The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

238 matt_d 2026-06-07 06:00:13 UTC ioccc.org Llama Share 56

IOCCC29 had a high submission quality and similar volume to last year, possibly due to improved website design and social media presence. The contest's rules and guidelines were rewritten for this year, and the next contest, IOCCC30, is planned for late 2026.

We Need VAT and UBI

8 Wilsoniumite 2026-06-07 12:25:13 UTC wilsoniumite.com Prefix Share 5

There is a pretty serious gap in how the economy functions right now, has been for decades, and we have to close it. I’m not here to be all “tax the rich” even though I maybe think that’s a good idea too. I’m not here to say “free markets are amazing” even though I might have some opinions on that as well. This is a simple, mechanical problem that needs fixing, and we fix it with VAT and UBI. ...

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

7 poisonfountain 2026-06-07 12:52:13 UTC human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev Prefix Share 1

I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to debug frontend code back then, so I chose that path), but shortly transitioned to (web) backend and never looked back. Through a series of coincidences, once I stepped into backend development, I ended up working in software development ...

Win16 Memory Management

65 supermatou 2026-06-07 08:00:13 UTC os2museum.com Llama Share 26

16-bit Windows used a segment-based memory management system, where applications were divided into segments that could be moved or discarded by the operating system, requiring programmers to use specific compiler switches and APIs to manage memory correctly. The system was complex and required discipline from programmers, but it allowed for efficient memory management and the use of ...

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×

78 kkm 2026-06-07 07:00:13 UTC fergusfinn.com Llama Share 12

Speculative KV coding is a lossless compression method for large language model (LLM) caches, using a predictor model to estimate the cache's values and an arithmetic coder to encode the differences. The method can achieve up to 8x compression on original bf16 caches and stacks multiplicatively with lossy quantization.

The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)

16 ChrisGammell 2026-06-07 11:00:13 UTC theamphour.com Llama Share 2

Chris found a CNC guide and published "The Secret Life of Circuits" with No Starch Press. He emphasizes basic trigonometry for electronics, citing math and EE backgrounds in early Information Security.

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

164 BerislavLopac 2026-06-07 11:00:13 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 79

Five scientists were ousted from the American Diabetes Association meeting for handing out an editorial criticizing the Trump administration's attacks on scientific research. The ADA claims they violated the code of conduct, but the scientists say they were unfairly removed and silenced.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

0 2026-06-07 12:03:13 UTC 9mothers.com Llama Share

The team ships hardware on software tempo, focusing on real deployment, short iteration loops, and hands-on ownership of specs. They prioritize user needs, iterating based on data and affordability, not just roadmaps.

Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

5 amenn 2026-06-07 12:00:13 UTC yon-lang.org Prefix Share 0

The heap Yon allocates into xleech2, a content-addressed heap whose geometry is the Leech lattice Λ24: exactly 196,560 slots per heap. Allocation hashes the bytes; identical content returns the existing slot, so same content ⇔ same slot. Equality of arbitrarily large values is one number comparison: O(1) structural equality, by construction. String.equal: ~17 ns at 1 char and at 32,768 chars. ...

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

207 babuskov 2026-06-07 04:00:13 UTC github.com/valvesoftware Llama Share 93

Steam Networking has a major issue affecting Israeli players in P2P games since 13/03, causing high ping rates around 120ms. The issue is specific to Steam Networking and doesn't occur in non-Steam games or cross-play with non-PC platforms.

My Software North Star

118 kristoff_it 2026-06-07 05:00:13 UTC kristoff.it Llama Share 63

Software should be useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient to maximize end user utility. Developer experience is secondary, serving only to deliver software that is loved by users.

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

6 le_chuck 2026-06-07 12:00:13 UTC kyushu.dev Full Share 4

Kyushu is an open source CLI that lets you write a JavaScript or TypeScript handler, build it into a self-contained WebAssembly binary, and run it anywhere with one command - kyu. Read docs

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

108 gscott 2026-06-07 04:00:13 UTC knowablemagazine.org Llama Share 50

Adolfo Cambiaso, a renowned polo player, pioneered horse cloning in 2006 to preserve his exceptional horses' genetics. He successfully cloned his flagship mare Cuartetera, leading to La Dolfina's unprecedented dominance in polo.

Public Domain Image Archive

154 davidbarker 2026-06-07 01:00:13 UTC pdimagearchive.org Full Share 23

Explore our hand-picked collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

363 gregsadetsky 2026-06-06 20:00:13 UTC ntsc.rs Llama Share 105

ntsc-rs is a free, open-source Rust effect that accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. It's multithreaded, SIMD-accelerated and available as a standalone, web app, and plugin for various video editing software.

