US bans differential privacy in Census data

435 nl 2026-06-13 14:00:36 UTC desfontain.es Llama Share 211

The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

162 andsoitis 2026-06-13 14:00:36 UTC economist.com Llama Share 43

Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

GameBoy Workboy

22 tosh 2026-06-13 18:00:36 UTC tcrf.net Llama Share 2

Disable VPN or proxy, or check for badly-behaving extensions. If issues persist, you may have been manually blocked or there's no solution.

Every Frame Perfect

291 ravenical 2026-06-13 12:00:36 UTC tonsky.me Llama Share 96

UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Appreciating Exif

75 burnto 2026-06-13 15:00:36 UTC brentfitzgerald.com Llama Share 12

Exif is a metadata format that stores image information like orientation, timestamp, and camera settings, and it's usually found in JPEG files near the beginning in an APP1 marker segment. Exif is optional and can be stripped, but it's often used by photo apps, websites, and asset-management systems to sort, search, and display images.

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

105 bookofjoe 2026-06-13 13:00:36 UTC lr0.org Llama Share 20

A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

34 pwg 2026-06-13 17:00:36 UTC righto.com Llama Share 3

The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor uses a 69-bit adder to perform arithmetic operations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. The adder is divided into blocks of four bits, each using a Manchester carry chain and a carry-skip circuit to optimize performance.

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

185 vikas-sharma 2026-06-13 10:00:36 UTC research.google Llama Share 97

Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

114 aloknnikhil 2026-06-13 17:00:36 UTC digg.com Llama Share 42

Zai launches GLM-5.2 with 1M-token context window and plans open-source release. GLM-5.2 is now available to all GLM Coding Plan users.

AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke

95 sbochins 2026-06-13 17:00:36 UTC stephen.bochinski.dev Llama Share 90

Three ways to do AI coding at home without company spending are self-hosting, renting open source models, and blending frontier subscriptions with API rates. The best approach is a mix of expensive models for planning and cheap ones for filling in details.

Electric motors with no rare earths

664 bestouff 2026-06-12 23:00:36 UTC renaultgroup.com Llama Share 191

Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

98 metiscus 2026-06-13 13:00:36 UTC new.roman-names.com Llama Share 17

The map visualizes EDCS inscriptions with extracted personal names, allowing zooming and filtering by name, province, or date. Name extraction is 80-85% accurate, with errors that can be reported using the Flag this entry button.

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

197 hek2sch 2026-06-13 13:00:36 UTC github.com/tensorzero Llama Share 138

TensorZero is a unified API gateway for LLM providers, offering performance, incremental adoption, and compatibility with major providers. It enables companies to optimize complex LLM applications with production metrics and human feedback.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

117 iMil 2026-06-13 10:00:36 UTC imil.net Llama Share 43

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

107 pikann22 2026-06-13 10:00:36 UTC github.com/paca-ai Llama Share 42

Paca is a self-hosted project management platform that enables AI agents and humans to collaborate as equal teammates in a Scrum team. It offers a configurable and extendable workflow, data model, and UI via plugins.

Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

146 ls612 2026-06-13 17:00:36 UTC wsj.com Full Share 141

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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

2977 Dylan1312 2026-06-13 01:00:36 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 2161

The US government has issued a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to a potential jailbreak method, citing national security concerns. Anthropic is complying with the directive but disagrees with the decision, stating it's a misunderstanding and is working to restore access as soon as possible.

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

43 lumpa 2026-06-13 13:00:36 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 2

Kira Boyko is the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+, defining product features based on market requirements and customer needs. She discussed AET (Intel Application Energy Telemetry) and its benefits for tracking energy usage at a hardware core level.

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

130 mahirsaid 2026-06-13 11:00:36 UTC areweguiyet.com Llama Share 94

Several Rust GUI frameworks exist, including Azul, CXX-Qt, Leptos, and Ribir, offering various features and performance. These frameworks aim to provide fast, cross-platform, and native GUI development for desktop, web, and mobile applications.

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

221 qwertox 2026-06-13 12:00:36 UTC phoronix.com Llama Share 136

Arch Linux's AUR repository saw over 1,500 user-contributed packages compromised with malware. Developers have deleted all known malicious commits, but some affected packages may still exist.

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher

16 karakoram 2026-06-13 18:00:36 UTC fortune.com Llama Share 2

A new PwC report suggests AI is increasing healthcare costs by 9% by 2027, mainly due to AI note-taking tools documenting more specifics to justify higher billing codes. This results in higher medical bills despite no change in patient care.

Tessera – a consent-gated tunnel that's blind to your traffic

5 emmanuelkimaswa 2026-06-13 18:00:36 UTC github.com/emmayusufu Prefix Share 0

Status: pre-1.0, no independent security review. Do not use it to guard production or sensitive systems without one. See SECURITY.md. Tessera is a consent-gated remote access broker for "give Alice access to my local postgres, just for this debug session, with a paper trail, end it when we're done." tessera share -port 5432 mints an 8-character code. Alice runs tessera join CODE, ...

Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object

7 atombender 2026-06-13 17:00:36 UTC thoughtforms.life Prefix Share 2

I collect weird scientific objects. This post is about some truly unique material, which will likely never be made again: Between the 1960’s and the 1990’s, a father-son team of Anthony B. Bubenik and George A. Bubenik made and explored a remarkable discovery. They studied deer antlers – huge structures which drop off every year and re-grow. This process is amazing in its own right, because ...

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

464 kkm 2026-06-12 19:00:36 UTC ikyle.me Llama Share 114

User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

Open source AI must win

1442 vednig 2026-06-13 03:00:36 UTC opensourceaimustwin.com Llama Share 446

The public risks losing operational freedom if AI access depends on closed institutions and shifting terms. America must maintain freedom to run, inspect, and modify AI infrastructure with global open standards.

The computer science degree isn’t dead

186 jnord 2026-06-13 03:00:36 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 175

Recent engineering graduates face a 6.1% unemployment rate, but underemployment is low at below 20%. Engineers rank among the top fields for overall labor market outcomes despite a mismatch between job postings and actual hiring.

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable

156 vnglst 2026-06-13 06:00:36 UTC koenvangilst.nl Llama Share 118

User tested Anthropic model with a personal game idea, Shepherd's Dog, and it successfully generated a 2,319 line game in one shot. The model's output was a fun and accurate representation of the user's idea.

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

272 ellg 2026-06-12 23:00:36 UTC putt.day Full Share 102

A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

441 marc__1 2026-06-12 19:00:36 UTC twitter.com/jsrailton Llama Share 232

Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

60 stagas 2026-06-13 13:00:36 UTC hallucinate.site Full Share 19

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