Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

117 goranmoomin 2026-06-23 23:54:39 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 41

As an open source maintainer, it's essential to view every issue, PR, and feedback as a present, not an obligation, except for vulnerability reports which require responsiveness and attribution due to the service provided by security researchers. With the rise of LLMs, the insight and confidentiality provided by security researchers are no longer scarce, and the focus should shift to triage, ...

Jerry's Map

361 turtleyacht 2026-06-23 18:54:39 UTC jerrysmap.com Llama Share 49

Jerry created a 4000-panel map project using a custom deck of cards with instructions for each panel. The project is a two-dimensional "virtual world" art project with a set of rules and randomly generated instructions.

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

107 mauvehaus 2026-06-23 22:54:39 UTC thedrive.com Llama Share 49

Kevin Mitnick, a hacker-turned-security consultant, was caught by Shawn Nunley, a Novell network administrator, after Nunley recorded a suspicious voicemail from Mitnick. Mitnick later apologized to Nunley and they became friends, with Mitnick leaving Nunley a gift to buy his dream car after his passing.

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

343 futohq 2026-06-23 17:54:39 UTC swipe.futo.tech Llama Share 101

The Encoder model makes swipe typing predictions, but lacks accuracy, while the ContextLM model improves predictions by eliminating nonsensical words. Combining all 3 models with a beam width of 300 achieves a top-4 fail rate of ~4% and an error rate below 1% on the test set.

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

208 saikatsg 2026-06-23 18:54:39 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 20

Tony Krueger worked on early versions of Microsoft Word and introduced the unobtrusive spell checker with red squiggles under misspelled words. His feature became a standard in word processors and was even referenced in a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody video.

Printing Gaussian Splats

211 ilnmtlbnm 2026-06-23 18:54:39 UTC patreon.com Llama Share 20

Teng Xu from crysta.ai printed one of your insects as a gift, using a special 3D printer that creates a "crystal" piece with trapped details. You're excited about the process and possibilities, but suggest improvements to the editor and import capabilities.

Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

98 givinguflac 2026-06-23 22:54:39 UTC ps.tc Llama Share 19

A novel iPhone BootROM vulnerability was discovered and exploited by a team, allowing them to achieve application processor boot-chain compromise on Apple A12, S4/S5, and A13 devices. The vulnerability leverages a hardware bug in the USB controller and a specific configuration flaw in the device firmware, and the team released a proof of concept to document the real-world impact of this class ...

Swift Package Index joins Apple

186 JDevlieghere 2026-06-23 18:54:39 UTC swiftpackageindex.com Llama Share 57

Swift Package Index has joined Apple, preserving its vision and expertise to build a comprehensive package registry for the Swift community. The registry will continue to support package discovery, security, and reliability, with new features and capabilities to be introduced over time.

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

216 rendx 2026-06-23 23:54:39 UTC lse.ac.uk Llama Share 148

The London Climate Action Week event has been cancelled due to extreme heat warning. It was to announce the Adeline Stuart-Watt Award winner and discuss extreme heat governance globally.

Rhombus Language 1.0

95 Decabytes 2026-06-23 22:54:39 UTC blog.racket-lang.org Llama Share 16

Rhombus is a general-purpose, functional programming language with extensibility and good performance. It's built on Racket and offers a modern synthesis of functional and dynamic language features.

DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers

9 ilreb 2026-06-24 02:54:39 UTC github.com/end2end-diffusion Prefix Share 0

📣 Announcement post: Call for DiffusionBench: A Holistic Benchmark for Diffusion Transformers. Help us grow the benchmark with new evaluation axes, new metrics, and faithful reproductions of published methods. This repo contains the unified codebase for DiffusionBench. It supports training and evaluation across different generation tasks (ImageNet, T2I, ...) through a single interface. Please ...

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

348 DominikPeters 2026-06-23 14:54:39 UTC tikz.dev Llama Share 66

The app allows editing TikZ figures with drag-and-drop functionality and instant code updates. It supports common TikZ features, including \foreach loops, and has a free, open-source license.

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

102 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-06-24 00:54:39 UTC wired.com Llama Share 34

Meta is pausing its employee tracking program, Model Compatibility Initiative, after an internal security issue exposed sensitive data. The company will re-enable the tool when it's confident in its data protection controls.

The Coming Loop

349 ingve 2026-06-23 11:54:39 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Llama Share 244

The user is uneasy about the future of software development where loops and AI assistants dominate, potentially removing human responsibility and understanding. They question how to retain good engineering rules and human supervision in a future where loops and machines increasingly drive code development.

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

226 surprisetalk 2026-06-23 16:54:39 UTC dynomight.net Llama Share 161

The user discusses the benefits and limitations of vitamin D supplements, citing various studies and trials that show mixed results, but concludes that taking vitamin D may be beneficial for people with low levels, particularly those with severe deficiency. The user also suggests that daily doses of vitamin D may be safer and more effective than large, intermittent doses, and that raising ...

