top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-07

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

https://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/llms-are-eroding-my-software-engineering-career-and-i-dont-know-what-to-do/

4 months ago

Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felony

4 months ago

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697

4 months ago

★ 132.3k Python

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown

4 months ago

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/

4 months ago

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe

4 months ago

★ 1.4k Go MIT

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/scientists-ejected-from-diabetes-conference-for-distributing-journal-reprints/

4 months ago

Making Peace with Your Unlived Dreams

https://nik.art/making-peace-with-your-unlived-dreams/

4 months ago

I design with Claude more than Figma now

https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/

4 months ago

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/issues/398

4 months ago

★ 9.7k C++ BSD-3-Clause

Public Domain Image Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/

4 months ago

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/an-ohio-valley-100000-watt-fm-signal-is-severed-in-broad-daylight

4 months ago

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

https://thi.ng

4 months ago

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/

4 months ago

Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2849122

4 months ago

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses

4 months ago

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470

4 months ago

The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260603-how-a-26-year-old-german-woman-made-the-worlds-oldest-surviving-animated-feature-film

4 months ago

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o

4 months ago

Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the browser

https://github.com/yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer

4 months ago

★ 430 TypeScript MIT

The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

https://leoveanu.com/2026-06-06-qwen3.7max/

4 months ago

Automated QA and Testing with AI

https://antirez.com/news/168

4 months ago

Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/02/20/katana-v2x-re/

4 months ago

Podman 6: machine usability improvements

https://blog.podman.io/2025/10/podman-6-machine-usability-improvements/

4 months ago

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32

4 months ago

★ 673 C GPL-2.0

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged

4 months ago

The circus freaks of open source

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Circus-freaks-of-FOSS/

4 months ago

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539

4 months ago

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514

4 months ago

Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434240

4 months ago

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html

4 months ago

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer

4 months ago

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

https://kyushu.dev/

4 months ago

My automated doubt development process

https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt

4 months ago

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409

4 months ago

Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/06/07/a-flock-license-plate-reader-linked-a-san-diego-man-to-a-violent-crime-he-was-five-miles-away/

4 months ago

How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/how-do-you-design-a-30000-electric-pickup-inside-fords-skunkworks/

4 months ago

Passing DBs through continuations

https://remy.wang/blog/cps.html

4 months ago

Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk

https://newatlas.com/engineering/magnetoelectric-antennas-submarine-robots-communications/

4 months ago

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/06/06/how-much-do-amd64-microarchitecture-levels-help-in-go/

4 months ago

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

https://github.com/sauravrao637/oproxy

4 months ago

★ 400 Rust MIT

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

https://ea.rna.nl/2026/06/07/anthropic-openai-may-be-spending-more-than-1000-for-every-100-you-pay-them/

4 months ago

The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix Derivations in Nix

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/05/the-guix-nix-abomination-leveraging-guix-derivations-in-nix

4 months ago