Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

160 sohkamyung 2026-06-14 23:50:09 UTC andreklein.net Llama Share 58

The author's new book passed epubcheck but was reported as "corrupted" by a Kobo user due to Adobe's RMSDK rendering engine not supporting modern CSS. The issue was resolved by disabling the stylesheet and updating the CSS to be compatible with RMSDK.

Write for One Person

64 evakhoury 2026-06-14 23:50:09 UTC wizardzines.com Full Share 20

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Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

401 tamnd 2026-06-14 17:50:09 UTC github.com/tamnd Llama Share 91

kage clones websites into offline folders with scripts removed, preserving the site's appearance. It offers a binary or container image for use with Chrome or Chromium.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

281 unrvl22 2026-06-14 15:50:09 UTC github.com/nex-agi Llama Share 150

Rio-3.5-Open-397B is a merged model of Nex and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, with no evidence of its own training. Its weights are a 0.6 Nex to 0.4 Qwen blend.

Bitsy

24 tosh 2026-06-14 23:50:09 UTC bitsy.org Full Share 2

~ a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories ~

Firewood Splitting Simulator

634 memalign 2026-06-14 10:50:09 UTC screen.toys Full Share 209

Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience

Chaosnet (1981)

62 RGBCube 2026-06-14 19:50:09 UTC tumbleweed.nu Llama Share 7

Chaosnet is a local network developed in 1975 by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the Lisp Machine system, providing a fast, reliable, and simple communication medium for a group of computers within a kilometer of each other. It uses a carrier-sense multiple-access structure and a novel collision-avoidance technique to prevent collisions and ensure high performance.

Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

95 AG342 2026-06-14 18:50:09 UTC traceapp.info Llama Share 38

Trace is a local Mac app that captures and transcribes audio from any app, flags key moments, and provides a markdown transcript. It runs entirely on-device, with no uploads or audio sent anywhere, and allows for easy organization and sharing of recordings.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

74 wglb 2026-06-14 20:50:09 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 41

Jqwik author Johannes Link added a message to the tool's output to delete tests and code for AI coding agents. He later backed down after complaints from unhappy bots.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

157 david927 2026-06-14 16:50:09 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 580

User discussed various projects including a CRM with agent baked in, an ActivityPub server, and an open-source search engine called Uruky, as well as other projects such as a 3D optics simulator, a video lie detector, and a Peak Flow Meter Diary app for asthma patients. They also mentioned other projects like Totem, a collaborative knowledge management system, and HN Alerts, a site for ...

TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder

20 scott_s 2026-06-14 21:50:09 UTC github.com/meta-pytorch Llama Share 2

TorchCodec 0.14 adds fast audio WavDecoder and HDR video decoding support. It also drops NPP dependency for CUDA decoding.

Segmented type appreciation corner (2018)

61 unexpectedVCR 2026-06-14 18:50:09 UTC aresluna.org Full Share 14

8 16 24 34 43 66 93 6 21 23 50 52 55 Just start typing!

Formal methods and the future of programming

192 eatonphil 2026-06-14 12:50:09 UTC blog.janestreet.com Llama Share 71

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.

Chopped, Stored, Secured – The Story of the Hash Function

22 denismenace 2026-06-14 22:50:09 UTC 0xkrt26.github.io Llama Share 4

Arnold Dumey first defined hashing in 1956 as a mathematical transformation to map data to memory addresses for faster search. A hash function is a one-way function that creates a unique fixed-size value from variable-size input data, making it computationally impossible to reverse.

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

133 hollylawly 2026-06-14 13:50:09 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 48

Deleting large amounts of data in Postgres can be inefficient due to write and replication overhead, but using DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE can scale much better. Structuring your schema with partitioning and avoiding large bulk DELETE operations can prevent bloat and improve database health.

Perlisisms (1982)

93 tosh 2026-06-14 15:50:09 UTC cs.yale.edu Llama Share 46

Programming principles emphasize modularity, simplicity, and adaptability, while also highlighting the importance of understanding the underlying mechanisms of computation. Effective programming requires a balance between creativity, discipline, and attention to detail, as well as a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and ideas.

