The Cypherpunk Library
Article URL: https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442725

Points: 4

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GitHub Is Down
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/m7n7sm0sr1pz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442470

Points: 9

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Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/07/is-this-the-dawn-of-the-tokenpocalypse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442136

Points: 8

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NZ sharemarket down 0.9% following strong overseas sell-offs
The New Zealand sharemarket, down nearly 1%, followed strong overseas sell-offs, with AI-linked stocks cooling, but it did gain support from Ebos Group and a2 Milk.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell sharply at the opening following the plunge on Wall Street over the weekend (NZ time) and closed at 13,038.24, down 123.73 points or 0.94%. ⌘ Read more

Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026
Article URL: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441519

Points: 9

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Richard Scolyer Has Died
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14yz5jg476o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441242

Points: 4

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Zuru grows annual profit to $2.49m despite flat external sales
New Zealand-owned global toy manufacturer Zuru has grown its net profit 34.8% year on year, latest results show.

The toy and consumer goods business reported a net profit of $2.4 million for 2025, up from last year’s profit of $1.8m. ⌘ Read more

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/1000-data-breaches-later-the-disclosure-lag-is-worse-than-ever/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440952

Points: 5

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Diesel supplies en route recovering with 27.2 days worth at sea
There are 27.2 days’ worth of diesel headed for New Zealand, the highest stock number for almost three weeks.

Diesel supplies had been steadily declining since May 20, reaching a recent low of 16.5 days’ worth – the lowest recorded diesel supplies at sea bound for New Zealand since the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) began its twice-weekly reports on the nation’s fuel sto … ⌘ Read more

90210 – running the show without property tax
Article URL: https://github.com/Achint08/90210

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440811

Points: 7

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Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-grid-flags-risks-data-centers-crypto-sites-fail-voltage-tests-2026-06-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440610

Points: 10

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Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
Article URL: https://algorithmichiring.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440549

Points: 7

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New drug ‘functionally cures’ many hepatitis B virus infections
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/new-drug-functionally-cures-many-hepatitis-b-virus-infections?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08

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DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precision

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448

Points: 48

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Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383

Points: 13

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7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible
Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/as–philippines-earthquake-001322726.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440360

Points: 8

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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
Article URL: https://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440064

Points: 4

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc7
The 7.1-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus said: “Anyway, as things look now this is the last
rc. Something can obviously always come up and force us to change that, but
please give rc7 a whirl and keep testing for one more week.” ⌘ Read more

Ryman launches $100m bond offer
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman Healthcare has launched a $100 million retail bond offer, which will be increased to $150m if the offer is oversubscribed.

The offer of six-year, secured, unsubordinated bonds opened on Monday and closes on June 11. The bonds will be issued on June 22. ⌘ Read more

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439348

Points: 10

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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/palestinian-baby-shot-dead-israeli-troops-occupied-west-bank

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439124

Points: 17

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Bright Dairy extends $130m loan to Synlait for two years
Bright Dairy’s shareholder loan to Synlait Milk will be pushed out for another two years as the Dunsandel processor looks to refinance by the end of the month.

In the lead-up to its recapitalisation, Bright provided Synlait with a $130 million shareholder loan as it worked to deleverage its balance sheet. ⌘ Read more

VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system
Article URL: https://vibeos.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438754

Points: 5

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Steel & Tube extends ANZ banking deal amid market headwinds
Steel & Tube Holdings has renewed its banking arrangements with ANZ for a further one-year term until September 2027 on similar terms as it navigates increased headwinds.

“The renewed banking arrangements provide additional financial stability as we continue to execute our strategy with discipline and focus,” chief executive Mark Malpass said. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, June 08
How many kilograms does the average cloud weigh? 250,000, 500,000 or 1 million kilograms?
True or false: Earlobes have no biological purpose.
What has lived longer on Earth, sharks or trees?
True or false: 99.999% of the deep ocean floor has not been explored.
Which European country is considered the happiest place on Earth?
True or false: Most ginger cats are female
What is a rainbow on Venus called? A methane bow, a glory, or a punch dust arc?
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There’s more to space stocks than SpaceX
By Asa Fitch

