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Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?

As a high school student, I’m trying to figure out what major I’m interested in.

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

Meta has embedded complete facial recognition infrastructure on its smart glasses companion app, including three…

Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents

Meta may have one found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

WSL 2 has received a significant performance improvement through a May 2026 update that gives each virtio device its own…

Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform

Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved…

Google DeepMind CEO Says AGI Is Coming Fast: 'We Don't Have Long to Prepare'

The Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher says humanity is standing in the "foothills of the singularity."

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028.

Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

NCTA seeks waiver from foreign-router ban, citing memory and substrate shortages.

Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant

Hi guys.I have been working on Hitoku Draft, an open-source, voice-first AI assistant that runs entirely locally.

Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency

Meta's board cites "due process" concerns over account bans.

Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI…

What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Apple's WWDC nears: here's what you can look forward to.

12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

Anthropic reports that AI systems are increasingly automating their own development, with AI now completing tasks that…

A burglar used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes in San Francisco — and got away with it

The incident helps shed some new light on how Waymo treats and stores the footage captured by its robotaxis.

Retro-Tech Parenting

A technologist and parent concerned about exploitative tech practices is adopting "retro-tech" solutions to let his…

Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay

Cash App plans to launch more tap-to-pay tags

Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research

Tesseract Analytics launched Open Terminal, a free, open-source web app that democratizes stock research by combining…

Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage

The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.

It doesn't feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review

Subaru's badge-engineered SUV remains on sale alongside the new Trailseeker.

Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

Google employees are privately sharing memes criticizing the company's AI tools, despite CEO Sundar Pichai publicly…

Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt

The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper warning about dangers of…

KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei

Huawei's KVarN is a new KV-cache quantization method for vLLM that achieves 3-5x greater cache capacity while…

Ramp raises $750M at $44B valuation as investors hunger for fintechs with an AI story

Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing…

Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.

The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

Since August 2025, over half of Ashby Engineering's new production code has been AI-generated without triggering a spike…

Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud

Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives…

How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems

Hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.