National Science Foundation slashes basic science to fund new tech initiative

NSF is cutting 20-30% from hundreds of traditional basic science programs to fund a new $1.5 billion initiative called X-Labs. X-Labs aims to turn NSF-funded discoveries into new products and industries, but critics say it's being funded at the expense of other programs.

The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

https://patrickmccanna.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-Trail-1.jpeg
Claude Code's reasoning logs are incomplete and indirect, containing a signature and no text. The "extended-thinking" output is a summary, not the actual thinking process, and is not accessible for auditing.

DisplayMate

DisplayMate is the Industry Standard of Excellence for Image and Picture Quality DisplayMate produces a complete set of state-of-the-art proprietary test and calibration patterns together with expert information, advice and guidance to setup, calibrate, tweak, optimize, test, evaluate and improve the image and picture quality and color and gray scale accuracy of all Monitors, Projectors and ...

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/image_assets/tab2.png
Moebius achieves high-quality inpainting with 0.22B parameters, 15x inference speedup, and on-par/surpassing 10B-level models in 6 benchmarks. It's a task-specific specialist that's smarter, lighter, and faster than bloated generalists.

Steam Machine Game Testing

The Steam Machine has a last-gen processor and graphics, but its semi-custom CPU is still capable for 1080p to 4K resolutions. The device's performance is disappointing for a mid-2026 release.

Deno Desktop

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/index.png
Deno desktop turns web projects into self-contained desktop apps with small binaries and full Node compatibility. It bundles code, Deno runtime, and web rendering engine into redistributable binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0qizaR4JGUk/maxresdefault.jpg
The user created a version control system called Jam, but now works on Oak, designed for AI agents, which improves speed and context. Oak is still in development, but can be self-hosted and exported to a Git repo, with a paid plan offering a personalized e-ink display.

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers

https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/org-theme-logo/245e1357-fdad-4538-b768-fbc50d9a625b/e90ad744-2cfa-4bef-bbf2-c8f00d147795/d108bc03-6e25-40ec-85b4-5ccda2c6d3ec.png
Charge Robotics Jobs
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/messiah-768x314.jpg
A blogger used a 1962 photo in a 2009 post without permission, but the court ruled in favor of fair use due to transformative use and lack of commercial benefit. The court dismissed the copyright infringement claim, despite the plaintiff's licensing program for the photo.

Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

The author's family is pledging $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing their total support to $700,000. They respect Zig's technical progress, community approach, and unique philosophy, despite having differing opinions on some policies.

Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video]

A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works

https://role-confusion.github.io/assets/figures/text-stream-2.png
Researchers found that Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to distinguish between their own thoughts and external commands due to a flaw in how they perceive roles, which are used to structure the model's internal representation of text. This flaw allows attackers to create new attacks, including CoT Forgery, which injects fake reasoning into a message or output, and can be used to steal ...

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/72f38007450b7f68974919593bfa17192748af36068c7a059266bf3ba917f21e/openai/codex/issues/28224
Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer, consuming 640 TB/year and potentially a full SSD drive in less than a year. Filtering categories like TRACE logs and telemetry logs can remove 96% of retained log bytes.

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

https://techstackups.com/img/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/cover.jpg
GLM-5.2 is a strong open model that can perform long-horizon tasks at a fraction of the cost of closed models like Claude Opus 4.8, but it's text-only and can't verify its work visually. GLM-5.2 is suitable for tasks that are mostly text and logic, while Opus is better for tasks that require correctness, polish, and visual judgment, and GLM-5.2 should be kept in the arsenal due to its ...

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)

http://static.righto.com/images/8087-shifter/die-labeled-w450.jpg
The 8087 floating-point coprocessor was introduced in 1980 by Intel, making floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. It was a huge benefit for applications such as AutoCAD and flight simulators.

