One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic – like summing 1 and 1 – and pass it on to a dedicated calculator application, even if...

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605301 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://investors.zillowgroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/A-record-242-US-cities-now-have-starter-homes-that-cost-1M/default.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605208 Points: 19 # Comments: 2

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French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186 Points: 53 # Comments: 19

The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to store data. It can be problematic to keep these tapes and drives going after so many decades, so [Andrew...

Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604232 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

HP's Omen gaming laptop has dropped to $1,599, making it a great early deal for gamers on a budget.

Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026/Chainwire/--PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub...

Five articles built the runtime. The sixth made it observable. This one introduces the agent primitive: runAgent plus AgentScope, with budgets, replayable events, and structured cancellation in the box. The whole loop: n import { runAgent, AgentToolCalls, OpenAITokens...

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603761 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603664 Points: 9 # Comments: 4

Article URL: https://anchor.host/from-a-7-kb-file-to-a-13-year-backdoor-operation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602868 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers....

President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder...

Your AI agent did exactly what it was designed to do. The framework underneath it just handed an attacker a shell on the box that holds your OpenAI key, your database credentials, and your CRM tokens.That is not a hypothetical. In a few months, three of the most...

What’s the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display that...

Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/sam-altman-biopic-amazon-openai-deal-b2999321.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602639 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

One of the only vaccines that prevents cancer is even more effective than scientists knew. For young women who receive the HPV vaccine in their early teen years, the risk of dying from cervical cancer before turning 30 is effectively reduced to zero, according to new...

The clock doesn’t start on day one anymore. For decades, the “first 100 days” framework allowed new executives a structured runway—time to listen, assess, and earn trust before making consequential decisions. That window quietly closed. What replaced it isn’t a...

Article URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-over-in-montana-driver-says-cops-have-stopped-him-100s-of-times/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601420 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it....

The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature portfolio...

People ask me what it takes to build a high-growth company, with a rapidly growing footprint and enterprise value. They want the formula, a secret, or a shortcut. There isn’t one. But there is a playbook. And after more than 13 years leading organizations across the...