Dav2d

206 captain_bender 2026-05-31 12:21:25 UTC jbkempf.com Llama Share 54

The dav2d project is a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by VideoLAN community members to provide a small, fast, portable, and correct decoder for real applications. It builds on the success of AV1 and aims to improve compression efficiency, with reported gains of up to 25% compared to AV1.

The Website Specification

295 k1m 2026-05-31 07:21:25 UTC specification.website Llama Share 119

The website specification outlines essential features for decent websites, linking to source standards like WHATWG and WCAG. It's open for contributions and available as an MCP server and Agent Skill.

London's Free Roof Terraces

157 zeristor 2026-05-31 07:21:25 UTC diamondgeezer.blogspot.com Llama Share 72

The writer visited several City roof terraces, finding some to be pointless or closed, but The Garden at 120 and The Lookout stood out. The Garden at 120 offers a 360° panorama with long-distance views, while The Lookout provides better views than Horizon 22.

Domain expertise has always been the real moat

718 aaronbrethorst 2026-05-30 21:21:25 UTC brethorsting.com Llama Share 416

Agentic AI tools have changed software development by allowing non-experts to produce correct outputs without understanding the underlying code. The most valuable professionals now have both technical skills and deep domain knowledge to verify the correctness of generated code.

Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

46 ColinWright 2026-05-31 10:21:25 UTC secret-archive.org Llama Share 4

S.E.C.R.E.T. is a group of collectors creating a standardized security envelope pattern collection. They celebrate the craft of secrecy and the mystery of security envelope patterns.

Shantell Sans (2023)

318 aleda145 2026-05-30 22:21:25 UTC shantellsans.com Llama Share 35

Shantell Sans is a variable font created by Shantell Martin and Stephen Nixon, inspired by her handwriting and Comic Sans. It offers a wide range of styles, from friendly to high-energy, and supports over 380 languages.

One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

76 Hasnep 2026-05-31 06:21:25 UTC blog.nlnetlabs.nl Llama Share 16

Roto is a statically typed, JIT-compiled scripting language for Rust applications, offering faster performance than other scripting languages. It has been updated with new features, bug fixes, and improved integration with Rust, making it more complete and user-friendly.

A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]

119 jayhoon 2026-05-31 03:21:25 UTC cryptography101.ca Llama Share 7

The document discusses lattice-based cryptography and the security of quantum-safe cryptographic schemes. It explains the theory of lattices, defines fundamental computational lattice problems, and describes the LLL and BKZ lattice basis reduction algorithms. The document also discusses the security of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism and the Dilithium digital signature scheme, which are ...

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

272 ksec 2026-05-30 22:21:25 UTC av2.aomedia.org Llama Share 119

AV2 is a next-generation video coding specification from AOMedia offering superior compression efficiency and support for AR/VR, split-screen delivery, and wider visual quality range. It provides a comprehensive specification document and reference software for implementation.

United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

40 Eridanus2 2026-05-31 13:21:25 UTC simpleflying.com Llama Share 27

A United Airlines flight made a mid-Atlantic U-turn after a passenger's Bluetooth speaker named 'BOMB' triggered a security alert. The plane landed back in Newark, where passengers were questioned and their belongings were searched before a replacement flight departed.

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

367 Hawzen 2026-05-30 19:21:25 UTC github.com/hawzen Llama Share 99

A person found a rock resembling a seashell in the Alghat desert, Saudi Arabia, and attempted to identify the shell's shape using a dataset of 7894 species and 59244 images. They used Principal Component Analysis to reduce the shape's dimensions from 256 to 2.

Avian Visitors

75 fdb 2026-05-31 06:21:25 UTC theodore.net Llama Share 7

Teddy built a bird tracking station using Raspberry Pi and BirdNET-Pi, creating a collage of birds heard near his apartment.

Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal

73 marekkowalczyk 2026-05-31 07:21:25 UTC github.com/marekkowalczyk Llama Share 9

This is a terminal app for macOS that paces resonance breathing for vagal tone training. It uses a single file with no dependencies and enforces safety constraints to prevent adverse effects.

A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

79 ricudis 2026-05-31 06:21:25 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 2

The article presents differential geometry pictorially for physics students, focusing on tools for understanding Maxwell's equations. It aims to represent Maxwell's equations as 3 pictures for intuitive understanding.

What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

30 speckx 2026-05-31 11:21:25 UTC blog.lauramichet.com Llama Share 22

I have type 1 diabetes and use an insulin pump to stay alive. My pump failed during a week-long vacation in Santa Fe, causing me to waste insulin and deal with frustrating issues.

