Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

220 Bolat14 2026-05-30 14:42:55 UTC qazinform.com Llama Share 195

Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in market valuation after raising $65 billion in a funding round, reaching nearly $1 trillion. The company's growth is driven by its popular Claude AI assistant and revenue increased to $47 billion from $10 billion last year.

Voxel Space

58 davikr 2026-05-30 14:42:55 UTC s-macke.github.io Llama Share 8

In 1992, Comanche used a 2.5D Voxel Space engine with a 1024x1024 height and color map for rendering. The engine used a simple painter algorithm to draw vertical lines based on height and color data.

Pandoc Templates

242 ankitg12 2026-05-30 10:42:55 UTC pandoc-templates.org Full Share 34

Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

122 sph 2026-05-30 11:42:55 UTC github.com/kristapsdz Llama Share 50

openrsync is a BSD-licensed rsync implementation compatible with modern rsync protocol 27, primarily designed for OpenBSD but also portable to other UNIX systems. It uses a subset of rsync's command-line arguments and is part of the rpki-client project.

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

54 myzek 2026-05-30 12:42:55 UTC myzopotamia.dev Llama Share 11

The user implemented a basic fluid simulation in Godot using Navier Stokes equations, including density advection, diffusion, and velocity advection, and also implemented boundary conditions and pressure correction to remove incompressibility artifacts. The user explained the process in a blog post, including code snippets and explanations of the algorithms used, and noted that the simulation ...

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

15 LilBytes 2026-05-30 14:42:55 UTC jackmaguire.org Llama Share 1

Workers are experiencing a unique form of grief due to AI-driven job displacement, which threatens their professional identity and autonomy. This grief is structurally suppressed, and the standard grief model breaks down in the AI case, making recovery harder than in previous industrial transitions.

Zig: Build System Reworked

225 tosh 2026-05-30 08:42:55 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 137

The Zig project has made several improvements including faster build times, incremental compilation, and better type resolution. These changes aim to make the development experience more efficient and user-friendly, with features like faster error messages and improved dependency management.

Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain

59 ruaraidh 2026-05-30 11:42:55 UTC helios.southlondonscientific.com Llama Share 14

Plug-in solar panels will be available in the UK soon, allowing you to generate electricity without installation fees or planning permission. Enter your postcode and details to estimate energy generation and potential savings.

IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

66 amichail 2026-05-30 09:42:55 UTC engadget.com Llama Share 20

IXI's autofocus glasses automatically switch between prescriptions using cameraless eye tracking and liquid crystal lenses. They can track eye movements, blinking, and gaze direction, and are designed to help people with age-related farsightedness.

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

225 mhalle 2026-05-30 11:42:55 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 156

The Trump administration's new rules for grant funding would give political appointees final say over scientific research, allowing them to cancel grants at any time and ban funding for certain topics like DEI and gender ideology. The rules would also limit international collaborations and restrict scientists' ability to publish and attend conferences.

What Happened to the Locusts?

103 explosion-s 2026-05-30 09:42:55 UTC explosion-scratch.github.io Full Share 24

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Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

50 gmays 2026-05-30 14:42:55 UTC news.northwestern.edu Llama Share 10

A Northwestern Medicine study found that estrogen loss in women may contribute to Alzheimer's disease risk due to problems in the extracellular matrix in the brain. The study suggests a new treatment approach focused on restoring the brain's supportive environment to help protect memory and fight Alzheimer's disease.

Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges

13 surprisetalk 2026-05-30 13:42:55 UTC thecretefleet.com Full Share 0

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SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

615 tomasol 2026-05-29 18:42:55 UTC obeli.sk Llama Share 318

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.

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

100 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-05-30 10:42:55 UTC economist.com Llama Share 96

The Pope's encyclical warns against unregulated AI development and outdated concepts like "just war". He also calls for fact-checked journalism, multilateral diplomacy, and apologizes for the papacy's past slavery condemnation.

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation

383 vrganj 2026-05-30 08:42:55 UTC reuters.com Full Share 287

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Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

417 vnglst 2026-05-29 16:42:55 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 179

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.

Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9

56 gattilorenz 2026-05-30 07:42:55 UTC github.com/mplsllc Llama Share 8

MacSurf is a web browser for Classic Mac OS 9, running native CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, and HTTPS on PowerPC hardware. It's an ongoing project with regular updates and bug fixes, aiming to revive the web on old Macs.

MCP is dead?

321 nadis 2026-05-29 23:42:55 UTC quandri.io Llama Share 309

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.

Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU

32 ibobev 2026-05-30 08:42:55 UTC asawicki.info Llama Share 7

The user discussed the behavior of floating-point numbers and their functions like floor, ceil, trunc, and round in C, C++, HLSL, and GLSL, noting differences in rounding rules and denormal handling. The user also provided a custom HLSL implementation of floor and ceil functions that preserves denormals and behaves consistently across CPUs and GPUs.

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

248 GaggiX 2026-05-29 23:42:55 UTC blog.chrislewis.au Llama Share 99

A C implementation of Snowboard Kids 2's functions has been completed, allowing for a readable and modifiable codebase. The project's success is attributed to the N64 decompilation community and coding agents, particularly Codex 5.5 xhigh.

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

196 rented_mule 2026-05-29 21:42:55 UTC blog.prusa3d.com Llama Share 54

Prusa developed a color mixing model called Prusa ColorMix to enable printing with dozens of colors on multi-material printers. The model is now integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint, allowing users to easily mix colors and predict the final result.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

351 watermelon0 2026-05-29 15:42:55 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 554

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.

The Last Technical Interview

169 headalgorithm 2026-05-29 20:42:55 UTC steve-yegge.medium.com Llama Share 147

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, ...

The dead economy theory

1143 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 16:42:55 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 1272

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.

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

222 simjnd 2026-05-29 16:42:55 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 85

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

162 evilsimon 2026-05-29 19:42:55 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 233

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.

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

102 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-05-30 12:42:55 UTC wsj.com Full Share 91

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What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

79 pseudolus 2026-05-30 02:42:55 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 17

Leontien Talboom led a project called "Future Nostalgia" to preserve floppy disks at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives. The disks are degrading due to physical deterioration and loss of knowledge about the disks themselves.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

247 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:42:55 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 82

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.