Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

112 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:07:33 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 40

bijou64 is a variable-length integer encoding that ensures canonicality, preventing multiple ways to represent a number, and runs faster than LEB128 in benchmarks. It uses a tag-based system and bit shuffling to achieve this, making it structurally safer and faster for certain use cases.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

20 vnglst 2026-05-29 16:22:34 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 2

I attended the AI Now Summit by Mistral AI in Paris, learning about their full-stack AI approach, including compute, models, platforms, and consultancy. Mistral focuses on efficient, open, and custom models for European companies, emphasizing partnerships and on-prem deployment for sovereignty and return on investment.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

187 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 16:07:34 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 76

Rockstar staff formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union to combat company actions, disputing firings as union busting. The union will face Rockstar in court, with a trial date set, and is seeking donations for their legal battle.

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

416 PinkG 2026-05-29 15:07:34 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 276

tl;dr AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best! Disclosure / advertisement: I worked for Sentry when I wrote this.

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

137 leopoldj 2026-05-29 16:07:34 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 70

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The Dead Economy Theory

113 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 16:07:34 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 105

The AI industry's focus on labor replacement threatens to eliminate human jobs, leading to economic instability and social unrest. The industry's prioritization of profit over people and lack of accountability may undermine democratic governance and exacerbate inequality.

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

83 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:07:34 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 23

Ancient Romans built insulae, high-density apartment buildings, to accommodate the city's growing population. However, these structures faced challenges such as fire hazards, poor sanitation, and structural instability.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

12 timshell 2026-05-29 16:07:34 UTC research.roundtable.ai Llama Share 2

Researchers designed CogCAPTCHA30 to test how humans and AI complete tasks, finding that while AI can perform tasks like humans, it does so with different processes. The Process Turing Test measures process equivalence, raising questions about the types of language models that are humanlike and the robustness of this discrimination process.

The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]

11 throwaway2037 2026-05-29 16:07:34 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 14

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

116 dotcoma 2026-05-29 12:07:34 UTC dutchreview.com Llama Share 106

The Dutch experienced tulip mania in the 1630s where people traded valuable items for tulip bulbs, leading to a massive price bubble that eventually collapsed. The event remains a cautionary tale of irrational exuberance and overpriced markets.

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

151 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 10:07:34 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 69

We show that AI inference on GPUs can be super-fast, reaching the speed regime of dedicated inference hardware cards when optimizing the whole software stack with architecture/engine/kernel co-design. Our public tech preview demonstrates that a standard 8-GPU node can generate 3,000 output tokens per second per request on a 2B coding model at batch size 1.

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

425 enraged_camel 2026-05-29 02:07:34 UTC twitter.com/nasaspaceflight Full Share 430

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The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

123 ColinWright 2026-05-29 13:07:34 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 74

Small businesses waste over 2 days of time each month reporting no sales to the Government Commercial Agency. The agency does not track feedback on its Low Value Purchase System, despite asking for ratings.

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people

25 andrejsshell 2026-05-29 14:07:34 UTC andrej.sh Llama Share 4

The Kaneo cloud version was used for a large-scale phishing attack, with 14,520 invitations sent to strangers using verified Resend domain and a template-based phishing email subject line. The attack highlighted the need for additional security measures in the cloud version, including captcha, rate limits, disposable email domain blocking, and workspace-name filtering, to prevent similar ...

Durable execution, the hard way

18 abelanger 2026-05-29 15:07:34 UTC github.com/hatchet-dev Llama Share 0

We're building a durable execution engine from scratch using Go and Postgres for long-running and stateful functions. This guide will cover the fundamentals of durable execution, including tasks, retries, and replays.

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:07:34 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cedana is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead technical engagement with customers, deploy Cedana into various environments, and drive product innovation from the field. The ideal candidate has 3-10 years of software engineering experience with SLURM deployments, strong Linux fundamentals, and experience with Kubernetes operations.

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

66 pavel_lishin 2026-05-29 15:07:34 UTC 404media.co Full Share 16

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

307 ankitg12 2026-05-29 03:07:34 UTC buildingbetter.tech Llama Share 61

Claude Code's source code reveals undocumented features that expand its capabilities. These include a programmable middleware layer for AI tool use and persistent agent memory.

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

14 scottshambaugh 2026-05-29 14:07:34 UTC theshamblog.com Llama Share 1

The user explores various extensions of Rock-Paper-Scissors, including Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock and other games with different themes and strategies. They analyze the games using graph theory and metrics such as orbits, cuts, and Gini coefficient to determine their interest and narrative potential.

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

100 pramodbiligiri 2026-05-29 08:07:34 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 37

Cloudflare built a code review system using AI agents to improve engineering resiliency. The system uses a composable plugin architecture and supports multiple AI providers and version control systems.

Local Git Remotes

61 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:07:34 UTC cblgh.org Llama Share 46

User set up a local git remote on their home server to clone a bare repository and push/pull from it. This allowed for a reliable backup and reduced downtime when using an offsite remote with lower uptime.

Claude Opus 4.8

1688 craigmart 2026-05-28 17:07:34 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1312

Claude Opus 4.8 is a new version with improved benchmarks, effectiveness, and features like dynamic workflows and effort control. It's available today at the same price as Opus 4.7, with faster speed and better reliability.

Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents

24 GabrielBianconi 2026-05-29 13:07:34 UTC tensorzero.com Llama Share 5

Noisy evaluators can be unreliable for judging individual outputs but can still help pick the best agent variant to deploy and improve over time. Even very noisy evaluators can reliably tell you which agent is better on average, given a sufficiently large evaluation dataset.

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

1224 philips 2026-05-28 20:07:34 UTC mybricklog.com Llama Share 543

Bricks & Minifigs Corporate allegedly stole a $200,000 LEGO collection from Bryan Mansell, refused to return it, and lied to employees and police about the situation. The company was found liable in court, but instead of paying the judgment, they closed the store, and the people trying to expose the theft were targeted with false police reports and arrested.

We should be more tired than the model

87 tosh 2026-05-29 13:07:34 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 82

User feels disconnected from code when using agentic code generation, lacking internal processing. Adding friction to development, such as rewriting code, asking questions, and critiquing, helps solidify user's foundation and improves tool usage.

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

146 goranmoomin 2026-05-29 03:07:34 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 48

id Software developed Quake on HP 712-60 and DEC Alpha server, then switched to Windows NT with Visual C++ 4.X for win32 binaries. To recreate the experience, users can install Windows NT 4, Visual C++ 6, and the Quake source code, then apply the Visual C++ 6 Processor Pack to assemble the .s files.

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

47 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 11:07:34 UTC core77.com Llama Share 11

Pilot's Kire-Na highlighter was designed to solve everyday issues with existing highlighters, such as inconsistent pressure and smudging. It features a soft nylon tip with plastic guides that control angle and pressure, resulting in straight lines and no smudging.

Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

41 m3h 2026-05-29 09:07:34 UTC wterm.dev Llama Share 12

wterm renders to DOM with native features like copy/paste and accessibility. It's written in Zig and compiled to WASM for near-native performance.

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

189 xyzal 2026-05-29 12:07:34 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 181

The introduction of AI and automation in programming is deskilling the profession, making it easier for businesses to hire generalists and reducing the bargaining power of workers, similar to how frameworks deskilled frontend development in the past. While AI can increase efficiency and productivity, it also risks producing lower quality work and requires developers to understand how to use ...

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

331 Kwastie 2026-05-29 06:07:34 UTC github.com/robinostlund Llama Share 168

User checks login requirements before posting issue, but still experiences login issue with expired authentication. Error message indicates incorrect credentials or service unavailability.