HN Top 10 — June 01, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
⭐ 159 💬 63 👤 cafkafk 🔗 Discuss on HN
Published on June 01, 2026 17 minutes read The previous post covered getting Gemma 4’s MTP drafters quantized and paired with a verifier. This one is about running the result on a machine that has no business running it. To its credit, it has a whopping 128 GB RAM, but it’s DDR3… That RAM is 5-6 times slower than the current best laptop ram.
2. Tracing HTTP Requests with Go’s net/HTTP/httptrace
⭐ 31 💬 0 👤 speckx 🔗 Discuss on HN
May 26 2026 The interesting part is how it plugs in. There is no Tracer interface on http.Client, no middleware to register. You attach a ClientTrace to a context.Context and the transport pulls it back out via httptrace.ContextClientTrace at the points where it matters.
3. Chuwi Minibook X
⭐ 296 💬 221 👤 thcipriani 🔗 Discuss on HN
Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch. The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk. I needed a knock-around laptop, so I bought myself a Minibook for my birthday last year.
4. Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
⭐ 684 💬 385 👤 HypnoticOcelot 🔗 Discuss on HN
Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their “Verify you’re human” device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser. Preventing access to quite few websites (previously, but it even went worse lately). Turns out it’s because Cloudflare wants to have a fingerprint of your device via WebGL,…
5. Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
⭐ 31 💬 2 👤 f311a 🔗 Discuss on HN
To whom it may concern, Today I announce the cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler and transition the work into private mode for an indefinite period of time. First and foremost, I myself am saddened by this change, however consider it necessary for sustainability of the project. From now on and for an indefinite period of time, no new major developments of the Kefir compiler project will be distributed publicly.
6. Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)
⭐ 9 💬 0 👤 itsezc 🔗 Discuss on HN
Different hardware, different durability settings, different client libraries, a workload that happens to suit one engine’s indexing strategy - any of those will tilt the numbers. Ran every database on the same hardware- an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9970X (32C/64T), 128 GiB DDR5, NVMe storage, Ubuntu 24.04. Used the same open-source harness-crud-bench- with each workload translated into each engine’s native query language so no database is…
7. Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek
⭐ 129 💬 20 👤 rawgabbit 🔗 Discuss on HN
!Image 1: A steelhead leaps up a barrier on its way to spawning grounds. Credit: Adobe StockA steelhead leaps up a barrier on its way to spawning grounds. Credit: Adobe Stock Last year,California Trout andPacific Gas & Electric removed the final barrier to fish passage…
8. ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks
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This attack does not require human-in-the-loop approvals, even when in settings the user has explicitly required human approval before ChatGPT edits workbooks. UPDATE from OpenAI: > “We appreciate the security research here, and it’s unfortunate this one slipped through a crack in our disclosure pipeline. As we’re now aware of this report, we’ve taken immediate steps to protect users against potential attacks in this area by removing the…
9. 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
⭐ 397 💬 162 👤 modinfo 🔗 Discuss on HN
Images generated from Ternary Bonsai Image 4B Today we’re releasing Bonsai Image 4B, a family of compact image-generation models designed to run high-quality diffusion inference on local hardware: from laptops to phones. Bonsai Image 4B comes in two variants: * 1-bit Bonsai Image 4B uses binary {−1, +1} transformer weights with an FP16 group-wise scaling factor, giving 1.125 effective bits per weight. It targets maximum compression…
10. Dav2d
⭐ 495 💬 173 👤 captain_bender 🔗 Discuss on HN
A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it. Today, we announce dav2d, a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by members of the VideoLAN community. A few weeks ago, we opened the repository and started development in public. Since then, AV2 itself has reached its first official specification release, making this…