Seattle is close to approving a year-long ban on large data centers
The Seattle City Council has approved a moratorium on the construction of large data centers.
Coding Was Never the Whole Job. AI Is Proving It
“Teaching coding instead of programming is like teaching typing instead of writing… You can’t program without coding, but programming is much more than coding.” Leslie Lamport Leslie Lamport said that years before anyone was generating React components with a chat...
The Missing Layer in Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Taxonomy
Fei-Fei Li dropped a taxonomy of world models this week, and I've been sitting with it the way you sit with a paper that reorganizes something you already believed but couldn't articulate cleanly. That feeling of clarification without surprise is rarer than it should...
The Real Reason AI Is Moving Faster Than Past Engineering Shifts
AI is changing software faster than cloud, Agile, or DevOps by compressing the entire development lifecycle at once.
Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows
The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. "The exploit is a race condition, so it's a hit or miss," the...
Six Proto6 Vulnerabilities in protobuf.js Expose Node.js Apps to RCE and DoS
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged half a dozen vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript and TypeScript implementation of Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS)...
Re-Enable all Compute Units on the PS5-like BC-250 Cryptomining Card
The custom APU at the core of Sony’s PlayStation 5 hasn’t just been quietly powering these game consoles, but also made their way onto cryptomining cards around 2023 which are called the BC-250. The APUs on these boards differ from the one found in the PS5 most...
The hidden cost of slow CEO succession—from a guy who became president in a weekend
When I became president at 29, it happened over a weekend. On Friday, I was a regional sales rep. On Monday, I was running a $30 million company. There was no five-year training plan. No executive onboarding. No carefully choreographed succession runway. Over the next...
Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.
Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
Article URL: https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/06/09/vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-healthy-family-introducing-gamow-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471048 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
The Evolution of ‘More Like This’
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470975 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LAFEjTlBA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470581 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Deep Dive into Sputnik
If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating the United States to orbit. You might even remember ham radio operators tuning into the satellites beeping. But you probably haven’t heard much about the...
German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
Article URL: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI – Anthropic’s Red Team Report
Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom. Could...
macOS Container Machines
Article URL: https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469658 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/starlink-takes-page-from-cable-firms-with-10-monthly-rental-fee-for-hardware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469459 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
It’s Death
Article URL: https://jesseduffield.com/ITS-DEATH/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469347 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.
I cracked open a ‘1,000W’ portable charger after it failed me in minutes – and wished I hadn’t
Meet the 'too good to be true' portable charger. Here's my general buying advice for these types of products.
Print Your Own Robby the Robot
Print Your Own Robby the Robot Go to Source When it comes to robots, few are as iconic as Robby. [Ogrinz Labs] has wanted to build one and even examined a real one up for auction to get high-res photos of it. He also combined his...
Conan O’Brien is hosting educational videos for an AI cybersecurity company
At long last, a corporate training you might actually enjoy.
AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again
Microsoft set a record with its June Patch Tuesday release, addressing 206 CVEs across its products and shipping fixes for them, with 38 deemed critical and the rest important. Three are listed as publicly known, but none (so far) have been exploited in the wild. We...
AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice
Article URL: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ai-misidentification-results-wrongful-arrest-man-seeks-justice/I7UQJWV33FBN3LMKHCSXI6FIVA/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468789 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Working Code, Wrong Engineering: Why AI-Generated Code Needs System-Definition Tests
Real-World Examples of Drift in Perfectly Working AI-Generated Code Traditional software engineering already depends on tests, CI/CD, dependency management, code review, lockfiles, package manifests, SBOMs, and release controls. Those mechanisms do more than check...
People Want Robots at Home More Than in Their Cars or Their Heads
Welcome back to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon's Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thanks for voting and helping us shape these important conversations! Today, we look into the future -- the kind of future...