Top 29 stories from Hacker News. Top 10 include comment highlights. Compiled at 20:10 UTC.
854 points by sohkamyung · 290 comments
Adobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives,...
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acdha: Adobe has always been like this, too. They squandered an enormous marketshare with Flash because the alternative would've been spending a couple million on QA and they managed to unite all of the browser manufacturers in agreement that the web was better off without such an unrel...
nfw2: As someone who has spent a good deal of time trying to build ereader software, eventually I decided to try to deal with the devil and build on top of RMSDK. There is no way to get access to it.
tannhaeuser: Unfortunately, epub and epubcheck isn't the great uncontroversial resource the author makes it out to be. When W3C, Inc. took over maintenance of the EPub spec around when 3.1 was current, they just referenced WHATWG HTML and other ever-expanding browser specs ([1]).
lidavidm: AIUI, Kobo devices have a more advanced rendering engine if you name the file with .kepub.epub. (I think it's based on ePub 3?) Not sure if it would fix the problem here. But I personally run ePubs through kepubify (https://pgaskin.
699 points by chadfowler · 227 comments
Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.
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andrewflnr: > Dial keys Maybe it's in the video I didn't watch, but I really think paragraph one should make clear what kind of keys and why. Cryptographic? Asymmetric? How do they do the job, at even the most basic level? It never explains, just dives into abstract claims of superiority and...
rklaehn: I am one of the iroh developers. A question that frequently comes up: when will iroh support webrtc, or BLE, or LoRa, or ... Iroh as of now supports only IPv4, IPv6 and relay transports out of the box.
Thaxll: I don't understand the problem its trying to solve in the first place, IP works just fine, such as DNS. There is already IPv6 and quic, you need vendor and major software to have any traction in that field.
virtualbluesky: This might sound pointed, but it truly isn't - why is this approach not already commonplace? As a concept, looking up a verifiable identity makes sense, but often ideas that made sense were looked into and discarded for valid reasons.
498 points by rishikeshs · 205 comments
A human-powered, fully local, fully private AI solution.
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zahlman: The webpage linked is an example of everything I wish people would stop doing in web design. Fortunately, at the bottom there is a link to the "technical documentation" (https://squeezlabs.github.
kowbell: My partner just got a rowing machine that offered "watts" as a unit of how hard you're going (like "calories" or "mph") and got me wondering if they made rowing machines that could slowly charge a battery, and how much I'd need to row to power one of them fancy newfangled M5 Max...
estebarb: I can do high level thinking for around 6 hours with just two scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. What I need is something to prevent me from context drift. /starts googling how many scrambled eggs are equivalent to the energy consumed by a data center.
ptx: > During voice agent startup, the slowest part are [...] in dlopen-ing large shared libraries (ONNX Runtime in particular) and in hundreds of small random reads off the SD card as Python walks the import graph.
436 points by MehrdadKhnzd · 203 comments
Use Claude on Apple platforms through the Foundation Models framework with the Claude for Foundation Models Swift package.
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harrouet: This is Apple commoditizing LLMs while keeping control of the UX. They are a hardware company and will keep selling the best machine for AI use. Well done.
post-it: > a Swift package that makes Claude available as a server-side language model in Apple's Foundation Models framework Ahh I was hoping for the opposite: all of the existing features of Claude Code but somehow running locally on my laptop's neural engine.
rock_artist: While I'm happy with Apple introducing this abstraction. my main concern was with local models. I'd love using Gemma4 as an example. but thinking of a user. if 10 Apps each uses same model and downloads it, the phone will be bloated.
GeekyBear: This isn't Claude specific. Developers can also write apps that call Google's server based Gemini models. > At WWDC, Apple announced that it's opening its Foundation Models framework to third-party cloud model providers.
365 points by tinywind · 77 comments
Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.
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amarant: This is awesome! To offer some constructive feedback: the wind direction could be clearer. More particles flowing across the waters! Especially when the direction is changing.
sails: Great! I feel well positioned to say this is great :) I’ve been hoping for something like this. My ideal: slower, more real time, full maps based on actual locations, replay specific naval battles. Multiplayer (maybe it is?), realistic fog of war. I could go on Edit: a few more.
sanghoonio: If you have real wind physics, might as well apply realism to turning as well, so that ships can't turn in place. Rudder should only work with applied speed.
hnthrow10282910: This is a lot of fun! I’ve been wanting to learn how to make pixel games like this myself. Any tips, resources you’d recommend ?
