US bans differential privacy in Census data

155 nl 2026-06-13 14:53:01 UTC desfontain.es Llama Share 40

The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

146 hek2sch 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC github.com/tensorzero Llama Share 92

TensorZero is a unified API gateway for LLM providers, offering performance, incremental adoption, and compatibility with major providers. It enables companies to optimize complex LLM applications with production metrics and human feedback.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

37 andsoitis 2026-06-13 13:53:01 UTC economist.com Llama Share 4

Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

Orthodox C++

21 signa11 2026-06-13 14:53:01 UTC bkaradzic.github.io Llama Share 5

Orthodox C++ is a minimal subset of C++ that avoids unnecessary modern features for simplicity and portability. It uses C-like code and avoids complex features like exceptions, STL, and metaprogramming for easier understanding and maintenance.

Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt

45 bookofjoe 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC lr0.org Llama Share 5

A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

149 vikas-sharma 2026-06-13 09:53:01 UTC research.google Llama Share 75

Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

Every Frame Perfect

86 ravenical 2026-06-13 11:53:01 UTC tonsky.me Llama Share 12

UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

47 metiscus 2026-06-13 13:53:01 UTC new.roman-names.com Llama Share 10

The map visualizes EDCS inscriptions with extracted personal names, allowing zooming and filtering by name, province, or date. Name extraction is 80-85% accurate, with errors that can be reported using the Flag this entry button.

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

35 lumpa 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 1

Kira Boyko is the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+, defining product features based on market requirements and customer needs. She discussed AET (Intel Application Energy Telemetry) and its benefits for tracking energy usage at a hardware core level.

Electric motors with no rare earths

618 bestouff 2026-06-12 22:53:01 UTC renaultgroup.com Llama Share 174

Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

91 mahirsaid 2026-06-13 10:53:01 UTC areweguiyet.com Llama Share 63

Several Rust GUI frameworks exist, including Azul, CXX-Qt, Leptos, and Ribir, offering various features and performance. These frameworks aim to provide fast, cross-platform, and native GUI development for desktop, web, and mobile applications.

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

917 gmays 2026-06-12 15:53:01 UTC innovativegenomics.org Llama Share 202

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have developed a CRISPR-based approach to selectively destroy cancer cells with a specific mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. This method, called RNA-triggered chromatin shredding, can target "undruggable" cancers and potentially open up new targets for cancer therapy.

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

167 qwertox 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 73

Arch Linux's AUR repository saw over 1,500 user-contributed packages compromised with malware. Developers have deleted all known malicious commits, but some affected packages may still exist.

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

2845 Dylan1312 2026-06-13 01:53:01 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 2077

The US government has issued a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to a potential jailbreak method, citing national security concerns. Anthropic is complying with the directive but disagrees with the decision, stating it's a misunderstanding and is working to restore access as soon as possible.

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

80 pikann22 2026-06-13 09:53:01 UTC github.com/paca-ai Llama Share 28

Paca is a self-hosted project management platform that enables AI agents and humans to collaborate as equal teammates in a Scrum team. It offers a configurable and extendable workflow, data model, and UI via plugins.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

44 iMil 2026-06-13 10:53:01 UTC imil.net Llama Share 8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

53 stagas 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC hallucinate.site Full Share 15

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Open source AI must win

1307 vednig 2026-06-13 02:53:01 UTC opensourceaimustwin.com Llama Share 406

The public risks losing operational freedom if AI access depends on closed institutions and shifting terms. America must maintain freedom to run, inspect, and modify AI infrastructure with global open standards.

Appreciating Exif

7 burnto 2026-06-13 14:53:01 UTC brentfitzgerald.com Prefix Share 0

I recently was writing some code to apply a mask to an image input. The mask had no Exif metadata, but the image did, so I had to adjust for the orientation of the image by reading it from Exif. This isn’t hard with libraries, and I knew the gist of the problem: images can have Exif, Exif is optional, phones and cameras use it for orientation, and you need to account for that when processing ...

The computer science degree isn’t dead

158 jnord 2026-06-13 02:53:01 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 146

Recent engineering graduates face a 6.1% unemployment rate, but underemployment is low at below 20%. Engineers rank among the top fields for overall labor market outcomes despite a mismatch between job postings and actual hiring.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

429 kkm 2026-06-12 17:53:01 UTC ikyle.me Llama Share 109

User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

249 ellg 2026-06-12 23:53:01 UTC putt.day Full Share 96

A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

Leaving Mozilla

386 martey 2026-06-13 06:53:01 UTC blog.unitedheroes.net Llama Share 219

The user, a Mozilla employee leaving after 15 years, expresses concerns about the company's direction and leadership, citing a focus on chasing big ideas and emulating other companies rather than staying true to its open-source and community-driven roots. They urge Mozilla to refocus on its core strengths, shore up its core features, and reconnect with its community, rather than trying to be ...

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

405 theahura 2026-06-13 05:53:01 UTC 12gramsofcarbon.com Llama Share 380

The US government has banned access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models due to national security concerns, citing a potential method of bypassing the models. This move has sparked concerns about government regulation of AI and the potential restriction of strong language models for public use.

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

134 vnglst 2026-06-13 05:53:01 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 107

User tested Anthropic model with a personal game idea, Shepherd's Dog, and it successfully generated a 2,319 line game in one shot. The model's output was a fun and accurate representation of the user's idea.

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

428 marc__1 2026-06-12 15:53:01 UTC twitter.com/jsrailton Llama Share 228

Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case

50 pseudolus 2026-06-13 12:53:01 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 26

A three-judge panel upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-year prison sentence for FTX's collapse, rejecting his appeal of a fraud conviction. Bankman-Fried is eligible for release in 2044 after stealing $8 billion from FTX customers.

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

262 redbell 2026-06-12 22:53:01 UTC depthfirst.com Llama Share 172

Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, including 8 with assigned CVEs, using a specialized security agent that analyzes code and generates concrete, reproducible PoC inputs. The agent found a heap buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AV1 RTP depacketizer that can be triggered by a single 183-byte packet, allowing an attacker to redirect execution and ...

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

224 DASD 2026-06-12 20:53:01 UTC swift.org Llama Share 103

Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift to improve security and performance, achieving a 13% speed increase and exact compatibility with the C implementation. The Swift interpreter's design and optimizations, such as using noncopyable structures and Span, demonstrate the language's ability to balance safety, ergonomics, and performance, making it suitable ...

H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office

250 Cider9986 2026-06-12 18:53:01 UTC eff.org Llama Share 99

The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would change the US Copyright Office's structure and make it more political. The bill would transfer power from the Library of Congress to the Register of Copyrights, a presidential appointee.