GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

338 points | 157 comments

I have taken another look on these open models after the fiasco of Fable and GPT 5.6 this weekend and... GLM-5.2 truly is a good workhorse model for daily programming. I consider myself a heavy user of LLMs and a seasoned developer. A typical session for me with GPT is usually over a hundred dollars...

This weekend I programmed a matrix bot with encryption and a Rust agent with some tools. Because I need one and OpenClaw just felt... not what I wanted. Two days later and 20 dollars poorer I have what I need: a multimodal agent written in rust that has access to my homelab.

Nothing felt off with GLM. It did what I wanted, was fast, had a decent not very annoying personality and was much cheaper than Opus or GPT.

I used it unquantized through Fireworks, but there are multiple other providers too. — pimeys

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

259 points | 154 comments

The global push to kill privacy makes me sad.

Feels like I grew up in a golden age and subsequent generations won't care because they never knew a different world — Havoc

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

273 points | 241 comments

Would this website (HN) be a "covered platform" according to the bill?

As far as I can tell, the answer is no, because it doesn't do what's described in Section 201 (E):

"Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, market, or make content recommendations."

Neither does, for example, my bank's website, or someone's personal blog, or many other discussion sites like this one. So from what I can see, while the set of covered platforms is certainly not negligible, it's still a lot smaller than "basically every website on the Internet that anyone cares about". So the title of the EFF article is overstating the case; the thing the bill would require age checks for (in effect, if not by the explicit language of the bill) is not "get online" but something more like "get on social media". — pdonis

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

285 points | 154 comments

If we taught systems thinking in schools things like internet age verification would never get past being an idea on the back of a napkin. People struggle to consider the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of anything so asking them to consider what else might happen if we bring in laws and technical mechanisms to 'protect the children' is unfortunately too a big leap for a lot of them. Most people are bad at spotting causal links between parts of a system, and people who are good at it exploit that. — onion2k

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

235 points | 54 comments

An alarming number of people don't understand that LLMs work via purely stochastic processes, so I'm happy to see in-depth pieces like this. I'm looking for a job and maybe this is why it's so hard to get a callback these days: resumes are just dumped in some LLM black hole and no one really knows how it works. The author says:

> temperature 0.1 — low, supposedly nudging the model toward deterministic outputs

This is not correct (and is briefly touched on later in the piece when he sets temperature to 0), temperature is not some kind of "deterministic" switch, but rather it affects the sampling distribution (which becomes more "spiky"—but is still very much a distribution). — dvt

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

308 points | 418 comments

I'm a radiologist but can't really weigh in without seeing the full 3D MRI dataset. Regarding this point:

> They performed shockwave therapy on my shoulder even though a recent clinical practice guideline says clinicians should not use or recommend shockwave therapy for rotator-cuff tendinopathy without calcification; I was told during ultrasound that there was no calcification.

Ultrasound isn't a great way to assess for calcification. It'll find large calcification but easily miss small ones. Plain radiograph would be more helpful, but the MRI may have revealed it as well. Either way, shockwave therapy isn't harmful in the absence of calcification--it's just not helpful.

Edit: when a radiology report says something isn't present, there's always an implicit caveat that the finding isn't present within the context of the modality and images obtained. So an ultrasound report can state there are no calcifications while a plain radiograph can report the presence of calcifications without being inconsistent. Obviously very confusing to patients and people unfamiliar with medical jargon, but clarifying this in reports would make them sound even more qualified, "hedgey", and annoying to read than they already are. — sxg

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

367 points | 486 comments

In the AI era, tests are going to have to be in person and hand written.

I have written an article on how I have adjusted my classes to the situation:

https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/

Ironically, I think the AI era may make university degrees a better signal of the intellectual abilities of students due to the presence of pre-computer infrastructure like large lecture halls, industrial-scale copiers, etc. — recursivedoubts

Librepods: AirPods liberated

243 points | 70 comments

To clarify because this is confusing: The AirPods work as regular old BlueTooth earbuds on other devices already. This is an implementation of some of the extra features and interfaces that are integrated into Apple products. — Aurornis

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/

311 points | 83 comments

Anyone interested in this might also like the tidbit that in Germany, they used to, and still count beer consumed as pencil strikes on the beer paper mat. Altering the number by the guest is legally considered forgery and the disappearance of the beer mat is also punishable by law.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierdeckel#Urkundencharakter (in German, English wiki doesn't have this info) — ricardobayes

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

206 points | 114 comments

It's legal for any random citizen to build one of these surveillance networks, right? — microgpt

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

616 points | 241 comments

I took a look at the Ghidra ones (because I use Ghidra), and I'm unimpressed: https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium/blob/main/ghidra-12.1...

