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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/
29•gostsamo•2h ago

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vishnugupta•46m ago
"I have written this maxim a few different ways, but it is worth writing again: no army can help but recreate its civilian social structures on the battlefield."

Interesting to see Conway's law show up here. Companies tend to ship their org structure in a product.

C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391
46•paulmooreparks•2h ago•5 comments

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html
127•transistor-man•5h ago•39 comments

How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
118•0xkato•2d ago•24 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/
29•gostsamo•2h ago•2 comments

Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode
28•berlianta•2h ago•11 comments

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-u...
57•maltalex•1h ago•7 comments

No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators

https://irfanali.org/blog/zcom
15•sayyadirfanali•3d ago•2 comments

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt
376•janpot•14h ago•240 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable
367•coffeemug•13h ago•84 comments

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/
314•speckx•14h ago•138 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...
316•theanonymousone•13h ago•96 comments

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

252•andrehacker•1d ago•503 comments

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/
367•logicprog•17h ago•375 comments

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

https://mouseless.click
504•riddley•2d ago•211 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html
159•laxmena•1d ago•65 comments

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

75•Ekami•3h ago•136 comments

Nordstjernen 1.0

https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.0
33•andreasrosdal•6h ago•14 comments

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html
54•emschwartz•6h ago•24 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...
397•toomuchtodo•12h ago•136 comments

Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised

https://classic100.gotski.workers.dev/
26•gotski•4h ago•16 comments

Three of our worst VC stories

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273
211•orgonon•10h ago•104 comments

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
290•jsve•14h ago•224 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-...
80•lordgilman•16h ago•69 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...
25•pjmlp•2d ago•1 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
23•gmays•1d ago•5 comments

Transformers are inherently succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ
110•brandonb•10h ago•32 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
379•mimorigasaka•21h ago•200 comments

India's surprise baby bust

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world
157•hakonbogen•15h ago•703 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
151•calyhre•3d ago•42 comments

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/
264•vquemener•15h ago•71 comments