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

120 Anon84 2026-06-07 02:00:13 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 54

Researchers analyzed token consumption in LLM-MA systems across software development stages. They found Code Review accounts for 59.4% of token consumption, with input tokens making up 53.9% of total consumption.

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

100 mmastrac 2026-06-07 03:00:13 UTC symbolica.io Llama Share 9

Symbolica 2.0 is a high-performance symbolic computation framework with programmable symbols, improved ergonomics, and faster performance. It supports multiple numerical domains, including double-float arithmetic and JIT compilation.

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

232 pramodbiligiri 2026-06-07 00:00:13 UTC openai.com Llama Share 150

We used Codex to generate a million lines of code for a software product in 5 months with a team of 7 engineers, achieving an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day. To maintain the codebase, we focused on designing environments, scaffolding, and feedback loops that enable agents to do reliable work, enforcing invariants and mechanical rules to keep the codebase legible and consistent.

How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible?

4 jandeboevrie 2026-06-07 12:00:13 UTC kdab.com Prefix Share 0

How long does it take for an Item that you’ve just loaded to become visible? Answering this question allows for a way to detect what some users would perceive as "frame drops". I write that in quotes because Qt Quick only draws frames when needed, meaning it doesn't drop frames; but it can show them later than one would expect. That is what we would like to identify: When ...

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

94 zeech 2026-06-07 03:00:13 UTC hyperallergic.com Llama Share 50

Liminalism is an internet art movement that explores abandoned, empty spaces, evoking feelings of nostalgia, lostness, and uncertainty. This aesthetic is a reflection of our current moment, characterized by anonymity, alienation, and anxiety, and is often associated with the concept of the "Backrooms."

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

99 gmays 2026-06-07 02:00:13 UTC biohub.org Llama Share 15

Biohub released a world model of protein biology, a scientific engine for prediction, design, and discovery that can map proteins and design new binders. The engine, ESMFold2, can predict protein structures and design binders in days, accelerating early therapeutic discovery.

Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models

15 yorwba 2026-06-07 10:00:13 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 0

Researchers developed a patch-based image diffusion model that generates images matching a reference image without training, achieving state-of-the-art quality and diversity. This model integrates a tractable denoiser and accelerates generation with techniques for megapixel and gigapixel images in seconds and minutes.

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

97 crescit_eundo 2026-06-07 00:00:13 UTC cen.acs.org Llama Share 24

Chemists have observed a boron buckminsterfullerene for the first time, providing evidence for an 80-atom cage structure. This discovery challenges density functional theory and may lead to new materials such as semiconductors or superconductors.

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

317 jwilk 2026-06-06 15:00:13 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 301

A recent Linux kernel proposal to add "spawn templates" to optimize the fork() and exec() pattern has been rejected, but it may point to a new process-creation primitive in the future. The discussion highlights the need for a better process-creation mechanism, with some suggesting a native implementation of posix_spawn() and others proposing alternative approaches using existing system calls.

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition

15 surprisetalk 2026-06-07 09:00:13 UTC writings.stephenwolfram.com Llama Share 1

The user discusses the ruliology of competition, specifically how finite state machines compete in games like match-or-not and prisoner's dilemma, and how adaptive evolution can lead to winning strategies. The user finds that winning machines are not necessarily more complex, and that machines with more states can systematically do better than those with fewer states, but the relationship ...

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

266 toephu2 2026-06-06 13:00:13 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 857

SpaceX has signed a deal with Google to provide AI compute capacity for $920 million a month until June 2029. The agreement allows Google to end the deal if SpaceX fails to deliver the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026.

Misguided Misstatements Continue to Dismantle Biomedical Research in the U.S.

4 JumpCrisscross 2026-06-07 12:36:13 UTC diabetesjournals.org Full Share 1

Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math

42 old_sound 2026-06-07 06:00:13 UTC alvaro-videla.com Llama Share 12

A language model can perform arithmetic operations without explicit programming, but the question is whether it recalls a pattern, runs an algorithm, or merely produces a plausible next token. The project Rune found that a language model's internal state can supply operation and operand structure for arithmetic prompts, which can drive a calculator route under an opaque-prompt boundary.

I design with Claude more than Figma now

195 MrBuddyCasino 2026-06-07 06:00:13 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 168

The author was initially skeptical of LLMs but found them indispensable at Jane Street, especially for tasks they were not good at. They now use LLMs to create prototype features that exactly match their design ideas, freeing up time for iteration and refinement.