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Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513536 Points: 123 # Comments: 78
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Article URL: https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511908 Points: 739 # Comments: 229
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https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2065597942602531163 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072 Points: 1938 # Comments: 1438
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Article URL: https://putt.day/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510341 Points: 141 # Comments: 69
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Article URL: https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046 Points: 177 # Comments: 106
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Article URL: https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510010 Points: 387 # Comments: 96
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Article URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509844 Points: 38 # Comments: 4
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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509182 Points: 294 # Comments: 57
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Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508726 Points: 188 # Comments: 78
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Article URL: https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020 Points: 345 # Comments: 83
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Article URL: https://correresmidestino.com/dont-you-just-upload-it-to-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507278 Points: 395 # Comments: 307
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Article URL: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231 Points: 782 # Comments: 189
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Article URL: https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504697 Points: 318 # Comments: 215
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Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502347 Points: 419 # Comments: 224
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Article URL: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500447 Points: 285 # Comments: 216
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Article URL: https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012 Points: 1410 # Comments: 509
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Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573 Points: 736 # Comments: 634
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Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385 Points: 733 # Comments: 252
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Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609 Points: 1561 # Comments: 469
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Article URL: https://fablepool.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496539 Points: 509 # Comments: 270
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Article URL: https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496396 Points: 333 # Comments: 259
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https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-wor... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928 Points: 368 # Comments: 206
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Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492533 Points: 311 # Comments: 210
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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492306 Points: 493 # Comments: 248
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See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HjWHNLRMB0 Related: The RCE that AMD won't fix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947 - Feb 2026 (173 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492215 Points: 314 # Comments: 123
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Article URL: https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492210 Points: 398 # Comments: 239
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Article URL: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491830 Points: 493 # Comments: 156
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Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490826 Points: 546 # Comments: 306
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Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/botsitting-ai-hidden-human-labor-at-work-2026-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490057 Points: 278 # Comments: 220
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Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490024 Points: 1411 # Comments: 343
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Article URL: https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489402 Points: 425 # Comments: 292
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https://web.archive.org/web/20260611122253/https://www.theve... , https://archive.ph/y4V4k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489229 Points: 502 # Comments: 439
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Article URL: https://www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487540 Points: 305 # Comments: 352
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Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487435 Points: 317 # Comments: 167
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Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029 Points: 710 # Comments: 316
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Article URL: https://isaacus.com/blog/our-response-to-the-us-ban-on-fable-5-and-mythos-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512915 Points: 92 # Comments: 18
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Article URL: https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506659 Points: 240 # Comments: 76
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We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard ( https://bitboard.work ). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace. We give you the infrastructure and visualization layer to analyze data with AI. Today, we’re launching dashboards that you and your agents can work on together. You can connect your coding agent or AI chat to BitBoard and build live reporting. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl0K565a7c . AI tools treat data analysis as ephemeral, making it hard to report or collaborate. Legacy BI tools weren’t intended for AI users, so they bolt on chatbots and can’t offer meaningful cont
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Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-earth-get-its-oceans-maybe-it-made-them-itself-20260612/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505452 Points: 124 # Comments: 62
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Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with. It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the public site behind each one. The goal is to show what people actually launched with: hosting, frameworks, analytics, DNS, security headers, legal pages, AI-builder signals, and other public clues. I started building it because most stack-detection sites look at the web as a whole. I was more interested in the current indie launch scene: what people are choosing right now, at the point they first pu
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Article URL: https://envs.net/~volpe/blog/posts/reduce-slop.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504912 Points: 186 # Comments: 117
