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ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

https://zcode.z.ai/en
146•chvid•2h ago•190 comments

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

https://www.workerowned.info/
165•IESAI_ski•3h ago•30 comments

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides-202...
693•defrost•9h ago•238 comments

Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production

https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/healthy-but-sedentary-individuals-show-early-decline-in-...
34•littlexsparkee•1h ago•17 comments

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/
215•atan2•6h ago•113 comments

The Underhanded C Contest

https://underhanded-c.org/
24•ccabraldev•1h ago•3 comments

Chip Off the Old Block

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/chip-off-the-old-block
28•paulpauper•2h ago•1 comments

Qualcomm Linux 2.0

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/06/qualcomm-linux-2-now-available
37•gilgamesh3•3h ago•3 comments

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-g...
573•Tiberium•12h ago•601 comments

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.html
263•ledoge•10h ago•89 comments

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/usermedia-html-element
4•twapi•21m ago•0 comments

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-...
18•consumer451•1h ago•7 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/mMHvKR9-founding-product-engineer
1•pablo24602•3h ago

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/
398•makepanic•12h ago•86 comments

Internal Combustion Engine (2021)

https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
273•StefanBatory•11h ago•67 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

151•whoishiring•9h ago•162 comments

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

https://escapepod.org/2013/09/14/ep413-why-i-left-harrys-all-night-hamburgers/
51•rbanffy•3h ago•8 comments

Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
240•soheilpro•10h ago•146 comments

Why jet engines aren't made in China

https://aakash.substack.com/p/why-jet-engines-arent-made-in-china
49•paulpauper•23h ago•25 comments

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

https://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1
63•ryanmerket•6h ago•103 comments

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

https://probelab.io/blog/optimistic-provide/
143•dennis-tra•8h ago•47 comments

Fable 5 Is Back

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2072402636813607381
292•mfiguiere•4h ago•275 comments

Flavor Graveyard

https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard
15•NaOH•3d ago•6 comments

The Apple Disk II Controller Card

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2021/11/12/the-amazing-disk-ii-controller-card/
29•stmw•2d ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

45•gergelycsegzi•10h ago•44 comments

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery
20•bushwart•1d ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

104•whoishiring•9h ago•236 comments

OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

https://github.com/langchain-ai/openwiki
19•handfuloflight•3h ago•1 comments

The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2052282/FULLTEXT01.pdf
51•cenazoic•9h ago•6 comments

Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom

https://hanakai.org/blog/2026/06/30/hanami-3-0-in-full-bloom
74•PuercoPop•6h ago•24 comments
Open in hackernews

US feds are actively hiring "person who decides which models to ban"

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/856265200
41•arm32•1h ago

Comments

arm32•1h ago
I’m sure they’ll make the right hiring decision, right?
Avicebron•1h ago
"This job announcement has closed", that was fast.
antonvs•1h ago
The dates show that it was open for 20 days back in February.
ActorNightly•1h ago
A lot of times they create job posting for someone they already want to fill a certain role.
ofjcihen•1h ago
That pay scale seems insulting
recursive•1h ago
I'm sure that position comes with plenty of back-channel incentives.
mapontosevenths•1h ago
$150k for a 13 month contract is "anyone with a pulse" money.

Nobody who is actually qualified would take it, unless they're on the grift.

minhaz23•1h ago
Isn’t that average or even high for a tech role? I’m in ny making less than that scale
jameshush•1h ago
Are you making less than 130k total comp in NYC while doing AI stuff as an engineer?

I'd highly recommend looking for a new job.

mapontosevenths•1h ago
Not even in the right ballpark.

Firstly, a job of this level should be executive scale pay.

Secondly, on site should include a 30% boost above remote. It costs you money and time to commute, and thats part of total compensation.

alephnerd•1h ago
Govt jobs do a CoL adjustment based on the region located, which would put this kind of role at market rate base salary for adjacent positions in the DMV and Bay.
wnevets•1h ago
The meritocracy strikes again.
porphyra•1h ago
Why does usajobs.gov have an autoplaying sound?? I opened this link during a meeting by accident.
shric•1h ago
To literally broadcast to the world that they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
happyopossum•1h ago
Headline is absolute clickbait: please don't use quotation marks when you just make things up.
mikert89•1h ago
ai models are clearly a threat to the world order
add-sub-mul-div•1h ago
I wonder how much it costs to have the government declare your model to be too good to be allowed.
Catloafdev•1h ago
Closed date: 02/23/2026
Jtsummers•1h ago
That pay range already includes the cost of living adjustment for the DC area.
Jtsummers•1h ago
Government pay often is. The pay scales are capped, with a few exceptions and ways around things, so unless this job goes up to an SES or similar grade that $197k is the best they can do.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries... - All pay scales

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries... - DC area, so base + locality.

Note that at the top the GS-15 steps 6-10 all get the same pay. The linked position's listed pay range spans GS-13 through GS-15, which is actually a huge spread and kind of funny. That's a large spread in responsibility between GS-13 and GS-15. In civil service, as a manager a GS-13 might be responsible for on the order of 50-100 people and millions in contracts and equipment, a GS-15 might be responsible for thousands of people and billions in contracts and equipment (location does matter a bit, the folks in DC, because the cost of living is so much higher, usually end up with some grade inflation so drop them 1-2 grades to compare to the rest of the US).

ActorNightly•1h ago
Goverment does not pay as much as private sector, and pay is all based on years of experience, not talent.
Jtsummers•1h ago
> pay is all based on years of experience, not talent.

That's true for GS and WG positions (though they can get performance based bonus step increases, these are relatively rare unless you play golf with the boss), but the pay bands mostly try to get around that and give performance-based raises. Supervisors don't like getting taken to EEO so they often won't give low scores even to people who deserve them, though. This results in the top performers usually getting bigger raises than low performers, but low and middling performers end up with roughly equivalent raises.

In theory, most of the pay band systems offer an effective way to weed out poor performers, but it's just not used.