Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

119 ridesisapis 2026-06-20 18:07:03 UTC waxy.org Llama Share 31

A marketing agency, Qontour, created an unauthorized website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, using AI-generated content and monetizing it with affiliate links. The site outranks the official site in search results, causing confusion over its authorship and potentially damaging the book's reputation.

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

76 zdw 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC smpte.org Llama Share 29

SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog freely available to the global media technology community. This move aims to accelerate adoption and implementation, strengthen interoperability, and drive innovation in the industry.

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

49 zdw 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC lispm.net Llama Share 7

visionOS receives X11 calls from clients and vintage machines, opening each top-level window separately. X authority cookies are generated on device and copied to clients for secure connections.

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

93 LowLevelMahn 2026-06-20 15:58:03 UTC neuviemeporte.github.io Llama Share 24

The F-15 Strike Eagle 2 reconstruction project has made significant progress, with all C code rewritten and data moved from assembly to C. The project is now open for testing and bug reporting, with the latest release v0.9.1 available for download.

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

44 gr4vityWall 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC github.com/oven-sh Full Share 29

What this is Shared-memory threads for JavaScriptCore. new Thread(fn) runs fn on another thread, in the same heap, with the same objects. No structured clone, no message passing, no SharedArrayBuff...

CSSQuake

357 msalsas 2026-06-20 10:58:03 UTC cssquake.com Full Share 79

Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

48 shpran 2026-06-20 16:58:03 UTC startupwiki.tech Full Share 9

S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026

23 sapal 2026-06-20 16:58:03 UTC escurves.com Full Share 4

Two hundred years of technology adoption follows one shape: the S-curve. Every curve was called a fad, from railroads to AI. When each went vertical, why, who called it a bubble, and what actually happened.

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

46 sylwester 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC github.com/datanoisetv Llama Share 10

Ember is a native iOS app for Hacker News with threaded comments, dark mode, and accessibility features. It uses a custom parser for comment HTML and fetches full comment trees from Algolia in one request.

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

34 oraziorillo 2026-06-20 15:58:03 UTC github.com/oraziorillo Llama Share 6

microcrad is a C re-implementation of Andrej Karpathy's micrograd, providing a tiny scalar-valued automatic differentiation engine with a small neural network implementation. It uses reference counting for memory management and supports a feed-forward network with a ReLU activation function.

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

34 karakoram 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC vawaa.com Full Share 2

VAWAA is a mini-apprenticeship with a curated master artist or craftsman, tailored to your skill level. How it Works Whether it’s honing a passion or getting fresh inspiration, we see travel as an opportunity to grow. Read guest stories

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

9 JumpCrisscross 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC politico.com Prefix Share 4

The United States can’t be on the hook anymore for protecting the world, the president lectured. “The defense of freedom is everybody’s business — not just America’s business,” he said in a White House address. “And it is particularly the responsibility of the people whose freedom is threatened.” Long before Donald Trump was unnerving Europe by scaling back U.S. security commitments to the ...

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

9 dk189 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC argusred.com Prefix Share 0

Pick modules, set the agent’s permissions, optionally turn on exploit verification, run. Output is a markdown report — location, severity, cause, and fix direction for every finding it could ground in your code. Free install. The first run opens a quick Cosine sign-up — the same login that runs Cosine’s coding agent — and new accounts start with 2M free tokens. Don’t just report a ...

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

43 nryoo 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 8

Scientists have found a way to redirect the body's healing response to regrow lost body parts in mammals. A two-step treatment using growth factors FGF2 and BMP2 successfully restored bone, joints, and ligaments in animal studies.

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

79 farhadhf 2026-06-20 11:58:03 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 58

Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.

Web Browsers on PDAS

32 robin_reala 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC vale.rocks Llama Share 11

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) gained internet access in the 90s, with early browsers like PocketWeb and Palmscape supporting limited web standards. As technology improved, full-fledged browsers like Opera, NetFront, and Firefox were developed for PDAs, but the rise of smartphones eventually led to the decline of the PDA market.