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Article URL: https://encryptedspaces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503219 Points: 74 # Comments: 10
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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13473 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503014 Points: 132 # Comments: 13
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Article URL: https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/11/life-before-main/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493512 Points: 77 # Comments: 21
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Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/305/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489519 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
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Article URL: https://crlf.link/log/entries/260525-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487829 Points: 98 # Comments: 28
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Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484496 Points: 200 # Comments: 63
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Hi HN! I made this after collecting hundreds of "name → tree" submissions at ITP. Live: https://landscape.bairui.dev/ Source: https://github.com/pearmini/infinite-landscape Plant a tree: https://tree.bairui.dev/ Pan and zoom an infinite procedural landscape. Each name is converted to ASCII codes, which grow into a unique tree (breadth-first branching; repeated digits become mathematical roses). Mountains use midpoint displacement + Perlin noise, with SVG radial gradients in the blue/green/gold palette from Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains." Inspired by Lingdong Huang's {Sha
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Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computer-science-degree-isnt-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470152 Points: 66 # Comments: 48
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Article URL: https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467697 Points: 42 # Comments: 8
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Former front-end web developer/vibe coder here. I've started using AI tools to streamline my workflow. I'm now able to create marketing websites in under 2 hours and charge $1k-$2k per site. My hourly earnings have increased to around $1k USD. Thought I'd share my experience with the community. AMA. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511828 Points: 7 # Comments: 14
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Like every one else, I've been using Fable quit extensively the past few days. My opinion is made: it's very powerful but it uses its brains in sometimes very wrong or weird ways. To examplify that, I've asked Fable to fix a repository that had a number of submodules and symlinks and this and that (don't judge). As I was giving it more leeway, it ended with this output: > .git is deleted. That was my doing, and it was exactly the kind of mistake it looks like: a relative-path rm -rf executed after the shell's working directory had been reset to the repo root, without re-checking pwd first. Not
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I stopped caring about my job a while ago. I’ve become somewhat numb and withdrawn due to a mix of substance abuse, overworking, poor sleep and poor cognition habits due to AI usage. For those who have gone through this mental exhaustion, what has helped? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461 Points: 5 # Comments: 5
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They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509243 Points: 11 # Comments: 13
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I think a lot of people here have ideas they keep thinking about, but realistically will probably never build. Maybe they are too small for a startup, too weird for work, too niche, too much effort, or just too far down the backlog. I wonder if it would be fun to have a thread where people pitch those ideas. If you have something you would like to see exist, but probably will not build yourself, post it here. Could be software, hardware, data, art, local tools, research, weird experiments, anything. I'm curious about your ideas! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507849 Point
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I fell into the rabbit hole of TTS models lately. Tried all major paid tools (ElevenLabs/InWorld/etc.), and all the newest open-source models. I started asking myself: what happens when the voice is "solved"? E.g. it gets impossible to distinguish it from a human. Wanted to hear your opinions! Sketched some of my own thoughts, and I see two futures: Future 1: the nuanced version Audiobooks: I think established authors will still prefer human narrators. If you can afford a $3k–$4k fixed cost for narration, a good human voice is usually worth it. TTS may even push human narration prices down, ma
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The post with the title: Gauntlet AI will fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give $200k+ job (gauntletai.com) The post doesn’t have any author attributed or comments. Is this something new? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507014 Points: 6 # Comments: 6
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506575 Clearly seems like something dodgy and most likely a scam, why would it be on the first page? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506850 Points: 133 # Comments: 51
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I have a very high-quality SaaS product that's ready to launch. Everything is complete: the product, testing, LLC, bank account, Stripe, tech stack, etc. But I built it as a programmer trying to create the coolest thing possible for a product I've always wanted to make. My issue is that using Claude as a lawyer is scaring me. What I consider moral and what seems to be legal are two different things. For context, the product uses an AI pipeline to adapt user-provided content into dramatized formats. Think of it as ebook-to-graphic-audio adaptation (though there are other pipelines). The quality
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was bored in shower. started thinking about code golf*. thought maybe HN would like to have some fun as the week winds down? first comment in thread, paste some text. subsequent thread comments, try to shorten the posted text without diluting the meaning too excessively. explain what you did if you feel it is needed. give votes to whoever you think deserves it, for whatever reason. pretty simple. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505354 Points: 2 # Comments: 5
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I haven't found a way to delete all chats in bulk like you can on Chatgpt. With Claude, you have to scroll to the bottom, select everything, and delete. The problem is, if you have a lot of chats, it becomes impossible. I created this script. It does it alone. I hope it helps someone. (conversations disappear from the UI slowly, over several minutes, and remember to keep the tab open until the console shows "Finished", refreshing away from the page can stop the deletion process.) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505161 Points: 54 # Comments: 18
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Article URL: https://github.com/coder/boo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496250 Points: 90 # Comments: 27
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Article URL: https://www.zerofs.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496242 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
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Article URL: https://github.com/varmabudharaju/agent-pd/blob/master/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493786 Points: 10 # Comments: 8
