SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

259 tomasol 2026-05-29 18:20:52 UTC obeli.sk Llama Share 142

The user agrees with DBOS that a separate orchestration tier is not necessary for durable execution, as workflow state can be kept in a local database like SQLite. A local SQLite database with Litestream backup to S3 is a simple and cost-effective way to achieve durability for many AI and experimentation workflows.

The dead economy theory

509 WillDaSilva 2026-05-29 16:20:52 UTC owenmcgrann.com Llama Share 690

The AI industry's focus on labor replacement threatens to eliminate human jobs, leading to economic instability and social unrest. The industry's prioritization of profit over people and lack of accountability may undermine democratic governance and exacerbate inequality.

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

280 vnglst 2026-05-29 17:20:52 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 89

I attended the AI Now Summit by Mistral AI in Paris, learning about their full-stack AI approach, including compute, models, platforms, and consultancy. Mistral focuses on efficient, open, and custom models for European companies, emphasizing partnerships and on-prem deployment for sovereignty and return on investment.

On Rendering Diffs

107 amadeus 2026-05-29 19:20:52 UTC pierre.computer GoogleT5 Share 27

A good review surface needs more than text. virtualization helps with rendering problems, and moving highlighting off the main thread helped with parts of the processing problem. to emulate scrolling entirely, no native scrollable region is used, with simulated scrollbar and content updated via requestanimationframe as the user moves through the document. we don’t virtualize horizontal scroll ...

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

43 evilsimon 2026-05-29 19:20:52 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 63

Shift offers free home cleaning in exchange for footage to train robots, with a "magic hat" recording cleaners. The service is initially available in New York, with plans to expand to other cities.

EV Stupidity Checklist

27 pchristensen 2026-05-29 21:30:52 UTC hypercritical.co Llama Share 14

Automakers are creating new, often worse, versions of car features in electric vehicles. They should use time-tested designs for exterior door handles, turn signals, and climate controls.

The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

131 TechTechTech 2026-05-29 20:20:52 UTC invenglobal.com Llama Share 125

The California State Assembly passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' requiring digital game publishers to maintain game accessibility after service ends. The bill aims to protect user rights and preserve games, with potential implications for the US gaming industry.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

192 justinweiss 2026-05-29 15:20:52 UTC inkandswitch.com Llama Share 70

bijou64 is a variable-length integer encoding that ensures canonicality, preventing multiple ways to represent a number, and runs faster than LEB128 in benchmarks. It uses a tag-based system and bit shuffling to achieve this, making it structurally safer and faster for certain use cases.

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

45 yu3zhou4 2026-05-29 20:20:52 UTC github.com/jmaczan Llama Share 6

We are building a high-performance LLM inference engine with C++ and CUDA, focusing on loading and running a pre-trained LLM model, specifically Llama 3.2 1B Instruct, and understanding the basics of floating-point numbers and their representation in binary format.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

172 watermelon0 2026-05-29 15:20:52 UTC jeffgeerling.com Llama Share 322

Your nephew is choosing between a MacBook Neo and a Framework 12 laptop. The MacBook Neo offers better performance, display, and build quality at a lower price, making it the better value.

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

121 simjnd 2026-05-29 16:20:52 UTC liquid.ai Llama Share 36

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an edge model for fast tool calling on consumer hardware. It expands context window, doubles vocabulary, and achieves tasks on entry-level laptops.

Rothko for your current weather conditions

93 jxmorris12 2026-05-29 19:20:52 UTC rothko.joonas.wtf Llama Share 10

Rothko focused on light, color, and emotion in his late 1940s work. He created soft-edged rectangles to evoke feelings like joy, doom, and tragedy in viewers.

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

507 AndrewKemendo 2026-05-29 16:20:52 UTC rockstarintel.com Llama Share 330

Rockstar staff formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union to combat company actions, disputing firings as union busting. The union will face Rockstar in court, with a trial date set, and is seeking donations for their legal battle.

Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

42 patriceckhart 2026-05-29 19:20:52 UTC zot.sh Llama Share 53

zot is a minimal terminal coding agent that interacts with various AI models and tools, allowing users to edit files, run shell commands, and answer Telegram DMs. It supports a wide range of providers and models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and GitHub Copilot.

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

82 dtagames 2026-05-29 17:20:52 UTC tvexplorer.live Full Share 17

Don't just watch TV. Explore over 10,000 free channels from around the world.

