The dead economy theory

754 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 15:46:24 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 937

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.

I am retiring from tech to live offline

754 PinkG 2026-05-29 14:40:47 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 522

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.

Please Use AI

721 garycomtois 2026-05-29 13:50:25 UTC shawnsmucker.substack.com Llama Share 375

The author suggests using AI for tasks like meal planning, writing speeches, and creating art to avoid imperfections and pain. They reflect on the imperfections of life and the beauty found in them, feeling melancholic about aging and losing parental roles.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

584 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 15:32:55 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 411

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.

Cars collect a startling amount of data about you

482 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-05-29 03:01:00 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 279

Cars collect a lot of data about you, including location, habits, and health, which can be sold to companies without your consent. To limit this, you can opt out of insurance telematics programs, request data deletion, and adjust car settings to limit data sharing.

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

473 enraged_camel 2026-05-29 01:16:38 UTC twitter.com/nasaspaceflight Full Share 529

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SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

399 tomasol 2026-05-29 17:54:50 UTC obeli.sk Llama Share 211

The user agrees with DBOS that a separate orchestration tier is not necessary for durable execution, as workflow state can be kept in a local database like SQLite. A local SQLite database with Litestream backup to S3 is a simple and cost-effective way to achieve durability for many AI and experimentation workflows.

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

374 Kwastie 2026-05-29 05:45:36 UTC github.com/robinostlund Llama Share 180

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

Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you

322 ankitg12 2026-05-29 02:13:20 UTC buildingbetter.tech Llama Share 63

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.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

314 vnglst 2026-05-29 16:22:01 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 111

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.

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

299 xyzal 2026-05-29 11:09:32 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 260

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 ...

You can just say it

245 antirez 2026-05-29 15:54:28 UTC noperator.dev Llama Share 120

Humans are valuable regardless of AI capabilities. Their value lies in their intent and creative process, not just the quality of their output.

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

240 leopoldj 2026-05-29 15:11:23 UTC bloomberg.com Llama Share 151

A Danish pension fund AkademikerPension won't invest in SpaceX due to overvaluation and poor governance. The fund's CIO calls SpaceX "grossly overvalued" and has a "catastrophic governance structure".

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

234 watermelon0 2026-05-29 14:55:31 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 406

Your nephew is choosing between a MacBook Neo and a Framework 12 laptop. The MacBook Neo offers better performance, display, and build quality at a lower price, making it the better value.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

209 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:03:32 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 74

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.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test

209 benbreen 2026-05-29 03:32:15 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 8

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test in Florida, causing extensive damage to the launch site. The company is already working to find the root cause and rebuild the site, with founder Jeff Bezos saying they will "get back to flying."

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

202 Cider9986 2026-05-29 19:37:41 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 73

Microsoft and Nightmare Eclipse, a disgruntled bug hunter, are at odds over uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure. Nightmare has released six Windows zero-days, with Microsoft warning of exploitation and potential legal action.

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

202 goranmoomin 2026-05-29 03:07:22 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 64

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.

The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

201 TechTechTech 2026-05-29 19:55:56 UTC invenglobal.com Llama Share 201

The California State Assembly passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' requiring digital game publishers to maintain game accessibility after service ends. The bill aims to protect user rights and preserve games, with potential implications for the US gaming industry.

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

197 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 09:47:23 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 91

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.

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

160 simjnd 2026-05-29 16:19:54 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 58

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge model for fast tool calling on consumer hardware. It expands context window, doubles vocabulary, and achieves tasks on entry-level laptops.

We should be more tired than the model

154 tosh 2026-05-29 12:12:16 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 132

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.

What Is a Dickover?

149 tambourine_man 2026-05-29 23:54:22 UTC daringfireball.net Llama Share 68

A dickover is a modal panel or popover that frustrates users by obscuring content to force unwanted interactions. They're common on websites and apps, often asking for subscriptions, cookie acceptance, or other unnecessary actions.

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

146 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 12:30:02 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 66

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.

