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GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

A GrapheneOS user reported being flagged by Yoti, an identity verification service, which stated it automatically…

Zig Zen Update

This appears to be a bot-detection page rather than a news article.

Azure Linux Desktop

A developer created Azure Linux Desktop, a Windows app that launches a full Linux desktop environment in a window by…

FBI Warns World Cup Fans as Fake FIFA Websites and Ticket Scams Spread Online

Football fans preparing for the 2026 FIFA World Cup face a growing threat from cybercriminals who are exploiting…

Lockdown Mode

C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front

The back cover blurb for "C++: The Programming Language" uses generic, templated language that could describe virtually…

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

Genuine question.Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed…

Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised

This weekend is the ABC Classic FM countdown, which prompted me to dust off an old un-published data visualisation of…

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

A camera enthusiast documents the repair of a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 lens purchased cheaply on eBay, detailing the…

Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.0 released

Nordstjernen, a web browser written from scratch in C with a focus on HTML and CSS standards support, has released…

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

Using random UUIDs as primary keys in SQLite WITHOUT ROWID tables causes insert performance to degrade by 14-16x…

Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus

After a very profitable decade on Microsoft's board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down to focus on his AI drug discovery…

Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant

Microsoft's internal strategy document reveals plans to make users "addicted" to its new Scout AI personal assistant…

Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction

"Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction" is an out-of-print book by Hassan Ait-Kaci that explains the…

Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names

A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird.

Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices

Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.

Hacker News, Sans AI

Elijah Potter created HNSansAI, a filtered version of Hacker News that automatically removes articles mentioning…

Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former…

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT.

Anthropic Is Helping the NSA Hack China. It Also Wants Everyone to Pause AI

The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI…

Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)

Three of our worst VC stories

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

This paper is being published at ICLR 2026 (top AI conference), and was selected as one of three outstanding papers.

"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump

# Summary The article accuses Cloudflare's CEO of misrepresenting bot traffic data by claiming bots surpassed human…

GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this building

GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned.