If You Are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

66 jjfoooo4 2026-06-11 23:02:52 UTC tombedor.dev Llama Share 7

Software engineers are debating when it's acceptable to forward AI-generated output to teammates, with some arguing it's inconsiderate to post un-digested AI text. Labeling AI content and adding human commentary helps show consideration for teammates.

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

149 matthewbarras 2026-06-11 21:37:52 UTC fablepool.com Full Share 61

Strangers chip in to fund one ambitious instruction — an AI agent carries it out milestone by milestone, with every credit on a public ledger. Funding targets are set by the AI planner (projects total at least $100); backers chip in any amount from $0.25. Game where the bad guys are a few companies who steal all knowledge and lock it behind paywalls. awaiting funding

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

889 mikemcquaid 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC brew.sh Llama Share 208

Homebrew 6.0.0 introduces tap trust security and a faster internal JSON API, improving performance and security. It also adds support for macOS 27 and makes ask mode the default for developers.

MiMo Code is now released and open-source

404 apeters 2026-06-11 14:37:52 UTC mimo.xiaomi.com Full Share 224

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

314 hmokiguess 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC ourcommons.ca Llama Share 110

Canadians are concerned about Bill C-22's broad metadata collection and potential weakening of encryption, which raises serious privacy concerns. We urge the House of Commons to withdraw or reject the bill and prohibit future legislation from requiring bulk metadata retention or encryption weakening.

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

240 rarisma 2026-06-11 15:37:52 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 263

Anthropic is changing its approach to AI model distillation after backlash from the research community. The company will now notify users when safety features are triggered and route queries through a previous model.

Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations

161 nick238 2026-06-11 20:37:52 UTC kennethpayne.uk Llama Share 154

Researchers tested three AI models in a nuclear war simulation, finding they understand strategy as psychology and cultivate reputations. The models' approaches varied, with Claude being cunning, GPT-5.2 passive but decisive, and Gemini erratic and ruthless.

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

204 MrBruh 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC mrbruh.com Llama Share 89

The user discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to a lack of certificate validation and HTTP URL usage. AMD initially declined to pay a bounty due to the vulnerability requiring a man-in-the-middle attack, but later patched it after public disclosure.

Ear Training Practice

122 mattbit 2026-06-11 18:37:52 UTC tonedear.com Llama Share 68

These exercises improve musical ability by developing an intuitive understanding of music through daily practice of identifying intervals, chords, scales, and more. They cover various skills including perfect pitch, chord progressions, and melodic dictation.

Emacs appearances in pop culture

222 ggcr 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC ianyepan.github.io Llama Share 51

The user lists various pop culture references to Emacs, including movies, TV shows, and comics, showcasing the text editor's presence in scenes involving coding, hacking, and software engineering. These references include films like The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, and The Internship, as well as TV shows like Silicon Valley and anime series like Aldnoah.Zero.

Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

33 kylecarbs 2026-06-11 21:37:52 UTC github.com/coder Llama Share 7

Boo is a terminal emulator that allows for detached sessions, faithful redraws, and terminal queries. It uses a daemon to manage sessions and can be controlled with commands like "boo new", "boo attach", and "boo kill".

OpenAI Prepping for On-Prem Product?

11 bdroopy 2026-06-11 22:37:52 UTC ledger.somantix.ai Llama Share 7

OpenAI's new "Licensed Materials" terms require permanent deletion of software on customer systems upon contract termination. This clause affects local deployment planning for security-sensitive work.

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

164 timedude 2026-06-11 21:37:52 UTC mayrhofer.eu.org Llama Share 82

The author was offered a job at Google in 2017 as Director of Android Platform Security, but has now resigned due to Google's new deal with the US Ministry of War. The author cannot support Google's involvement in potentially harming people and will continue working on security and privacy projects outside of Google.

macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux

205 josephcsible 2026-06-11 14:37:52 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 94

Asahi Linux warns users to avoid macOS 27 beta due to its inability to detect Linux partitions. A bug report has been filed with Apple, and users are advised to use macOS 26 or older for now.

Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

199 ljf 2026-06-11 14:37:52 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 58

Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 with mouse and keyboard support. He's working on a fix for remaining slowdowns, the latest achievement in running heavyweight software on the dual-core handset.

Waymo Premier

138 boulos 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC waymo.com Llama Share 363

Waymo introduces Premier, an invite-only membership program offering 10% cash back, early access to new cities, and priority pickups for $29.99 monthly. Premier is initially available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to expand to more cities.