On Rendering Diffs

145 amadeus 2026-05-29 19:04:54 UTC pierre.computer GoogleT5 Share 44

A good review surface needs more than text. virtualization helps with rendering problems, and moving highlighting off the main thread helped with parts of the processing problem. to emulate scrolling entirely, no native scrollable region is used, with simulated scrollbar and content updated via requestanimationframe as the user moves through the document. we don’t virtualize horizontal scroll ...

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

137 dotcoma 2026-05-29 11:51:34 UTC dutchreview.com Llama Share 123

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.

The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time

135 ColinWright 2026-05-29 12:17:55 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 92

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.

Rothko for your current weather conditions

123 jxmorris12 2026-05-29 18:31:52 UTC rothko.joonas.wtf Llama Share 13

Rothko focused on light, color, and emotion in his late 1940s work. He created soft-edged rectangles to evoke feelings like joy, doom, and tragedy in viewers.

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

113 dtagames 2026-05-29 16:39:09 UTC tvexplorer.live Full Share 31

Don't just watch TV. Explore over 10,000 free channels from around the world.

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

112 pavel_lishin 2026-05-29 14:15:41 UTC 404media.co Full Share 37

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.

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

109 freediver 2026-05-29 00:09:35 UTC minimaxir.com Llama Share 95

The author is puzzled by the sudden popularity of Hy3 preview on OpenRouter, a service that provides access to various LLMs, despite its lower quality compared to other models. After analyzing the data, the author suspects that a single large app is using Hy3 as its data-processing backbone, but the true reason for its popularity remains unclear.

MCP is dead?

106 nadis 2026-05-29 22:56:49 UTC quandri.io Llama Share 85

The author argues that MCP consumes too much context and is slower than CLI approaches, but it's still useful for services without a strong CLI. They recommend using Skills to wrap existing CLIs for repeatable workflows and reserving MCP for services with no CLI or team-wide auth needs.

Expertise in the age of AI

104 brilee 2026-05-29 13:35:13 UTC moderndescartes.com Llama Share 99

The hiring market for junior engineers is competitive despite senior engineers having an easy time finding jobs due to AI's impact on expertise. Only some junior engineers are worth hiring, those who can develop "coding intuition" within 2-3 years of graduating, making them highly sought after by elite companies.

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

104 vi_sextus_vi 2026-05-29 02:33:13 UTC mpi.nl Llama Share 54

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.

Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?

99 JumpCrisscross 2026-05-29 00:16:20 UTC construction-physics.com Llama Share 126

Construction productivity and costs in the US are resistant to improvement due to modest economies of scale. Homebuilding exhibits limited economies of scale, with large firms not necessarily having lower costs or higher gross margins than smaller firms.

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

98 yu3zhou4 2026-05-29 19:38:27 UTC github.com/jmaczan Llama Share 10

We are building a high-performance LLM inference engine with C++ and CUDA, focusing on loading and running a pre-trained LLM model, specifically Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, and understanding the basics of floating-point numbers and their representation in binary format.

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

96 evilsimon 2026-05-29 19:16:32 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 134

Shift offers free home cleaning in exchange for footage to train robots, with a "magic hat" recording cleaners. The service is initially available in New York, with plans to expand to other cities.

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

96 peter_d_sherman 2026-05-29 03:14:39 UTC github.com/heidisql Llama Share 37

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.

EV Stupidity Checklist

92 pchristensen 2026-05-29 21:29:51 UTC hypercritical.co Llama Share 99

Automakers are creating new, often worse, versions of car features in electric vehicles. They should use time-tested designs for exterior door handles, turn signals, and climate controls.

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

91 wapasta 2026-05-29 17:46:27 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 166

Robinhood is launching AI agentic trading and a virtual credit card for users to connect their AI agents to their accounts. The features are currently in beta and will allow users to monitor and approve trades made by their AI agents.

Someone used my open source project to phish people

91 andrejsshell 2026-05-29 13:18:57 UTC andrej.sh Llama Share 49

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 ...

Is this sustainable?

