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Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
466•minimaxir•5h ago•48 comments

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll
991•verditelabs•10h ago•219 comments

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-...
45•scrlk•8h ago•30 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
418•bilsbie•4h ago•191 comments

A data race that doesn't compile

https://corentin-core.github.io/posts/ruxe-type-level-disjointness/
9•stmw•32m ago•3 comments

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
15•Alupis•54m ago•4 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
99•exploraz•2d ago•21 comments

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/
114•babelfish•5h ago•28 comments

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)

https://gchandbook.org/
43•teleforce•2h ago•8 comments

Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

https://explorer.oxide.computer/
297•darthcloud•3d ago•121 comments

IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology
264•porridgeraisin•10h ago•147 comments

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge
209•engomez•10h ago•99 comments

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
74•tosh•5h ago•26 comments

Parallel Parentheses Matching

https://williamdue.github.io/blog/parallel-parentheses-matching
59•Athas•5h ago•9 comments

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

https://www.nijho.lt/post/proxmox-to-nixos/
53•wasting_time•4h ago•25 comments

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

https://princechazz.com
218•cowboy_henk•4d ago•74 comments

OS9Map

https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/
186•LaSombra•11h ago•29 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25
214•kouosi•11h ago•87 comments

The Doorman's Fallacy in action

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/17
56•rozumem•6h ago•91 comments

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyroc...
629•virgildotcodes•13h ago•904 comments

AI children's books, body horror edition

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ai-childrens-books-body-horror-edition
9•surprisetalk•50m ago•0 comments

Record type inference for dummies

http://haskellforall.com/2026/06/record-type-inference-for-dummies
12•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•0 comments

The last Romans are still around

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/06/20/the-last-romans-are-still-around/
40•surprisetalk•3d ago•63 comments

Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/besimple-ai/jobs/yWfhhOR-strategic-projects-lead-audio-data
1•yzhong94•9h ago

Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/military-branches-restore-flu-shot-requirement-after-virus...
134•tzs•3h ago•53 comments

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton11-1
63•d3Xt3r•1d ago•25 comments

The annotated PyTorch training loop

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/pytorch-training-loop
63•smaddrellmander•3d ago•11 comments

You can't unit test for taste

https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/
243•kalli•1d ago•117 comments

Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup

https://pnsn.org/blog/experiments-in-sports-seismology-for-the-world-cup
5•jmward01•4d ago•0 comments

Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs

https://github.com/decrazyo/anes
101•zdw•2d ago•34 comments
Open in hackernews

Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016)

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/silicon-valley-has-an-empathy-vacuum
21•rmason•2h ago

Comments

gnabgib•2h ago
Title should be Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (2016), at the time:

flagged (85 points, 136 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13055427

(49 points, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057589

consensus1•1h ago
> the distinct lack of empathy for those whose lives are disturbed by its technological wizardry. Two years ago, on my blog, I wrote, “It is important for us to talk about the societal impact of what Google is doing or what Facebook can do with all the data. If it can influence emotions (for increased engagements), can it compromise the political process?”

He means his life is disrupted. He doesn't like Google / Meta's influence on emotions / politics, not because he has a problem with that in general, but because journalists like him view it as their god given right. And by "compromise the political process" he means the tech industry does the exact thing he built his career doing. But he is right about one thing. I don't have a shred of empathy for the journalists.

dozerly•1h ago
Well that’s a sour take. There’s plenty of journalists that are vital to you as a citizen, that helped create the societal contract that we enjoy today. There also happen to be a lot of journalists that shill for political or monetary gain. Journalism (the act of gathering, verifying and distributing information) is extremely vital to a functioning democracy.
ambicapter•1h ago
This comment could be thoroughly summarized as “no, you”.
celdon25•1h ago
The author just died, and is now dead, and unable to provide an opinion, like many others who have fallen under hard times. Those with privilege therefore tend to have their opinions over-represented in the public square.
rgrPlantner•1h ago
I don't have a shred of empathy for software engineers at risk to AI

Same old technological advancement they championed coming for them.

Too bad for them they had too little vision and skill for engineering which led them to erroneous conclusion hardware would never evolve to be self-configuring even though its a long sought goal of hardware engineering

I mean this is the US, where it could be argued the lack of social safety net means none of us really have empathy for our neighbors. Same as I am not out there feeding homeless, if you end up living in your car, oh well.

frollogaston•1h ago
I'm fine with "live by the sword, die by the sword" for software engineering. SWEs who insisted on using outdated tooling have been getting replaced for decades. If I get replaced, it's my fault. Not speaking for truckers or other professions, just my own.
JSR_FDED•1h ago
It always bugs me when “Silicon Valley” is written about as some kind of monolith.

Do all the sincere, hard-working, risk-taking startups deserve to be painted by the same brush as Facebook?

frollogaston•1h ago
Yes actually, cause those startups are trying to either become a large company or be bought by one. And talent moves decently well between the two kinds of companies.

This reminds me of when someone outside California asks what city someone is from and they say Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. No, that's SF.

Avicebron•1h ago
We've totally altered our information environment in something like 30 years. Less than an average lifespan. On the back of that anyone remotely competent and well wishing in technology was immediately supplanted by those who worship venal money-grubbing.
delichon•1h ago
> Globalization is a proxy for technology-powered capitalism, which tends to reward fewer and fewer members of society.

This is just false. The growth of income inequality does not diminish the clear global trend of increased median income and consumption.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=l...

frollogaston•1h ago
I went in ready to laugh at this article because it's The New Yorker casting stones about empathy vacuum, but it was actually good. Dunno if I buy the connection to Donald Trump's 2016 win, but it's refreshing to hear this explanation instead of stuff like "Facebook helped him win," the author was really empathetic.