343 points by cloudking · 206 comments
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Greenpants: I have! I care about data privacy and LLMs being free. I'm using the Pi coding harness but containerized and sandboxed, to make sure it's running completely offline. On my Mac Studio with 128GB RAM (or MacBook with 36GB RAM) I'm using Qwen3.
horsawlarway: For personal use, yes. I replaced a $100/m subscription to claude in favor of running pi harness pointed at unsloth studio, using both qwen (unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF) and gemma (unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF) models, depending on my mood.
bluejay2387: About 90% of my coding is on Qwen 3.6 27b and Open Code with some custom skills and Semble. It is NOT as smart as CC or Codex but its enough to get most of my work done. I didn't set out to replace CC and Codex (I have an RTX 6000 so the TPS is faster than I care about, but the R...
garethsprice: Using OpenCode + OhMyOpenCode + Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q_4_KM on an Ada 4000 (20GB VRAM) at 55 tok/sec for generation (slower than it sounds as OpenCode has a bunch of context it adds). Meaning to check out pi when I get a minute as I hear that one mentioned a lot lately.
331 points by signa11 · 119 comments
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report.
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QwenGlazer9000: All the other comments in this thread talk about emacs instability when that hasn't been the case for me. I'm on doom emacs, update once in a while, and everything mostly just works other than some color scheme weirdness I had to fix.
internet_points: TIL about ruler-mode; now I can delete my own half-assed implementation of the same. And compare-windows looks really handy. I was about to write a note in my init file to my future self telling me to start using that, but then I saw there is already a note there from my past sel...
glimshe: Prediction: Emacs will reach super intelligence before Claude.
jr_isidore: Half of the obscure features mentioned required the author's massaging to make useful to himself. The history of these "solutions looking for a problem" is common, some guy reveling in a rabbit hole of his own creation, the only difference being that guy was old enough to have a...
200 points by tuhtah · 315 comments
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ryandvm: So the AI boom is resulting in a) fewer jobs, b) massive increases in hardware, and c) exponential acceleration in wealth inequality (world's first trillionaire anyone?). When exactly are the upsides going to hit?
binarymax: This is just the reality of hardware costs now. RAM and Disk are scarce, prices have skyrocketed. I wonder how much leverage the hyperscalers like AWS/GCP/Azure have on their own supply chain to keep costs level in their clouds.
zrm: It seems like what's missing here is lower cost plans, because the existing plans had been fairly affordable, but now they're basically triple. The least expensive one seems to be CPX11, old price $6.99, new price $20.49. That's 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD.
hk__2: New prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi... Old prices: https://web.archive.org/web/20260513201413/https://docs.hetz...
200 points by thm · 280 comments
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andrewla: As a long-time[1] customer of Roku I am tentatively extremely pessimistic. I have always been unhappy with Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all, because it could potentially cut into their service-agnostic architecture.
greenbit: When roku decided that Amazon was the rightful owner of my fastforward button about a year and a half ago, that nearly got it tossed, but since Netflix was still behaving, I still have my roku.
nrmitchi: I may be lambasted for saying this, but I do not believe that Fox (or any large media company, really) should be permitted to purchase direct access to the TV hardware of roughly 30-50% of american households.
l72: As someone who has canceled all my subscriptions and just uses Jellyfin for 100% of my content, what are some good options besides a Roku? I would love to have hardware like Roku, but just run a jellyfin client, with no need to even have Internet, just access to my jellyfin serve...
185 points by bookofjoe · 69 comments
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quadhome: Alzheimer’s is driven by the buildup of toxic proteins called amyloid-beta. In the words of Derek Lowe: Amyloid-directed therapies truly, truly do not appear to be the answer for Alzheimer’s treatment.
ebolyen: I think people are reacting to the press-release more than the work. I don't see why this is definitely doomed just because they discuss beta-amyloid plaques. Those exist and are real.
discretion22: Great news! If you are a mouse. For humans, not yet progressed to trials though safety has been evaluated for other diseases, so possible for trials to happen quickly? " the compound has strong potential to quickly transition into human clinics because it has already undergone s...
avgDev: My mother has early onset alzheimer's disease. We currently know very little about the disease and the current treatment options are controversial. The efficacy of the medications removing the amyloid plaque from the brain is questionable, as people still decline.
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