I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me

57 rajkverma123 2026-06-03 00:37:53 UTC searchzee.com Llama Share 49

The author argues that AI-enhanced search summaries can be misleading and erase the nuance of search results, leading to incorrect information being trusted. They advocate for a search engine that returns results without summaries, allowing users to verify information and make more accurate decisions.

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

144 tanelpoder 2026-06-02 23:37:53 UTC github.com/c0dejedi Llama Share 43

A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.

MAI-Code-1-Flash

396 EvanZhouDev 2026-06-02 19:37:53 UTC microsoft.ai Llama Share 178

Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.

CT scans of BYD car parts

242 viasfo 2026-06-02 20:37:53 UTC lumafield.com Full Share 92

We CT scanned four BYD components—a battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fob—to see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.

Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever

28 mfld 2026-06-03 00:37:53 UTC statnews.com Llama Share 15

French geneticist Jean-Francois Deleuze's AGENOMICS study aims to identify genetic patterns among long-lived French citizens and compare them to centenarians from blue zones. The blue zones concept, popularized by Dan Buettner, has been questioned due to declining numbers of healthy seniors in original regions and commercialization of the brand.

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

646 speckx 2026-06-02 19:37:53 UTC moddedbear.com Llama Share 400

The user is frustrated with Gmail's new AI features that nag and interrupt them while composing emails. They're switching to Fastmail after 16 years with Gmail due to the unwanted features.

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

115 speckx 2026-06-02 20:37:53 UTC acdw.net Llama Share 71

The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

104 berlianta 2026-06-03 00:37:53 UTC law.stanford.edu Llama Share 102

A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.

4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time

47 marojejian 2026-06-02 22:37:53 UTC archaeologymag.com Llama Share 23

Archaeologists found lower inequality levels in ancient Mohenjo-daro, with economic gaps shrinking over time. The city's focus on public infrastructure and shared resources contributed to its stability and equality.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

378 eustoria 2026-06-02 13:37:53 UTC coveillance.org Llama Share 251

This walking tour in downtown Seattle aims to expose the hidden layers of surveillance technology in the city, including cameras, license plate readers, and data collection systems, and to raise questions about their use and impact on society. The tour highlights various surveillance tools and sites, including Amazon Go, Acyclica, the Washington State Fusion Center, and a peering site, and ...

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

127 dm319 2026-06-02 19:37:53 UTC hpcalcs.com Llama Share 79

The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.

Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance

99 cassepipe 2026-06-02 19:37:53 UTC openrepair.org Llama Share 3

The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) helps combine repair data on electronics by defining a shared approach. It collects data on product, repair, and session information to identify trends globally and locally.

LLMs are not the black box you were promised

49 _jayhack_ 2026-06-02 23:37:53 UTC jay.ai Llama Share 28

Researchers at Anthropic used circuit tracing to understand LLMs by training a replacement model to recreate outputs of base model's layers, decomposing activations into human-interpretable features. This allows tracing semantic relationships between high-level concepts, enabling pseudo-symbolic inference and multi-step reasoning.

How we index images for RAG

92 mooreds 2026-06-02 18:37:53 UTC kapa.ai Llama Share 14

Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

14 fons-p 2026-06-02 23:37:53 UTC discourse.julialang.org Llama Share 0

Pluto version 1.0 is released, celebrating six years of progress and making scientific computing more accessible and fun. Pluto is an interactive environment for notebook programming in Julia, with features like reproducibility, accessibility, and reactivity.

More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support

58 mgh2 2026-06-03 00:37:53 UTC axa.com Llama Share 48

Mental health continues to deteriorate worldwide with 46% of people struggling or languishing. New technologies like AI can play a positive role in mental health support, but also have negative effects on mental well-being.

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

178 _alternator_ 2026-06-02 17:37:53 UTC politico.com Llama Share 127

President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.

OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

90 mwit2023 2026-06-02 14:37:53 UTC openfov.com Full Share 50

OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

7 dpmdpm 2026-06-03 01:37:53 UTC blog.roku.com Prefix Share 3

Release includes SDK and online video course to help developers build fun, personal engineering projects Roku has announced the official availability of Roku LT OS—a lightweight, highly deterministic open-source operating system that is already used in our industry-changing Roku remote controls. The Roku LT OS is designed specifically for creative programmers working on specialized ...

Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

62 beebix 2026-06-02 19:37:53 UTC vogons.org Full Share 10

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Love systemd timers

354 yacin 2026-06-02 09:37:53 UTC blog.tjll.net Llama Share 229

Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.

Expanding Project Glasswing

160 surprisetalk 2026-06-02 13:37:53 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 211

Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

149 jandeboevrie 2026-06-02 14:37:53 UTC blog.davidedmundson.co.uk Llama Share 183

Plasma is transitioning to Wayland, removing X11 support in Plasma 6.8. This change will allow for new performance improvements and features, but may require custom scripts and workflows to adapt.

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

150 BruceEel 2026-06-02 14:37:53 UTC fidonet.org Llama Share 63

FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

137 speckx 2026-06-02 20:37:53 UTC blog.zgp.org Llama Share 39

Big Tech companies are proposing a built-in advertising system, Attribution Level 1, which prioritizes their own tracking over user privacy. This system could lead to more money for Big Tech and less for legitimate sites, while also enabling riskier tracking practices.

QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3

80 birdculture 2026-06-02 18:37:53 UTC c9x.me Llama Share 28

QBE 1.3 is a significant release with 7k new lines of code and 1.5k deleted ones, featuring a new IL matching algorithm and optimizations. It achieves 63% of commercial compiler performance on coremark and 33% improvement on the Hare test suite.

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]

8 zdw 2026-06-03 01:37:53 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

Gleam v1.17.0

97 figbert 2026-06-02 22:37:53 UTC gleam.run Llama Share 7

Gleam v1.17.0 has been published with new features and bug fixes. It includes improved escript creation, language server support, and compiler optimizations.

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X

82 kkm 2026-06-02 18:37:53 UTC fergusfinn.com Llama Share 7

Doubleword is building an inference cloud using AMD's MI300X, a high-end AI accelerator. The MI300X is underappreciated due to software issues, but it offers 192GB of HBM3 and comparable FP8 compute to NVIDIA's H100 at a lower price.

Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

25 timhigins 2026-06-02 22:37:53 UTC github.com/getpaseo Llama Share 13

Paseo is a self-hosted coding platform that allows running agents in parallel on your machine with full dev environment. It supports multi-provider models, voice control, cross-device access, and local server management.