SpaceX’s IPO this month will give investors their first big opportunity to place bets on the growing space economy. ⌘ Read more

Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
Article URL: https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/06/07/a-flock-license-plate-reader-linked-a-san-diego-man-to-a-violent-crime-he-was-five-miles-away/

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The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438212

Points: 5

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Why isn’t the U.S. better at soccer?
Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437848

Points: 9

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The curious case of low-protein diets
Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/low-protein-diet-animals-live-longer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437450

Points: 4

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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Article URL: https://www.lms.ac.uk/news/leiden-declaration-on-ai-and-mathematics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437442

Points: 8

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My automated doubt development process
Article URL: https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437305

Points: 4

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School lunch tray recycler faces council action over backlog attracting rats, maggots and flies
Two councils took enforcement action against a company recycling the Government’s school lunch trays after 120 tonnes of expired meals piled up at its Hamilton site, drawing maggots, rodents and a fly infestation.

Neighbouring businesses lodged at least nine formal complaints over a three-month period, according to Hamilton City … ⌘ Read more

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436819

Points: 5

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Fieldays 2026: Sunshine, spending and an election
New Zealand’s agricultural sector is making its annual pilgrimage to Mystery Creek this week, with Fieldays’ sites sold out, farm balance sheets in decent shape, and an election looming in the background.

This year’s Fieldays is the first in recent memory to sell out all available exhibitor sites, something the event’s chief executive, Richard Lindroos, puts down to strength in the sector. ⌘ Read more

Eroad board challenger wants to split company, cut costs
Eroad’s largest shareholder wants to split the company, sell or unwind its North American operations, and reduce headcount if a boardroom challenge succeeds.

Alleging mismanagement of the NZX-listed fleet technology company, New York-based Ampfield Management has put forward a turnaround strategy as part of its attempt to remove Eroad’s executive chairman, John Scott, and another director, and install three of … ⌘ Read more

NZ launches rare dumping probe into aluminium imports
The Government has launched a rare global safeguard investigation into aluminium extrusion imports after local producers argued that low-priced offshore products were damaging a significant New Zealand manufacturing cluster.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer initiated the investigation on May 27 after accepting that an application from the Aluminium Extruders Association of NZ (Alenz) contained reaso … ⌘ Read more

Laurence Pope’s Wonder Water saved by debt for equity swap
Creditors of another entity run by Laurence Pope have agreed to a debt-for-equity swap in a bid to keep Wonder Water from going under.

Wonder Water, a filtered water system rental company, was placed in voluntary administration on April 15, following an appointment by the secured creditor, CFS Debt Fund. ⌘ Read more

SBS Bank looks to drive growth, eyes capital efficiency
SBS Bank says it plans to grow its capital-consuming businesses over the short to medium term, underscoring this appetite by indicating an intent to streamline its total capital stack.

“We’re in a good space from a capital perspective,” SBS group chief executive Mark McLean said, noting the Invercargill-headquartered bank’s total capital ratio of 18%. ⌘ Read more

Infrastructure funding changes ‘a long way from workable’
It is not a good start to the morning after Budget Day when you get told off by a government department.

“Thank you for your reporting on the Incentives for Growth Fund,” began the polite email from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). ⌘ Read more

NZ economy needs more than ‘small incremental steps’
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners is nearly a quarter-century old, an initiative from the first term of Helen Clark’s Government.

NZ Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) chief executive, James Pinner, has just marked five months in the job. He said the reasons for setting it up were just as relevant in 2026 as in 2002. ⌘ Read more

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026
Article URL: https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436542

Points: 4

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The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e8e7g0r82o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436246

Points: 6

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Agents, Agile, Communism, Coercion
Article URL: https://elliotmorris.net/agents-agile-communism-coercion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435924

Points: 5

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The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
Article URL: https://leoveanu.com/2026-06-06-qwen3.7max/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435371

Points: 26

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Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/netlify-agent-experience-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435093

Points: 7

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Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434436

Points: 3

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We Need VAT and UBI
Article URL: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/07/we-need-vat-and-ubi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434114

Points: 6

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9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://9mothers.com/careers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433987

Points: 0

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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/scientists-ejected-from-diabetes-conference-for-distributing-journal-reprints/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410

Points: 9

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