Hacker News on Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left(moddedbear.com)

1115 points by speckx 4 months ago | 750 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author left Gmail after being annoyed by unrequested AI-generated message summaries and draft replies.

Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

690 points by IliaLitviak 4 months ago | 168 comments

An Ask HN post by a job seeker complaining about receiving unsolicited sales emails after posting in the Who Wants to Be Hired thread.

Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai(blog.adafruit.com)

623 points by semanser 4 months ago | 253 comments

Adafruit blog post announcing it received a demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Defy Gravity, Inc., maker of Flux.ai.

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug(blog.ammaraskar.com)

620 points by ammar2 4 months ago | 95 comments

A blog post describing a VSCode webview bug that lets an attacker steal a GitHub token with repo read/write access, including private repos, via a single click.

MAI-Code-1-Flash(microsoft.ai)

519 points by EvanZhouDev 4 months ago | 243 comments

Microsoft AI's announcement page introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash, a coding model for quick fixes and complex engineering tasks, available to try in VS Code.

CT scans of BYD car parts(lumafield.com)

446 points by viasfo 4 months ago | 301 comments

Lumafield's First Article page showing industrial CT scans of BYD electric vehicle parts, such as a charging connector, with commentary on the automaker.

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux(github.com)

441 points by tanelpoder 4 months ago | 111 comments

GitHub repository for nbd-vram, a tool that uses an NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux via NBD and CUDA, aimed at laptops with soldered RAM.

Why Janet? (2023)(ianthehenry.com)

424 points by yacin 4 months ago | 231 comments

Ian Henry's 2023 blog post arguing why programmers should try Janet, a small Lisp dialect, and promoting his free book about it.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)(coveillance.org)

388 points by eustoria 4 months ago | 265 comments

A Coveillance guide describing a walking tour of Seattle surveillance sites, including cameras, Amazon Go, license plate readers, a fusion center, and an AT&T NSA peering site.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study(law.stanford.edu)

379 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 327 comments

Stanford Law School press release on a blind study where law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow professors.

macOS needs its grid back(blog.hopefullyuseful.com)

367 points by ranebo 4 months ago | 240 comments

A blog post arguing macOS should restore the grid layout for virtual desktops (Spaces), introducing a tool called GridLion that recreates it.

Love systemd timers(blog.tjll.net)

359 points by yacin 4 months ago | 229 comments

A blog post on Tyblog arguing that systemd timers are underappreciated and explaining how to use them for scheduling tasks on Linux.

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month(acdw.net)

291 points by speckx 4 months ago | 151 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling(scotthyoung.com)

280 points by andrewstuart 4 months ago | 464 comments

Stop Ruining It(seths.blog)

265 points by herbertl 4 months ago | 125 comments

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API(mitmllc.com)

250 points by RZelaya 4 months ago | 152 comments

Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2(handwritten.danieljanus.pl)

230 points by nathell 4 months ago | 32 comments

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model(en.wikipedia.org)

227 points by tosh 4 months ago | 58 comments

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals(politico.com)

215 points by _alternator_ 4 months ago | 158 comments

Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"(techradar.com)

214 points by CharlesW 4 months ago | 139 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release(blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)

204 points by jandeboevrie 4 months ago | 280 comments

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API(tiki.li)

204 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 63 comments

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia(discourse.julialang.org)

203 points by fons-p 4 months ago | 33 comments

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser(blog.zgp.org)

199 points by speckx 4 months ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Eyeball(eyeball.rory.codes)

198 points by mrroryflint 4 months ago | 68 comments

Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)(jasonzweig.com)

192 points by nate 4 months ago | 127 comments

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C(hpcalcs.com)

191 points by dm319 4 months ago | 122 comments

How we index images for RAG(kapa.ai)

183 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 23 comments

Samurai City(worksinprogress.co)

174 points by zdw 4 months ago | 38 comments

Coreutils for Windows(github.com)

172 points by gigel82 4 months ago | 158 comments

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)(fidonet.org)

170 points by BruceEel 4 months ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk(uonr.github.io)

168 points by uonr 4 months ago | 29 comments

Expanding Project Glasswing(anthropic.com)

165 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 222 comments

MAI-Thinking-1(microsoft.ai)

161 points by LER0ever 4 months ago | 69 comments

Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history(apnews.com)

153 points by cobbzilla 4 months ago | 41 comments

Open Repair Data Standard(openrepair.org)

142 points by cassepipe 4 months ago | 11 comments

How is Groq raising more money?(zach.be)

138 points by hasheddan 4 months ago | 59 comments

Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target(reuters.com)

129 points by berkeleyjunk 4 months ago | 79 comments

CSS-Native Parallax Effect(dan-webnotes.com)

123 points by dandep 4 months ago | 46 comments

Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance(blog.janestreet.com)

122 points by matt_d 4 months ago | 63 comments

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India(bbc.co.uk)

120 points by mellosouls 4 months ago | 86 comments

Social Cache Busting(autodidacts.io)

117 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 43 comments

WiFi Time(mitxela.com)

112 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 6 comments

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X(fergusfinn.com)

107 points by kkm 4 months ago | 17 comments

4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time(archaeologymag.com)

106 points by marojejian 4 months ago | 46 comments

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home(blog.hellas.ai)

103 points by zdw 4 months ago | 7 comments

databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver(columnar.tech)

103 points by hckshr 4 months ago | 20 comments

Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system(nytimes.com)

98 points by jeffwass 4 months ago | 87 comments

Gleam v1.17.0(gleam.run)

98 points by figbert 4 months ago | 7 comments

QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3(c9x.me)

95 points by birdculture 4 months ago | 29 comments

GitHub Copilot App(github.com)

92 points by theanonymousone 4 months ago | 65 comments

Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup(github.com)

89 points by flexagoon 4 months ago | 7 comments

Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw(computerworld.com)

76 points by EvanZhouDev 4 months ago | 66 comments

My Students Can't Read(chronicle.com)

75 points by computerliker 4 months ago | 84 comments

3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering(designboom.com)

75 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 27 comments

Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers(vox.com)

69 points by stalfosknight 4 months ago | 56 comments

Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T(businessinsider.com)

66 points by mgh2 4 months ago | 69 comments

More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support(axa.com)

66 points by mgh2 4 months ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface(github.com)

65 points by timhigins 4 months ago | 37 comments

Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans(bbc.com)

65 points by dijksterhuis 4 months ago | 83 comments