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

374 moultano 2026-06-20 03:58:03 UTC moultano.wordpress.com Llama Share 93

The colors that exist in the real world but can't be shown on digital screens are mostly cyans, which are poorly reproduced by screens and LED lighting, but can be seen in nature, particularly in forests, water, and bird feathers. These colors are often created by natural processes that filter light, such as repeated reflections and transmissions through leaves and water, or by the physical ...

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

86 car 2026-06-20 10:58:03 UTC bootimus.com Llama Share 31

Bootimus is a self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server in one binary with zero config. It automatically detects 50+ distros and supports token auth, LDAP/AD backend, and local accounts.

Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

21 ciwolex 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 25

You're experiencing spam on GitHub and want to move to a platform like sourcehut.org that's more community-focused and resistant to scraping. You're also looking for a lightweight, web-based git replacement for self-hosting.

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

11 onemind 2026-06-20 17:58:03 UTC dancemagazine.com Llama Share 3

Pointe shoes have evolved over the past few decades with small adjustments and some manufacturers incorporating 21st-century technologies. Despite innovation, traditional aesthetics and limited financial resources hinder widespread adoption of new designs.

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

214 iamnothere 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC birminghammail.co.uk Full Share 220

Request blocked. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

134 tcp_handshaker 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC extremetech.com Llama Share 69

Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 uses more memory and has slower startup times compared to the classic player. It also hides some popular codecs behind paywalls, prompting users to consider alternative players like VLC.

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

117 Brajeshwar 2026-06-20 13:58:03 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 52

The US government has banned Anthropic's AI model Mythos due to concerns it could be accessed by a South Korean telecom with suspected ties to China and a potential "jailbreak" by Amazon researchers. The ban is part of a long-standing effort to control the export of dual-use cyber technologies, but past experiences suggest this approach may not be effective in preventing malicious use.

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

267 theanonymousone 2026-06-20 05:58:03 UTC timwehrle.de Llama Share 92

A favicon can be used for steganography by hiding data in its pixels, which the browser interprets as colors. This allows storing small amounts of data, like HTML, in a tiny image.

Mencius (2016)

16 jruohonen 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC scholarworks.iu.edu Llama Share 1

The Mencius is a Classical Chinese philosophical text that profoundly influenced traditional Chinese culture, written by Mencius, a renowned Confucian teacher, around 300 BCE. The text reflects Mencius's restorationist goal to revive the ideal past of the Zhou Dynasty, which was seen as a time of peace and unity.

Cargo-Geiger

26 tosh 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC github.com/geiger-rs Llama Share 6

cargo-geiger is a tool that lists unsafe Rust code usage statistics in crates and dependencies. It does not advise on code security, only providing usage data.

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

115 drayfield 2026-06-20 14:58:03 UTC reuters.com Full Share 57

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Can you see three trees?

276 Pamar 2026-06-19 23:58:03 UTC not-ship.com Llama Share 130

The 3-30-300 test measures a city's tree cover by ensuring every home has a view of at least three trees, 30% tree cover in the neighbourhood, and a park within 300 meters. The test is simple but hard to achieve, with only 14% of Europeans living in areas meeting all three criteria and most cities failing to meet the 30% tree cover requirement.

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

442 oshrimpton 2026-06-19 18:58:03 UTC arrowtsx.dev Llama Share 216

Major AI labs are skeptical of endless parameter count and training data scaling due to limitations and hallucination issues in large models. Smaller models like GLM-5.2 are showing comparable performance to much larger models like GPT-5.5 and Fable 5, indicating actual intelligence has plateaued.

Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

37 firephox 2026-06-20 11:58:03 UTC eli.thegreenplace.net Llama Share 14

The author implemented a simple VM in C to compare the performance of a switch statement and a computed goto. The computed goto version is 25% faster due to reduced branch prediction overhead.