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Midnight Foundation Launches Night Sky Accelerator to Support Privacy-First Startups

LONDON, JUNE 9, 2026 – The Midnight Foundation has announced the launch of the Night Sky Accelerator, a new 10-week…

GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

GentleOS/32 is a hobby operating system designed for vintage 32-bit PCs that allows users to tinker with old hardware at…

Apple Sheds $230 Billion From Intraday Peak After Long-Awaited Siri AI Reveal Disappoints

Apple shares swung nearly 5% from their intraday high, erasing about $230 billion in market value, after the company’s…

Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

Eagle Computer was a leading PC clone manufacturer in the early 1980s, selling 12,000 units monthly with strong…

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

The article compares AI code generation tools to "rockstar developers" who write clever but unmaintainable code that…

Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station

The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it's banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond…

AI: OpenAI Files for IPO Valued at 852 Billion Dollars

While Wall Street rolls out the red carpet, OpenAI arrives with a dizzying valuation.

AI Stocks Account for Nearly All of the S&P 500’s Recent Gains

The US stock market’s total value has surged to $75.7 trillion, pushing the market cap to GDP ratio to a record 238%.

Tech Workers Pay Escorts $23K a Day for AI and Crypto Conversations

Silicon Valley’s AI boom is creating demand for a different type of paid companionship.

Kalshi Taps Sportradar for Official League Data and Integrity Tools in Prediction Markets

Kalshi has signed a multi-year global deal making sports-data company Sportradar its official data and integrity…

Google Unveils a Clever Trick to Safeguard You From AI-Driven Phone Scams

Google is adding call verification to Pixel phones in the latest Android update, using the Phone by Google app to create…

Zepto’s IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody’s answered yet

Zepto's advertising revenue jumped 151%, outpacing the company's 104% growth in operating revenue.

CRDTs merge concurrent edits. Why not concurrent creation?

CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) can merge concurrent edits to the same content, but struggle when two users…

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

A developer successfully ported coreboot (open-source firmware) to the ThinkPad X61 using AI-assisted reverse…

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, a state-of-the-art AI model with capabilities exceeding all previously available…

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

GoGoGrandparent, a Y Combinator-backed concierge service for seniors, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ years…

OpenAI confidentially files to go public in the US

OpenAI says it filed for an initial public offering in the US, but has not yet decided when it will launch.

Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

Morningstar values SpaceX at $63 per share, a 53% discount to its IPO offering price of $135, based on…

FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation

The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation."

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.

OpenAI Files Draft S-1 at $852B Valuation as ChatGPT Hits 900M Weekly Users

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, filed a confidential draft S-1 registration statement with the U.S.

SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet

SpaceX is preparing for a stock market debut that could transform the company, the wider market and Elon Musk's fortune.

Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions

Hi HN,I'm the creator of Mach (https://github.com/octalide/mach or https://machlang.org).

As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will…

Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement

The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled.

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

Hi HN! We’re Jimmy and Ray. Jimmy is a Thiel Fellow with a Ph. D.

OpenAI Wants to Kill the Chatbot It Invented and Turn It Into a Superapp

The company that launched ChatGPT in 2022 is now betting its future on something closer to WeChat than a Q&A box