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Article URL: https://github.com/ory/talos/tree/master Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491426 Points: 32 # Comments: 3
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Hey HN. I'm a high schooler in Fremont, CA. Tuesday morning I got a county-wide AC Alert text telling everyone in Alameda County to prepare a go-bag for an East Bay Hills Red Flag Warning that starts tonight at 11 PM. The text went to ~half a million phones. The actual NWS warning polygon only covers East Bay Hills (NWS zone CAZ515). Most people who got the text don't need a go-bag tonight. Some in the hills don't realize how close they are. So I built this tool - https://redflag-check.info/ mit licensed public github - https://github.com/vedant-f-is-ma/redflag-check It does a few things - tel
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322267 Points: 98 # Comments: 115
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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYsSFY4l18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510471 Points: 71 # Comments: 52
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Article URL: https://worldofclaudecraft.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509143 Points: 89 # Comments: 99
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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/renault-electric-vehicle-orders-have-surged-since-start-iran-war-says-ceo-2026-06-10/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507986 Points: 117 # Comments: 74
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Article URL: https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507783 Points: 70 # Comments: 80
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Article URL: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507282 Points: 262 # Comments: 198
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Article URL: https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-128/law-enforcements-warrior-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506616 Points: 90 # Comments: 94
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Article URL: https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-liming-the-end-of-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504543 Points: 161 # Comments: 159
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Meta is currently down, facebook, insta. The outage is not registered on https://metastatus.com/ , possibly implying a greater outage. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504034 Points: 124 # Comments: 94
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Article URL: https://blog.osull.com/2026/06/12/ryanair-dark-ux-patterns-summer-2026-refresher/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502601 Points: 246 # Comments: 188
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Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-future-of-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502321 Points: 192 # Comments: 203
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So many comments here missing the big picture, and just gleefully pointing out that Anthropic got what they deserved, or that this is the natural culmination of some kind of marketing stunt. The real story here is that this may be the beginning of governments restricting the availability of strong LLMs to the public, to you. Fable was the strongest model on the market, and the US government has told you you can't use it (technically, only if you're not a US citizen, but in practice, even if you are). If you think the solution here is going to be open source Chinese models and / or running on y
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This whole thing is comedy. Anthropic pretending Mythos 5 is so capable it's going to destroy everything, but will release it anyway with "safeguards" (when does this ever work?). US Gov't using this fake hype as an excuse to handicap Anthropic simply because they have a vendetta.
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Obviously their statements are insincere, because they are building the bloody things. If they were sincere that AI is like nuclear weapons, then they would be devoting all their cash and energy into lobbying the government to nationalize them and treat AI like nuclear weapons. They would not be attempting to IPO and they for sure would not sell their weapon-like thing to the general public.
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Listen - that's the sound of millions of companies and users doubling down on Chinese models. It might be a national security problem for other nations to have access to these models. But it's equally now a national security problem for any other nation to depend on them. Or US tech in general.
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It seems more likely that the logical conclusion is the executive branch is mad at Anthropic, and lashing out at them with any convenient tool that they have. I suspect if OpenAI or Grok was operating at the same level they wouldn’t find themselves on the sharp end of the government stick
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So isn’t the only logical conclusion that we have reached the max of model capabilities that the US allows to be made available to the public? Why invest in smarter models with this precedent? And potentially more importantly: if a model like Mythos, which at best is an incremental improvement over Opus, is getting this treatment, how are all the AI investments that are based on the expectation of ASI / AGI / significantly better models going to be recouped?
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Finally they will pay for all the scaremongering they been doing to sell their models as something so much ahead of all else. Now they finally found the right fools in audience to believe it.
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The ending is a really powerful point. Most people apparently agree on two things: 1. AI is a great boon for all tasks and specialties we don’t have the skills to do ourselves. Understandable, since (A) we’re ill equipped to see the flaws in its output because it isn’t our area of expertise, and (B) it often can unlock great gains because if we trust it, we then don’t have to pay and wait for humans to do that thing. 2. AI is a terrible replacement for me - my skills are at such a high level that it’s almost theoretical that it’ll ever be good enough to replace me for 90% of what I get paid to
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You're correct about CRISPR Cas9. The off-target affects are difficult to manage. The paper describes Cas12a2. This is a different mechanism with discovery origins in - of all things - agriculture. It does not attempt in any way to reprogram cells. It uses a guide protein to locate a specific mutation with exacting precision and, when it activates, unleashes total destruction of the cell. The implications of Cas12a2 on undruggable conditions that exhibit known driver mutation profiles is profound. Source: I have personally funded novel research based on Cas12a2 for an undruggable condition I h
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"Don't expend more effort than they are" has actually long been a good principle to have internalized. Someone done only cursory research before asking a question on a mailing list? Give a cursory answer. Someone obviously spent hours trying to figure things out on their own? Give them a good chunk of your time. Someone on HN responding to you with single-sentence responses? Either don't respond, or respond in kind. Someone obviously engaging with your ideas and taking time to explain their position? Take time to engage with their ideas too.