90 ColinEberhardt 2026-05-29 10:14:43 UTC jamiehurst.co.uk Llama Share 96

Senior engineers in AI-forward orgs are doing more hands-on work, with human-focused tasks like mentoring and thinking time being squeezed out. The productivity gains from AI are being captured by output volume, not quality, and the role is becoming unsustainable at this pace.

Local Git remotes

80 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 12:45:02 UTC cblgh.org Llama Share 69

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.

Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

72 Heavykenny 2026-05-29 13:37:38 UTC github.com/scanaislop Llama Share 60

Aislop is a code quality tool that detects and auto-fixes sloppy patterns in code, including narrative comments, swallowed exceptions, and dead code. It provides a score of 0-100 and can be integrated into CI pipelines for enforcement.

Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

69 patriceckhart 2026-05-29 05:48:21 UTC zot.sh Llama Share 65

zot is a minimal terminal coding agent that interacts with various AI models and tools, allowing users to edit files, run shell commands, and answer Telegram DMs. It supports a wide range of providers and models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and GitHub Copilot.

The Last Technical Interview

67 headalgorithm 2026-05-29 19:58:56 UTC steve-yegge.medium.com Llama Share 29

The traditional technical interview process is broken and has been for decades, with a high rate of false positives and negatives, and is being replaced by a more effective approach of provisional employment and real work assessments. The author proposes a "campfire" model where candidates contribute real work to a company and receive a permanent, portable record of their accomplishments, ...

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

66 timshell 2026-05-29 15:57:37 UTC research.roundtable.ai Llama Share 55

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.

Digital identity management in Norway is a success but also a disaster

59 giuliomagnifico 2026-05-29 10:42:53 UTC uio.no Llama Share 44

Marte Eidsand Kjørven criticizes Norway's lack of public oversight in digital identity management, leading to social exclusion and ID abuse. The SODI project recommends a holistic strategy and governance to mitigate these problems and ensure equal access to digital services.

It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

58 cylo 2026-05-29 14:59:13 UTC unix.foo Llama Share 75

The accessibility features built into macOS are now benefiting AI agents, not just visually impaired users, due to Apple's design decisions. Linux's accessibility features are fragmented and lack a unified standard, hindering AI agent compatibility.

Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike

58 doener 2026-05-29 12:20:26 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 68

Wikipedia's volunteers are angry over the sudden layoff of a team of engineers, fearing union-busting and a breakdown in communication. They're discussing a potential strike to push back against the Wikimedia Foundation's restructuring.

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output

57 joozio 2026-05-29 07:05:31 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 1

A developer added hidden instructions to the open source Java testing app jqwik to sabotage AI coding agents, deleting user work. The move was criticized as unethical and potentially destructive, with some questioning its legality.

Canada in Technical Recession

56 efavdb 2026-05-29 20:23:33 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 30

Canada's economy contracted by 0.1% on an annualized basis in the first quarter, narrowly avoiding a technical recession. The decline was largely due to a high level of imports and decreased government spending, but household spending and business capital investment showed some resilience.

Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web

56 m3h 2026-05-29 08:42:28 UTC wterm.dev Llama Share 18

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.

Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)

52 backuprestore 2026-05-29 17:39:49 UTC wellsoc.org Llama Share 15

Wellington, a British general, is writing from Central Spain in 1812, requesting clarification on his instructions from the British government as he leads an army against the French. He believes his mission is either to train British clerks in Spain or to drive the French out of Spain.

Step 3.7 Flash

43 tarruda 2026-05-29 12:51:43 UTC static.stepfun.com Llama Share 13

Step 3.7 Flash is a multimodal foundation model that combines strong agentic execution with precise intent understanding and rich multimodal perception. It drives terminals, browsers, and Office tools, and supports flexible deployment across cloud, data center, and local environments.

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

43 giuliomagnifico 2026-05-29 12:17:58 UTC frontiersin.org Llama Share 66

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.

Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video]

38 Kapura 2026-05-29 14:54:19 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 24

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

36 scottshambaugh 2026-05-29 14:04:22 UTC theshamblog.com Llama Share 10

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.