The first requires being able to overwrite binaries in the Swift tool directory. Yes, if you overwrite binaries executed by ghidra, you can trigger code execution. This is not a surprise.

The second, idk, I'm not familiar with TraceRMI (but it's probably worth noting that "RMI" stands for Remote Method Invocation).

The third is not a vulnerability in the slightest, they just demonstrate that native 7zip parsing code is reachable. Maybe there is a bug in the 7zip parser, but without that it's meaningless. — Retr0id

OpenRA

289 points | 63 comments

If you play the original and then OpenRA you will be amazed how well OpenRA is balanced.

As an example, while in the original game using allied artillery against soviet tesla coils was a dead sentence in OpenRA is great to be able to fire well beyond its range forcing you to come out of the base to defend it.

They also added a ton of features which make the game truly enjoyable and fun to play.

Well done OpenRA team! — liendolucas

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

213 points | 81 comments

It's not increasingly bizarre, really, if you just allow for the possibility of one thing:

There's something else worse that they know could be in such a book, but isn't yet, and it is so bad that it is worth doing this.

Perhaps they know that Wynn-Williams could have put it in the book and didn't. Perhaps they know that someone else — someone else British, say? — could write such things in a book and so far hasn't.

Once you assume their motivation is grounded in real fear, it gets easier to see why this isn't bizarre at all; it's inevitable. — dofm

Fintech Engineering Handbook

307 points | 105 comments

I glanced, and I found this handbook shallow and - in some areas - even bad advice.

E.g. If I ever see a monetary value stored in something else than integers I'm going to run away screaming (thank you Rust decimals represented as JSON floats). It's always integers unless you have a VERY good reason to do otherwise (though exported view can be in anything, even in weird bitcoded formats).

FX exchange. Resolution of FX isn't a point-in-time thing, things like buyer rate-in-time, seller rate-in-time, agreement, agreement tolerance, agreed upon resolution timestamp come in the effect.

Immutability - that's why you want to have event sourcing everywhere that touches money:

    # Resolved stream
    A -> B -> E

    # Actual stream
    A0 -> Edit(A0, A) -> B -> C -> D -> Rollback(B) -> E

Though in the end Fintech != Fintech. I worked at Fintech where money was treated like a baggage, and in other where money was a central point of everything. — xlii

The case for physical media ownership

344 points | 227 comments

I agree with the sentiment implied by the author, but I would reword it slightly. If you don't have the freedom to share something, you don't own it.

I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. Digital ownership is still ownership. I go out of my way to find music on Bandcamp, games on GOG, and rip movies myself using MakeMKV.

I wish I could encourage people to continue embracing physical media but most people value convenience over true ownership. And most companies value market capture and "security" over user rights. In crypto the sentiment of "not your keys, not your wallet" is held a core truth, yet people use 2factor authentication and Passkeys without respecting the same truth. I am not arguing against the use of 2factor, but at the same time certain accounts can not be logged into freely without push notifications in Duo or Microsoft. I still don't see a universal ability to export Passkeys, and I believe that's by design.

I hope laws catch up to modern technology in terms of digital goods. I can't imagine companies choosing to open up their walled gardens otherwise. — knaik94

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

201 points | 110 comments

Perhaps someone could have some fun with this...

Feeding faked looped security camera footage is a classic plot device in many films, and could make some good comedy! — bouncycastle

Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

241 points | 72 comments

> [...] opposed the bill. The groups argued that “many” streaming services were already trying to manage the “loudness of advertisements that come from server-side ad insertion that may be inconsistent with the loudness of the programs,”

Well, stop "trying" and fix it already. It's your own damn system. — kube-system

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

199 points | 53 comments

The marathon one has a simple - and fun - explanation: it’s great to run with people!

Many (most?) marathons have pace runners who run the course, hewing to each 30 minute and 15 minute finish. So there’ll be a 3:30:00 pacer, a 3:45:00 pacer and so on. Your local pacer might even have their pace on their shirt and may even have a flag so they’re super hard to miss as you’re running.

One friend of mine runs with a speaker, to play music and keep everyone’s spirits up.

By the end of the race they’d acquired a small army of marathoners! You could see their smiles for miles, and when they all finished together they had a huge party in the recovery area with the speaker :)

I’m surprised the marathon time discontinuity isn’t bigger :) — cadamsdotcom

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

211 points | 161 comments

I tried the Fugu models with some real world tales in C# and unity using mcp and open code. I exhausted the $20 plan 5 hour window in one prompt to review my theme system and plan some color changes. So I upgraded to the $100 to see the implementation and result. Well the result was worse than Opus, incredibly slow, and I ended up exhausting the new 5 hour window and have used 35% of the weekly now and it hardly created something opus was able to do at a fraction of the time and cost.

