Hacker News on Friday, 5 June 2026

Changing how we develop Ladybird(ladybird.org)

811 points by EdwinHoksberg 4 months ago | 515 comments

Ladybird blog post by Andreas Kling announcing the project will stop accepting public pull requests, with code changes made only by maintainers ahead of alpha.

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen(theregister.com)

531 points by toomuchtodo 4 months ago | 201 comments

The Register article reporting that the UK Government Digital Service replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen for GOV.UK Pay, adding pay-by-bank options.

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste(rochester.edu)

490 points by speckx 4 months ago | 202 comments

University of Rochester news article about a new desalination method that turns ocean water into drinking water without producing waste brine.

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?(alexispurslane.github.io)

474 points by logicprog 4 months ago | 478 comments

A data analysis of rsync releases measuring bugs per 10 commits with a permutation test to assess whether Claude-assisted development increased bugs.

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution(github.com)

454 points by coffeemug 4 months ago | 104 comments

GitHub repository for pg_durable, Microsoft's open-source PostgreSQL extension providing durable execution of workflows inside the database.

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs(bbc.com)

415 points by janpot 4 months ago | 256 comments

BBC News live coverage of astronauts being told to return to the International Space Station after sheltering during air leak repairs.

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe(arxiv.org)

405 points by mimorigasaka 4 months ago | 211 comments

arXiv paper analyzing and identifying a space-based GNSS interference source causing wide-area interference events over Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019.

C++: The Documentary(herbsutter.com)

385 points by ingve 4 months ago | 277 comments

Herb Sutter's blog post announcing that "C++: The Documentary" premiered on YouTube, with reflections on participating alongside Bjarne Stroustrup and others.

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency(blog.google)

384 points by theanonymousone 4 months ago | 120 comments

Google blog post announcing Gemma 4 models trained with Quantization-Aware Training to cut memory use and improve on-device performance on mobile and laptops.

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things(sumnerevans.com)

338 points by jsve 4 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Sumner Evans arguing against the Conventional Commits standard, saying it encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake(absurdlyoptimized.com)

313 points by bkazez 4 months ago | 126 comments

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers(cnbc.com)

271 points by toephu2 4 months ago | 861 comments

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world(openai.com)

265 points by pramodbiligiri 4 months ago | 180 comments

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab(jeffgeerling.com)

263 points by vquemener 4 months ago | 71 comments

Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform(nltimes.nl)

248 points by TechTechTech 4 months ago | 72 comments

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)(salvagedcircuitry.com)

241 points by transistor-man 4 months ago | 84 comments

Three of our worst VC stories(twitter.com)

230 points by orgonon 4 months ago | 114 comments

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)(unix.stackexchange.com)

212 points by tosh 4 months ago | 74 comments

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints(pgedge.com)

209 points by jjgreen 4 months ago | 36 comments

India's surprise baby bust(economist.com)

193 points by hakonbogen 4 months ago | 816 comments

Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies(ajph.aphapublications.org)

186 points by giuliomagnifico 4 months ago | 202 comments

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux(boxofcables.dev)

173 points by haydenbarnes 4 months ago | 133 comments

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995(passo.uno)

170 points by taubek 4 months ago | 62 comments

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity(quantamagazine.org)

168 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | 161 comments

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol(github.com)

160 points by geotp 4 months ago | 43 comments

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

142 points by emschwartz 4 months ago | 87 comments

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust(symbolica.io)

142 points by mmastrac 4 months ago | 15 comments

Hacker News, Sans AI(elijahpotter.dev)

141 points by chilipepperhott 4 months ago | 70 comments

Playing with Vision Embeddings(prestonbjensen.com)

140 points by prestoj 4 months ago | 12 comments

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)(historytoday.com)

135 points by pepys 4 months ago | 129 comments

Win16 Memory Management(os2museum.com)

133 points by supermatou 4 months ago | 68 comments

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other(blog.plover.com)

132 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 123 comments

Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump(flyingpenguin.com)

125 points by speckx 4 months ago | 71 comments

Transformers are inherently succinct(openreview.net)

123 points by brandonb 4 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens(github.com)

120 points by zdkaster 4 months ago | 58 comments

Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)(githubstatus.com)

116 points by SparkyDogs 4 months ago | 43 comments

The Causes of Long Covid(science.org)

111 points by maxall4 4 months ago | 66 comments

The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once(isupmap.com)

109 points by mikelgan 4 months ago | 39 comments

The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography(benthamsgaze.org)

96 points by lordgilman 4 months ago | 73 comments

I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video](youtube.com)

93 points by tambourine_man 4 months ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

89 points by dv35z 4 months ago | 69 comments

Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math(alvaro-videla.com)

88 points by old_sound 4 months ago | 27 comments

Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy(digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)

82 points by jrepinc 4 months ago | 52 comments

A Family Project (2022)(bittersoutherner.com)

72 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 7 comments

Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation(github.com)

72 points by markusheimerl 4 months ago | 13 comments

Aging and Eye Problems(ldstephens.net)

72 points by speckx 4 months ago | 41 comments

U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station"(404media.co)

64 points by awkwardpotato 4 months ago | 37 comments

Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended(github.com)

63 points by justsomehuman 4 months ago | 24 comments

Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant(disassociated.com)

61 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 50 comments

The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America(theintercept.com)

54 points by Fricken 4 months ago | 32 comments

Linear Cosine Palettes(2025)(blog.djnavarro.net)

52 points by num42 4 months ago | 2 comments

Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored(louvre.fr)

51 points by rawgabbit 4 months ago | 22 comments

Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models(magenta.withgoogle.com)

51 points by selvan 4 months ago | 9 comments

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

49 points by guanming0717 4 months ago | 15 comments

Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory(hermes-agent.org)

46 points by SeriousM 4 months ago | 22 comments

The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go(superlemon.bearblog.dev)

43 points by speckx 4 months ago | 35 comments

Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made(human-made.work)

43 points by supryan 4 months ago | 34 comments

New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers(scienceaim.com)

42 points by binarymax 4 months ago | 40 comments

Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video](youtube.com)

41 points by NaOH 4 months ago | 4 comments

Dear Microsoft, enough is enough(politico.eu)

41 points by giuliomagnifico 4 months ago | 35 comments