Running local models is good now

517 jfb 2026-06-16 15:11:14 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 254

The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

83 forks 2026-06-16 17:32:14 UTC status.claude.com Full Share 55

This incident affects: claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

485 itsmarcelg 2026-06-16 11:11:14 UTC reuters.com Full Share 836

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Mechanical Watch (2022)

507 razin 2026-06-16 12:11:14 UTC ciechanow.ski Llama Share 95

A mechanical watch uses a spiral torsion spring to store energy, which is then released to power the watch's hands. The energy is controlled by gears and an escapement mechanism, ultimately regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a precise rate.

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

54 mrshu 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC mareksuppa.com Llama Share 27

To make a GET request in a minimal Docker container, use bash to open a TCP socket with /dev/tcp and write the request by hand. This method works for plaintext HTTP but not HTTPS, and is a bash feature not available in all shells.

Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts

28 speckx 2026-06-16 17:16:14 UTC securelist.com Llama Share 8

Malware is spreading through Steam Workshop, targeting gamers in China and Russia, by exploiting Wallpaper Engine's sharing feature. The attackers hide malware in wallpaper packages, which can lead to hijacked Steam accounts or infected systems.

But yak shaving is fun

82 parksb 2026-06-16 15:11:14 UTC parksb.github.io Llama Share 21

The author built a custom static site generator from scratch, which is an example of yak shaving, a term coined by Carlin Vieri to describe doing a chain of related tasks that eventually lose their original purpose. Yak shaving can be fun but often leads to wasted time and resources.

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

37 palashawas 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC reflex.dev Llama Share 8

The user's AI reflex-app builder generates massive Python code, but running reflex compile finds issues one at a time, increasing latency. To fix this, the user built a custom linter, but it was slow due to ast.walk, which they optimized by rewriting it in Rust and caching subclass information.

SubQ 1.1 Small

68 EDM115 2026-06-16 15:11:14 UTC subq.ai Llama Share 32

SubQ 1.1 Small is a new AI model that removes the constraint of attention compute, enabling direct reasoning over large artifacts. It achieves near-perfect long-context retrieval and reduces attention compute by up to 64.5x compared to dense attention.

After AI Takes Everything

44 speckx 2026-06-16 16:11:14 UTC ursb.me Llama Share 15

The author discusses how AI is changing the role of humans in the workforce, particularly in the tech industry, and how it's essential to focus on high-level thinking and judgment rather than just executing tasks. The author argues that humans need to adapt to this new reality by developing skills such as taste, derivation, and judgment, and that these skills are essential for making ...

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

174 neilfrndes 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 62

The author uses Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness while working in a moving vehicle. This feature, introduced in 2024, uses dots on the screen that move in harmony with the car's motion.

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

221 rdmuser 2026-06-16 11:11:14 UTC tck.mn Llama Share 65

The game Slay the Spire 2 has a bug called correlated RNG (CRNG) that allows players to predict certain random events, such as the curse from Neow's Bones, the first fight's drop rate, and the Doll Room's outcome, due to unexpected correlations between different random number generators. The bug is caused by the C# implementation of the System.Random class, which makes the output linear in ...

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

748 apitman 2026-06-16 05:11:14 UTC twitter.com/id_aa_carmack Full Share 360

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

17 nextos 2026-06-16 16:11:14 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 1

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.

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

5 gpjt 2026-06-16 17:50:14 UTC gilesthomas.com Prefix Share 1

Back in April, I upgraded my home LAN to 10Gb/s. The in-wall cabling is CAT-6 or similar, so I had to use 10GBASE-T. Now, the router I'm using, and the switch in my study, provide 10Gb/s through SFP+ cages; that meant that they needed 10GBASE-T SFP+ modules in order to connect. That kind of module is known to run hot -- sometimes too hot to actually work. The modules in reggie, the ...

