Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

49 raffael_de 2026-06-09 07:36:30 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 9

Microsoft's Azure and AI development tools were hacked, allowing hackers to steal users' passwords and sensitive credentials. The company has temporarily removed some repositories, notified affected customers, and is continuing to investigate the breach.

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

567 unclefuzzy 2026-06-08 19:36:30 UTC macrumors.com Llama Share 436

Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence with Google Foundation Models, enabling on-device AI capabilities and multimodal support. Users can opt out of Google integration, but it's unclear if this can be completely disabled.

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

87 ternaus 2026-06-09 03:36:30 UTC opencv.org Llama Share 21

OpenCV 5 is a major release that modernizes the library with a new DNN engine, improved ONNX support, and hardware acceleration. It brings significant performance improvements, better language support, and a redesigned Hardware Acceleration Layer for faster image processing.

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

59 walterbell 2026-06-09 04:36:30 UTC blog.aheymans.xyz Llama Share 20

The user successfully ported coreboot to a ThinkPad x61 using a Large Language Model (LLM) to reverse engineer the firmware, which would have taken months to accomplish manually. This achievement demonstrates the feasibility of using LLMs for reverse engineering firmware, potentially making it easier to develop open-source alternatives to closed-source firmware.

Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet

92 abnercoimbre 2026-06-09 02:36:30 UTC oldavista.com Full Share 20

Some of the wonderful people that help make Old'aVista possible:Ryan Stoddard, omf_2097, Eric, Lailing Dast, more...Click here if you'd like to contribute as well. Support Old'aVistaCommunityGuestbookThanks to For saving the internet history and making it available to all of us. This site wouldn't exist without them.

Siri AI

556 0xedb 2026-06-08 18:36:30 UTC apple.com Llama Share 506

Apple Intelligence is a helpful AI integrated into Apple devices for personal needs, protecting user privacy through on-device processing. It uses Private Cloud Compute for complex requests while maintaining user data security.

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

547 martinald 2026-06-08 15:36:30 UTC martinalderson.com Llama Share 423

xAI partnered with Anthropic and Google, providing them with huge capacity, and the revenue flows into SpaceX ahead of its IPO. This deal gives xAI a competitive advantage in datacentre buildout and helps alleviate compute shortages for Anthropic and Google.

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

956 lizhang 2026-06-08 14:36:30 UTC vorpus.github.io Full Share 173

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

385 john-titor 2026-06-08 16:36:30 UTC foodwatch.org Llama Share 158

Pesticides banned in the EU were found in everyday food products in the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany. Brussels plans to weaken food safety regulations, putting consumers at risk.

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

555 gainsurier 2026-06-08 15:36:30 UTC mimo.xiaomi.com Llama Share 410

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed breaks 1000 tokens/s decode speed on a 1-trillion-parameter model. It achieves this through extreme model-system codesign with TileRT, delivering 10× the generation speed of MiMo-V2.5-Pro.

Apple Core AI Framework

284 hmokiguess 2026-06-08 19:36:30 UTC developer.apple.com Llama Share 73

Core AI helps build, run, and deploy AI models in apps using Apple silicon. It includes tools for model preparation, debugging, and performance monitoring with Xcode and the Core AI Debugger app.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

141 jjgreen 2026-06-08 22:36:30 UTC pgedge.com Llama Share 22

Postgres 19 introduces query advice modules pg_plan_advice and pg_stash_advice, allowing users to provide guidance to the planner without embedding hints in SQL. These modules address long-standing concerns about hints, including maintenance and upgrade headaches, and provide a more controlled and expressive way to influence query planning.

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

13 nmstoker 2026-06-09 06:36:30 UTC thi.ng Llama Share 0

This site is a precursor to a semantic graph of projects, assets, and relationships, offering a tag cloud to explore 350 projects. The primary focus is on data-driven tooling for TypeScript and browser-based tech, with a broader aim at various programming approaches and languages.

Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

239 baepaul 2026-06-08 20:36:30 UTC gitdot.io Full Share 213

Daily-digest podcast skill — turns a list of saved articles into a fully-produced Spotify episode using Qwen3-TTS, on top of the save-to-spotify CLI.

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

0 2026-06-09 03:36:30 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

GoGoGrandparent's mission is to help older adults live independently by tailoring on-demand apps to their needs. They're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design scalable systems and improve the lives of seniors.

