Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

117 sohkamyung 2026-06-14 22:59:04 UTC andreklein.net Llama Share 39

The author's new book passed epubcheck but was reported as "corrupted" by a Kobo user due to Adobe's RMSDK rendering engine not supporting modern CSS. The issue was resolved by disabling the stylesheet and updating the CSS to be compatible with RMSDK.

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

385 tamnd 2026-06-14 17:59:04 UTC github.com/tamnd Llama Share 89

kage clones websites into offline folders with scripts removed, preserving the site's appearance. It offers a binary or container image for use with Chrome or Chromium.

Write for One Person

32 evakhoury 2026-06-14 23:59:04 UTC wizardzines.com Full Share 5

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Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

268 unrvl22 2026-06-14 15:59:04 UTC github.com/nex-agi Llama Share 145

Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merged model of Nex and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, with no evidence of its own training. Its weights are a 0.6 Nex to 0.4 Qwen blend.

Firewood Splitting Simulator

616 memalign 2026-06-14 10:59:04 UTC screen.toys Full Share 206

Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience

Chaosnet (1981)

59 RGBCube 2026-06-14 19:59:04 UTC tumbleweed.nu Llama Share 7

Chaosnet is a local network developed in 1975 by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the Lisp Machine system, providing a fast, reliable, and simple communication medium for a group of computers within a kilometer of each other. It uses a carrier-sense multiple-access structure and a novel collision-avoidance technique to prevent collisions and ensure high performance.

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

86 AG342 2026-06-14 18:59:04 UTC traceapp.info Llama Share 31

Trace is a local Mac app that captures and transcribes audio from any app, flags key moments, and provides a markdown transcript. It runs entirely on-device, with no uploads or audio sent anywhere, and allows for easy organization and sharing of recordings.

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

16 denismenace 2026-06-14 22:59:04 UTC 0xkrt26.github.io Llama Share 2

Arnold Dumey first defined hashing in 1956 as a mathematical transformation to map data to memory addresses for faster search. A hash function is a one-way function that creates a unique fixed-size value from variable-size input data, making it computationally impossible to reverse.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

150 david927 2026-06-14 16:59:04 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 545

User discussed various projects including a CRM with agent baked in, an ActivityPub server, and an open-source search engine called Uruky, as well as other projects such as a 3D optics simulator, a video lie detector, and a Peak Flow Meter Diary app for asthma patients. They also mentioned other projects like Totem, a collaborative knowledge management system, and HN Alerts, a site for ...

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

17 scott_s 2026-06-14 21:59:04 UTC github.com/meta-pytorch Llama Share 2

TorchCodec 0.14 adds fast audio WavDecoder and HDR video decoding support. It also drops NPP dependency for CUDA decoding.

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

59 unexpectedVCR 2026-06-14 17:59:04 UTC aresluna.org Full Share 14

8 16 24 34 43 66 93 6 21 23 50 52 55 Just start typing!

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

55 wglb 2026-06-14 20:59:04 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 32

Jqwik author Johannes Link added a message to the tool's output to delete tests and code for AI coding agents. He later backed down after complaints from unhappy bots.

Formal methods and the future of programming

184 eatonphil 2026-06-14 12:59:04 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 68

Jane Street is now excited about formal methods after being skeptical due to high costs. They're building a team to make formal methods useful for software development.

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

153 losfair 2026-06-14 13:59:04 UTC su3.io Llama Share 45

zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code. It supports HTTPS reverse proxy and custom code execution via eBPF.

Perlisisms (1982)

91 tosh 2026-06-14 14:59:04 UTC cs.yale.edu Llama Share 42

Programming principles emphasize modularity, simplicity, and adaptability, while also highlighting the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms of computation. Effective programming requires a balance between creativity, discipline, and attention to detail, as well as a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and ideas.

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

123 hollylawly 2026-06-14 13:59:04 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 47

Deleting large amounts of data in Postgres can be inefficient due to write and replication overhead, but using DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE can scale much better. Structuring your schema with partitioning and avoiding large bulk DELETE operations can prevent bloat and improve database health.