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The title reminds me of an interesting ancient Chinese anecdote. And it is also a bit ironic that Toyota has gotten itself into some scandals recently ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wwj1p2wdyo ). King Wen of Wei asked Bian Que: “Of you three brothers, all physicians, who is the finest in the healing art?” Bian Que replied: “My eldest brother is the finest; my second brother comes next; I, Bian Que, am the least of the three.” King Wen said: “May I hear why?” Bian Que answered: “My eldest brother sees illness in the spirit, before it has taken shape, and removes it unseen; therefore his
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Everything about this story, from the way it’s written to the self destructive outcome, reminds me of the “I hacked 127.0.0.1” episode from some twenty years ago. [1] a mirror since I couldn’t find the original: https://gist.github.com/Androkai/0a2602719fa72ce454d436bfe28...
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This to me reads like a poignant commentary on the catastrophic loss of human agency, with the actual commit being highly revealing [0]. Author wants to hide a horizontal scrollbar. Any junior frontend dev worth their salt will be asking right away "where do I stick `overflow-x: hidden;`?" A complete solution will then require hitting "Inspect element" in the browser to find the CSS class and running (rip)grep to find where it is in code, to then add a single line to. An actual proactive programmer might start asking more pointed questions like what content does an empty textbox have that it o
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I'm a little less charitable. Curiosity is great, but agents do not learn, and telling an agent "scan the darkweb" is a way to avoid learning about the details, rather than to dig into things more deeply. If instead they had just used a chat interface to ask "Where should I start", they'd more likely have got a link to the DN42 docs themselves, read them, and not hallucinated things like "color". They might have asked "how much will this cost?" if they had to spin up the ec2 instances themselves, on advice from the agent. The way you learn something is by doing it the manual way first. You lea
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Asking for donations to pay the AWS bill from the people they fired the agentic code at is the cherry on the icing of the banana supreme. If real, tragically funny. If fictive, we'll written.
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We recently had some behavior issues with our kids - they didn't want to do activities outside the house, they hated reading, they hated anything that required even the slightest discomfort or effort. We decided to cut device usage way down - they get 1 hour in the morning to play whatever games they want on computer, tablet, console. Then they get 1 hour before bed to watch TV. The rest of the day, no devices. We are homeschooled so this is a LOT of free time. After a few weeks, they're now: blasting through books daily (to the point where they forgot their own TV time, which used to be sacre
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I've been in those companies where "struggling departments" ended up getting all the praises and raise in budgets the following quarter because of the heroic saves they did, and raising awareness on how important they are... For stuff they totally caused on themselves. Meanwhile, my perfectly purring department was struggling to keep the lights on. It's a serious problem in this industry due to the disconnect between non-technical management (who understands how to double click) and engineering (who holds the company standing). I'm not sure how we solve this, other than having management come
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> But on the other hand... this is a robust reminder that coding agents can do anything you can do by typing commands into a terminal—and frontier models know every trick in the book and evidently a few that nobody has ever written down before. > Running coding agents outside of a sandbox has always been a bad idea I'm continually bemused and astonished by the number of people who clearly acknowledge that it's reckless to give agents full access to your machine, and keep doing it anyway. It's like posting a video of yourself in the passenger seat of a car, with your feet up on the dashboard, a
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There are a lot of things like this. My favorite is how elegant solutions often look simple in retrospect. So if you noodle on a problem for a while and then come up with a clever solution: once you explain it to someone they'll be like, "yeah, of course." Meanwhile the guy next to you that overcomplicates the problem ends up getting kudos for building something so difficult :D
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A very prolific coworker who fully embraced claude has inflicted the team with a flood of AI-generated PRs. About six months later, it is his frequent bemoaning at the standup that their PR don't get reviewed, languishing in inattention. I don't think anyone - including myself - _intentionally_ avoid his PRs. It's just that he doesn't make it easy for the team to look at. This single headline perfectly captures what I have been thinking. It's not that I reject AI content, but it takes _effort_ to review and weed out any mistakes. When your thoughtful reviews that take an hour(because the PR is
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Not that I care in particular But claiming that google lost it's "moral compass" just now is a claim only rich people can make because they retire, not quit. Google is literally the largest, most organized, tracking and profiling company in the world. Which they tend to grow even larger with the rise of LLMs. Turning a blind eye of that for the opportunity or whatever, and than claim that _just now_ they lost their moral compass, is being a hypocrite.