The war on terror primed America for autocracy

76 andsoitis 2026-06-24 02:54:39 UTC economist.com Llama Share 38

People remember where they were when they learned of the 9/11 attacks, a traumatic event that shocked the nation. Experts now warn of new threats, including outdated regulations and unstable peace, requiring ambitious action.

Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

7 andyhedges 2026-06-24 02:54:39 UTC primecrunch.com Prefix Share 1

Twenty-four years of chasing k·2^n − 1 primes on ordinary hardware, and the pipeline behind it In 2001 I decided I wanted to find a prime number nobody had ever seen. I knew about GIMPS, which had been hunting Mersenne primes since the nineties, but a bit of arithmetic made it clear I was never going to be the one who found the next Mersenne. So I went looking for a different shape of number ...

Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

84 pamoroso 2026-06-23 22:54:39 UTC patrickdomanico.com Llama Share 6

Larry Masinter and Frank Halasz discuss their work at Xerox PARC, Interlisp, and NoteCards, highlighting the importance of "residential programming" and the tradeoff between speed of invention and engineering discipline. They also reflect on the Medley/Interlisp revival and its potential to preserve software history and inspire innovation.

F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

47 neogoose 2026-06-23 20:54:39 UTC github.com/dmtrkovalenko Llama Share 35

This CLI tool, ffs, reads disks directly and is faster than ripgrep for large file searches, but slower for small directories due to kernel cache. It supports various file systems, including journaling, B-tree, and APFS, but has limitations and security restrictions.

Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces

14 mikepollard_dev 2026-06-23 22:54:39 UTC github.com/context-labs Llama Share 3

HALO is a methodology for building recursively self-improving agent harnesses using RLMs, which identifies issues in production agent deployments and suggests fixes. It uses a specialized form of RLM and can be installed via CLI or Python SDK, with optional telemetry and observability features.

QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture

30 ymz5 2026-06-23 21:54:39 UTC qsoe-dev.blogspot.com Llama Share 10

The first QSOE release v0.1 bundles kernel variants, boot loader, userspace, and libc into a single drop, achieving a QNX-compatible environment on two different microkernels. This milestone marks the first boot from NVMe storage to an interactive shell on the SiFive Unmatched (FU740) with QSOE/L and QSOE/N variants.

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

106 Jimmc414 2026-06-23 15:54:39 UTC thinkgeoenergy.com Llama Share 27

Quaise Energy successfully drilled 100 meters using millimeter wave technology in Central Texas, a milestone for unlocking deeper geothermal resources. The company plans to build on this achievement with a more powerful gyrotron and aims to complete a pilot power plant in the Western U.S. by 2028.

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

78 cianmm 2026-06-23 20:54:39 UTC dirtylittlezine.com Llama Share 7

Fold paper in half, then into eight rectangles. Cut and fold to create a plus sign, resulting in eight pages.

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring

117 g0xA52A2A 2026-06-23 11:54:39 UTC nega.tv Llama Share 59

FROMSOFT uses a low-tech AI system in their Soulsborne games, based on a stack of states called Goals, which can be updated and modified to create complex behavior. The system uses a mix of Lua scripting and C++ code, with a focus on flexibility and ease of use for designers and animators, making it well-suited for creating diverse and punishing NPC encounters.

Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]

109 EvanAnderson 2026-06-23 15:54:39 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 21

Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm

104 its_ajseven 2026-06-23 14:54:39 UTC semiconductor.samsung.com GoogleT5 Share 32

April 1 marks the first day of the new year. the u.s. president's eu summit is set for june 1 - thursday, july 1 at london bridge, where he'll be speaking about the world cup and the euro 2012 qualifying games, including the gold medal match between britain and greece, which takes place in switzerland, will be

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

5 ilreb 2026-06-24 02:54:39 UTC arxiv.org Prefix Share 0

A world model predicts environment dynamics based on current observations and actions, serving as a core cognitive mechanism for reasoning and planning. In this work, we investigate how world modeling based on language models can further push the boundaries of general agents. (i) We first focus on building foundation models for agentic environment simulation. We introduce ...

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

341 justinwp 2026-06-23 18:54:39 UTC twitter.com/jpoehnelt Llama Share 224

I was fired by Google two months ago for creating a viral Google Workspace CLI that disrupted their plans. Google announced an official Workspace CLI two days before my termination, revealing their fear of disruption.

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

28 logickkk1 2026-06-23 23:54:39 UTC natkr.com Llama Share 10

The user is trying to remove unnecessary functionality from a Linux live image to make it smaller. They are using NixOS to create a minimal virtual machine.

How to move a beluga across the world

9 curmudgeon22 2026-06-24 01:54:39 UTC cbc.ca Prefix Share 1

Hamilton A new plan could see the animals sent to aquariums in Spain and the U.S. How would they get there? Earlier this month, the federal government approved a plan that could send the 30 beluga whales at the shut-down Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., on an international journey to their new homes. The belugas can't go to another aquarium in Canada because a 2019 law bans keeping ...