frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
198•HumanCCF•3h ago•130 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
508•stared•5h ago•442 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
73•zdw•2d ago•11 comments

Is It Out Yet?

https://outyet.ai
26•partsch•1h ago•10 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
332•everfrustrated•8h ago•203 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
124•danboarder•5h ago•27 comments

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html
9•wglb•39m ago•1 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
211•mrcslws•7h ago•96 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
163•energeticbark•7h ago•24 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
89•chantepierre•3d ago•13 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
44•neitsab•3h ago•11 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
373•cdrnsf•7h ago•174 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models
40•matt_d•4h ago•11 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
190•mezark•9h ago•24 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
77•Jimmc414•1d ago•9 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
61•comma_at•8h ago•23 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-hum...
15•jnord•37m ago•0 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
159•xrd•1d ago•62 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
46•kordlessagain•1d ago•6 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
319•Brajeshwar•6h ago•83 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
117•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•16 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-in...
81•jruohonen•1d ago•54 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
151•rbanffy•12h ago•38 comments

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084
83•eatonphil•8h ago•36 comments

Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family
40•birdculture•3d ago•12 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
50•pepys•3d ago•28 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
87•ingve•11h ago•44 comments

Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science/
57•markgavalda•17h ago•56 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
321•donohoe•10h ago•156 comments

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/garden-tlds-change-to-a-bad-neighborhood/627
32•speckx•4h ago•21 comments
Open in hackernews

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
61•comma_at•8h ago

Comments

recursivedoubts•7h ago
hello all, this is an article I wrote up on my interaction with an agent, Claude, in fixing a bug in the hyperscript parser

it was a rather mundane bug, but i thought the interaction was interesting and worth analyzing to show where AI is very strong and where it is not as strong

hugeBirb•1h ago
Always exciting to see a former professor on the front page and always an enjoyable read Mr. Gross!
varun_ch•7h ago
maybe slightly unrelated but the new htmx homepage (https://four.htmx.org/) feels a little ironic, seemingly written with tailwindcss and a full JS ecosystem Astro build system. It also has the ‘vibey’ ‘hypey’ landing page design that’s hard to describe but you’ll find on any web framework, rather than dropping you to docs like the old site.

Compared to the original simple HTML site it’s really surprising to see from the grugbrain.dev author!

recursivedoubts•7h ago
:) i let a younger person on the core team create the new website for something different

it is using astro, we are scaling down the use of tailwind (I wanted to give it a try, but didn't really click with it.)

I don't mind someone doing something kind of fun with the website and trying something new out, I know some people don't like it but some people do. All good.

varun_ch•7h ago
that’s fair! It definitely looks good and modern!! I just wonder if it compromises the initial impressions of the project in some way.
mistrial9•6h ago
isnt it obvious that some web sites will become unreadable without serious machine assistance, while classical HTML web standards have some fallback path to read by a human ?

clear text with minimal markup has many desirable properties IMHO

thorum•7h ago
Interesting read! Creating tests is highlighted as something Claude did well, but it strikes me that all the weaker rejected solutions could have been avoided if it were really good at designing intelligent tests for itself. For example, the first solution “was very specific to the reported bug and wouldn’t have fixed the general case” and the third suggestion “prevented the perfectly valid use of as conversion expressions in go commands as well”. I imagine both of these cases could have been noticed and avoided by the agent if it had planned out adequate tests ahead of time.
rapind•49m ago
This is kind of what coding with LLMs feels like. Gradually increase guard rails "outside of it's context (automated)" to get the results you want out of it. Static typing, quick compilation, not having nulls, and lints are a great start (I would also argue for managed side effects and functional, but to each their own).

It gets pretty far to the solution on it's own and quickly, but then you spend time adjacent to the problem, building out it's cage while iterating through the remainder of the solution.

waffletower•7h ago
I disagree with the trope -- (AI effects) "the slow dulling of our intellects". I am old enough to remember my career change, being a developer in the Apple ecosystem, confident with Objective-C and native system libraries in iOS and MacOS. I changed direction using a very different software stack in cloud services as a data engineer with deep utilization of Clojure. I have personal projects that I occasionally would return to in the former world -- often a decade or more later. I saw what I forgot immediately; but soon after, with engagement, I saw how quickly I was able to remember. Extended use of AI for me has exactly this footprint. Even "use it or lose it" is wrong -- "use it when you need to" is honestly more like it -- the brain is plastic. Some AI fears are warranted, this isn't one of them.
luisln•43m ago
In all my side projects, instead of thinking about architecture or design decisions, I just ask it what I want the end effect to be. "I want this button to do a thing". You're saying this is good for my brain?
hankbond•41m ago
do you propose its maybe closer to the idea that you can regain strength faster after having lost it (in the context of bodybuilding and extended time off)? Gaining something from scratch requires much effort and experimentation, regaining it less so?
ekidd•1m ago
> I saw what I forgot immediately; but soon after, with engagement, I saw how quickly I was able to remember.

