top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-03

"They're made out of weights"

https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights

4 months ago

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/

4 months ago

Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/

4 months ago

How LLMs Work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

4 months ago

No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious - Ted Chiang

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

4 months ago

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno

4 months ago

Encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

4 months ago

Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/

4 months ago

Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/

4 months ago

Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click

4 months ago

DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew

4 months ago

32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/32gb-of-ddr5-now-costs-usd375-minimum-ai-shortage-continues-to-squeeze-pc-building

4 months ago

MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/03/macbook-neo-production-doubled-says-kuo/

4 months ago

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31

4 months ago

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/

4 months ago

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs

4 months ago

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground

4 months ago

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters

4 months ago

The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/the-public-should-own-half-of-the-big-a-i-companies/

4 months ago

I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1tvmcin/i_live_in_the_take_off_path_of_sfo_and_built_a/

4 months ago

Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements

https://redis.io/blog/announcing-redis-8-8/

4 months ago

My Software North Star

https://kristoff.it/blog/north-star/

4 months ago

Agentic Mfw

https://agenticmotherfucking.website

4 months ago

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey

4 months ago

★ 532 Zig MIT

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/

4 months ago

Rsync and Outrage

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

4 months ago

Ableton Extensions SDK

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/

4 months ago

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html

4 months ago

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/

4 months ago

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device

4 months ago

Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human

4 months ago

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

https://leidendeclaration.ai/

4 months ago

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os

4 months ago

Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation

https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers

4 months ago

My Students Can't Read

https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-students-cant-read

4 months ago

Show HN: Nutrepedia – nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx

https://nutrepedia.com/en-us/

4 months ago

Angular v22

https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v22-c52bb83a4664

4 months ago

New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532's we've used for decades

https://groupdiy.com/threads/the-new-ti-5532-chips-are-not-5532s-weve-used-for-decades.93707/

4 months ago

Spherical Voronoi Diagram

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/

4 months ago

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

https://www.capstone-engine.org/

4 months ago

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes

4 months ago

★ 560 Go MIT

A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

4 months ago

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

4 months ago

What I've learned about the trombone

http://bryanhu.com/blog/posts/what-ive-learned-about-the-trombone/

4 months ago

Shopify Is Down

https://www.shopifystatus.com

4 months ago

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

https://www.wired.com/story/he-blew-the-whistle-on-doge-then-his-brakes-were-cut/

4 months ago

SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/03/heavily-in-debt-loss-making-with-eyes-on-sending-people-to-mars-why-would-anyone-invest-in-spacex/

4 months ago

If AI Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?

https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/if-data-centers-are-so-great-why

4 months ago

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?

https://blog.ydb.tech/do-we-fear-the-serializable-isolation-level-more-than-we-fear-subtle-bugs-5a025401b609

4 months ago

Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance

https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/nine-ways-to-do-inheritance-in-rust-a-language-without-inheritance-14825bf1e215

4 months ago

Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs

https://wassimans.com/blog/building-ios-apps-with-doom-emacs/

4 months ago

Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

4 months ago

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387095

4 months ago

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/06/02/how-embryos-shape-their-limbs-a-key-discovery-of-genetic-brakes

4 months ago

Splash Is a Colour Format

https://www.todepond.com/lab/splash/

4 months ago

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/

4 months ago

Tesla retroactively added 'supervised' to FSD contracts owners signed years ago

https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contracts-supervised/

4 months ago

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

https://brume.aftertone.co/

4 months ago

Uber to cut 23% of jobs in HR

https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/uber-reportedly-slashes-many-senior-roles-in-people-division-retail-calls-the-cuts-aggressive/cZ0j99kReUR

4 months ago

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/americans-are-leaving-the-us-in-record-numbers/f2ae7db5-db04-4394-84db-7536e5b681ec

4 months ago

Ten Years of Franz

https://meetfranz.com/blog/ten-years-of-franz

4 months ago

I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me

https://searchzee.com/blog/search-without-ai-summaries

4 months ago