Do what you wish with this info, but it seems to be a complete waste of $$. — cdurth

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

228 points | 56 comments

One trick that makes me sleepy really fast: After I close my eyes, I imagine someone throwing black paint on them. The first coat is kinda gray and has lots of blob and not fully black. Then another coat. And another. Each one gets darker until it's just pure black and I'm usually asleep by then.

For some reason, my brain follows it, and I fall asleep much faster. It works way better for me than box breathing or most other sleep tricks I've seen. Sharing in case someone else finds this useful. — superasn

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

https://archive.ph/PCQQl

744 points | 859 comments

All: for comments on the technical side please go to the related thread:

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028 — dang

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

System card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview

771 points | 475 comments

All: for comments on the policy side please go to this related thread:

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101 — dang

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM

345 points | 61 comments

That is very very funny, and oh so plausible.

I enjoyed this bit a lot from the timeline

> Karen Oyelaran finds the payload by reading the source code with her eyes and files a second issue. The triage assistant closes it as “duplicate of #8814.” Issue #8814 is a feature request for dark mode. Karen reopens it. The assistant closes it. Karen reopens it. Karen’s GitHub account is rate-limited for “patterns consistent with automated behaviour.”

And this - the final sentence is a perfect indictment of the timeline we are in.

> Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor’s marketing team, cc’d on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing “a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning.” The stock opens up 6%.

I'm joining the goat farming waitlist ;-) — nickcw

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

https://archive.md/ArXuF

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/us-government-gives-a...

362 points | 360 comments

This makes me sad since it implies that the best LLM I will ever be allowed to use is GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. Anything smarter than that is deemed too risky.

So much wasted potential.

And why would I pay Anthropic or OpenAI once consumer hardware gets powerful enough to run an open weight Chinese version of Opus 4.8? Even more so when mobile phones are able to run similar LLMs.

Their financial growth looks doomed. It looks like they will be heavily regulated just like the next missile factory. This is antagonist to VC led turbo growth startup regime. — bel8

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

345 points | 119 comments

My kindergartner has a 3D printer.

I got a call from the school principal. She said “another parent called and said your son 3D printed a gun and brought it to school”.

I looked at the print history. It was a tiny toy mandalorian figurine holding a blaster pistol in his hand.

I bought my son a bigger 3D printer and told him to stop playing with that boy. — gdiamos

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

343 points | 168 comments

> […] the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

completely unsurprised, given the state of online papers publishing. if you don’t have an subscription or aren’t an organisation member, the fees are insane — bstsb

Om

Related: Om Malik has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852 - June 2026 (161 comments)

296 points | 15 comments

rare to see images, let alone with color in a Daring Fireball post

great read

RIP Om — tosh

Jolla Phone (October 2026)

275 points | 151 comments

Wanted to mention that Sailfish has a lot of closed-source components, especially UI-related, despite the overall marketing/"vibe" making it look very open. If anything, AOSP (Android) is more open than Sailfish. I don't think this has changed with Sailfish 5, see e.g.:

- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-os-clarifying-claims...

- https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/ — Tiberium

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

265 points | 111 comments

Even low-dose ultrasound (what they use on pregnant woman) results in ultrastructural changes in brains [0], specifically at the nodes of Ranvier (the gaps between myelin along axons). See also [1] for a review.

[0] Ellisman MH, Palmer DE, André MP (1987), "Diagnostic levels of ultrasound may disrupt myelination," Experimental Neurology 98:78–92 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3308504/

[1] Quarato, C.M.I., Lacedonia, D., Salvemini, M., Tuccari, G., Mastrodonato, G., Villani, R., Fiore, L.A., Scioscia, G., Mirijello, A., Saponara, A. and Sperandeo, M., 2023. A review on biological effects of ultrasounds: key messages for clinicians. Diagnostics, 13(5), p.855. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10001275/ — davi

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

249 points | 137 comments

Piracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!

If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I "buy" or "purchase" something online, I expect the same thing.

I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase — thomasmarton

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Preprint: https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf

https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa

883 points | 198 comments

Lets reflect on Aristocreon, in about 200 BC, putting their thoughts down on a scroll. They would be aware that the scroll might be kept in a library for some time. Maybe they could have imagined it surviving for 300 years. But they never would have imagined that in 300 years a volcano might destroy the scroll, but in some way preserve it. And then that nearly two thousand years later future humans with machines made of materials unimaginable to Aristocreon, but related distantly to sand and lightning, would be able to read the scroll again and instantly transmit it to nearly the whole planet, a planet with many times more humans than existed in their time. (and speaking of 'planet', in Aristocreon's time, people had fairly recently been able to show that the world was spherical but much of it was still unknown).

Do we have better imaginations? Can our sci-fi writers come up with something equivalent that is as dizzyingly far from what we know now, as now is from what Aristocreon knew? — codeulike

Om Malik has died

283 points | 29 comments

Oh wow. What?! Just this morning I had an occasion to go thru his site/blog.

