Running local models is good now

200 jfb 2026-06-16 15:06:48 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 90

The user has been using local models since their release and has seen significant improvements in accuracy and speed, particularly with the Gemma 4 family, allowing for agentic coding and tasks like refactoring code and writing unit tests. The user is excited about the potential of local models but notes that they still have limitations, such as slow inference and small context windows, and ...

Mechanical Watch (2022)

428 razin 2026-06-16 12:06:48 UTC ciechanow.ski Llama Share 75

A mechanical watch uses a spiral torsion spring to store energy, which is then released to power the watch's hands. The energy is controlled by gears and an escapement mechanism, ultimately regulated by a balance wheel oscillating at a precise rate.

Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

38 amarant 2026-06-16 15:29:48 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 8

The US Commerce Department invoked an export control directive against Anthropic, citing national security concerns, forcing the company to shut down its top AI models. Experts criticize the move as hasty and misguided, warning it sets a precedent for government control over American-made software.

Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small

38 EDM115 2026-06-16 15:06:48 UTC subq.ai Llama Share 17

SubQ 1.1 Small is a new AI model that removes the constraint of attention compute, enabling direct reasoning over large artifacts. It achieves near-perfect long-context retrieval and reduces attention compute by up to 64.5x compared to dense attention.

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

178 rdmuser 2026-06-16 11:06:48 UTC tck.mn Llama Share 59

The game Slay the Spire 2 has a bug called correlated RNG (CRNG) that allows players to predict certain random events, such as the curse from Neow's Bones, the first fight's drop rate, and the Doll Room's outcome, due to unexpected correlations between different random number generators. The bug is caused by the C# implementation of the System.Random class, which makes the output linear in ...

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

643 apitman 2026-06-16 05:06:48 UTC twitter.com/id_aa_carmack Full Share 321

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

72 arnejenssen 2026-06-16 15:07:48 UTC tech.slashdot.org Llama Share 40

Google is ending support for legacy ad blockers like uBlock Origin by removing the kExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag in Chrome 150. This will impact other Chromium-based browsers like Microsoft Edge and Opera, which may also follow suit.

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

1453 lwhsiao 2026-06-15 20:06:48 UTC roman.pt Llama Share 274

A recruiter sent a LinkedIn message asking me to review a GitHub repo, which turned out to be a backdoored Node project. I caught the trap by using a read-only agent and reported the repo to GitHub and the recruiter to LinkedIn.

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

422 paulmooreparks 2026-06-16 05:06:48 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 133

Raymond has been involved in Windows evolution for over 30 years and created The Old New Thing website and book. He occasionally shares stories on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account.

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

158 speckx 2026-06-16 14:06:48 UTC 9to5google.com Llama Share 92

Google Chrome is ending support for Manifest V2 extensions, including popular ad blockers like uBlock Origin, due to new permissions structure and focus on privacy. Chrome 150 will remove the primary workaround, while Chrome 151 will remove remaining flags, effectively ending ad blocker tools.

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

50 nate 2026-06-16 13:06:48 UTC shadycharacters.co.uk Llama Share 23

Ollie Wagner, Apple's first emoji designer, shared his experience designing over 300 emojis in 2008. He worked from a SoftBank spreadsheet, applying Apple's visual language to hundreds of symbols, with Steve Jobs' final approval.

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

109 0x000xca0xfe 2026-06-16 09:06:48 UTC sighack.com Llama Share 18

The user created 25 generative art designs using Perlin flow fields in Processing, experimenting with various parameters and techniques to achieve unique results. The process helped the user understand how to practice creativity within self-imposed constraints.

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

38 tosh 2026-06-16 12:06:48 UTC unicorn-engine.org Llama Share 10

Unicorn Engine was awarded by Alibaba Cloud for its impact on the cybersecurity field. The project has been maintained and developed for over 7 years under an open-source license.

Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud)

39 Prof_Sigmund 2026-06-16 15:06:48 UTC professorsigmund.com Llama Share 7

Industrialized fraud syndicates extract over $64 billion from the global elderly population using sophisticated psychological tricks and technology. A community-driven initiative, Granny Kate, aims to protect seniors by detecting and disrupting remote access scams, and users can help by installing and testing the application on their grandmother's computer.

