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The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html

92•transistor-man•3h ago•27 comments

Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode

11•berlianta•26m ago•3 comments

How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

52•0xkato•2d ago•6 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

353•coffeemug•12h ago•82 comments

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt

367•janpot•13h ago•241 comments

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/

295•speckx•12h ago•128 comments

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gem...

298•theanonymousone•11h ago•91 comments

Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised

https://classic100.gotski.workers.dev/

19•gotski•2h ago•13 comments

Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click

484•riddley•2d ago•202 comments

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

340•logicprog•15h ago•350 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

210•andrehacker•1d ago•447 comments

Nordstjernen 1.0

https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.0

24•andreasrosdal•4h ago•11 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html

148•laxmena•1d ago•60 comments

Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-europe-largest-copper-age-tomb.html

20•gmays•1d ago•4 comments

Three of our worst VC stories

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273

200•orgonon•8h ago•99 comments

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-str...

377•toomuchtodo•11h ago•132 comments

The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-station-decoding-nineteen-years-of-gps-...

74•lordgilman•15h ago•68 comments

Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance

https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/nine-ways-to-do-inheritance-in-rust-a-language-without-inheritance...

17•pjmlp•2d ago•0 comments

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/

281•jsve•12h ago•215 comments

Transformers are inherently succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ

100•brandonb•9h ago•31 comments

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html

33•emschwartz•4h ago•19 comments

India's surprise baby bust

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world

147•hakonbogen•13h ago•654 comments

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

46•guanming0717•11h ago•15 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html

149•calyhre•2d ago•42 comments

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/

256•vquemener•13h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed

https://github.com/schildep/verified-polygon-intersection

63•permute•1d ago•14 comments

Aging and Eye Problems

https://ldstephens.net/posts/aging-and-eye-problems/

68•speckx•9h ago•34 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673

369•mimorigasaka•19h ago•200 comments

"Maybe later" was a feature

https://arnorhs.dev/posts/2026-06-04/maybe-later-was-a-feature/

84•arnorhs•1d ago•29 comments

C++: The Documentary

https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/

385•ingve•23h ago•277 comments

Open in hackernews

How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

51•0xkato•2d ago

Comments

singpolyma3•1h ago

Next do "why LLMs work"

sheeshkebab•41m ago

considering they work with any architecture/configuration given enough compute, just more or less efficiently - then maybe it's fundamental, in the same sense as why electricity works...

soupspaces•30m ago

Universal approximation theorem, embeddings, self-attention, gradient descent. And empirically, scaling laws.

skydhash•3m ago

Why does linear regression works? Why does computer works? Because it's about math and the encoding information. If we can encode words as numbers, then why can't we encode their order as a relation? It's just that neural networks are very apt at finding that relation even if it's noisy.

andai•58m ago

I couldn't load the article directly due to an SSL issue, so here's the archive link:

https://archive.ph/aWtFG

10GBps•13m ago

I learned TCP/IP by watching and reading raw packets over packet radio at 1200 baud.

I've noticed the same thing is possible if you watch the output of a slow LLM. Eventually you start to see the machinery. input tokens = output tokens, it's math. I can't exactly predict the tokens generated but I can see how they are formed. It's a lot like chess. You can't see every possible move but the mechanism is understandable.