Still can't believe it. 60 is too young.

I met Om finally in 2013-ish at one of his GigaOm events in the SF Bay Area. Before that, I had been a long time reader of his GigaOm blogs and other writings at Fast Company, Red Herring, Light Reading, and elsewhere, including his book Broadbandits. He was one of the few bloggers / reporters who wrote it as he saw it; his takes were often brutally honest and pointed. He called upon the excesses of various telecom execs during the dot-com and telecom bust of 2000-2001/2. His book Broadbandits is basically an invective of the go-go days of telecom companies' incestuous deals (now seen in the AI companies too).

I had a few more occasions to meet him at dinners around the Bay Area. He was always gracious, and listened intently to what people said. As a venture partner, he focused on the people (founder) and their stories much more on the businesses.

I had heard about his troubles with his heart (~age 40-ish), which made him turn his life around to focus on only a few things that brought him joy - writing, photography, travels.

He will be missed. RIP, Om.

--- (Update: the book is Broadbandits (not Telecom Bandits, as I mistakenly wrote) — aanet

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipa...

598 points | 854 comments

These are the price changes mentioned in the article:

Macs

  MacBook Neo: $699 (up from $599)
  13-inch MacBook Air: $1,299 (up from $1,099)
  15-inch MacBook Air: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  M5 MacBook Pro: $1,999 (up from $1,699)
  M5 Pro MacBook Pro: $2,499 (up from $2,199)
  M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599)
  iMac: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  M4 Max Mac Studio: $2,499 (up from $1,999)
  M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from $3,999)

iPads

  iPad: $449 (up from $349)
  11-inch iPad Air: $749 (up from $599)
  13-inch iPad Air: $949 (up from $749)
  11-inch iPad Pro: $1,199 (up from $999)
  13-inch iPad Pro: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  iPad mini: $599 (up from $499)

More products:

  Apple TV 4K: $199 (up from $129)
  HomePod: $349 (up from $299)
  HomePod mini: $129 (up from $99)
  Vision Pro: $3,699 (up from $3,499)

— primaprashant

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

259 points | 116 comments

There are at least some technological solutions here, such as anonymous credentials. [1] Modern versions of this technique allow one to associate metadata (like a proof of age exceeding a threshold) in such a way that the verifier can't even correlate repeated requests across users.

Governments that are serious about age verification and individual privacy (which, doubtful they truly are) should agree on a protocol and set up certificate issuers that are associated with a digital ID. Then age verification will not be an invasive procedure or risk data leaks or insider threats.

[1]: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou... — j2kun

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

345 points | 86 comments

I host a publicly open database with Hacker News data at https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUICogRlJPT...

So you can create any sort of similar services in a single SQL query and an HTML page.

I also hosted it as a publicly accessible data lake, which you can query from everywhere: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29693#issuec...

It is also updated in real-time. — zX41ZdbW

Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors

439 points | 209 comments

Interestingly, there were no consequences for the execs that made this 'mistake'. There seems to be almost unlimited cover for execs cargo culting on using AI as a pretext for layoffs. If it doesn't implode almost immediately, they get massive bonuses, if it blows up in their face, oh well they had the courage to 'take a bold strategic decision'

In other words, they don't really have a plan, but they are happy playing with people's lives via layoffs, since it's the 'in' thing to do. The incentives are huge on the upside and zero on the downside for them. — khriss

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

331 points | 149 comments

How does anyone seriously trust LastPass anymore? Years ago, I was working for a company handling bank data. They were using LP immediately following a previous LP security incident and had no plans to migrate away. — jagged-chisel

Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark

https://xcancel.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095

280 points | 113 comments

If we take what they're saying as fact and that they didn't copy and paste the code, but for all intents and purposes the LlM basically did reproduce the same code based on its crawling of the repo and not respecting the license. It would make a great civil case for the courts to decide.

Their defence seems to be "well we asked an LLM to reproduce your work, so 'WE' never copied your code". Smells bad to me. — bilekas

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

303 points | 162 comments

> logic technology can extend for the first time below the 1 nm node, advancing the era of angstrom-level scaling, where dimensions approach the size of individual atoms. While transistor nodes now refer to a generation of manufacturing technology versus an exact physical dimension, IBM’s 0.7 nm technology—also referred to as 7 angstroms—demonstrates how continued scaling remains possible.

Continuing the well established trend of making bold claims about physical dimensions that have nothing to do with any of the structures in the chip, and the name scales better than the tech.

What they actually deliver is a "nanostack architecture" built with ~5nm features that according to them is comparable to a hypothetical real sub-1nm chip.

