SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

179 tomasol 2026-05-29 18:43:42 UTC obeli.sk Llama Share 87

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.

The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

50 TechTechTech 2026-05-29 19:56:42 UTC invenglobal.com Llama Share 25

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.

The dead economy theory

398 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 552

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.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

250 vnglst 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 61

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.

On Rendering Diffs

64 amadeus 2026-05-29 19:43:42 UTC pierre.computer GoogleT5 Share 17

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 ...

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

180 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:43:42 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 66

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.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

149 watermelon0 2026-05-29 15:43:42 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 259

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.

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

15 yu3zhou4 2026-05-29 19:43:42 UTC github.com/jmaczan Llama Share 2

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.

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

79 simjnd 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 18

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.

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

14 evilsimon 2026-05-29 19:43:42 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 27

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.

Rothko for your current weather conditions

67 jxmorris12 2026-05-29 18:43:42 UTC rothko.joonas.wtf Llama Share 8

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.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

455 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 15:43:42 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 282

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.

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

63 dtagames 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC tvexplorer.live Full Share 9

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

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

28 backuprestore 2026-05-29 17:43:42 UTC wellsoc.org Prefix Share 3

written from Central Spain, August 1812 Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M.ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters. We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner ...

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

221 xyzal 2026-05-29 11:43:42 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 200

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 ...

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

54 timshell 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC research.roundtable.ai Llama Share 34

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.

We should be more tired than the model

128 tosh 2026-05-29 12:43:42 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 107

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.

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

64 wapasta 2026-05-29 18:43:42 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 115

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.

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

132 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 12:43:42 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 50

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.

Local Git remotes

75 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 14:43:42 UTC cblgh.org Llama Share 59

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.

I am retiring from tech to live offline

645 PinkG 2026-05-29 14:43:42 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 441

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.

Someone used my open source project to phish people

73 andrejsshell 2026-05-29 13:43:42 UTC andrej.sh Llama Share 45

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 ...

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:43:42 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.

Expertise in the age of AI

85 brilee 2026-05-29 13:43:42 UTC moderndescartes.com Llama Share 85

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.

CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches

6 logickkk1 2026-05-29 19:43:42 UTC giovannigatti.github.io Prefix Share 1

Correction (2026-05-28): Five security tests in the original benchmark were found to reject valid alternative fixes that nonetheless addressed the reported vulnerability. Results were recalculated after correcting the tests. Solve rates increased by 3–7 points per model; the ranking order is unchanged, but cross-family pairwise comparisons that previously fell short of significance now cross ...

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

187 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 10:43:42 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 84

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.

Canada in Technical Recession

11 efavdb 2026-05-29 20:24:42 UTC cbc.ca GoogleT5 Share 1

Statistics canada says the economy contracted in the first quarter on an annualized basis. that's the second consecutive quarter of such decline — which some would call a technical recession. the last time canada was in 'technical recession' was during the start of the pandemic in 2020. government capital investments fell 2.5 per cent in april, according to statscan. business capital ...

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

23 Cider9986 2026-05-29 19:43:42 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 4

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.

ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale

26 vrm 2026-05-29 16:43:42 UTC github.com/facebookresearch Llama Share 4

ATLAS is a Lean 4 library autoformalizing textbook mathematics with 630,999 lines of code and 92.7% proved declarations. It's an ongoing effort with 26 books covered and 71.3% formalized statements.

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

33 vylorn 2026-05-29 18:43:42 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 25

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.