We actually have pretty good models for how long it takes to forget things. It's the same basic math that powers Anki. To oversimplify, if you force yourself to remember something right before you would have otherwise forgetten it, you will remember it roughly 2.5 times as long before forgetting it again. (This changes at both the shortest time intervals and the longer ones, so treat it as a rough rule of thumb, not an exact formula.)

But this provides a handy bound! If you've been doing something professionally for 20 years, you should expect to remember it for another 50. At which point you're likely well into old-age, and memory performance may decrease for other reasons.

Where AI kills you is actually at the other end: initial learning. You are much less likely to need to recall something after 1 day, 2.5 days, 6.25 days, etc. And thanks to the lack of the "testing effect", memory formation will be much weaker.

In other words, I would naively expect AI to make long-used skills a bit rusty, but to drastically impede formation of new skills and knowledge.

nsonha•5h ago
AI makes the case for htmx, we don't have to think about the spaghetti code, AI does it for us /s
jdlshore•3h ago
Carson’s experience matches mine: AI is good at analysis and boilerplate, but not good at the kind of critical thinking necessary for good designs. If it were human, I would say that it jumps to solutions to quickly, rather than stepping back to consider the big picture and how everything should fit together to make a cohesive whole.

It’s not human, of course, and I think this problem actually relates to the fact that LLMs don’t have a world model. They don’t study and think through a design in the way that humans do. They don’t form a mental model of how everything fits together and how that design can be tweaked to most elegantly support a change.

I suspect that this is a fundamental limitation of LLMs, and that design will remain a weak point until some sort of bespoke design AI is bolted onto the side. In the meantime, we’ve got a lot of people producing a lot of code very quickly, and I think the debt in that code is going to be a millstone around our necks for a long time to come.

oulipo2•1h ago
Exactly, LLM is good at "code inpainting" : define clear structures and goals, and it will fill the boilerplate. But it doesn't work for reasoning and abstraction, so it fails to synthesise and propose novel views. But that's integral to the way it's designed and has been trained, to do a kind of "averaging" which limits it's capacity to explore novel designs
vb-8448•56m ago
It's just because not enough people had this very specific problem before.

This article will be part of the next model training set, and probably it will be able to solve it despite not understanding anything about world or not studying or thinking.

rst•36m ago
One partial mitigation is to ask it to use plan mode -- and then very carefully review the plan before allowing it to execute.
smokefoot•1h ago
The author admits that the logic of the language and the design of the parser are idiosyncratic. Even the solution the author likes is an extension of an existing hacky trap door. He could be more open-minded about the solutions the AI proposed and in fact, I think AI could potentially rearchitect this in a more structured, sustainable, and legible way.

Many developer criticism of AI coders could be easily directed at 95%+ of human developers. Much coding is monkey see, monkey do and keep trying until it does the things we want it to do. AI can certainly do that cheaper and faster and really this is why automated testing became such an important software discipline with or without AI.

slopinthebag•1h ago
Yeah, no. The AI was unable to come up with a good solution whereas the human was. Point human.
smokefoot•1h ago
Maybe fair. I think my point was the author emphasizes how strange the software is. The further you are from the training data, the less well a model will perform. I haven't looked at the project, but it seems like it could maybe be written more conventionally. Or maybe not! In which case AI is bad at creativity and thinking outside the training data and that's a genuine insight.
wiremine•50m ago
It's a good write up, but it's lacking some details, the most important one is: which Claude model was used?

The second issue is: what was tooling and the prompt approach?

(To be clear, I have no problem with the premise of the write up. But without some details like this, it's sort of like saying "I had a bad board on my deck, and my tape measure wasn't able to help me remove the nails. What a bad tape measure."

effnorwood•5m ago
read this to mean the construction material. was wrong.
saagarjha•23m ago
At that point I would rather just write the plan myself