Why Janet? (2023)

247 yacin 2026-06-02 09:59:26 UTC ianthehenry.com Llama Share 115

The author promotes Janet, a small, easy-to-learn Lisp dialect with a simple syntax and powerful features like macros and implicit serialization. Janet is ideal for writing command-line apps, scripting, and embedding in other languages due to its ease of use and flexibility.

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai

253 semanser 2026-06-02 10:59:26 UTC blog.adafruit.com Llama Share 85

Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

102 RZelaya 2026-06-02 12:59:26 UTC mitmllc.com Llama Share 62

The user created WhisperPad to help people with hand injuries like themselves type more efficiently, but Apple rejected the app due to a guideline issue. The user decided to release a compromised version on the App Store and a full version directly, which led to a better-organized product and a new understanding of their build configuration.

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

65 dandep 2026-06-02 10:59:26 UTC dan-webnotes.com Llama Share 32

CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines enable parallax effects without JavaScript, improving performance and simplicity. A utility class uses a single block of declarative styles to create a parallax animation with a variable offset and scale.

Expanding Project Glasswing

12 surprisetalk 2026-06-02 13:17:26 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 6

Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

1966 ssiddharth 2026-06-01 16:59:26 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 442

Hackers can easily take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's support AI into sending verification codes to an arbitrary email address. This zero-auth password reset method bypasses 2FA and allows attackers to gain full ownership of the account, with the AI being easily fooled by simple methods.

You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough

87 yacin 2026-06-02 09:59:26 UTC blog.tjll.net Llama Share 40

Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

493 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-06-01 23:59:26 UTC economist.com Llama Share 857

SpaceX plans a $75bn stock market debut on Nasdaq, followed by AI firms Anthropic and Open seeking up to $60bn each. The three listings could add $4trn to US market value.

Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer

138 sargstuff 2026-06-02 06:59:26 UTC github.com/krauseler Llama Share 40

The user is developing a fully working computer the size of a credit card, with a thickness of around 1mm, and is sharing the process and challenges of creating it.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

0 2026-06-02 12:59:26 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Great Question is hiring an AI-native Software Engineering intern for a 3-month summer program. The intern will work on real AI-focused projects, own a project from day one, and collaborate with the CTO as a mentor.

macOS needs its grid back

314 ranebo 2026-06-02 01:59:26 UTC blog.hopefullyuseful.com Llama Share 183

The user created an app called GridLion to restore grid-based virtual desktops to macOS, a feature removed in Lion. They used an LLM to help with development, but found it challenging to create a polished app due to macOS limitations and permission requirements.

Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV

33 mwit2023 2026-06-02 09:59:26 UTC openfov.com Full Share 23

OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

3 eustoria 2026-06-02 13:27:26 UTC coveillance.org Prefix Share 0

Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019. A zine based on this work was included at the CtrlZ.AI zine fair and the HOT ...

CQL: Categorical Databases

65 noworriesnate 2026-06-02 06:59:26 UTC categoricaldata.net Llama Share 19

CQL is an open-source, production-ready data processing system using category theory for querying, combining, and evolving databases. It guarantees correctness through an embedded automated theorem prover and preserves data quality with perfect provenance.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

313 typpo 2026-06-01 21:59:26 UTC openai.com Llama Share 110

OpenAI models and Codex are now available on AWS, allowing customers to build AI applications with existing security and governance controls. This partnership reduces friction around AI adoption, enabling customers to move faster from evaluation to production.

Chipotlai Max

288 nigelgutzmann 2026-06-01 23:59:26 UTC github.com/cyberpapiii Llama Share 48

Chipotle's Pepper AI chatbot was hacked and turned into a free coding agent called Chipotlai Max. It's a community project to add support for other retailers' chatbots.

Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I

12 stephen37 2026-06-02 13:42:26 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 3

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CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

511 kristianpaul 2026-06-01 14:59:26 UTC cs336.stanford.edu Llama Share 49

This course teaches students to develop their own language models using Python and PyTorch, with a focus on implementation and systems optimization. Assignments involve building a standard Transformer model, optimizing attention, and applying RL to train LMs to reason.

Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

89 matt_d 2026-06-02 04:59:26 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 50

Jane Street developed Bonsai_term, a terminal UI framework, to create fast and keyboard-centric apps. Bonsai_term uses a declarative, type-safe approach and is well-suited for AI assistance and testing.

Debug Project

246 Eridanus2 2026-06-01 20:59:26 UTC debug.com Llama Share 97

Mosquitoes spread diseases like dengue and Zika, killing hundreds of millions yearly. Debug uses male mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria to stop bad mosquitoes from reproducing.

Stop Ruining It

48 herbertl 2026-06-02 09:59:26 UTC seths.blog Llama Share 11

Paul McGowan's insight is that quality is what remains when flaws are removed. He suggests that customer delight, curiosity, satisfaction, and trust are all preserved if not ruined by external factors.

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

452 prakashqwerty 2026-06-01 16:59:26 UTC github.com/stanford-cs336 Llama Share 141

AI agents should guide students in CS336 through explanation, feedback, and debugging, not directly completing assignments. They should review code, suggest improvements, and provide high-level guidance to help students learn through implementation-heavy projects.

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

292 pplanu 2026-06-01 17:59:26 UTC 30fps.net Llama Share 122

The standard approach maps 0 to 0.0 and 255 to 1.0, while the alternative adds a 0.5 bias and divides by 256. The standard approach is a mid-riser quantizer with L=255, wasting bandwidth but suitable for image processing.

Show HN: Eyeball

33 mrroryflint 2026-06-02 09:59:26 UTC eyeball.rory.codes Full Share 15

eyeball is built for precision clicking with a mouse or trackpad. you can play on touch, but finger taps aren't accurate enough to really compete.

How is Groq raising more money?

125 hasheddan 2026-06-02 01:59:26 UTC zach.be Llama Share 59

Groq, a company that licensed its AI chip tech to Nvidia, is raising $650M despite already being acquired. They have 4 large datacenters and a unique asset as a private inference datacenter operator.

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

244 jbk 2026-06-01 15:59:26 UTC windowslatest.com Llama Share 516

Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a powerful device running Windows on Arm, in partnership with NVIDIA. It features up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch mini-LED display, and a custom NVIDIA RTX Spark platform for demanding workloads.

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

6 jandeboevrie 2026-06-02 11:59:26 UTC blog.washi.dev Prefix Share 1

However, as much as I like .NET, there are some things that just really do not make any sense to me, and they frustrate me to no end. Given that I maintain a PE parsing library and thus am deeply familiar with the anatomy of .NET binaries, I feel I am qualified to complain about some of the design choices Microsoft made for this file format :). In this post, I will rant about Custom ...

Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs

113 supermatou 2026-06-02 01:59:26 UTC blog.cryptographyengineering.com Llama Share 27

The user spent a weekend exploring OpenClaw and Claude APIs, discovering that encrypted reasoning blocks can be replayed across sessions and accounts, potentially exposing sensitive information. However, the user was unable to extract model prompts, but found that reasoning itself can be leaky, allowing for side-channel attacks to extract secret data.

On Reading SRAMs in IR Images, and Establishing Bounds on Trust

15 zdw 2026-06-02 08:59:26 UTC bunniestudios.com Llama Share 2

IR imaging can detect extra RAM macros in a system by placing an upper bound on SRAM size, allowing end users to verify claimed RAM against fabricated RAM. However, hiding a small amount of extra memory, such as a single row, may be possible but is still detectable with other means, such as laser interferometry or SEM.

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

88 ismaeel_bashir 2026-06-01 16:59:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 25

Ismaeel, Eren, Yafet, and Nikodem built Expanse to predict job resource needs and optimize HPC/GPU cluster utilization, addressing the 30-40% effective utilization issue in datacenters. Expanse outperforms state-of-the-art models by 8x and continuously updates its models to improve accuracy, offering a paid pilot deployment for HPC/GPU clusters.