It's an impressive achievement nonetheless but it looks like the industry has a few too many marketers. — buran77

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best

290 points | 110 comments

The internet, as it was before the one-way ratchet started to close, feels more and more like a lightning in a bottle that nobody in power wants repeating ever again. Everything in the past couple years has been going towards the centralization into a small number of services, walled wastelands that require you forfeit any kind of anonymity to even browse, tightly coupled to the countries they operate in, and especially for tech corpos, practically an extension of surveillance agencies through PRISMesque programs.

Soon enough (and already the case, if you're one of the unlucky ones) you won't even be able to browse it without explicitly allowing Google to track you on every single website you try to access through your Google-approved, constantly monitored handheld device, linked directly to your identity.

Commercial VPNs are not a solution, they're merely kicking the can down the road, and shrinking the number of people that will complain once they will, finally, come for them too, first by requiring strict accountability to providers and age verification, then outright banning any that do not comply. — 0x_rs

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Announcement: https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-...

https://decrypt.co/371971/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-first-cus...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/tech/openai-broadcom-jalapeno...

463 points | 296 comments

> Developed from design to production in nine months, accelerated by OpenAI’s models

> the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process.

I wish there was more about this. As is I kind of have to assume that this is just meaningless marketing, like saying development was accelerated by Microsoft Office or their 5k LG Ultrafine 40-inch monitors.

Like, if this was as big a deal as it kind of vaguely implies, they would be making a bigger deal of it, right? — sharkjacobs

Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

425 points | 487 comments

> Which leaves the only real question. Why 25,000 at all? It is my company and my risk. If I want to start with nothing, that is my call, not a toll the state collects before it will let me try. And the cheap door has a price of its own: to some clients, “UG” reads as “not serious,” and they would rather deal with a GmbH. The structure built to let me in quietly marks me for using it.

The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability. If you really wanted "your company and your risk", you could have used the "simplest setup", where you are liable with your own money, but if you think about it that way, it doesn't sound so appealing, does it? So of course the UG which does not (yet) have 25,000 in the bank sounds less serious than the GmbH that has 25,000 in the bank. A company that starts with nothing wouldn't be a GmbH (limited liability company), it would be a GoH (company without liability), and there's a good reason why those don't exist... — rob74

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247

468 points | 235 comments

"Sorry, Sandy"

Sandy Petersen's side of it comes out in a few interviews, like https://medium.com/@unkndoomer/back-to-the-past-e3c421fb2e70 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeu96TKQwU (especially 14:17 onward) — starkparker

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

306 points | 530 comments

There's two basic kinds of distillation: 1) the massive [and dumb] method where you ask a question and use the answer as reinforcement (Black Box), and 2) more targeted distillation where you use one model to directly inform/train/guide another model (RLAIF).

The latter is basically fine-tuning the model with direction from another model. Thousands of businesses do this every day to fine-tune. This is almost certainly what the Chinese labs are doing, since it has a much better effect on the end result than just getting simple answers to simple questions.

These complaints of distillation are inflating the problem to make it sound worse than it is, because they want the USG to block/ban Chinese model providers as protectionism. They have already called for more export controls on chips (which is funny because DeepSeek v4 was designed to run on Huawei chips and now the other Chinese providers are following suit). But they can't come right out and say that, so their claim is that they're asking for more export controls because distilled models might not be as safe as their own. But if you show them a jailbreak of their model that bypasses their safety, they'll tell you that any model can eventually be jailbroken so don't worry about safety. — 0xbadcafebee

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

333 points | 51 comments

I found Ruby LLM to be surprisingly good - in terms of usability it's close to Vercel's AI framework.

It tries to strike a balance between working out of the box and being flexible... which has its challenges, still nice overall.

One big real-life pain I experienced is that caches don't always work, e.g. for xAI, since it only supports completions API and thought signatures are returned wrong. — swe_dima

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

288 points | 181 comments

This opens up an interesting synergy: district heating. 45C is low but not unworkable for a district heating loop, and a data center might be able to make a nice pitch to a community if the data center offers to provide heat to a district heating system for free. This brings the value to the local community of a nearby datacenter up from near zero to potentially a few million dollars per year.

Summer is still an issue, but fun solutions are possible. With the right geology, I think it’s possible to heat an underground volume in the summer and recapture (some of) that heat in the winter. In many, many climates, annual heating costs are far higher than cooling costs, at least if people aren’t stupid with skylights. [0]

[0] As a back-of-the-envelope heuristic, heating or cooling load due to conduction and air exchange is proportional to the difference between indoor and outdoor temperature. Outdoor temperatures of -10F to 30F are not unusual in the winter and are 40-80F away from an indoor temp of 70F. But outdoor temperatures in these climates rarely exceed 95F and are mostly lower in the summer, so that’s 15-25F of cooling. And heat pumps are more efficient at smaller temperature differences.