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

448 paulmooreparks 2026-06-16 05:11:14 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 142

Raymond has been involved in Windows evolution for over 30 years and created The Old New Thing website and book. He occasionally shares stories on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account.

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

72 throwarayes 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com Llama Share 35

Meta's engineering culture has been drastically changed under new leadership, with engineers being reassigned to data labeling and AI training, and being tracked with invasive software. This has led to widespread dissatisfaction, a major security breach, and a significant outage, with many engineers seeking new jobs and questioning the priorities of CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The octopus architecture for AI agents

6 joshbetz 2026-06-16 17:26:14 UTC blog.goodman.dev Prefix Share 2

TorkBot is designed a bit like an octopus. This architecture was born from a series of dead-ends and iterative improvement. When I say octopus, what I mean is that TorkBot has a centralized “brain” directing many semi-autonomous appendages, each with their own brains, reporting back to the central dispatcher. Static lanes are the long-lived appendages. Curator is one. Plugins can contribute ...

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

44 ilreb 2026-06-16 14:11:14 UTC qwen.ai Llama Share 1

The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control with three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. These models enable an agentic system where general intelligence translates directly into physical action.

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

70 nate 2026-06-16 13:11:14 UTC shadycharacters.co.uk Llama Share 35

Ollie Wagner, Apple's first emoji designer, shared his experience designing over 300 emojis in 2008. He worked from a SoftBank spreadsheet, applying Apple's visual language to hundreds of symbols, with Steve Jobs' final approval.

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

4 pseudolus 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC therepublicofletters.substack.com Prefix Share 0

The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. Maybe you liked Calvin and Hobbes as a kid but you probably have no idea of the scrupulous moral integrity that went into it, as Matthew ...

Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

16 haberdasher 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC newsroom.snap.com Llama Share 5

Snap built SPECS, a wearable computer that uses augmented reality to help people engage with the world around them, rather than pulling them away. SPECS are designed to be natural, with a 51-degree field of view, 16 million colors, and a lightweight design, making computing useful in the moment.

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

34 toomuchtodo 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC fastcompany.com Full Share 8

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Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

66 tosh 2026-06-16 12:11:14 UTC unicorn-engine.org Llama Share 19

Unicorn Engine was awarded by Alibaba Cloud for its impact on the cybersecurity field. The project has been maintained and developed for over 7 years under an open-source license.

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

128 0x000xca0xfe 2026-06-16 08:11:14 UTC sighack.com Llama Share 20

The user created 25 generative art designs using Perlin flow fields in Processing, experimenting with various parameters and techniques to achieve unique results. The process helped the user understand how to practice creativity within self-imposed constraints.

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

126 california-og 2026-06-16 05:11:14 UTC garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com Full Share 19

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

546 sohkamyung 2026-06-15 23:11:14 UTC richardosgood.com Llama Share 324

The user had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to create a digital dead drop hosting banned books, inspired by a short story and Cory Doctorow's book, and decided to use Tasmota firmware to create the Banned Book Library. After purchasing a bulb with Tasmota pre-installed, the user modified the firmware to create a custom web server and storage system, but encountered several ...

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers

475 _tk_ 2026-06-16 10:11:14 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 287

Anthropic's AI models were blocked by the Trump administration due to a simple prompt "Fix this code" from outside researchers. The ban is seen as counterproductive by cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris, who argues it will hurt defenders more than attackers.

The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat

146 Cider9986 2026-06-16 06:11:14 UTC rferl.org Llama Share 50

Major Martin Manhoff captured hundreds of images of everyday life in Moscow and the Soviet Union during his 1950s embassy stint. His trove of rare images was discovered years later in a Seattle storage facility.

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz

27 laxmena 2026-06-16 17:11:14 UTC twitter.com/fguzmanai Full Share 9

56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯 I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GPU. No CPU) Just pure digital silicon running @karpathy microGPT, spelling out names on a https://t.co/hXX8kKIxiA