SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

84 tomasol 2026-05-29 18:19:43 UTC obeli.sk Llama Share 37

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.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

190 vnglst 2026-05-29 17:19:43 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 48

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.

The dead economy theory

288 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 16:19:43 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 375

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.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

165 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:19:43 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 61

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.

Rothko for your current weather conditions

27 jxmorris12 2026-05-29 18:33:43 UTC rothko.joonas.wtf Llama Share 2

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.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

105 watermelon0 2026-05-29 15:19:43 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 202

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.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

373 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 16:19:43 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 223

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.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

44 timshell 2026-05-29 16:19:43 UTC research.roundtable.ai Llama Share 30

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.

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

32 dtagames 2026-05-29 17:19:43 UTC tvexplorer.live Full Share 6

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

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

30 simjnd 2026-05-29 17:19:43 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 1

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.

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

119 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:19:43 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 39

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.

We should be more tired than the model

112 tosh 2026-05-29 12:19:43 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 94

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.

I am retiring from tech to live offline

578 PinkG 2026-05-29 15:19:43 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 405

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.

On Rendering Diffs

4 amadeus 2026-05-29 19:06:43 UTC pierre.computer Prefix Share 1

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Someone used my open source project to phish people

61 andrejsshell 2026-05-29 14:19:43 UTC andrej.sh Llama Share 35

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 ...

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

9 backuprestore 2026-05-29 18:19:43 UTC wellsoc.org Prefix Share 0

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 ...

Expertise in the age of AI

69 brilee 2026-05-29 14:19:43 UTC moderndescartes.com Llama Share 74

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.

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

178 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 10:19:43 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 79

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.

ATLAS: Autoformalized Textbook Library At Scale

20 vrm 2026-05-29 16:19:43 UTC github.com/facebookresearch Llama Share 3

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.

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:19:43 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.

Durable execution, the hard way

37 abelanger 2026-05-29 15:19:43 UTC github.com/hatchet-dev Llama Share 1

We're building a durable execution engine from scratch using Go and Postgres for long-running and stateful functions. This guide will cover the fundamentals of durable execution, including tasks, retries, and replays.

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

15 vylorn 2026-05-29 18:24:43 UTC bbc.co.uk Llama Share 3

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.

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

30 scottshambaugh 2026-05-29 14:19:43 UTC theshamblog.com Llama Share 7

The user explores various extensions of Rock-Paper-Scissors, including Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock and other games with different themes and strategies. They analyze the games using graph theory and metrics such as orbits, cuts, and Gini coefficient to determine their interest and narrative potential.

The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science

11 benbreen 2026-05-29 16:19:43 UTC the-hinternet.com Llama Share 0

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French scientist, classified clouds and developed a meteorological theory that the moon influences the weather. His yearbooks, which included forecasts and instructions for readers to record their observations, were widely read and debated, but his ideas were often dismissed as outdated or superstitious.

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

132 dotcoma 2026-05-29 12:19:43 UTC dutchreview.com Llama Share 115

The Dutch experienced tulip mania in the 1630s where people traded valuable items for tulip bulbs, leading to a massive price bubble that eventually collapsed. The event remains a cautionary tale of irrational exuberance and overpriced markets.

Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

58 ColinWright 2026-05-29 13:19:43 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 78

User visits HN's newest page multiple times daily, finding interesting content that may not reach the main page. They prefer the /newest page over HN's own "new" link, which they find filtered by brutalist.report.

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

116 pramodbiligiri 2026-05-29 07:19:43 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 46

Cloudflare built a code review system using AI agents to improve engineering resiliency. The system uses a composable plugin architecture and supports multiple AI providers and version control systems.

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

180 goranmoomin 2026-05-29 03:19:43 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 58

id Software developed Quake on HP 712-60 and DEC Alpha server, then switched to Windows NT with Visual C++ 4.X for win32 binaries. To recreate the experience, users can install Windows NT 4, Visual C++ 6, and the Quake source code, then apply the Visual C++ 6 Processor Pack to assemble the .s files.

Claude Opus 4.8

1706 craigmart 2026-05-28 19:19:43 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1334

Claude Opus 4.8 is a new version with improved benchmarks, effectiveness, and features like dynamic workflows and effort control. It's available today at the same price as Opus 4.7, with faster speed and better reliability.

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

96 pavel_lishin 2026-05-29 14:19:43 UTC 404media.co Full Share 33

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.