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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/
602•gmays•7h ago•159 comments

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
79•DASD•2h ago•31 comments

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
190•kkm•5h ago•61 comments

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
242•marc__1•1d ago•165 comments

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/
156•iweczek•5h ago•67 comments

Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-ov...
50•Cider9986•1d ago•2 comments

Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979
106•sschueller•2h ago•16 comments

Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

https://worldofclaudecraft.com/
63•beatthatflight•2h ago•52 comments

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

https://envs.net/~volpe/blog/posts/reduce-slop.html
152•FergusArgyll•7h ago•105 comments

Can I Buy Your KV Cache?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13361
23•MediaSquirrel•2h ago•15 comments

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

https://bitboard.work/
29•arcb•5h ago•17 comments

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

https://blog.yadutaf.fr/2026/06/12/introduction-to-uefi-https-boot-qemu-ovmf/
66•jtlebigot•7h ago•24 comments

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

https://correresmidestino.com/dont-you-just-upload-it-to-chatgpt/
232•speckx•4h ago•205 comments

A PDF that changes based on how its read

https://sgaud.com/texts/pdf
111•SarthakGaud•6h ago•57 comments

EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/business/renault-electric-vehicle-orders-have-surged-since-start-iran-war...
86•a_paddy•3h ago•30 comments

Cosmodial Sky Atlas

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/Cosmodial/
23•memalign•4h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape

https://landscape.bairui.dev/
4•subairui•2d ago•2 comments

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-earth-get-its-oceans-maybe-it-made-them-itself-20260612/
93•ibobev•7h ago•56 comments

I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur
233•ibobev•4h ago•166 comments

There Is Life Before Main in Rust

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/11/life-before-main/
63•mmastrac•1d ago•17 comments

Maxproof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13473
123•ilreb•10h ago•10 comments

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
1466•jjfoooo4•23h ago•455 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
1•augustschen•9h ago

Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19360307.2.43
24•cf100clunk•4h ago•9 comments

A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-liming-the-end-of-books
145•mooreds•8h ago•132 comments

Satellite images reveal Putin is preparing for war with Europe

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15894289/Warnings-Putin-preparing-larger-war-Europe-satell...
12•Bender•25m ago•0 comments

WASI 0.3

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/WASI-0.3
220•mavdol04•8h ago•86 comments

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

https://stackscope.dev/
38•datafreak_•7h ago•12 comments

Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications

https://encryptedspaces.org/
62•_____k•10h ago•9 comments

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-its-about-time
128•xngbuilds•5h ago•37 comments
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
76•DASD•2h ago

Comments

pjmlp•1h ago
During the State of Platform keynote, on the subject of Swift adoption across macOS, several examples were given, not only TrueType engine.

RIS is happening across all OS levels, if the keynote is to be believed.

DASD•1h ago
Curious the direction of Webkit as there was a nebulous mention of select portions being rewritten from C++ to Swift. And yet, the new ECMAScript module (ESM) loader for Safari 27 is implemented in C++ (https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...).
pjmlp•1h ago
No idea, maybe the private parts of the code, Safari isn't open source, or is coming later.

In any case I would have liked to have more info during the deep dive sessions.

As it is, Meet with Apple on security (a 5h long event) had much more information.

hirvi74•20m ago
What does RIS stand for?
gyomu•19m ago
Rewrite in Swift
troupo•1h ago
I think these are the types of things Apple should've focused on instead of half-heartedly barging ahead with SwiftUI and breaking the language in the process
saagarjha•1h ago
I mean they’re doing both
saagarjha•1h ago
Interesting that this is published under the MIT, rather than Apple’s more favorite Apache 2, license
JumpCrisscross•1h ago
Why is it interesting?
drob518•1h ago
Presumably because MIT is even more permissive and it’s a change in Apple’s behavior.
zdw•19m ago
Given the age of TrueType, wouldn't nearly all patents be expired already?

Apache2's license I've heard described as mutually-assured-patent-destruction - if you use the code and make a patent claim, your rights to use the code go away.

So Apache2 offers little benefit here, and MIT may get it into more hands?

mrpippy•1h ago
The author discussed this a bit on Mastodon as well:

https://xoxo.zone/@numist/116716469017975106

numist•58m ago
I'm also here :)
weinzierl•1h ago
Back in 2023 there was talks about Microsoft rewriting the font stuff in Rust for similar reasons Apple is now doing the Swift move.

I'm not sure what became of it and if it ever shipped. If anyone knows I'd be curious.

DASD•58m ago
Russinovitch (Azure's CTO/CISO) gave a speech at RustConf 2025 and mentions it(DirectWriteCore) took 2 engineers 6 months resulting in 154K LOC and 5-15 percent performance increase for font shaping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtMuS7BExE&list=PL2b0df3jKK...
LoganDark•1h ago
I'm surprised the code has visible LLM smells. Though, I shouldn't be surprised. I hope the important bits are still human-controlled (and the same for Apple's many operating systems that absolutely deserve to remain stable and understood).
dgellow•1h ago
From what I got Apple is using claude code A LOT internally
wahnfrieden•1h ago
Yes they are using Claude Code - not the Xcode agents.

It worries me. I hope Codex adoption picks up there.

Cassell•43m ago
It would be interesting to see their internal guidance on LLM use. It’s a massive amount of new power that has to be wielded carefully. That kind of guidance might mean the survival or downfall of some big corps in the next few years.
airspeedswift•1h ago
I assure you, every inch of the interpreter code has been stared at by humans, a lot. TBH even the assembly generated by it has.
airstrike•1h ago
As much as I enjoyed Swift, one can only wonder what the world would look like if they had gone with Rust as their default language instead.
jadengeller•59m ago
Modern Swift borrows a lot from Rust! And it also has its own benefits, both ergonomic and also supporting eg generic in dynamic libraries
airstrike•50m ago
These days I mainly write Rust but I did write a semi complex iOS app and enjoyed Swift. I just didn't love how slow the type checker was and how it got lost. I recall having to break things into smaller bits to help the compiler, and there were some oddities about the language.

The gap between the two languages is quite small, it just makes me wish Apple was also all-in on Rust

DenisChetwynd•17m ago
maybe so on the surface, but it remains quite massive underneath; these languages are fundamentally different and target entirely different use cases
vardump•49m ago
Does it borrow borrow checker?
ecshafer•40m ago
Swift and Rust were developed at similar times. I think of them more as having similar influences than borrowing from each other.
raphlinus•30m ago
Welcome to the club of doing high performance text in a memory safe language!
wg0•28m ago
No mention of AI? Hand written code?
est31•35m ago
Similar times and the Rust originator went on to work on Swift after it.
DenisChetwynd•27m ago
Graydon Hoare's impact on the language is marginal than that of Chris Lattner, the originator (also, Hoare joined the team much later)