Radiative heating is an entirely different story. — amluto

Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

268 points | 408 comments

The color options are a much bigger deal than I think many people realize. It's been too many years since I saw the studies so I have no hope of being able to cite it, but in a marketing class in college I remember reading about how much people value picking a color they really like, that they feel matches their personality. It increases satisfaction, significantly reduces the cognitive dissonance (aka "buyers remorse") that usually accompanies a major purchase, and increases identity sharing (where the vehicle feels like part of your identity, which is good for brand loyalty and total ownership satisfaction). I've been surprised how limited the color palette usually is for vehicles given all that. It will be interesting to see how Slate does! — freedomben

Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid

335 points | 217 comments

We're cooked. The young kids I teach are unfortunately completely accustomed to go guardian spying on them at school. The admin constantly reinforce the need to dissect the internet, treat Chromebooks as media consumption devices, not computers. I hear it will be even worse here next year. Not sure how.

These people are obsessed with risk mitigation that it's not even worth having tech class anymore. No risk. 100% control all the time. — techteach00

F3

599 points | 126 comments

Not sure why this got so many upvotes, also the landing page is not great, its better to look at the paper (see link below).

Seems to be a columnar storage format that addresses some shortcomings in parquet. Thing is, though, that of all these formats the real winning feature is compatibility, which is (obviously) very hard to improve on, as anything new immediately loses.

Parquet is unfortunately very good just by virtue of being first, and so widely supported. The most widely used parquet version is the oldest version from 2013 (as per the paper itself), so parquet itself couldn't even supplant parquet. If you want to improve on it, you need to bring some serious results, which I don't think f3 does.

Also, my main gripe with parquet (single table per file) is not even addressed, so, also the name is a bit hyped up.

Also also, it seems to go out of its own way to include a compiled wasm binary for decoding, yet requires flatbuffers to parse that blob? Kind of defeats the purpose.

Its main result seems to be improved random access which, although certainly welcome, is not the point of columnar storage, as columnar storage was invented to exchange random access for something else: fast analytics. F3 seems to sacrifice fast analytics for the wasm decoder. I don't get it.

Maybe I'm being too cynical. Can someone help me out here?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3749163 — vouwfietsman

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

456 points | 139 comments

Fun fact for the first apple keyboard layout on the first iphone, the touchscreen hadn't the resolution to tell appart which letter you meant to type in, so it changed dynamically the "hitboxes" of the letter buttons when you typed a certain letter. (for instance if you typed the letter "i", the hitbox of "t", and "n" were changed to be bigger, because there is a high probability you were hitting those next. Here is an article that talks about it : https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/26/creation-of-the-first-iphone... — GL26

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

https://xcancel.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602

443 points | 270 comments

I'm noticing a few commenters who work (worked?) at Google (inferred from comment history) who are critical of this person's actions.

First: you ought to disclose that information when commenting on a topic that relates in some way to your financial incentives.

Second: when I worked at Google under Chrome it was very common for individuals and teams to publish projects to open source repositories under Google-managed Github orgs. In fact, for most of my tenure ('15-'21) my team had license to publish to Github unilaterally (no approval from the open source office required). Great power comes with great responsibility, but also I would put to you that publishing an open source project like this one is part of Google's culture.

Firing seems an extreme consequence for the perceived damage of a long-tenured employee's behavior in this case. — cdata

Jerry's Map

https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawin...

289 points | 43 comments

You guys are welcome: https://marcmajcher.github.io/jerrysmap/ — Fraterkes

Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing

308 points | 81 comments

This looks more promising than what Mistral just launched (coincidence?????? i think not.)

This approach feels like it could be used for image gen as well (in some combination). Read/view image, start drawing image using illustrator/inkscape/etc (or just SVG), then fill in with what was missed after — lacoolj

Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

408 points | 170 comments

> Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were killed, around 30% of the overall death toll.

> A rebuttal shared by Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel "consistently strives to minimize harm to children even in situations of conflict".

Well, it is certainly no question that Israel is killing children en masse.

Israeli officials are saying “but we are trying to minimize”. Well, these attempts clearly failed given 20,179 fatal cases, and let’s also consider all physically injured and traumatized children.

Still, as of today, Israel is killing a child per day in Gaza [1].

So either it is complete incompetence of Israels warfare methods, or it is done on purpose. No matter how you try to frame it, package it: this is not right and Israel should be sanctioned internationally.

Fundamentalists rule this nation. Sanction them, no weapon exports and their actions are not aligned with their official rhetoric.

Also, October 7, October 7, October 7. Yes, horrible, but at what point does the consensus become that October 7 starts to look like a small event in light of the death toll on the other side?

Spoiler: we should be way beyond that. Over 97% of all total casualties are on the Palestinian side [2].

