The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero
https://www.slater.dev/2026/06/the-optimal-amount-of-slop-is-non-zero/
https://www.slater.dev/2026/06/the-optimal-amount-of-slop-is-non-zero/
Doug Slater
The Optimal Amount of Slop is Non-zero
Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm vs. Messiah
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/06/blogger-defeats-photographers-copyright-claim-sokolskyfilm-v-messiah.htm
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/06/blogger-defeats-photographers-copyright-claim-sokolskyfilm-v-messiah.htm
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm v. Messiah - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
I’m blogging this case only because it’s one of those “what are we even doing here?” lawsuits. Cases like this belong in the CCB or, better yet, should not be brought at all! * * * The case involves a...
Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics
https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-06-19-best-dog-treat.html
https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-06-19-best-dog-treat.html
Wespiser
Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics
I ran a pairwise-choice experiment on my Greyhound to rank his favorite treats, measure side bias, and accidentally turn bedtime snacks into a statistics problem.
Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components
https://github.com/dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
https://github.com/dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
GitHub
GitHub - dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero: Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf…
Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components. - dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-walt-disney-company
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-walt-disney-company
www.acquired.fm
The Walt Disney Company | Acquired
Walt Disney pioneered synchronized-sound cartoons, invented the IP flywheel, and built the modern theme park — turning a twice-failed Kansas City animator into the most powerful brand in entertainment.
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/FGmI8mx-head-of-engineering
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/FGmI8mx-head-of-engineering
Y Combinator
Head of Engineering at Kyber | Y Combinator
At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms
regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65%
less time drafting…
regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65%
less time drafting…
Fable 5 wrote a Windows kernel in 38 minutes
https://tolmo.com/blog/when-the-model-writes-the-kernel/
https://tolmo.com/blog/when-the-model-writes-the-kernel/
Tolmo
Fable 5 wrote a Windows kernel in 38 minutes · Tolmo
Fable 5 wrote a booting, NT-shaped kernel in Rust in 38 minutes. The code is impressive; the signal is what it tells us about AI-authored trust, and the verification frontier that decides whether the internet's critical infrastructure gets rewritten by models.
Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/polymarkets-viral-videos-showed-people-winning-big-but-the-bets-were-fake/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/polymarkets-viral-videos-showed-people-winning-big-but-the-bets-were-fake/
Ars Technica
Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140
arXiv.org
VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in...
This technical report introduces VibeThinker-3B, a compact dense model with 3B parameters developed to investigate how far verifiable reasoning can be pushed within a strictly small-model regime....
Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641160