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

154 losfair 2026-06-14 13:50:09 UTC su3.io Llama Share 49

zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code. It supports HTTPS reverse proxy and custom code execution via eBPF.

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

56 octopus143 2026-06-14 18:50:09 UTC orangecrumbs.com Full Share 15

The best Wikipedia rabbit holes and evergreen YouTube videos from Hacker News - 2,183 articles and 2,076 videos.

FarOutCompany

104 bookofjoe 2026-06-14 14:50:09 UTC faroutcompany.com Full Share 16

Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture.

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

4 teleforce 2026-06-15 00:50:09 UTC blog.apnic.net Prefix Share 0

You’d think that by now, networks were well enough understood that people would stop making assumptions that we have known, almost since the dawn of networking, to be untrue. Yet as users, developers, and network administrators, we still seem curiously unable to let go of long-held beliefs. Perhaps the best-known collection of mistaken ideas about networks is the eight fallacies of ...

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

283 iliashad 2026-06-14 15:50:09 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 67

You have 2,207 GoPro videos and used an M1 Max project to index and search for interesting moments. The project indexed 628 videos and sent the best clips to DaVinci Resolve.

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

213 subset 2026-06-14 12:50:09 UTC destroyallsoftware.com Llama Share 122

The talk covers JavaScript's history from 1995 to 2035, discussing its flaws and positive impact. It's a science fiction comedy that explores programming's evolution.

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

219 tacoda 2026-06-14 13:50:09 UTC blog.tacoda.dev Llama Share 60

Ruby's design is based on a simple Lisp, stripping out macros and s-expressions, then adding an object system, blocks, and Smalltalk-style methods. Ruby's functional features, such as blocks and Enumerable methods, are borrowed from Lisp.

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

34 mooreds 2026-06-14 16:50:09 UTC aptiv.com Llama Share 73

USB standards have evolved to deliver faster and more powerful wired connections, with USB PD and EPR supporting up to 240W power levels. Certified products are expected to arrive by 2029, bringing faster device charging and data transfer to various industries.

How to earn a billion dollars

453 kingstoned 2026-06-14 12:50:09 UTC paulgraham.com Llama Share 1375

To become a billionaire, one must create a startup with exponential growth, which can be achieved by making something users love so much they tell their friends, and then sustaining that growth in a large market. This can be done without cheating, as the key is to understand users deeply and make something that dramatically improves their lives, rather than exploiting them.

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

63 josephcsible 2026-06-14 21:50:09 UTC windowscentral.com Llama Share 18

Microsoft is trying to rebuild trust with users through Windows K2, but one unresolved issue is the mandatory Microsoft account requirement during setup. Users want a choice between local and online accounts, and a clearer explanation of how features like encryption affect their computers.

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

17 thunderbong 2026-06-15 01:10:09 UTC psychedelics.co.uk Llama Share 2

Researchers sequenced 53 Lanmaoa genomes and found that the hallucinogenic mushroom Lanmaoa asiatica lacks known biosynthetic genes. Its active agent remains unknown, suggesting a new pathway for psychoactive compounds.

Not everyone is using AI for everything

424 yegg 2026-06-14 14:50:09 UTC gabrielweinberg.com Llama Share 461

About one third of the US population actively uses AI, one third occasionally uses it, and one third never uses it, contradicting the narrative that everyone is using AI for everything. People's concerns about AI, such as job replacement and privacy violation, and skepticism about its usefulness are driving this limited adoption, with many preferring to opt out or use AI in a more controlled manner.

Linux 7.1

234 berlianta 2026-06-14 16:50:09 UTC lore.kernel.org Llama Share 90

Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

23 etherio 2026-06-14 19:50:09 UTC fulcrum.inc Llama Share 0

Researchers at Fulcrum Research study agent performance across various settings, proposing inverse rubric optimization (IRO) tasks where agents optimize judge preferences. They observe that frontier models effectively iterate but do not maximally use resources, and propose a new setting to normalize the difference in scale.