Sanction Israel.

[1] https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/geneva-palais-briefing... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war — hashstring

Mistral OCR 4

422 points | 111 comments

I’ve always thought the US Postal Service is such a technological marvel. They somehow manage to identify and route billions of pieces of mail and I have to imagine their tech is significantly more primitive than this. Not only that but US addresses are absurdly non-standardized, you can often write the same address multiple ways and have it deliver to the same location. I’m sure there’s plenty of published knowledge in this area, but whenever I see announcements about OCR it feels like this should be a solved problem if it’s been accomplished at the scale of USPS for many years. — ericyd

Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place

312 points | 379 comments

I've been deep into crypto for years and I was a big stablecoin supporter. I was fascinated by the tech and I still am. But everything outside the tech itself is just trash, scams, and gambling. I've come to believe that "pure" decentralization is neither practical nor particularly convenient. The only real use case that makes sense to me is giving people in developing countries access to a stable currency they can actually hold, trade, and invest in, meaning USDT or USDC. Outside of that, as an EU/US citizen I don't see why I'd hold stablecoins instead of fiat. It's actually riskier in every meaningful way, and I already have access to every form of investment I could want. It's genuinely fascinating to think about a technology that can empower people who otherwise have no access to financial tools. But that comes at the cost of millions of people around the world gambling with money they can't afford to lose, convinced they're investing their way to wealth. — alehrs

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

Hi all! TikZ is a widely-used LaTeX package for drawing figures in papers. It uses commands like \draw[->] (0,0) -- (1,2); to draw lines, shapes, text, etc. Academics usually code up their figures by hand, so there is lots of twiddling around with the coordinates and recompiling until things look nice. I guess it’s a bit like SVG, but it’s more code than markup, for example it has loops with \foreach.

I built an open-source WYSIWYG TikZ editor (available for web and desktop) that allows you to edit your TikZ source code visually by dragging and resizing elements. It simultaneously shows the source code and the rendered figure, and lets you edit either one while the two views stay in sync. I’m not aware of any other editors that are simultaneously source editors and WYSIWYG (even for editing SVG or HTML), and I’m quite pleased with how well the combination works.

The way the app is implemented is by parsing the TikZ code, and at all times keeping track of the exact source location of each object. Thereby, when a user drags an element to a new position, the app can override just the numbers in the coordinate without changing anything else in the code (such as line breaks or indentation).

This approach essentially required reimplementing a large fraction of TikZ, which is the kind of task that no human would ever want to do. I think building software that doesn’t exist yet because it would be impossibly tedious to code up is one of the great new possibilities thanks to coding agents, and it’s worth brainstorming for other examples. (This app was built almost entirely by Codex.)

Implementing the app came with lots of fun side quests, including building converters from SVG / pptx / ipe to TikZ, re-implementing the LaTeX hyphenation and line-breaking algorithm to support multi-line nodes, and making a color picker that uses the red!20!black color mixing notation used in LaTeX papers.

308 points | 60 comments

If people are curious, I've worked on this project since February 2026, relatively consistently. In that time, through Codex, I've used around 700M tokens for this project (not counting cache reads), which at API rates would have cost $15k (but I actually paid only around $500 in ChatGPT subscription fees). — DominikPeters

Steam Machine launches today

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/22/the-newell-nucle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QzlDewigE

1054 points | 933 comments

> Why a randomized reservation order? [...] we wanted to create a system that would be less frustrating and more fair for everyone. A launch that starts at a specific day and time tends to reward bots, people with fast internet connections, talented gaming fingers for quick F5/refresh reactions, and those who can schedule their life around that moment. By accepting reservation signups over the course of a few days, without any incentive to be first, we're hoping to take away some of that friction.

This is nice. — sailingparrot

Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

433 points | 131 comments

What a word of wisdom right there, the bit about internet is beautiful because it's ok to be weird - this is often the opposite on twitter, fb, reddit and many discords where if you have a different opinion you get mobbed by angry comments making one feel worse about their own weirdness. — trizoza

Never Give Them Your Face

413 points | 236 comments

I quit facebook over a decade ago. Then, a few months back, I was under some pressure to sell something, and the facebook marketplace appears to be the way to go locally. So I tried to create a facebook account.

They wanted to scan my face, and in a moment of weakness, I performed the ritual. Thirty seconds later, they suspended my account due to violations of their terms of service: "this decision cannot be appealed". So now they have my face and I still can't use the marketplace.

I can only assume I'm suspended due to the behavior of somebody who tried to use my identity for something during the decade when I had no facebook account. Apparently not even my face is strong enough authentication for me to convince them that I'm not whoever it was that caused whatever the problem was.

This is why biometrics will never make sense. They're too immutable. Maintaining multiple accounts is not a bug, it's a debugging mechanism. Since I have only the face that I do, I can't even figure out why I'm banned.

