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Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

404 Media reports that despite Google CEO Sundar Pichai claiming 75% of new code is AI-generated, Google employees are posting memes mocking AI’s coding limits during I/O 2026. The memes depict AI failing to produce reliable code and highlight internal frustrations with Jetski and increased review bottlenecks, testing delays, and slower builds. Interviewees say AI accelerates some tasks but shifts workload and inflates metrics, contributing burnout. Google defends AI as a helper with humans in the loop; the company updated its statement to emphasize productivity and employee feedback.

Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud

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Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt

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3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering

Manual, a collaboration between Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong, is a fully 3D-printed book whose pages, binding, and raised letters are produced in one print run and incorporate a fragment of its own G-code. Using XY-for-Z printing, it is printed sideways and arrives bound, acting as a replicable book (r-book) that can travel as data and reappear as matter. The project connects RepRap ideas with publishing, emphasizing the boundary between instruction and artifact; first version contains about 2.5% of its G-code due to current printing limits, with launch in Toronto.

KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei

KVarN is a native vLLM KV-cache quantization backend that provides 3–5× more KV-cache capacity with FP16-level accuracy and throughput, calibration-free with a single flag. It uses Variance-Normalized KV-Cache quantization, processing fixed-size token tiles (128) via rotation and normalization to minimize quantization error, then asymmetric rounding at read time. It runs in float16, is a vLLM fork, and supports Qwen3-32B. Quickstart: clone, install, and run with kv-cache-dtype kvarn_k4v2_g128 and block-size 128. Citation: arXiv:2606.03458. Apache-2.0.

Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators

Prela is an embedded Julia query language built on Tarski’s Algebra of Relations. It treats data as binary relations and builds queries with relation combinators (→ for composition, : for left-semijoin, ∧/× for predicates and outputs). Using continuation-passing style, it compiles to tight, columnar execution with no intermediates. It supports CTEs, UDFs, aggregation, and expressive, join-like queries (e.g., movie: (production_year > 2008) → title). A research prototype with ongoing language/implementation changes; ports to Rust/Zig exist. Benchmarks show competitive single-thread performance on JOB vs DuckDB; TPCH favors DuckDB.

In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

Ember says wind and solar generated more global electricity than gas for the first time in April 2026: 531 TWh vs 477 TWh, 22% vs 20% of total power. Global wind/solar output rose 13% year over year, with wind/solar meeting most demand growth. Notable gains in major markets (China +14%, UK +35%, Australia +17%, US +8%, EU +13%, Chile +24%). April’s milestone reflects five years of rapid renewable growth, not just the energy crisis. Ember notes renewables met all global electricity-demand growth in 2025 as governments boost targets for wind/solar deployment.

Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week

Bloomberg reports unusual activity from the user's network and prompts a CAPTCHA-style verification to confirm they are not a robot. It advises enabling JavaScript and cookies, reviewing Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, and contacting support with a block reference ID. A subscription pitch for Bloomberg.com is also included.

The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"

Raymond Chen explains that during Windows 8 development the team labeled the new experience the modern experience to distinguish it from the classic Windows 7. To shorten names, the project piled on Mo- prefixes: MoSh for the modern shell, MoGo for the Go page, MoBar and MoBody for snapped/filled areas, MoSet for Settings, MoCo for the ListView, and MoB/MoBro/MoPho for apps. The joke spiraled. The piece also notes later renamings from Immersive/Metro to Modern. Windows 8 was announced on June 1, 2011.

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite will stay open source, MIT-licensed, and vendor-agnostic, with development led by the broader Vite community. Cloudflare commits $1 million to a Vite ecosystem fund. The partnership will solidify Vite as the foundation for Cloudflare’s tools, including a Vite-based CLI experience and cf deployments. In the short term, Vite users see no changes; long term, Cloudflare aims to move its tooling onto Vite with provider-agnostic primitives and to open-source the Void platform. All work will be public with the community.

