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It's Only When You Look Back

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/
14•mark_round•1d ago

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echelon•1h ago
In twenty years, we'll think we used to live in the stone age.

Movies and games and software will be made with AI. They'll look and be better than ever before, and be driven by strong individuals with more diverse tastes that cater to the long tail of human interests.

The forms of entertainment will change. Games will be more immersive: VR, mutable, Hollywood photorealistic, easy for anyone to edit or join in together. Game loops that form as a form of improv.

We're going to have robotics. They're going to live in your home. You'll have a Michelin star chef in your kitchen who gives you new things to eat every night. They'll shop for your groceries and stock your fridge. You'll fall asleep in your car and wake up at your vacation destination. You'll be able to do remote work while road tripping America.

Skyscrapers and public infra will cost next to nothing to build. Manufactured goods will be assembled and delivered on demand. You can design your own car rather than have a mass-produced one.

We're going to modify our biology. We're going to cure our diseases. No more antibiotic resistance because we're faster than evolution. We're going to kill all the bacteria and viruses and parasites that ail us. We'll make inroads on cancer and Alzheimer's.

We're going to scan our brains and memories to share. We'll decode whale language and talk with them. We'll image distant worlds and solve the great problems in astrophysics.

And that's not even the crazy stuff I can't imagine.

Pessimists be damned, this is finally the innovation era once more.

marcocampos•1h ago
chuckles We have a saying in Portugal: "If my grandma had wheels, she would be a truck."

I leave it up to you to figure it out.

SketchySeaBeast•1h ago
In your future, when does it stop costing $500 to buy 32GB of DDR5? Or are the companies still leasing us the compute?
jplusequalt•32m ago
In twenty years, humans need not apply.

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
522•jamdesk•7h ago•325 comments

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475
39•phreddypharkus•1h ago•19 comments

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
62•Curiositry•1h ago•25 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://www.reuters.com/business/qualcomm-buy-ai-startup-modular-2026-06-24/
142•timmyd•11h ago•36 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

https://www.autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-isnt-difficult/
26•surprisetalk•2d ago•21 comments

Ending All Respiratory Infections

https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections
7•EthanFantl•32m ago•1 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
346•doener•11h ago•55 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
180•dakshgupta•11h ago•99 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
170•swolpers•8h ago•103 comments

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/
191•nitin_flanker•11h ago•147 comments

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open
127•vantareed•1d ago•66 comments

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-announcement-to-elastic-employees
124•dakrone•3h ago•121 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
171•felixdoerp•9h ago•108 comments

Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wolchok.pdf
63•dgellow•3d ago•25 comments

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247
493•shadowtree•9h ago•242 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
200•colinmcd•11h ago•57 comments

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/
7•1317•2d ago•0 comments

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
339•mattnewton•1d ago•36 comments

Stealing Is a Skill

https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill
213•bewal416•12h ago•126 comments

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

https://natkr.com/2026-06-19-nixos-but-smol/
80•logickkk1•5d ago•26 comments

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
276•signa11•4d ago•56 comments

It's Only When You Look Back

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/
14•mark_round•1d ago•4 comments

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

https://lookaway.com
50•_kush•12h ago•11 comments

How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory

https://sebastiangarren.com/2026/06/17/lending-is-meritorious-and-should-be-praised-how-the-fifth...
52•momentmaker•4d ago•9 comments

Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch

https://rerun.io/blog/data-layer-tax
26•Tycho87•3d ago•0 comments

I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code

https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser
113•robbie-c•7h ago•56 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255
152•speckx•6h ago•55 comments

Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request-limits-are-cutting-down-the-noise/
80•ingve•5d ago•40 comments

We’re making Bunny DNS free

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
851•dabinat•16h ago•255 comments

Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/06/pondering-routing-more-of-my-traffic-via-nodes-outside-the-uk-beca...
56•ColinWright•4d ago•46 comments