Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

236 xx_ns 2026-06-03 11:37:36 UTC blog.nns.ee Llama Share 47

The user discovered vulnerabilities in the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X firmware that allow an attacker to turn the speaker into a covert spying tool or Rubber Ducky without pairing or physical access. The user found that the speaker's Bluetooth connection can be exploited to send CTP commands, and they created a custom firmware that turns the speaker into a keyboard, allowing remote ...

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

44 reconnecting 2026-06-03 12:42:36 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 15

Meta is scaling back its plan to track employees' computer activity after backlash from staff. Employees can now opt out of tracking for up to 30 minutes at a time or request exemptions.

Every Byte Matters

97 ingve 2026-06-03 11:37:36 UTC fzakaria.com Llama Share 23

Understanding cache line and page sizes is crucial for optimizing performance in Java. Keeping a tight control on working set size can drastically affect time for random access patterns.

PlayStation Architecture

75 gregsadetsky 2026-06-03 10:37:36 UTC copetti.org Llama Share 11

Sony designed the PlayStation's CPU, a MIPS R3000A-based chip, to be simple and practical, but this simplicity came at a cost. The CPU lacks a Floating-Point Unit (FPU) and has a pipelined design that requires manual filling of delay slots to mitigate pipeline hazards.

Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)

44 aragonite 2026-06-03 10:37:36 UTC dl.acm.org Full Share 5

Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

118 nathell 2026-06-03 08:37:36 UTC handwritten.danieljanus.pl Full Share 23

An actual Clojure REPL running on my reMarkable 2

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

518 ammar2 2026-06-03 02:37:36 UTC blog.ammaraskar.com Llama Share 75

An attacker can steal a GitHub token by exploiting a vulnerability in VSCode's webviews, allowing them to install malicious extensions and gain full code execution. The attack involves creating a Jupyter notebook with a payload that installs a local workspace extension, which can then be used to steal the token.

Which sparkling water is the best?

15 vmaxmc2 2026-06-03 12:45:36 UTC maximevidal.com Llama Share 8

Numen edges the field in taste, with Fine Bulle Perrier, Quézac, and San Pellegrino close behind. High minerality and flat taste were penalized, while more bubbles and paying more slightly correlated with better taste.

Piramidal (YC W24) – Software Engineers – NYC Onsite

0 2026-06-03 12:37:36 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

We're hiring senior software engineers for AI and Neuroscience projects with expertise in Python, Go, Terraform, React, and TypeScript. Ideal candidates have experience with streaming systems, data-intensive UIs, or architecture design.

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

41 papersail 2026-06-03 12:44:36 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 23

RAM prices have skyrocketed due to AI demands, with 32GB DDR5 RAM now costing $375 and 64GB reaching $679.99. PC builders face enormous pricing pressure as popular kits and upgrades exceed $400, with no sign of prices letting up.

Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

30 joozio 2026-06-03 11:37:36 UTC wired.com Llama Share 15

Turkey's hair-transplant industry has grown into a multibillion-dollar empire due to its unique blend of Anatolian craftsmanship, engineering, and medical expertise. The country's success is threatened by unlicensed clinics, digital-marketing agencies, and the loss of global reputation, but innovation and expertise remain key to its success.

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

152 s-macke 2026-06-03 04:37:36 UTC github.com/s-macke Llama Share 39

A user reverse engineered Test Drive III maps, reconstructing them with AI after 5 years of work. The maps are stored in a 32x16 grid with 2-byte cells containing tile IDs and rotation/height data.

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

368 tanelpoder 2026-06-02 23:37:36 UTC github.com/c0dejedi Llama Share 98

A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.

Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters

6 apwheele 2026-06-03 13:03:36 UTC blog.spotcrime.com Prefix Share 2

Dear SpotCrime Subscriber, For years, residents across Los Angeles relied on public crime data to stay informed about safety in their neighborhoods.That transparency has now disappeared.The Los Angeles Police Department has significantly reduced the availability and usefulness of public crime data during its transition to a new records system. Specifically, it removed block-level crime ...