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year

35 vylorn 2026-05-29 18:23:03 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 38

The UK government plans to deploy AI technology at borders to detect adult migrants posing as children, with a contract awarded to a software company to develop and test the technology. Critics, including Human Rights Watch, have urged the government to scrap the scheme, citing concerns over accuracy and potential harm to vulnerable children.

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

31 epitrochoid413 2026-05-29 12:24:36 UTC ezfurigana.com Llama Share 17

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.

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

30 arrdalan 2026-05-29 22:32:29 UTC github.com/secluso Llama Share 8

Secluso is a private home security system for Raspberry Pi with end-to-end encrypted remote access and 5-minute setup. It allows live video, alerts, and recordings from a phone without cloud storage.

A Trillion Characters

28 andersmurphy 2026-05-29 20:32:56 UTC characters.fastserial.com Llama Share 13

Trillion Characters' is a collaborative experiment using Datastar, a lightweight JavaScript framework that moves logic to the backend. It uses server-sent events, compression, and a sophisticated DOM-morphing algorithm for real-time updates on a €5.52 VPS.

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

28 throwaway2037 2026-05-29 15:13:26 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 3

Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6 (2020)

27 pm2222 2026-05-29 22:21:58 UTC lukasz.bromirski.net Llama Share 11

The project now includes IPv6 feeds, but users are responsible for configuration and any issues. Users must configure local-as 65001 for IPv4 and not send IPv6 prefixes, and can optimize TCP stack settings.

Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback

27 onemoresoop 2026-05-29 14:23:30 UTC reuters.com Full Share 2

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Why I collect DLES

26 trizoza 2026-05-29 20:40:38 UTC dles.gg Llama Share 8

The user created a site called DLES to discover and launch daily games, inspired by their own daily game collection. They invite users to submit games, rate them, and add them to their daily ritual to help others discover new games.

Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey

26 rbanffy 2026-05-29 08:36:32 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 4

Cache Aware Scheduling may land in Linux 7.2, improving performance on modern CPUs with multiple cache domains. It helps colocate tasks sharing data to reduce cache misses and improve locality.

Ember.js 7.0

22 satvikpendem 2026-05-29 23:57:45 UTC blog.emberjs.com Llama Share 4

Ember v7.0 removes deprecated features and includes bug fixes, marking Ember 6.12 as LTS. The release follows Ember's Major Version Policy, ensuring backwards compatibility for existing code.

OpenAI Announces Rosalind Biodefense

18 JustSkyfall 2026-05-29 15:05:17 UTC openai.com Llama Share 7

OpenAI is launching Rosalind Biodefense to help trusted developers build new biodefense and pandemic preparedness capabilities using GPT-Rosalind. The initiative aims to strengthen societal resilience by accelerating defensive research and providing trusted access to advanced AI tools for public health and biodefense missions.

Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq?

18 YeGoblynQueenne 2026-05-29 13:10:27 UTC aljazeera.com Llama Share 2

Iraq's Ministry of the Interior warns of an invasive datura plant, also known as jimsonweed, due to its toxic compounds and potential to harm crops. The plant's rapid adaptation to Iraq's climate and fertile soil has led authorities to launch a campaign to combat its spread.

Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks

18 ankitg12 2026-05-29 04:18:34 UTC github.com/rasmusgodske Llama Share 2

Claude Code hooks are custom scripts that run at specific points during execution, allowing for validation and modification of tool inputs. They can be used to enforce coding standards and best practices.

Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making

16 ethanplant 2026-05-29 17:06:06 UTC ethanplant.ca Llama Share 4

The Canadian government's Bill C-22, a lawful access bill, is being criticized for being overly broad, vague, and technically risky, with concerns about metadata retention, encryption, and secure systems. The government should slow down, address concerns, and ensure MPs have the information needed to make meaningful amendments, rather than rushing ahead with a bill that may undermine digital ...

US Military personnel are being targeted using location data

14 jgilias 2026-05-29 07:10:52 UTC reuters.com Full Share 4

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