Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

63 rbanffy 2026-06-29 11:13:36 UTC cpushack.com Llama Share 12

Sandia National Laboratory built capacity to design and test ICs for radiation-hardened devices in the 1970s and 1980s for use in space missions and nuclear warheads. They successfully created the SA3000 processor, which could handle 1×106 rads of radiation with minimal performance reduction, and was used in the W88 nuclear warhead and other space applications.

Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity

25 giuliomagnifico 2026-06-29 12:13:36 UTC ucc.ie Llama Share 11

Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland found that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee can improve mood and stress levels by influencing the gut microbiome. Coffee may modify gut microbes and metabolism, offering potential long-term benefits for a healthier microbiome.

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

638 sambellll 2026-06-29 02:13:36 UTC danunparsed.com Llama Share 269

An AI resume screening tool is flawed due to non-deterministic outputs from its LLM, leading to inconsistent scores. This tool fails to differentiate between qualified and unqualified candidates, essentially filtering based on luck rather than quality.

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

940 jms703 2026-06-28 18:13:36 UTC semgrep.dev Llama Share 436

GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, beat Claude Code at IDOR detection with 39% F1, costing $0.17 per vulnerability found. The harness still matters more than the model, but open-weight models have crossed a threshold worth watching for security tasks.

Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped

430 taubek 2026-06-29 10:13:36 UTC blog.pragmaticengineer.com Llama Share 56

Google removed an article about Pollen's collapse from its search results due to a bogus copyright claim filed by a fake profile from an uninhabited island. The article's author suspects that Pollen or its former CEO hired reputation firms to file the claim, and is now investigating further lawsuits against the company.

Rebuilding the Computer Room

14 ingve 2026-06-29 12:13:36 UTC alexwlchan.net Llama Share 2

The author reminisces about the "computer room" of their childhood, where computers were bulky and had fixed locations, and how portable devices like laptops and smartphones have changed the way we interact with technology. The author now seeks to reintroduce boundaries and physical restrictions to minimize distractions and maintain a healthier relationship with technology.

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

58 sys_call 2026-06-29 07:13:36 UTC edera.dev Llama Share 8

A virtual machine on a NUMA host can be slow due to remote memory access costs, which can be mitigated by understanding the NUMA topology and making informed placement decisions. Xen's split design makes it challenging to manage NUMA, but Edera's stack of changes aims to make Xen-based virtualization NUMA-aware end-to-end, improving performance and predictability.

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

48 nekitamo 2026-06-29 09:13:36 UTC thomasdullien.github.io Llama Share 5

The author shares lessons learned from founding two companies, zynamics and optimyze, and discusses the importance of understanding one's motivations and target market before starting a company. They also provide insights into the different types of markets, fundraising strategies, and the dynamics between founders and investors in the venture capital industry.

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

107 supermatou 2026-06-29 05:13:36 UTC schamper.dev Llama Share 16

The user reverse engineered the ASIF file format used in macOS 26 Tahoe, discovering its structure and how to read from an arbitrary offset inside the virtual disk. The format uses a combination of tables, entries, and bitmaps to store and manage chunks of data, and the user provided a detailed explanation of how to calculate the correct chunk for a given offset.

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

669 arkhiver 2026-06-29 04:13:36 UTC nonogra.ph Llama Share 382

US states and countries are introducing age verification regulations under the guise of protecting children, but it's actually a precursor to attributing digital identities to physical ones, making it easier for law enforcement to identify and harass individuals. This could lead to automated identity attribution and increased surveillance, allowing governments to target inconvenient people.

Federating Clusters for Zero-Downtime Kubernetes

11 PagCatOli 2026-06-29 10:13:36 UTC linkerd.io Llama Share 0

Linkerd's multicluster extension allows multiple clusters to present a service as a single endpoint, enabling federation, flat mirroring, and gateway mirroring modes. A demo setup with three GKE clusters and three services demonstrates how to mix these modes and shows how federation automates failover while mirroring gives clients control over which cluster they talk to.

Type-checked non-empty strings

3 surprisetalk 2026-06-29 12:13:36 UTC exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com Prefix Share 0

This post is a Haskell koan. We’ll get to the background and motivation, but the goal here is to share a small and uncommon technique that we’ve employed, and enjoyed; perfect blog fodder. In short, we wrote a type-checked non-empty string constructor, replaced thousands of equivalent TemplateHaskell calls, for a ~10% build-time improvement in a large and data-heavy package that made many ...

