top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-05

Changing How We Develop Ladybird

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

4 months ago

Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-stripe/5250763

4 months ago

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/

4 months ago

Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

4 months ago

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

4 months ago

★ 1.9k Rust

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673

4 months ago

C++: The Documentary Released Today

https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/

4 months ago

Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air leaks

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt

4 months ago

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gemma-4/

4 months ago

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/

4 months ago

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/

4 months ago

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

4 months ago

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/

4 months ago

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/

4 months ago

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

4 months ago

Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform

https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/05/dutch-govt-will-allow-european-company-operate-digid-platform

4 months ago

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review

4 months ago

★ 6.3k Go Apache-2.0

Three of our worst VC stories

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273

4 months ago

India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world

4 months ago

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18154/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-lostfound-folder-in-linux-and-unix

4 months ago

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-query-hints

4 months ago

US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308501

4 months ago

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-4-0-is-microsofts-first-general-purpose-linux/

4 months ago

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

4 months ago

★ 3.7k C++ MIT

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995

https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/

4 months ago

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/

4 months ago

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/09/#documentation-wins-2

4 months ago

Hacker News, Sans AI

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/hacker-news-sans-AI

4 months ago

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html

4 months ago

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/lee-kuan-yews-singapore-story

4 months ago

Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629

4 months ago

The Causes of Long Covid

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/causes-long-covid

4 months ago

Playing with Vision Embeddings

https://prestonbjensen.com/posts/playing-with-vision-embeddings

4 months ago

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/

4 months ago

Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens

https://github.com/zdk/lowfat

4 months ago

★ 504 Rust Apache-2.0

Win16 Memory Management

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/

4 months ago

Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/cloudflare-ceo-is-lying-to-you-about-the-bot-traffic-jump/

4 months ago

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ

4 months ago

The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS Broadcasts a Numbers Station

https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=865273&p=62&view=issueViewer

4 months ago

The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once

https://isupmap.com/

4 months ago

Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math

https://alvaro-videla.com/llm-arithmetic-internals/article_interactive/article.html

4 months ago

GitHub Accidentally Deletes Slack and Teams Subscriptions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/2nmfnbknhlnv

4 months ago

I Thought I Knew How Electrolysis Worked [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7fR9ISuCw

4 months ago

The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/02/la-tilde-propaganda-latin-america-pentagon/

4 months ago

Aging and Eye Problems

https://ldstephens.net/posts/aging-and-eye-problems/

4 months ago

U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station"

https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-military-quietly-turned-gps-into-a-global-numbers-station-evidence-suggests/

4 months ago

Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-european-tech-sovereignty-accompanied-eu-open-source-strategy

4 months ago

A Family Project

https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/a-family-project

4 months ago

New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers

https://scienceaim.com/new-york-just-passed-a-one-year-temporary-ban-on-data-centers/

4 months ago

Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation

https://github.com/markusheimerl/gpt

4 months ago

★ 91 C Unlicense

Valve says it's ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

https://www.theverge.com/games/943657/valve-steam-machine-frame-summer-launch-verified

4 months ago

The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

https://superlemon.bearblog.dev/the-company-i-work-for-is-losing-all-of-its-humanity-but-i-dont-know-where-else-to-go/

4 months ago

Dear Microsoft, enough is enough

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/dear-microsoft-enough-is-enough/

4 months ago

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

https://github.com/icflorescu/mantine-datatable/discussions/813

4 months ago

★ 1.2k TypeScript MIT

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

https://www.human-made.work/

4 months ago

Do We Need Billionaires?

https://bjhess.com/posts/do-we-need-billionaires

4 months ago

Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant

https://disassociated.com/microsoft-users-addicted-ai-personal-assistant/

4 months ago

Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored

https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/life-at-the-museum/delacroix-s-entry-of-the-crusaders-into-constantinople-restored-to-its-original-glory

4 months ago

Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models

https://magenta.withgoogle.com/magenta-realtime-2

4 months ago

Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'

https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924

4 months ago

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414869

4 months ago

Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.0 released

https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/releases/tag/1.0.0

4 months ago

★ 109 C

Linear Cosine Palettes(2025)

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-09-14_cosine-palettes/

4 months ago