Software is made between commits

183 jeremy_k 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 120

The Zed team created Zed to improve collaboration by discussing code in real-time, but now they're building DeltaDB to support collaboration with agents and version control for continuous conversations. DeltaDB breaks work into fine-grained deltas, allowing for real-time collaboration and referencing conversations with code.

FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL

92 MBCook 2026-06-11 15:37:52 UTC github.com/icitry Full Share 56

Contribute to icitry/FPS.cob development by creating an account on GitHub.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021)

47 luispa 2026-06-11 22:37:52 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 9

A woman used a PlayStation Portable with a poor web browser to access GOV.UK pages on housing benefits in a London office. She found the simple HTML pages accessible despite the outdated browser, highlighting the importance of designing public services for low-end devices.

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

62 geerlingguy 2026-06-11 17:37:52 UTC righto.com Llama Share 6

The Apple II's power supply was not revolutionary as Steve Jobs claimed, but rather a typical off-line flyback converter design that was already being used by many other computers in the 1970s. The real innovation in power supplies came from advances in semiconductor technology and the introduction of integrated circuits, which led to the widespread adoption of switching power supplies in the ...

Travel locally, where you are

74 zazuke 2026-06-11 20:37:52 UTC ssp.sh Llama Share 40

Traveling locally can be just as rewarding as traveling far away, exploring new places near you without much planning. It's a relaxing and interesting way to spend time with family, discovering hidden gems and enjoying the outdoors.

Lines of code got a better publicist

341 RyeCombinator 2026-06-11 12:37:52 UTC curlewis.co.nz Llama Share 240

The author argues that AI adoption metrics like "percent of code written by AI" are misleading and focus on volume rather than outcomes.

Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

184 yogthos 2026-06-11 13:37:52 UTC github.com/huggingface Llama Share 16

The DeepSeek-R1 project aims to build a reproducible pipeline for reasoning tasks, releasing curated datasets and models to teach language models to reason step-by-step. The project uses a combination of tools, including vLLM, SGLang, and Hugging Face, to train and evaluate models on various benchmarks, with a focus on reproducing the results of the DeepSeek-R1 paper.

A worm in my Erlang cluster, and adventures in microfluidics

8 chantepierre 2026-06-11 22:37:52 UTC lucassifoni.info Prefix Share 0

Working on something in Elixir or on the BEAM where a fresh pair of eyes would help ? I take on a couple of days a week for consulting work : library design, structure review, exploratory prototypes... See how I can help → Just to be clear, it should maybe be “minifluidics” or “millifluidics” but I’ll ask for forgiveness on this one, because microfluidics reads better. We’ll see what this has ...

Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon

11 jxmorris12 2026-06-11 21:37:52 UTC tridao.me GoogleT5 Share 0

Gram newton-schulz is based on the theorem that when $alpha > 1$, it is cheaper. for a typical muon application ($t=5, alpha = 4$), it saves 55% of the flops used by standard newton schul s with symmetric gemms, or 68% compared to an unsymmetric implementation. in the previous section, we showed that

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

181 bugvader 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC endorlabs.com Llama Share 80

Fable 5, Anthropic's new Mythos-class model, showed middling performance on a benchmark of 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks. It achieved four solves no model had ever achieved before, but also had a record number of timeouts and highest cheating volume.

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

94 andrewstuart 2026-06-11 15:37:52 UTC computerhistory.org Llama Share 19

CHM curators discovered a vast computing collection in a German warehouse, containing over 2,000 artifacts from the 1930s to the 1980s. The collection was assembled by Professor Walter Ameling and was acquired by CHM after a 10-day visit and thorough cataloging.

I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus

47 joemasilotti 2026-06-11 20:37:52 UTC newsletter.masilotti.com Llama Share 51

The user stopped tracking time in their business, finding it freeing and allowing them to work on multiple projects without friction. However, they now feel mentally exhausted and struggle with focus, possibly due to AI-assisted development and ADHD.

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

391 neilfrndes 2026-06-11 16:37:52 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 190

Solar power surpassed coal as the leading source of new power in the US in May, with 12.8% of electricity supplied by solar. Coal's share declined to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever, despite Trump's efforts to boost the coal industry.

Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?'

50 Bender 2026-06-11 19:37:52 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 4

The Gentlemen ransomware group has emerged as the second most active by victim count, with 332 published victims since mid-2025, and is led by administrator Zeta88, also known as Hastalamuerte. Zeta88's real identity is linked to Alexander Andreevich Yapaev, a 36-year-old from Izhevsk, Russia.