We need to instead stop trusting people merely because they have an account. 10k upvotes/likes/5-star-reviews should mean nothing if I don't explicitly or transitively trust the upvoters/likers/reviewers. We have to build things that make decisions by traversing the trust graph so instead of being banned with no recourse, I can create a no-trust identity and elevate it back to personhood status by convincing my meatspace friends to trust it by having a conversation with them in meatspace. — __MatrixMan__

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

237 points | 82 comments

Remember that scene from "Men in Black" where K watches surveillance video feed of his ex? In the movie it was meant to be wistful and cute, I guess. Now that such systems are getting closer to reality, you realize the potential for abuse in enormous. — gattr

Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040

421 points | 264 comments

Makes alot of sense. Canada has:

- one of the largest uranium reserves

- a well respected and safe nuclear design in CANDU

- experience with building and refurbishing nuclear reactors(Darlington)

and for Ontario itself A need for more baseload to work with the large amount of solar and wind that Ontario has added in the last 10 years.

Saskatchewan also now has a potential need for nuclear for industrial use now that wasn't present before from its existing population.

if the government can clear the red tape by using a well tested reactor design then they could certainly get some of these reactors built in that time frame.

15 seems...ambitions, but if we're going to spend at a federal level this is probably one of the better things to invest in. — chollida1

GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally

303 points | 140 comments

I run Q4_K_XL. All it takes to run to get about 6tk/sec is 512gb of ram and 2 3090 GPUs with llama.cpp -cmoe. I also have crappy DDR4, 2400mhz, 3200mhz will bring that speed up to about 9tk/sec. I also have ok 32core epyc CPU, a better 64core would bring it up to about 11tk/sec. I did a budget build before the crazy hardware cost and I regret it everyday. Nevertheless, it's fantastic being able to run this model at home. It's great for planning, one shot prompting once you have a plan or all the context you need. This entire hardware cost $2400 when it was built. If you're willing to be resourceful, you can find ways to run these models at home. I often get the silly question of why, and suggestions about how much I can save using cloud API, but the Fable drama has opened up eyes on why it's good for us to be independent. Thanks team unsloth, Q4_K_XL is solid, if you are going to grab a quant, make sure to get the K_XL variant if it can fit. — segmondy

The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

258 points | 183 comments

I won't use or recommend models with hidden reasoning, (thats all American models). It's too much of a risk and makes prompt optimization harder. Risky because it makes it possible for an attacker to prompt inject the reasoning chain to carry out a secret objective, and to hide that from the summary and output.

Interleaved reasoning and function calling makes this even more dangerous. A model can call functions during the hidden reasoning phase. An attacker could then exfiltrate data from you while the reasoning summary hides it from the user.

It also makes it impossible to know if the model is doomplooping during reasoning and burning tokens for no reason, as gemini is want to do, which we know about because its hidden reasoning often leaks out when it doomloops.

When the models are AGI and secure from prompt injection I may stop caring, until then I want to know exactly what the model responds to my prompts. or exactly what the agent is doing on my behalf.

Edit, further reading: Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-... — irthomasthomas

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

260 points | 206 comments

After 5+ years of actively trying to get into the field (pre AI), I left.

I threw my degree in the toilet, I closed my linkedin, and I went to go work in the trades as a diesel mechanic.

Greatest choice I've ever made. The pay is great, the work is steady, the coworkers are relaxed and not trying to one up each other. I'm now being paid to go to school, and get raises every year until I'm fully ticketed (way more than I ever made in the entry tech positions).

I've heard non-stop my whole life that if I join a trade it's going to be grunt labor and I'll be paralyzed in 5 years. Maybe some are, but this isn't hard at all. I lay on a creeper and turn wrenches. Anything over 50lbs we have lifts for.

Tech has become fun again, I'm just making projects because its what I wanted. I come home and relax by writing on my projects.

Now, I'm watching my tech friends from a distance and my only regret is not doing this sooner.

"Sometimes you gotta give in to win" — Ralo

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

209 points | 60 comments

I got this working with ONNX (thanks, Claude Opus 4.8) and now I have an interactive demo of the model running entirely in the browser here (~1.3GB download): https://simonw.github.io/moebius-web/ - code here: https://github.com/simonw/moebius-web

(Claude Code transcript: https://gisthost.github.io/?58039ba5c1ca3ed177e8659168996ee4) — simonw

Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs

218 points | 143 comments

This is a good thing.

If you could anonymously proxy from anywhere to anywhere else, the internet would be region-lock-free and anonymous again, just like it was to support it's boom in 1999.

Good on these guys I say. When it becomes normalized, we can integrate these 'privacy proxies' into desktop and mobile OS's too. — londons_explore