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/i/wg_sc2-d500.gif
You created a script to use perceptual hashing to find similar images in your camera roll, automatically identifying potential wigglegrams. The script calculates the hamming distance between image pairs to find a threshold, helping to distinguish between intentional and accidental shots.

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/e/2PACX-1vQrxtjBH92jLvfAmDHNBsbOnswav9fVrDpHCop2w4Fz8pNJ8sKDUZl6y0odNN-1W96S45URNOdJUGRO/pub?w=960&h=720
The author worked at GenieDB, a UK startup acquired by US VC fund Frost VP, and later discovered the fund was sued for fraud by the SEC. The author questions if their job and life changes were a result of the alleged fraud.

Steam Machine

https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/45479024/d2ce7e96bb0ab51817ba37cf61e3ca919d6f7209.jpg
The SUPPORT sign has multiple language options for users to choose from. Users can report translation problems for any language.

Granularity comes at a cost – Game Theory

https://www.sidhantbansal.com/images/ticks.png
The user initially thought that more granularity in a system is always a good thing, but two examples showed that finer choices can create new ways to game priority or reduce the incentive to participate honestly. The user learned that there is a sweet spot for granularity, where it allows price competition but not so small that queue priority becomes meaningless and liquidity providers stop ...

Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors

https://opengraph.githubassets.com/1cebd5f5485d4b7b2f95307928affcc10aae51fe90e4f37c7abee6fb907505f7/Intuned/selector-forge
Selector Forge is a browser extension that generates reliable CSS or XPath selectors using AI. It proposes and tests candidates against the live DOM, discarding incorrect ones, for end-to-end tests, scraping, and automation.

DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

https://apertvs.ai/articles/2026-06-apertus-mini/hf-mini.png
Apertus is an open-source AI model developed by Swiss AI Initiative, meeting EU AI Act requirements with opt-out respect and data protection. It's a multilingual model trained on 1000+ languages, competitive with top open models.

My Mathematical Regression

https://blog.dahl.dev/img/problem15.png
I came across my 10 year old repo for project Euler solutions. (N.B! Euler spoilers onwards). Naturally it’s full of python files. One file stood out. It was just called problem15.txt. I imagined getting this at work. I think I would reach for python. Maybe start with a naive brute force. Throw a bunch of loops together. If that didn’t solve it, reach for memoization. Dynamic programming, ...

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The author notes that using Linux has become more viable due to improved compatibility and software ecosystem. However, they express concern about the growing penalty for using open LLM models due to performance and trust issues.

Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/curiosity754x288.png
The foundations of this trillion-dollar industry were laid down over 30 years ago in munich. these four techniques power today's most advanced llms. lstm is the most cited ai paper of the 20th century, based on deep residual learning through residual nn connections. the year 1991 also marks the emergence of defining features of highway net - a 10 times deeper than previous feedforward ...

Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled the Olinia Uno, a 6-passenger EV that can travel 77 miles on a single charge. The car is part of Mexico's Plan México to boost the economy and manufacturing sector, with a goal of making Mexico one of the world's 10 largest economies.

Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas

The following information can help our support team to resolve this issue.

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara on Her 100th "Little People, Big Dreams" Book

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara created the Little People, BIG DREAMS series to inspire kids with stories of remarkable women. The series has sold over 7.5 million copies worldwide and features 100 books, including a recent one about Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers

https://www.davidrevoy.com/plugins/vignette/plxthumbnailer.php?src=https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2026/2026-06-22_article-illustration-about-wacom-and-other-brands-on-linux.jpg&w=1280&h=1100&zc=4&s=1&q=92
You've been trying to get drawing tablet brands to collaborate on GNU/Linux drivers, but Gaomon decided not to participate due to branding concerns. You'll continue reviewing tablets and documenting specs, one by one, with the help of Peter and Benjamin.

Steam Machine Launches Today

https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/45479024/7d1bda5486460ba7efc032efb727a61d638420a0.png
The SUPPORT sign has multiple language options for users to choose from. Users can report translation problems for any language.