Hacker News: Newesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/newestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 13 May 2026 13:34:44 +0000<![CDATA[I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe]]>Article URL: https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629

Points: 288

# Comments: 192

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:42:20 +0000https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/monokai_nlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629<![CDATA[SecurityBaseline.eu]]>Article URL: https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-99pct-poorly-encrypted-email-introducing-securitybaseline-eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118763

Points: 194

# Comments: 99

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 07:11:17 +0000https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-99pct-poorly-encrypted-email-introducing-securitybaseline-eu/aequitashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118763<![CDATA[Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics]]>Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810

Points: 236

# Comments: 54

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 04:25:03 +0000https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419matt_dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810<![CDATA[Starship V3]]>Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781

Points: 267

# Comments: 445

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:29:31 +0000https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3fproghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781<![CDATA[My graduation cap runs Rust]]>Article URL: https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116207

Points: 179

# Comments: 67

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:04:21 +0000https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/ericswparkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116207<![CDATA[When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug]]>Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116064

Points: 121

# Comments: 17

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:46:28 +0000https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/sbulaevhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116064<![CDATA[Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-an-anti-nuclear-anthem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115823

Points: 192

# Comments: 158

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:13:01 +0000https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-an-anti-nuclear-anthemtcp_handshakerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115823https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115823<![CDATA[Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine]]>Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807

Points: 367

# Comments: 101

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:11:40 +0000https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/doenerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807<![CDATA[Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us]]>Article URL: https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115681

Points: 106

# Comments: 16

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:57:09 +0000https://gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-labpabs3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115681<![CDATA[Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers]]>Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127

Points: 525

# Comments: 234

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:55:21 +0000https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulabMurfalohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127<![CDATA[EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant]]>Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115059

Points: 208

# Comments: 38

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:48:24 +0000https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warranthn_ackerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115059https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115059<![CDATA[Scrcpy v4.0]]>Article URL: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114356

Points: 264

# Comments: 39

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:50:02 +0000https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0xnxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114356<![CDATA[How to make your text look futuristic (2016)]]>Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895

Points: 406

# Comments: 54

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:16:26 +0000https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/_vaporwave_https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895<![CDATA[The Rise of the Bullshittery]]>Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113079

Points: 163

# Comments: 114

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:18:30 +0000https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/dxshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113079<![CDATA[CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq]]>Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042

Points: 339

# Comments: 178

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:12:28 +0000https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.htmlchizhik-pyzhikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042<![CDATA[Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model]]>Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices.

We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention is the right primitive for this, and FFN parameters are wasted at this scale.

Simple Attention Networks: the entire model is just attention and gating, no MLPs anywhere. Needle is an experimental run for single-shot function calling for consumer devices (phones, watches, glasses...).

Training: - Pretrained on 200B tokens across 16 TPU v6e (27 hours) - Post-trained on 2B tokens of synthesized function-calling data (45 minutes) - Dataset synthesized via Gemini with 15 tool categories (timers, messaging, navigation, smart home, etc.)

You can test it right now and finetune on your Mac/PC: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle

The full writeup on the architecture is here: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle/blob/main/docs/simp...

We found that the "no FFN" finding generalizes beyond function calling to any task where the model has access to external structured knowledge (RAG, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation). The model doesn't need to memorize facts in FFN weights if the facts are provided in the input. Experimental results to published.

While it beats FunctionGemma-270M, Qwen-0.6B, Granite-350M, LFM2.5-350M on single-shot function calling, those models have more scope/capacity and excel in conversational settings. We encourage you to test on your own tools via the playground and finetune accordingly.

This is part of our broader work on Cactus (https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus), an inference engine built from scratch for mobile, wearables and custom hardware. We wrote about Cactus here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524544

Everything is MIT licensed. Weights: https://huggingface.co/Cactus-Compute/needle GitHub: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896

Points: 528

# Comments: 157

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:03:11 +0000https://github.com/cactus-compute/needleHenryNdubuakuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896<![CDATA[Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol]]>Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765

Points: 325

# Comments: 69

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:54:12 +0000https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocoladuffyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765<![CDATA[Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era]]>Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581

Points: 224

# Comments: 193

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:40:13 +0000https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/devhousehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581<![CDATA[Googlebook]]>https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545

Points: 840

# Comments: 1376

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:37:36 +0000https://googlebook.google/tambourine_manhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545<![CDATA[Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare]]>Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531

Points: 350

# Comments: 111

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:35:58 +0000https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmareBrajeshwarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531