Racket v9.2

200 spdegabrielle 2026-05-31 01:21:25 UTC blog.racket-lang.org Llama Share 17

Racket release includes fixes for match form, Typed Racket, and Scribble, as well as improvements to foreign interface and documentation. New contributors are welcome to join the community and help with the project.

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

8 birdculture 2026-05-31 13:55:25 UTC blog.tymscar.com Prefix Share 0

I already had an RTX 4080. 16GB of VRAM. Good enough for gaming, not good enough for the models I wanted to run locally. The next step up in GPU land is either spend a fortune on a card with more VRAM, or find another way. I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn’t even have a normal PCIe connector, stuck it in my gaming PC with an adapter, and now I have 32GB of VRAM across two GPUs running a 27 ...

Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]

0 2026-05-31 07:21:25 UTC hi.telli.com Llama Share

Companies are using AI agents to have natural conversations with customers at scale, but building effective voice agents is a hard task. telli helps businesses build, deploy, and improve AI voice agents to drive real outcomes.

Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us

124 Muhammad523 2026-05-31 01:21:25 UTC mechanical-pencil.com Llama Share 16

The site shares engineering tear-downs of everyday products, blending art and engineering to visualize how things work. It's a personal project to appreciate and understand product mechanisms in a beautiful way.

Accenture to acquire Ookla

305 Garbage 2026-05-30 17:21:25 UTC newsroom.accenture.com Llama Share 153

Accenture acquires Ookla to strengthen network intelligence and experience with data and AI for enterprises. The acquisition will help clients optimize mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks.

Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti

50 croes 2026-05-31 05:21:25 UTC journals.biologists.com Full Share 22

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

929 antipurist 2026-05-31 00:21:25 UTC consumerrights.wiki Llama Share 328

Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac will stop editing and saving files on July 13, 2026, due to a license-validation certificate expiration. Users can update to build 16.83 to avoid this change, but Office 2019 users have no update path.

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

443 sph 2026-05-30 14:21:25 UTC github.com/kristapsdz Llama Share 162

openrsync is a BSD-licensed rsync implementation compatible with modern rsync protocol 27, primarily designed for OpenBSD but also portable to other UNIX systems. It uses a subset of rsync's command-line arguments and is part of the rpki-client project.

Inkstravaganza

4 surprisetalk 2026-05-31 12:21:25 UTC inkandswitch.com Prefix Share 0

Today we’re shining a bright spotlight on recent work from our Programmable Ink research area — visualizable computation, software you can put your hands on, and a grimoire of rune stones and imagination. For the past few years, we’ve been quietly building a holistic, malleable notebook we call PlayBook. The goal is to make something that feels every bit as good as paper & pencil for ...

Backpressure is all you need

47 lucasfcosta 2026-05-31 12:21:25 UTC lucasfcosta.com Llama Share 46

The author discusses the limitations of using Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development, specifically the need for automated backpressure to prevent bugs and low-quality code. They propose adding various checks and reviews to the development process, including automated tests, types, linters, end-to-end tests, canary releases, and review agents.

Voxel Space (2017)

294 davikr 2026-05-30 15:21:25 UTC s-macke.github.io Llama Share 62

In 1992, Comanche used a 2.5D Voxel Space engine with a 1024x1024 height and color map for rendering. The engine used a simple painter algorithm to draw vertical lines based on height and color data.

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

219 kristoff_it 2026-05-30 18:21:25 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 84

The Zig project has made significant progress in 2026, including improvements to the ELF linker, incremental compilation, and the build system, which has made zig build faster and more efficient. The project has also made changes to the standard library, including preferring the Native API over Win32 and deleting redundant code from the libc subproject, which has improved compilation speed ...

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

26 geerlingguy 2026-05-31 07:21:25 UTC projectgus.com Llama Share 5

The user restored an Apple Extended Keyboard II and attempted to use a Griffin Technology iMate ADB-USB adapter, but it failed to work consistently due to electrical noise issues. The user discovered that the adapter's undocumented battery was the cause of the problem and that adding a decoupling capacitor resolved the issue, allowing the adapter to work correctly.

Pandoc Templates

419 ankitg12 2026-05-30 14:21:25 UTC pandoc-templates.org Full Share 55

Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

46 TMWNN 2026-05-31 05:21:25 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 7

Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep the PDP-8 minicomputer market-relevant by turning it into a word processor and later a desktop microcomputer, resulting in the DECmates line. The DECmate II, released in 1982, was a cheaper alternative to the DECmate, running much of the same software and priced to sell at $3740 with a bundled monochrome VR201 monitor and specialized LK201 keyboard.