Hacker News Daily — June 13, 2026
29 stories · June 13, 2026
In this issue
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Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
desfontain.es · 572 points · Discussion
Last week, the United States Department of Commerce issued an order declaring that "noise infusion" will be banned from all statistical products published by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of…
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Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
reuters.com · 402 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Every Frame Perfect
tonsky.me · 378 points · Discussion
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “ every frame is perfect ”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking…
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Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
wsj.com · 310 points · Discussion
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-offic...
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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
phoronix.com · 258 points · Discussion
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been…
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Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
economist.com · 219 points · Discussion
A promising drug could be the first of an entirely new class of treatments Photograph: Cristina Spanò S cientists are not usually an excitable bunch. So when many thousands of them recently gave a…
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AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
github.com · 214 points · Discussion
TensorZero is an open-source LLMOps platform that unifies: Gateway: access every LLM provider through a unified API, built for performance (<1ms p99 latency) Observability: store inferences and…
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A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
research.google · 205 points · Discussion
The carbon footprint of computing is a key sustainability challenge. It is driven by two major sources: operational carbon reflects emissions from energy consumed during use, and embodied carbon…
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The computer science degree isn’t dead
spectrum.ieee.org · 204 points · Discussion
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development…
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AI coding at home without going broke
stephen.bochinski.dev · 168 points · Discussion
There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardware and model releases. The first is to self…
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RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
imil.net · 154 points · Discussion
A year ago, I bought an RTX 5080 for both gaming and AI experiments. Little did I know back then that I would be giving into the joys of local LLM setups. Fast forward 2026, Qwen 3.5, Gemma, Qwen 3.6,…
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The state of building user interfaces in Rust
areweguiyet.com · 142 points · Discussion
The roots aren't deep but the seeds are planted. As a low level language, Rust is perfectly suitable for making user interfaces the old fashioned way, with native APIs. However, competing in today's…
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The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
lr0.org · 142 points · Discussion
This post was discussed in Lobsters Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as…
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Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire
new.roman-names.com · 123 points · Discussion
Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but nothing that covered…
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Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
github.com · 118 points · Discussion
I built Paca out of pure passion—a free and lightweight Jira alternative written in Go where humans and AI agents work together as equal teammates to plan sprints and assign tasks to each other. It is…
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Appreciating Exif
brentfitzgerald.com · 99 points · Discussion
I recently was writing some code to apply a mask to an image input. The mask had no Exif metadata, but the image did, so I had to adjust for the orientation of the image by reading it from Exif. This…
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Automating myself out of development
thoughtfultechnologist.com · 80 points · Discussion
I want to start by saying that I’m neither an AI-fanatic, nor an AI-doomer and you can read about my conflicted relationships with it in my previous article. What I really like, is creating something…
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Codex for open source
openai.com · 78 points · Discussion
Codex for Open Source (opens in a new window) is a program to support the maintainers behind critical open-source software.  Maintainers carry significant responsibility by reviewing pull…
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Orthodox C++ (2016)
bkaradzic.github.io · 66 points · Discussion
Table of Contents What is Orthodox C++? Why not Modern C++? Why use Orthodox C++? Hello World in Orthodox C++ What should I use? Is it safe to use any of Modern C++ features yet? Revision History Any…
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The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip
righto.com · 59 points · Discussion
In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster. As well as arithmetic and square roots, the 8087 computed transcendental…
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PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher
fortune.com · 48 points · Discussion
TL;DR:  You might have expected AI to cut healthcare costs, whether it’s by reducing paperwork, automating the doctor’s notes, or thinning out hospital staff. But  a new 60-page PwC report…
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An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director
chipsandcheese.com · 48 points · Discussion
Hello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+. Hope y’all enjoy! Transcript below has been edited for conciseness: George Cozma:…
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What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?
bloomberg.com · 38 points · Discussion
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Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
chrisdevblog.com · 33 points · Discussion
In 1994 I got my first computer: an Intel i486 DX2-66 with 4 MB RAM and a 512MB harddisk. The software was IBMs OS/2 and Microsofts Windows 3.11. In the next four years I was upgrading this machine…
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Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
news.sky.com · 20 points · Discussion
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The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3 (RISC-V vector compute)
taoofmac.com · 17 points · Discussion
Jun 11 th 2026 · 22 min read · #ai #hardware #homelab #linux #reviews #riscv #sbc #spacemit This is a fascinating box–so much so that after almost three weeks playing with it, I amassed so much…
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Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object
thoughtforms.life · 14 points · Discussion
I collect weird scientific objects. This post is about some truly unique material, which will likely never be made again: Between the 1960’s and the 1990’s, a father-son team of Anthony B. Bubenik and…