Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

87 pramodbiligiri 2026-06-07 00:01:51 UTC openai.com Llama Share 51

We used Codex to generate a million lines of code for a software product in 5 months with a team of 7 engineers, achieving an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day. To maintain the codebase, we focused on designing environments, scaffolding, and feedback loops that enable agents to do reliable work, enforcing invariants and mechanical rules to keep the codebase legible and consistent.

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

282 gregsadetsky 2026-06-06 20:01:51 UTC ntsc.rs Llama Share 67

ntsc-rs is a free, open-source Rust effect that accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. It's multithreaded, SIMD-accelerated and available as a standalone, web app, and plugin for various video editing software.

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

21 Anon84 2026-06-07 02:01:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

Researchers analyzed token consumption in LLM-MA systems across software development stages. They found Code Review accounts for 59.4% of token consumption, with input tokens making up 53.9% of total consumption.

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

49 pkaeding 2026-06-07 02:01:51 UTC radioworld.com Llama Share 41

Mike Kirtner, president of Kindred Communications, reported an FM transmission line was cut in broad daylight at 93.7 WDGG(FM) in Ashland, Ky. The station is operating at reduced power and estimates total repair costs between $70,000 and $100,000.

Public Domain Image Archive

34 davidbarker 2026-06-07 01:01:51 UTC pdimagearchive.org Full Share 6

Explore our hand-picked collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

43 crescit_eundo 2026-06-07 00:01:51 UTC cen.acs.org Llama Share 5

Chemists have observed a boron buckminsterfullerene for the first time, providing evidence for an 80-atom cage structure. This discovery challenges density functional theory and may lead to new materials such as semiconductors or superconductors.

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

265 jwilk 2026-06-06 15:01:51 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 264

A recent Linux kernel proposal to add "spawn templates" to optimize the fork() and exec() pattern has been rejected, but it may point to a new process-creation primitive in the future. The discussion highlights the need for a better process-creation mechanism, with some suggesting a native implementation of posix_spawn() and others proposing alternative approaches using existing system calls.

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

456 speckx 2026-06-06 19:01:51 UTC this.weekinsecurity.com Llama Share 162

Meta notified 20,225 people whose Instagram accounts were hijacked through a flaw in its AI chatbot, allowing hackers to access account information and posts. The breach occurred from April 17 to this week, with Meta disabling the chatbot and instructing users to reset their passwords.

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

198 losfair 2026-06-06 15:01:51 UTC su3.io Llama Share 52

zeroserve is a fast, zero-config HTTPS server that serves websites from a single tarball and supports eBPF scripting for middleware and proxying. It beats nginx in serving small files and has a faster proxying path.

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

241 tosh 2026-06-06 13:01:51 UTC twitter.com/lemire Full Share 440

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Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

66 rohanucla 2026-06-06 21:01:51 UTC ataraxy-labs.github.io Llama Share 27

Rohan made changes to the code, adding and modifying functions, and deleting another. The changes affect 42 entities, including the loginRoute and authMiddleware, due to dependencies on db.findUser and rateLimiter.

Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals

13 si_164 2026-06-07 01:01:51 UTC domaintasker.com Full Share 7

GoDaddy, Spaceship, Namecheap, Namebright, Porkbun, Unstoppable Domains

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

20 kristianp 2026-06-06 23:01:51 UTC cl.cam.ac.uk Llama Share 6

X11 fonts have been extended to include ISO 10646-1 Unicode characters, with new fonts and revised versions of existing fonts available. However, X11 was not designed to handle complex scripts like Arabic, Syriac, and Indic, requiring special libraries like Pango to support these scripts.

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

164 toephu2 2026-06-06 03:01:51 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 731

SpaceX has signed a deal with Google to provide AI compute capacity for $920 million a month until June 2029. The agreement allows Google to end the deal if SpaceX fails to deliver the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026.

You Can Run

110 bryanrasmussen 2026-06-06 16:01:51 UTC magazine.atavist.com Llama Share 60

Erin McCann, a lawyer, discovers two boxes of government documents connected to her family's past crimes. Her mother, Leah, had hidden the documents, revealing a life of deceit and crime by Erin's father, John.

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

282 tripplyons 2026-06-06 12:01:51 UTC pokeemerald.com Full Share 81

Keyboard: arrows, Z=A, X=B, Enter=Start, Shift=Select.

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

129 uonr 2026-06-06 16:01:51 UTC uonr.github.io Llama Share 23

The demo allows users to view multiple notes at once with tools and mode switching available. It was created using LLM tools due to the author's lack of mathematical background.

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

561 andrehacker 2026-06-06 03:01:51 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 956

The user initially dismissed AI models like DALL-E and ChatGPT as parlor tricks but had a series of "Oh shit" moments as they realized the potential of these models to solve real problems and change their approach to development. These moments included using Claude code to generate a Zillow description, building a web tool to sort media files, and using AI to translate code and track down ...

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?

26 rbanffy 2026-06-06 21:01:51 UTC eetimes.com Full Share 29

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

3 gmays 2026-06-07 02:01:51 UTC biohub.org Prefix Share 0

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 27, 2026 – Biohub today announced the release of a world model of protein biology: a scientific engine for prediction, design, and discovery that can map proteins across the tree of life, predict their structures, and design new protein binders that function in laboratory experiments. Proteins are the machinery of life. Nearly every function of the human body depends ...

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

81 thisislife2 2026-06-06 15:01:51 UTC mashable.com Llama Share 26

Motorola's MotoSync+ app has been down for nearly a month, preventing users from setting up and using their WiFi routers. The issue has left many customers without access to their routers, with some unable to even factory reset their devices.

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

9 alexpadula 2026-06-07 00:01:51 UTC github.com/guycipher Prefix Share 0

keybench ======== A scriptable, extensible performance tool for sorted key value stores. You write the workload in Lua. keybench drives it across one or more storage engines, times every operation, and reports throughput and latency. The same script runs unchanged against every engine, so a comparison measures the engines and not the harness. POSIX only currently. What it measures ...

Benchmarks in Leipzig

124 root-parent 2026-06-06 14:01:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 44

49 mathematicians compiled 100 research-level math questions with known answers between April 1 and May 15, 2026. LLMs solved 98 questions in three stages, demonstrating their impressive mathematical reasoning capabilities.

The new bibliomaniacs

70 RickJWagner 2026-06-06 13:01:51 UTC engelsbergideas.com Llama Share 65

Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past through rare book collecting, which has seen a 62 per cent growth in visitors from 2022 to 2026. The global rare book market is valued at over $7 billion with an expected growth rate above 6 per cent per year.

Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health

133 speckx 2026-06-06 20:01:51 UTC science.org Full Share 125

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

442 MilnerRoute 2026-06-06 19:01:51 UTC nbcnews.com Llama Share 332

The US Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to the highest level due to concerns about Israel's increased spying on the US. The US is taking extra precautions when interacting with Israeli officials, but the two countries' intelligence-sharing remains intact.

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

84 theanonymousone 2026-06-06 15:01:51 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 26

The user created a Python library called micropython-wasm that executes Python code in a WebAssembly sandbox with controlled file access, network access, and memory limits. The library uses MicroPython and wasmtime, and the user has tested it with a plugin for Datasette Agent and is now seeking feedback and collaboration to improve and maintain the library.

How Other Link Checkers Do Recursion

4 zdw 2026-06-07 01:01:51 UTC endler.dev Prefix Share 0

After I published Five Years of Trying to Add Recursion to lychee, one reply I got was a very fair question: If recursion is so hard, how do other link checkers do it? Plenty of them already crawl websites! This sent me down a rabbit hole of reading the code of other link checkers. The key takeaway is: they didn’t find a clever trick we missed. They were built as crawlers from the very first ...

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

3 gscott 2026-06-07 02:47:51 UTC knowablemagazine.org Prefix Share 0

In Argentina, equine cloning in polo is no longer a rarity. It’s now a mature industry — although ethical dilemmas surrounding it persist. At the slightest touch of the reins, he felt a familiarity that shook him. It was 2016, and polo player Adolfo Cambiaso — considered the best in the world — was riding for the first time on a genetic clone of Cuartetera, his flagship mare. The same ...

Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing

54 ibobev 2026-06-06 16:01:51 UTC goto10retro.com Llama Share 13

The user upgraded their Atari 400 to an 800XL in 1985, which improved their programming experience with a better keyboard and 64K of RAM. They created a utility program called DOSBOS, but it was rejected by ANALOG magazine due to its limitations as a BASIC program.