MAI-Code-1-Flash

499 EvanZhouDev 2026-06-02 19:37:36 UTC microsoft.ai Llama Share 230

Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

127 ray__ 2026-06-03 04:37:36 UTC research.ligo.bio Llama Share 36

Researchers improved biomolecular modeling by scaling models, compute, and data, but found that natural protein sequences are vast and their folds are more redundant than sequence counts suggest. They developed a scalable clustering algorithm to identify reusable structural neighborhoods and found that natural proteins reuse a relatively small set of fold solutions, suggesting that enzyme ...

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

49 zvr 2026-06-03 06:37:36 UTC leidendeclaration.ai Llama Share 16

The Leiden Declaration calls for mathematicians to exercise responsibility in adopting artificial intelligence, ensuring the continued flourishing of the discipline, and preserving traditional values such as transparency, attribution, and peer review. It provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, and industry to promote fair and transparent practices in mathematical research.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

319 berlianta 2026-06-03 00:37:36 UTC law.stanford.edu Llama Share 270

A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.

DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors

44 sohkamyung 2026-06-03 06:37:36 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 11

Richard Greenhill built a life-size humanoid robot called Shadow Walker in his attic with a group of enthusiasts. The robot, which stood 168 cm tall, used compressed air to move its 28 "air-muscles" and had 12 degrees of freedom, but struggled to walk.

What I've learned about the trombone

17 bookofjoe 2026-06-03 11:37:36 UTC bryanhu.com Llama Share 14

Playing the trombone involves controlling pitch through a continuous slide and embouchure adjustments to access different partials and overtones, allowing for subtle pitch adjustments during play. The trombone's unique tuning system, based on just intonation, allows for micro-adjustments to be made while playing, enabling a more nuanced and expressive sound.

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

171 fons-p 2026-06-02 23:37:36 UTC discourse.julialang.org Llama Share 24

Pluto version 1.0 is released, celebrating six years of progress and making scientific computing more accessible and fun. Pluto is an interactive environment for notebook programming in Julia, with features like reproducibility, accessibility, and reactivity.

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

254 speckx 2026-06-02 20:37:36 UTC acdw.net Llama Share 128

The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

77 shscs911 2026-06-03 04:37:36 UTC utoronto.ca Llama Share 20

Researchers at the University of Toronto discovered a new cyberthreat that uses free AI models to spread and adapt, targeting all online devices. This threat can seize control of networks and launch sophisticated attacks at virtually no cost, raising concerns about global security.

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

95 dpmdpm 2026-06-03 01:37:36 UTC blog.roku.com Llama Share 32

Roku LT OS is a lightweight, open-source operating system for embedded systems and automotive engineering. It provides a powerful, predictable framework for high-performance hardware-level development.

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

76 gregsadetsky 2026-06-03 02:37:36 UTC capstone-engine.org Llama Share 3

Capstone is a disassembly engine for binary analysis and reversing, supporting 24 architectures and implemented in pure C with bindings for various languages. It provides a generic API and is widely used in the security community.

CT scans of BYD car parts

434 viasfo 2026-06-02 20:37:36 UTC lumafield.com Full Share 286

We CT scanned four BYD components—a battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fob—to see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)

41 luu 2026-06-03 06:37:36 UTC ariadne.space Llama Share 15

Developers writing assembly code for Apple's ARM-based computers should be aware of differences between Mach-O and ELF ABIs. Following guidelines can make assembly code portable to other 64-bit ARM devices.

How we index images for RAG

173 mooreds 2026-06-02 18:37:36 UTC kapa.ai Llama Share 23

Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

189 dm319 2026-06-02 19:37:36 UTC hpcalcs.com Llama Share 118

The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.

Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message

9 frb 2026-06-03 13:15:36 UTC xcancel.com Prefix Share 0

No one: Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes, but the content isn’t actually *there*. The tell: it’s just an empty string. But the emptiness of the string IS its ...