idea, Shepherd's Dog, and it successfully generated a 2,319 line game in one shot. The model's output was a fun and accurate representation of the user's idea.

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

281 iweczek 2026-06-12 17:35:10 UTC piwodlaiwo.github.io Full Share 82

Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering

48 ent1c3d 2026-06-13 04:35:10 UTC github.com/entgriff Llama Share 9

EZRA is a persistent task queue backed by SQLite and powered by Erlang/OTP runtime, allowing services and workers to run in any language with a Redis client. It ensures tasks are never silently lost and can be retried with a visibility timeout.

Automating Myself Out of Development

38 nisabek 2026-06-13 05:35:10 UTC thoughtfultechnologist.com Llama Share 22

The user shares their experience with Claude Code, an AI-assisted development tool, and how they evolved their workflow to automate tasks, delegate thinking, and improve productivity. They emphasize the importance of understanding the limitations of AI and not delegating thinking, highlighting the need for human oversight and review to maintain code quality and prevent technical debt.

Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

65 maxloh 2026-06-13 01:35:10 UTC tectonic-typesetting.github.io Llama Share 31

Tectonic is a tool that converts TeX files into PDF files with precision typography and automatic equation handling. It's a self-contained library that can be embedded in other applications and is licensed under the MIT License.

On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles

51 signa11 2026-06-13 05:35:10 UTC 6it.dev Llama Share 7

The CPU's performance is affected by various factors such as parasitic capacitances, cache levels, and branch prediction, which can impact the execution time of operations. The main memory access latency is around 200-300 CPU cycles, while accessing persistent storage can take tens of thousands to millions of CPU cycles.

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

200 FergusArgyll 2026-06-12 15:35:10 UTC envs.net Llama Share 122

User trying to generate decent-looking programs with AI, found a "Qt style" trick that works for them, and wants feedback on its effectiveness and potential for other styles. They've successfully translated personal software to "Qt style" with AI tools like Codex.

The Future of wasi-gfx and wasi:webgpu

28 mendyberger 2026-06-13 03:35:10 UTC wasi-gfx.dev Llama Share 8

WASI graphics interfaces are being split into two namespaces: wasi:webgpu remains in WASI for stability, while wasi:surface and wasi:frame-buffer move to wasi-gfx for faster iteration. wasi-gfx will be a user-space library for graphics, allowing for experimentation with new UI interfaces.