A lot of good M5 Max options available at Apple Refurbished
Just a heads-up. After Apple's price hike announcement, they added a bunch of top-of-the-line 14" M5 Pro/Max options to their refurbished website. If you got discouraged…
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709187 Points: 29 # Comments: 3
Show HN: DRM-Free Books
After several years of mandatory DRM lockdowns from most commercial book sources, now authors have a choice when it comes to DRM for their books. Pick…
Evaluating long-term memory limits in stateless LLM chatbots — feedback needed [D]
Hi all, I’m working on a research project exploring how stateless LLM-based chatbots handle long conversations and whether important earlier information is still reliably retained over…
The number 1 public enemy of open-source.
Dario's args: "Opensource you can see the source, here you cannot see inside the model" - yes you can that's literally the open weights part btw.…
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991 Points: 60 # Comments: 56
I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Article URL: https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941 Points: 19 # Comments: 15
Daisugi the Japanese Technique of Trees Out of Trees, Making Exact Straight Wood
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708859 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708795 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://adiamond.me/2026/06/software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708721 Points: 32 # Comments: 5
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708700 Points: 24 # Comments: 7
Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)
Article URL: https://schamper.dev/dissecting-apples-sparse-image-format-asif/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708644 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25313 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708496 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Script to monitor llama cpp and analyze memory usage
My goal has always been to be productive with commodity hardware. So far my workhorses have been the MoE editions of gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6…
Show HN: Zanagrams
Article URL: https://zanagrams.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182 Points: 19 # Comments: 9
California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database
Article URL: https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/27/california-legislature-agrees-to-upload-drivers-licenses-to-national-database/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708139 Points: 26 # Comments: 8
Hypothetically speaking…
Would it not be possible to create crowd sourced, truly open sourced distilled LLMs with a simple wrapper around command line based AI services that exist…
GPT-5.6: The System Card
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s…
Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707769 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Article URL: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707673 Points: 41 # Comments: 2
Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?
I worked with a few employers on contracts, and there were situations where they haven't paid fees for a while.Is there a list or site that…
DeepSpec – a deepseek-ai Collection
DeepSpec DeepSpec is a full-stack codebase for training and evaluating draft models for speculative decoding. It contains data preparation utilities, draft model implementations, training code, and…