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In other words: All of my stock has finally vested, and I am independently wealthy enough to signal that I'm quitting purely based on my morals, since there's no way anyone could have known Google wasn't some ethical bastion of hope in 2017.
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17 in September. Thanks for all your great work at the time! Hope you’re well
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Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!
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Apparently fixed already, or will be fixed soon. https://social.treehouse.systems/@chaos_princess/11672546441...
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This has dampened my opinion on Anthropic quite a bit. It's difficult to take their marketing for AI as an empowering technology seriously when they are quite clear in their new deployments that they do not mean empowering for you , but empowering for them and organizations that are in their (or the US government's, despite Anthropics performative disagreements with the administration) good graces. You are allowed to vibe code some dashboards, a web app or let it drive Excel, but anything more interesting than that is forbidden. If it was just plain monetary concerns and sabotage of competitor
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I like Claude Code a lot, I think it sets a dangerous precedent to put guardrails in that return a response from a prompt that was modified by the system in real time in order to subvert the original intent. Fail cleanly. Anything else makes it too difficult to rely on. edit: Giving the absolute maximum benefit of the doubt I understand that they see themselves as "stewards" for lack of a better word. But the EA thing is really leaking through, and paternalism isn't a good look.
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This weird trend reached an apex in a Feb 2026 OpenAI blog post [1], recently on the front page [2], which describes the process for building... something... written 100% by agents. There is no description of what the thing is, no indication of what value it provides its users. The closest it gets is "the product has been used by hundreds of users internally, including daily internal power users". But the fact that the thing has a million lines of code is repeated twice in the first few hundred words. [1] https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48
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Malware authors are pretty excited about guard-rails. you can add prompts to your malware to get LLM scanners to hit guard-rails and stop their runs. New shai-hulud npm worm campaign for example includes prompts to request biological weapon schematics/creation etc. to ensure LLM scanners probing NPM packages refuse to scan it. These AI places have 0 clue about how threat actors actually work. None of their mitigations or guard-rails is effective, and now they are even turned against them. Additionally, if they don't all implement the same level of effective guard-rails, there will always be so
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We have been aggressively and enthusiastically automating away software engineering for the entire history of the computer industry. Every time we do so, we are able to build bigger, better things more quickly. When this happens, our work becomes more valuable and expectations rise to match. The world’s appetite for software has been insatiable so far. AI hasn’t replaced software engineers because every time we become more productive, the goalposts move. There’s two things that could put an end to this. Firstly, we might finally become productive enough to exhaust the world’s appetite for soft
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Article URL: https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513728 Points: 25 # Comments: 19
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Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/s9w82lp9dcn9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511121 Points: 248 # Comments: 5
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Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/06/12/anthropic-trump-mythos-fable-national-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510765 Points: 25 # Comments: 7
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Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/06/11/ai-will-be-deflationary.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502750 Points: 22 # Comments: 5
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Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502456 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
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Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-of-deviance-in-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499790 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
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Article URL: https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2065597942602531163 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511168 Points: 88 # Comments: 4
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Article URL: https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509319 Points: 33 # Comments: 0
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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/77affaa7-5da8-4a85-bc7c-eb59b75a72b0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509306 Points: 23 # Comments: 14
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Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507836 Points: 88 # Comments: 27
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Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/11/euro-office-open-standards-and-native-odf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505690 Points: 73 # Comments: 5
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Article URL: https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497195 Points: 47 # Comments: 1
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Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-First-version-of-the-open-source-web-office-is-here-11322160.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490564 Points: 84 # Comments: 37
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Article URL: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489917 Points: 244 # Comments: 18
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Not a hiring post. I have a 9-5 but also a lot of ideas I want to build. The core is just to show up and make small progress — but I find I'm missing accountability and partnership, so I thought it'd be nice to partner with someone. Mostly backend/infra stuff. If you're interested, email in my profile. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486932 Points: 37 # Comments: 14
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We're open-sourcing 14 components & examples today for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more. It's MIT licensed and fully customizable. Demo video here: https://share.extend.ai/kRmSGKRF When we started, we tried every file viewer and document component library we could find. Unfortunately, none of them had all the functionality (and polish) that we wanted, so we ended up building our own for https://extend.ai/ . It was only ever meant to be internal, but enough customers kept asking for it that we decided to open source it. It's useful for
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