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

48 octopus143 2026-06-14 17:59:04 UTC orangecrumbs.com Full Share 11

The best Wikipedia rabbit holes and evergreen YouTube videos from Hacker News - 2,183 articles and 2,076 videos.

FarOutCompany

99 bookofjoe 2026-06-14 14:59:04 UTC faroutcompany.com Full Share 16

Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

216 tacoda 2026-06-14 12:59:04 UTC blog.tacoda.dev Llama Share 55

Ruby's design is based on a simple Lisp, stripping out macros and s-expressions, then adding an object system, blocks, and Smalltalk-style methods. Ruby's functional features, such as blocks and Enumerable methods, are borrowed from Lisp.

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

271 iliashad 2026-06-14 15:59:04 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 62

You have 2,207 GoPro videos and used an M1 Max project to index and search for interesting moments. The project indexed 628 videos and sent the best clips to DaVinci Resolve.

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

210 subset 2026-06-14 12:59:04 UTC destroyallsoftware.com Llama Share 122

The talk covers JavaScript's history from 1995 to 2035, discussing its flaws and positive impact. It's a science fiction comedy that explores programming's evolution.

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

32 mooreds 2026-06-14 16:59:04 UTC aptiv.com Llama Share 67

USB standards have evolved to deliver faster and more powerful wired connections, with USB PD and EPR supporting up to 240W power levels. Certified products are expected to arrive by 2029, bringing faster device charging and data transfer to various industries.

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

86 sosomoxie 2026-06-14 22:59:04 UTC twitter.com/maattttbrown Full Share 37

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly https://t.co/qvS2rJ91Ip

How to earn a billion dollars

436 kingstoned 2026-06-14 11:59:04 UTC paulgraham.com Llama Share 1326

To become a billionaire, one must create a startup with exponential growth, which can be achieved by making something users love so much they tell their friends, and then sustaining that growth in a large market. This can be done without cheating, as the key is to understand users deeply and make something that dramatically improves their lives, rather than exploiting them.

Not everyone is using AI for everything

416 yegg 2026-06-14 14:59:04 UTC gabrielweinberg.com Llama Share 449

About one third of the US population actively uses AI, one third occasionally uses it, and one third never uses it, contradicting the narrative that everyone is using AI for everything. People's concerns about AI, such as job replacement and privacy violation, and skepticism about its usefulness are driving this limited adoption, with many preferring to opt out or use AI in a more controlled manner.

Linux 7.1

223 berlianta 2026-06-14 16:59:04 UTC lore.kernel.org Llama Share 82

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Abu Fanous

59 joebig 2026-06-14 21:59:04 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 10

Abu Fanous is a mysterious desert light phenomenon in the Arabian Peninsula that appears unpredictably and lures people into the desert. Its cause remains unknown, with theories including natural gases igniting in the air.

The first game engine for robotics

28 arnejenssen 2026-06-14 19:59:04 UTC luckyrobots.com Llama Share 19

Lucky Engine is a game engine for robotics that simulates real-world physics and allows for AI training with accurate episodes. It connects to real robots and enables teams to train and deploy autonomous systems at scale.

Did Anthropic ask for this?

147 ad8e 2026-06-14 22:59:04 UTC verysane.ai Llama Share 128

The US government issued an export control directive prohibiting Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to their AI models, Claude Fable and Claude Mythos, as per their CEO's previous statements on AI regulation. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, had advocated for government regulation of AI, including export controls, to mitigate risks.

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

21 etherio 2026-06-14 18:59:04 UTC fulcrum.inc Llama Share 0

Researchers at Fulcrum Research study agent performance across various settings, proposing inverse rubric optimization (IRO) tasks where agents optimize judge preferences. They observe that frontier models effectively iterate but do not maximally use resources, and propose a new setting to normalize the difference in scale.