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

106 Pop_- 2026-06-29 05:13:36 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 43

Cloudflare's Images service experienced intermittent truncation of image data due to a race condition in the hyper library that occurred when the reader consumed data slower than hyper wrote it. The issue was resolved by adding a flush before shutdown in the hyper library, ensuring that all data is sent before closing the connection.

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

342 vga1 2026-06-28 19:13:36 UTC dam.stanford.edu Llama Share 134

The interactive dataset tracks historic and current memory and storage prices, including DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with modeled estimates from Epoch AI for AI-accelerator costs. The data is downloadable and includes quarterly updates for HBM and monthly updates for DRAM and NAND prices from 1957 to the present.

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

385 xbryanx 2026-06-28 15:13:36 UTC pudding.cool Full Share 101

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

481 engmarketer 2026-06-28 17:13:36 UTC antoine.fi Llama Share 613

The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

165 DR_MING 2026-06-29 09:13:36 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 13

Two of Max Planck's papers were retracted from the journal Naturwissenschaften due to copyright violation, but the reason was likely a misunderstanding of past publication practices. The retractions distort the historical record and have sparked debate about applying contemporary standards to historical papers.

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

94 mzehrer 2026-06-29 05:13:36 UTC github.com/ogulcancelik Llama Share 59

Herdr is a terminal multiplexer with workspaces, panes, and tiling, supporting SSH and persistence. It uses explicit keybindings and shows agent states in the sidebar.

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

113 babelfish 2026-06-28 23:13:36 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 19

Researchers introduced Proxy-KD, a method to transfer knowledge from black-box LLMs to smaller models efficiently. Proxy-KD surpasses traditional white-box KD techniques and enhances performance.

Show HN: Zanagrams

323 pompomsheep 2026-06-28 16:13:36 UTC zanagrams.com Full Share 83

Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.

Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]

17 surprisetalk 2026-06-29 08:13:36 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 3

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

549 bilsbie 2026-06-28 13:13:36 UTC eff.org Llama Share 448

The KIDS Act package includes bills that require age verification, government-directed moderation, and new rules for private communications. This could lead to restrictive age-checking practices, reduced online privacy, and limited free expression.

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

167 theahura 2026-06-28 17:13:36 UTC 12gramsofcarbon.com Llama Share 232

The concept of tokenmaxxing, where companies spend large amounts of money on AI tokens without expecting a return, is not dead but rather evolving as companies realize the benefits of compounding correctness, where more tokens spent lead to better results. The shift towards open model platforms and generalist agents will lead to another rise in tokenmaxxing behavior, ultimately resulting in ...

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

130 zdw 2026-06-28 17:13:36 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 39

The Loongson processor is a Chinese-developed CPU that emerged in 2001, initially based on MIPS architecture, and was later developed into a 64-bit processor. The Loongson processor was used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a low-cost netbook that was released in 2008.

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

455 geox 2026-06-28 17:13:36 UTC english.elpais.com Llama Share 603

Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University detected massive cheating on a midterm exam using AI, with at least 50 students involved. He believes the university's response was inadequate and that AI is altering century-old traditions at elite universities, requiring a broader debate on academic integrity.

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)

82 phaser 2026-06-28 23:13:36 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 33

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Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

155 MaysonL 2026-06-28 17:13:36 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 47

Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.

Librepods: AirPods liberated

427 rbanffy 2026-06-28 19:13:36 UTC github.com/librepods-org Llama Share 153

LibrePods is a project that allows non-Apple devices to use AirPods features. It implements the proprietary protocol used by Apple devices to exchange data with AirPods.

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

204 dbl000 2026-06-28 16:13:36 UTC theatlantic.com Llama Share 303

The author visits Pinal Airpark in Arizona to see retired Boeing 747s, once the principal host of important journeys, now a symbol of American decline. The 747 was a technological innovation that embodied American might, invention, and progress, but its accidental longevity defined an era of decline.

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

121 rbanffy 2026-06-28 20:13:36 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 82

The LineShine Supercomputer in China has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list with 2.198 Exaflops of sustained FP64 performance. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and marks a significant milestone for China's HPC capabilities.