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, or the Double Slip Knot, is a symmetric, secure knot designed for slippery laces. It ties from a Left-over-Right knot, forms loops, wraps one loop around the other, and threads ends through the center to produce a tight double-wrap finish. Starting knot orientation affects neatness and security. Claimed to require more tension to undo than standard knots, it’s promoted for sports, climbing, dancing, and wet laces, with photos, videos, and technical info on the site.

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

French-Iranian author-illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for Persepolis, has died at 56 of “sadness,” about a year after the death of her husband Mattias Ripa. Born Rasht, Iran, in 1969, she moved to France in 1994 and became a French citizen in 2006. Satrapi directed Persepolis (2007), which won the Cannes Jury Prize and was Oscar-nominated. An outspoken critic of Iran, she supported the Mahsa Amini protests and published Women, Life, Freedom stories in 2024. She founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa-Satrapi Cinema Foundation and wrote Radioactive (2019).

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

kiki is a tiny, PHP-based homepage construction kit focused on simplicity and readability, with no javascript or external dependencies. About 1,500 lines of code (~<50KB), five built-in themes, public wiki mode, live/dynamic site mode, static site generation, bug markup language, and plugin support for Markdown. It outputs accessible RSS/HTML, is fully hand-written PHP/HTML/CSS, and aims to be readable and moddable. It runs without bloat, no cookies/tracking, no databases, and can be unzipped and used. Distribution via itch.io; shareware/free unpaid mode; full edition $15 CAD; CC-BY-ND-NC license for source.

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login

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AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools

AccessOwl seeks an AI-enabled Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript) for a remote, CET-friendly role (±3h) in Berlin area. Salary €70k-€90k; equity 0.05%-0.10%. 3+ years web dev; proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript; AI-native; Playwright/Puppeteer; IaC; Elixir a plus. Responsibilities: own the integration layer (target +300 new SaaS integrations), build browser automations and extensions, ship and run applications. About: YC-backed, profitable, remote-first, solving SaaS access management via AI/RPA. Perks: flexible hours, equipment, yearly team retreats. To apply: personal interest note; interview steps.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

Requests that users set a proper user-agent and respect the site's robots policy, with links to the policy and a related Wikimedia Phabricator task.

Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git

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Gaussian Point Splatting

Gaussian point splatting is a stochastic rendering method that scales to scenes with millions of Gaussians. It samples pixel-sized opaque points from Gaussians and splats them to a framebuffer using 64-bit atomics, distributing the workload over millions of threads. The approach resolves how many points per Gaussian and how to distribute them per pixel to preserve the original Gaussian splatting’s opacity. Hierarchical frustum and occlusion culling accelerate rendering, enabling real-time rendering of hundreds of millions of Gaussians with only slight noise and aliasing differences. Published in SIGGRAPH 2026 (ACM TOG).

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home

thunderbolt-ibverbs describes a Linux kernel module that makes USB4/Thunderbolt on AMD mini PCs act as InfiniBand devices, enabling home AI runtimes to split inference/training across boxes without enterprise gear. They demo experimental RDMA-over-USB4 between two 128GB Strix Halo minis, reaching ~95 Gb/s bidirectional RDMA and ~7 µs one-way latency (64 B). With 4‑HCA aggregation at 1 MiB / 8 QPs (IOMMU off), ~48 Gb/s per direction, outperforming 2.3 Gb/s Ethernet or ~9 Gb/s soft-RoCE TBnet. A Gemma 3 27B LoRA FSDP run drops from 1359s to 126s. Caveat: research code, experimental kernel modules, no warranty.

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

Uruky is an EU-based private search engine focused on personalization, not an ecosystem. It’s paid (€5/month) and ad-free, with no tracking or analytics; only an account number is stored. Searches are private, with EU servers and storage, EU payment processing, and no AI features currently planned. Personalization lets you boost or exclude domains. After 12 months as a paying customer you get a copy of the source code. You can search with JavaScript disabled.

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