4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave

31 sabareesh 2026-06-16 13:06:48 UTC sabareesh.com Llama Share 30

A custom water cooling system was built for four NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards to handle multi-day training jobs. A cracked power inductor was found to be the cause of a GPU failure, which was fixed by a local phone-repair chain with a microsolder tech.

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

401 _tk_ 2026-06-16 10:06:48 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 223

Anthropic's AI models were blocked by the Trump administration due to a simple prompt "Fix this code" from outside researchers. The ban is seen as counterproductive by cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris, who argues it will hurt defenders more than attackers.

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

516 sohkamyung 2026-06-15 23:06:48 UTC richardosgood.com Llama Share 307

The user had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to create a digital dead drop hosting banned books, inspired by a short story and Cory Doctorow's book, and decided to use Tasmota firmware to create the Banned Book Library. After purchasing a bulb with Tasmota pre-installed, the user modified the firmware to create a custom web server and storage system, but encountered several ...

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

949 tinywind 2026-06-15 17:06:48 UTC tinywind.io Full Share 169

Tinywind is a pixel-art pirate sailing game in your browser. Outsail the Royal Navy across 7 islands with real sailing physics — beam reach, tack, jibe, broadside. Free to play, no install, 5-minute voyages.

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

244 itsmarcelg 2026-06-16 11:06:48 UTC reuters.com Full Share 190

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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

83 tosh 2026-06-16 08:06:48 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 26

Callbacks must be fast and non-blocking, returning quickly to avoid system slowdowns. Blocking or IPC calls, including waiting for work items, defeat the purpose of asynchronous work and can cause system hangs.

The history of butterfly swimming

12 mooreds 2026-06-16 14:06:48 UTC swimming.org Llama Share 8

Butterfly stroke originated in the 1930s as a breaststroke variation with overarm recovery. It became an Olympic event in 1956 with men's 200m and women's 100m events.

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

84 apulkit6 2026-06-16 10:06:48 UTC trinket.strivemath.org Full Share 11

A community-hosted edition of Trinket, free forever at trinket.strivemath.org. Write and run Python, HTML, and more in your browser, and build interactive coding courses. Hosted by Strive Math.

I Love the Computer

285 speckx 2026-06-15 21:06:48 UTC michaelenger.com Llama Share 155

The author's love for technology began with a computer his mother brought home from work in the early 90s, which sparked a lifelong passion for computers and programming. Now, the author feels disillusioned with the current state of technology, overrun by marketers and capitalists who exploit its potential for profit.

But yak shaving is fun

4 parksb 2026-06-16 15:06:48 UTC parksb.github.io Prefix Share 0

This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in HTML, but that was so inconvenient that I built a system for writing posts as JSON files. That too was awkward for longer pieces, so I developed a service ...

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

104 Cider9986 2026-06-16 06:06:48 UTC rarehistoricalphotos.com Llama Share 36

Martin Manhoff, an American diplomat, kept a diary and took photographs during his time in Moscow from 1950s, offering a unique perspective on life in the Soviet Union. His documents reveal the stark contrast between the Soviet authorities' façade and the harsh realities experienced by ordinary citizens, providing a valuable insight into the Cold War era.

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

9 handelaar 2026-06-16 15:32:48 UTC bsky.app Full Share 3

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-06/cp260087en.pdf

'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

61 defrost 2026-06-16 13:06:48 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 36

A 1977 mockumentary called Alternative 3 claimed scientists were disappearing or dying due to a secret government plan to abandon Earth. The show was a hoax, but its story has been taken seriously by conspiracy theorists and continues to influence their ideas today.

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

117 california-og 2026-06-16 05:06:48 UTC garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com Full Share 16

An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

7 speckx 2026-06-16 15:41:48 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Prefix Share 2

The UK government will ban under-16s from social media, with regulations due before Christmas and the rules taking effect in spring 2027. To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan. Long-standing accounts are largely exempt, but signing up ...

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

149 alexis-d 2026-06-16 02:06:48 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 73