Passing DBs through continuations

49 remywang 2026-06-09 02:36:30 UTC remy.wang Llama Share 6

The author describes a shortcut to improve database performance using a technique called continuation-passing style (CPS), which allows operators to compose into tightly fused operations automatically. This approach is used in the Prela database, which maps cleanly to both a logical Entity/Relationship data model and a columnar physical storage, and achieves fast columnar execution when compiled.

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

70 vrganj 2026-06-09 06:36:30 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 22

A Facebook investigation found that some overseas accounts, including one from Indonesia, were posing as Canadians and posting divisive content about Alberta separatism to generate income. Facebook's monetization incentives may be contributing to the spread of inauthentic content.

Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

285 aryamaan 2026-06-08 18:36:30 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 466

You're building software tools with a minimal toolchain, using a custom harness with dagger for efficiency. You're also creating a personal knowledge base with markdown search and wiki powered by Typesense for better outcomes.

FrontierCode

179 streamer45 2026-06-08 21:36:30 UTC cognition.ai Llama Share 32

FrontierCode is a benchmark that measures AI models' ability to write high-quality, maintainable code by assessing end-to-end code quality, correctness, and mergeability. Current models struggle to meet this new standard, with even the best-performing model achieving only 13.4% on the most challenging tasks.

Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

157 mdni007 2026-06-08 17:36:30 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 126

Ticketmaster maintains its market dominance through exclusive deals with venues and artists, vendor lock-in, and a business model that allows it to take a large cut of ticket sales. The company's monopoly is also perpetuated by the complicity of venues and artists who benefit from its services.

Why are cells small?

140 mailyk 2026-06-08 19:36:30 UTC burrito.bio Llama Share 66

Cells come in various shapes and sizes due to constraints on surface area-to-volume ratio and diffusion. A cell's size is determined by balancing tradeoffs between volume, diffusion, surface area, and energy.

Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

546 g0xA52A2A 2026-06-08 20:36:30 UTC signal.org Llama Share 205

UK government's plan to scan all UK devices for nudity will not safeguard children but endanger everyone and strengthen tech giants' control. This proposal will lead to mass surveillance and censorship, expanding to target "threats" and "harmful content" beyond nudity.

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

48 zdw 2026-06-09 02:36:30 UTC lemire.me Llama Share 25

The Go compiler targets a 20-year-old instruction set by default, but using a higher microarchitecture level can improve performance. Upgrading to level v2 or higher can result in significant speed gains, especially for operations like population count and set operations.

Job: Head of Stonehenge

151 mooreds 2026-06-09 03:36:30 UTC english-heritage.org.uk Llama Share 118

English Heritage is a charity that cares for over a million objects and historic sites in England, aiming to connect people to the past and each other. They are seeking a Head of Stonehenge to lead a team and deliver exceptional visitor experiences while driving financial performance.

I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet

79 initramfs 2026-06-08 20:36:30 UTC inavoyage.blogspot.com Llama Share 78

The author proposes a concept called Thinnernet, which aims to provide a predictable user experience across different internet speeds by minimizing data transfer and prioritizing essential data. This idea is inspired by Steve Jobs' focus on user experience and is seen as a necessary adaptation to the internet's current limitations and the need for a more energy-efficient way to access the web.

CRDTs merge concurrent edits. Why not concurrent creation?

17 czx111331 2026-06-09 05:36:30 UTC loro.dev Llama Share 2

Two users concurrently create a child container under the same Map key, causing data loss. Loro solves this with Mergeable Containers, which identify child containers by their logical position, not creation operation.

AI is slowing down

532 crescit_eundo 2026-06-08 16:36:30 UTC wheresyoured.at Llama Share 552

The author argues that the AI bubble is unsustainable due to its massive compute commitments and revenue requirements. To justify the current infrastructure, AI companies must grow at an astonishing rate, with Anthropic and OpenAI needing to make $400 billion in annual revenue by 2030.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

60 jbernardo95 2026-06-08 21:36:30 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 25

Apple is offering lower-cost AI tools to indie developers by waiving infrastructure fees for those earning under 2 million. This move reflects a growing reality in the AI industry where experimentation is no longer cheap and developers are tightening their belts.

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

106 fkilaiwi 2026-06-08 15:36:30 UTC intunedhq.com Llama Share 48

Intuned Agent generates and maintains production-ready Playwright code for scraping, crawling, and automations. It handles stealth, auth, scheduling, and scale, allowing users to write code in their preferred language.

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

631 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-06-08 12:36:30 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 430

Aurélia and others are using social media less for personal interaction and more for entertainment, with many preferring to watch professionally made content from people they don't know. Social media platforms are evolving into passive entertainment platforms, with users giving information for commercial gain in exchange for tailored content.