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AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume

https://hamishcampbell.com/ai-didnt-break-the-web-the-dotcons-did-ai-just-turned-up-the-volume/
17•speckx•1h ago

Comments

arkaic•1h ago
And wrote this title
mike_hock•1h ago
Humans can emdash.
Retr0id•22m ago
The emdash didn't give it away. The structure did – The emdash was just an early warning.
glimshe•1h ago
This is a truly poor article that says much but contains little in terms of original and interesting thinking. I regret having read it.
b65e8bee43c2ed0•36m ago
why did you even bother reading it past that intro image? it was clearly going to be yet another impotent "current thing bad" opinion piece from yet another perpetually agitated member of terminally online intelligentsia.
Retr0id•25m ago
Glad I got the right impression from the title.
mock-possum•1h ago
anyone else annoyed that these buzzwords are all hashtagged and cross linked to other blog articles, rather than defined? #OMN, #4norms, #dotcons - you can’t just make up a bunch of terms and then use them without explaining them to your audience. Wikipedia handles this nearly flawlessly by always offering a definition on the first usage.

Hashtag #mainstreaming? Hashtag #stupidindividualism?? I feel like this is just adding friction to the experience of reading this person’s content - if they feel that have something important to say, why choose this manner of presentation?

tjansen•1h ago
I keep hearing that "the web is broken". But how exactly? What parts are broken in a way that makes it worse than it used to be at some point? I think people who write this just glorify the past. I don't want to go back. Not to the age of Flash ads that crashed the browser. Not to the age where people overused HTML frames and basic stuff like opening in a new window didn't work. Not to the age when every site used tables for layout, and they didn't work half of the time. Not to the time when every non-trivial application required Java and the whole computer froze even if you were one of the lucky ones who got it working. Not to IE-specific hacks and ActiveX. Not to image maps...

And content-wise, there is more content than at any point in time. So what's the issue?

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/
131•jwilk•2h ago•103 comments

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve
32•losfair•2h ago•2 comments

Benchmarks in Leipzig

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818
71•root-parent•3h ago•33 comments

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739
81•tosh•4h ago•203 comments

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/
220•ramanan•5h ago•284 comments

How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
676•0xkato•2d ago•187 comments

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

https://pokeemerald.com/
133•tripplyons•6h ago•38 comments

Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241
53•nmstoker•1h ago•15 comments

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/
24•theanonymousone•3h ago•7 comments

Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up

https://www.learnix-os.com/ch02-03-implementing-the-bitfields-proc-macro.html
47•Sagi21805•5d ago•7 comments

Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2gQ5Md60U
25•NaOH•20h ago•1 comments

The new bibliomaniacs

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-new-bibliomaniacs/
43•RickJWagner•5h ago•33 comments

You Can Run

https://magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-cocaine-fugitives
5•bryanrasmussen•1h ago•0 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...
1077•maltalex•12h ago•388 comments

Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00414
16•rsn243•4h ago•1 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/WYAcNkX-founding-machine-learning-engineer
1•chitianhao•5h ago

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html
216•transistor-man•16h ago•79 comments

US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-lawmakers-release-draft-bill-regulate-ai-2026-06-04/
78•1vuio0pswjnm7•3h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

https://uonr.github.io/poincake/
6•uonr•4d ago•2 comments

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/
460•speckx•1d ago•193 comments

Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics

https://github.com/xloveee/jiggle-physics
25•vesperance•4d ago•13 comments

Splash Is a Colour Format

https://www.todepond.com/lab/splash/
12•tobr•2d ago•11 comments

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

462•andrehacker•1d ago•827 comments

Social Cache Busting

https://www.autodidacts.io/social-cache-busting/
104•surprisetalk•4d ago•38 comments

Python JIT project was asked to pause development

https://discuss.python.org/t/an-announcement-from-the-steering-council-regarding-the-jit-project/...
30•kbumsik•1h ago•7 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable
442•coffeemug•1d ago•102 comments

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html
129•emschwartz•18h ago•72 comments

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt
414•janpot•1d ago•256 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/
138•gostsamo•13h ago•43 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...
382•theanonymousone•1d ago•120 comments