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

11 rented_mule 2026-05-29 21:20:52 UTC blog.prusa3d.com Llama Share 0

Prusa developed a color mixing model called Prusa ColorMix to enable printing with dozens of colors on multi-material printers. The model is now integrated into PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint, allowing users to easily mix colors and predict the final result.

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

250 xyzal 2026-05-29 11:20:52 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 212

The introduction of AI and automation in programming is deskilling the profession, making it easier for businesses to hire generalists and reducing the bargaining power of workers, similar to how frameworks deskilled frontend development in the past. While AI can increase efficiency and productivity, it also risks producing lower quality work and requires developers to understand how to use ...

Why I collect DLES

15 trizoza 2026-05-29 21:20:52 UTC dles.gg Llama Share 4

The user created a site called DLES to discover and launch daily games, inspired by their own daily game collection. They invite users to submit games, rate them, and add them to their daily ritual to help others discover new games.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

55 timshell 2026-05-29 16:20:52 UTC research.roundtable.ai Llama Share 45

Researchers designed CogCAPTCHA30 to test how humans and AI complete tasks, finding that while AI can perform tasks like humans, it does so with different processes. The Process Turing Test measures process equivalence, raising questions about the types of language models that are humanlike and the robustness of this discrimination process.

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

92 freediver 2026-05-29 11:20:52 UTC minimaxir.com Llama Share 87

The author is puzzled by the sudden popularity of Hy3 preview on OpenRouter, a service that provides access to various LLMs, despite its lower quality compared to other models. After analyzing the data, the author suspects that a single large app is using Hy3 as its data-processing backbone, but the true reason for its popularity remains unclear.

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

405 brandonb 2026-05-29 01:20:52 UTC latimes.com Llama Share 637

UC faculty members are calling for standardized testing in STEM admissions due to concerns over students' readiness for college-level math. They want SAT or ACT exams to be required starting in 2027 to ensure students can handle college-level math.

Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)

35 backuprestore 2026-05-29 18:20:52 UTC wellsoc.org Llama Share 7

Wellington, a British general, is writing from Central Spain in 1812, requesting clarification on his instructions from the British government as he leads an army against the French. He believes his mission is either to train British clerks in Spain or to drive the French out of Spain.

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

98 Cider9986 2026-05-29 20:20:52 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 20

Microsoft and Nightmare Eclipse, a disgruntled bug hunter, are at odds over uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure. Nightmare has released six Windows zero-days, with Microsoft warning of exploitation and potential legal action.

We should be more tired than the model

135 tosh 2026-05-29 12:20:52 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 120

User feels disconnected from code when using agentic code generation, lacking internal processing. Adding friction to development, such as rewriting code, asking questions, and critiquing, helps solidify user's foundation and improves tool usage.

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

139 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 13:20:52 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 59

Ancient Romans built insulae, high-density apartment buildings, to accommodate the city's growing population. However, these structures faced challenges such as fire hazards, poor sanitation, and structural instability.

A Trillion Characters

20 andersmurphy 2026-05-29 21:20:52 UTC characters.fastserial.com Llama Share 12

Trillion Characters' is a collaborative experiment using Datastar, a lightweight JavaScript framework that moves logic to the backend. It uses server-sent events, compression, and a sophisticated DOM-morphing algorithm for real-time updates on a €5.52 VPS.

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:20:52 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cedana is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead technical engagement with customers, deploy Cedana into various environments, and drive product innovation from the field. The ideal candidate has 3-10 years of software engineering experience with SLURM deployments, strong Linux fundamentals, and experience with Kubernetes operations.

Expertise in the age of AI

95 brilee 2026-05-29 14:20:52 UTC moderndescartes.com Llama Share 94

The hiring market for junior engineers is competitive despite senior engineers having an easy time finding jobs due to AI's impact on expertise. Only some junior engineers are worth hiring, those who can develop "coding intuition" within 2-3 years of graduating, making them highly sought after by elite companies.

I am retiring from tech to live offline

701 PinkG 2026-05-29 15:20:52 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 482

tl;dr AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best! Disclosure / advertisement: I worked for Sentry when I wrote this.

Someone used my open source project to phish people

82 andrejsshell 2026-05-29 13:20:52 UTC andrej.sh Llama Share 47

The Kaneo cloud version was used for a large-scale phishing attack, with 14,520 invitations sent to strangers using verified Resend domain and a template-based phishing email subject line. The attack highlighted the need for additional security measures in the cloud version, including captcha, rate limits, disposable email domain blocking, and workspace-name filtering, to prevent similar ...