Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

65 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:21:20 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 24

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.

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

336 PinkG 2026-05-29 15:21:20 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 217

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.

The Dead Economy Theory

25 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 15:47:20 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 8

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.

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

103 dotcoma 2026-05-29 12:21:20 UTC dutchreview.com Llama Share 90

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.

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

62 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:21:20 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 14

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.

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

108 ColinWright 2026-05-29 12:21:20 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 58

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.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

56 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 15:33:20 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 30

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.

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

53 leopoldj 2026-05-29 15:21:20 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 17

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

407 enraged_camel 2026-05-29 01:21:20 UTC twitter.com/nasaspaceflight Full Share 399

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

47 pavel_lishin 2026-05-29 14:21:20 UTC 404media.co Full Share 12

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.

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

128 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 10:21:20 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 65

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.

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

290 ankitg12 2026-05-29 02:21:20 UTC buildingbetter.tech Llama Share 56

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.

Local Git Remotes

58 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:21:20 UTC cblgh.org Llama Share 42

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.

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:21:20 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.

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

9 scottshambaugh 2026-05-29 14:21:20 UTC theshamblog.com Prefix Share 0

People have tried extending rock-paper-scissors to more than 3 options, with some success. If you allow more pairings to be ties, this uncovers a rich garden of different game dynamics and strategies. As far as a battle of wits go, its hard to find a more balanced game than rock-paper-scissors. Its simplicity means that all strategy is scraped away, and all that’s left is to cold read the ...

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

91 pramodbiligiri 2026-05-29 07:21:20 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 35

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.

Claude Opus 4.8

1680 craigmart 2026-05-28 17:21:20 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1305

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.

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

1210 philips 2026-05-28 20:21:20 UTC mybricklog.com Llama Share 530

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.

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

139 goranmoomin 2026-05-29 03:21:20 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 47

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

40 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 11:21:20 UTC core77.com Llama Share 10

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

36 m3h 2026-05-29 09:21:20 UTC wterm.dev Llama Share 9

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?

173 xyzal 2026-05-29 11:21:20 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 171

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 ...

Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say

17 giuliomagnifico 2026-05-29 12:21:20 UTC frontiersin.org Llama Share 17

Scientists argue that social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and may backfire, invading privacy and hurting marginalized people. They recommend evaluating the bans' impacts through comprehensive assessments, including measuring changes in social media habits and mental health problems.

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

15 GabrielBianconi 2026-05-29 12:21:20 UTC tensorzero.com Llama Share 3

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.

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

319 Kwastie 2026-05-29 06:21:20 UTC github.com/robinostlund Llama Share 162

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

We should be more tired than the model

79 tosh 2026-05-29 12:21:20 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 76

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.

Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT

15 epitrochoid413 2026-05-29 13:21:20 UTC ezfurigana.com Llama Share 14

This tool adds furigana to Japanese text, images, and ebooks for free with no signup required. It automatically deletes uploads within 24 hours and offers dictionary lookup and Anki export features.

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

103 vi_sextus_vi 2026-05-29 03:21:20 UTC mpi.nl Llama Share 50

Adults from different cultures adapt their hand gestures similarly when teaching children new concepts. They use more visually rich, two-handed gestures to help children learn, suggesting a shared communicative strategy.

Ten Basic Clouds

179 nopg 2026-05-28 23:21:20 UTC noaa.gov Full Share 45

Luke Howard noticed that clouds often have features of two or more categories, such as cirrus + stratus, cumulus + stratus, etc. Based on these observations, he suggested modifications (or combinations) of the core four clouds between categories. This research served as the starting point for the ten basic types of clouds we ob

HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

86 peter_d_sherman 2026-05-29 03:21:20 UTC github.com/heidisql Llama Share 32

HeidiSQL is a graphical interface for managing various databases including MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It allows data browsing, editing, and exporting, with optional translation contributions.