Please Use AI

316 garycomtois 2026-05-29 13:57:35 UTC shawnsmucker.substack.com Llama Share 79

The author suggests using AI for tasks like meal planning, writing speeches, and creating art to avoid imperfections and pain. They reflect on the imperfections of life and the beauty found in them, feeling melancholic about aging and losing parental roles.

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

78 dotcoma 2026-05-29 11:57:35 UTC dutchreview.com Llama Share 68

The Dutch experienced tulip mania in the 1630s where people traded valuable items for tulip bulbs, leading to a massive price bubble that eventually collapsed. The event remains a cautionary tale of irrational exuberance and overpriced markets.

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

9 PinkG 2026-05-29 14:42:35 UTC openpath.quest Full Share 2

tl;dr AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!

The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

86 ColinWright 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 45

Small businesses waste over 2 days of time each month reporting no sales to the Government Commercial Agency. The agency does not track feedback on its Low Value Purchase System, despite asking for ratings.

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

1169 philips 2026-05-28 19:57:35 UTC mybricklog.com Llama Share 515

Bricks & Minifigs Corporate allegedly stole a $200,000 LEGO collection from Bryan Mansell, refused to return it, and lied to employees and police about the situation. The company was found liable in court, but instead of paying the judgment, they closed the store, and the people trying to expose the theft were targeted with false police reports and arrested.

Local Git Remotes

35 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC cblgh.org Llama Share 25

User set up a local git remote on their home server to clone a bare repository and push/pull from it. This allowed for a reliable backup and reduced downtime when using an offsite remote with lower uptime.

Expertise in the Age of AI

13 brilee 2026-05-29 13:57:35 UTC moderndescartes.com Llama Share 3

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.

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

29 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC commonedge.org Llama Share 7

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.

Is This Sustainable?

69 ColinEberhardt 2026-05-29 10:57:35 UTC jamiehurst.co.uk Llama Share 54

Senior engineers in AI-forward orgs are doing more hands-on work, with human-focused tasks like mentoring and thinking time being squeezed out. The productivity gains from AI are being captured by output volume, not quality, and the role is becoming unsustainable at this pace.

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

106 NicoConstant 2026-05-29 09:57:35 UTC blog.kog.ai Llama Share 53

We show that AI inference on GPUs can be super-fast, reaching the speed regime of dedicated inference hardware cards when optimizing the whole software stack with architecture/engine/kernel co-design. Our public tech preview demonstrates that a standard 8-GPU node can generate 3,000 output tokens per second per request on a 2B coding model at batch size 1.

Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

15 ColinWright 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 12

Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance. It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-29 12:57:35 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.

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

253 ankitg12 2026-05-29 02:57:35 UTC buildingbetter.tech Llama Share 51

Claude Code's source code reveals undocumented features that expand its capabilities. These include a programmable middleware layer for AI tool use and persistent agent memory.

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

73 pramodbiligiri 2026-05-29 07:57:35 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 25

Cloudflare built a code review system using AI agents to improve engineering resiliency. The system uses a composable plugin architecture and supports multiple AI providers and version control systems.

I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)

497 mattrighetti 2026-05-28 20:57:35 UTC nick.winans.io Llama Share 75

The author created the nice!nano, a wireless microcontroller board, in their college dorm room and it has since sold over 50,000 units worldwide. The board's success led to the creation of Typeractive, a keyboard store focused on wireless keyboards.

Claude Opus 4.8

1656 craigmart 2026-05-28 16:57:35 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 1292

Claude Opus 4.8 is a new version with improved benchmarks, effectiveness, and features like dynamic workflows and effort control. It's available today at the same price as Opus 4.7, with faster speed and better reliability.

Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

56 Heavykenny 2026-05-29 13:57:35 UTC github.com/scanaislop Llama Share 47

Aislop is a code quality tool that detects and auto-fixes sloppy patterns in code, including narrative comments, swallowed exceptions, and dead code. It provides a score of 0-100 and can be integrated into CI pipelines for enforcement.

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

30 surprisetalk 2026-05-29 10:57:35 UTC core77.com Llama Share 9

Pilot's Kire-Na highlighter was designed to solve everyday issues with existing highlighters, such as inconsistent pressure and smudging. It features a soft nylon tip with plastic guides that control angle and pressure, resulting in straight lines and no smudging.

Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in a setback

13 onemoresoop 2026-05-29 14:25:35 UTC reuters.com Full Share 1

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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

119 goranmoomin 2026-05-29 03:57:35 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 43

id Software developed Quake on HP 712-60 and DEC Alpha server, then switched to Windows NT with Visual C++ 4.X for win32 binaries. To recreate the experience, users can install Windows NT 4, Visual C++ 6, and the Quake source code, then apply the Visual C++ 6 Processor Pack to assemble the .s files.

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

147 xyzal 2026-05-29 11:57:35 UTC mastrojs.github.io Llama Share 143

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 ...

We should be more tired than the model

70 tosh 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC vickiboykis.com Llama Share 71

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.

Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents

11 GabrielBianconi 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC tensorzero.com Llama Share 0

Noisy evaluators can be unreliable for judging individual outputs but can still help pick the best agent variant to deploy and improve over time. Even very noisy evaluators can reliably tell you which agent is better on average, given a sufficiently large evaluation dataset.

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

298 Kwastie 2026-05-29 05:57:35 UTC github.com/robinostlund Llama Share 150

User checks login requirements before posting issue, but still experiences login issue with expired authentication. Error message indicates incorrect credentials or service unavailability.

HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

78 peter_d_sherman 2026-05-29 03:57:35 UTC github.com/heidisql Llama Share 30

HeidiSQL is a graphical interface for managing various databases including MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It allows data browsing, editing, and exporting, with optional translation contributions.

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching

98 vi_sextus_vi 2026-05-29 02:57:35 UTC mpi.nl Llama Share 43

Adults from different cultures adapt their hand gestures similarly when teaching children new concepts. They use more visually rich, two-handed gestures to help children learn, suggesting a shared communicative strategy.

Show HN: Context-aware Japanese furigana using Sudachi and ModernBERT

6 epitrochoid413 2026-05-29 12:57:35 UTC ezfurigana.com Prefix Share 3

Add furigana to Japanese text, PDFs, images, subtitles, and ebooks. Automatically converts kanji to hiragana to help you read and learn Japanese. Free to use with no signup required. Your uploads are automatically deleted within 24 hours. Click on words in the furigana converter to see definitions, then save them for later review. Furigana are small phonetic characters (hiragana or katakana) ...

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

12 pavel_lishin 2026-05-29 14:17:35 UTC 404media.co Full Share 0

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.

Ten Basic Clouds

168 nopg 2026-05-28 22:57:35 UTC noaa.gov Full Share 44

Luke Howard noticed that clouds often have features of two or more categories, such as cirrus + stratus, cumulus + stratus, etc. Based on these observations, he suggested modifications (or combinations) of the core four clouds between categories. This research served as the starting point for the ten basic types of clouds we ob

Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

24 m3h 2026-05-29 08:57:35 UTC wterm.dev Llama Share 3

wterm renders to DOM with native features like copy/paste and accessibility. It's written in Zig and compiled to WASM for near-native performance.