GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today’s high resolution displays… ⌘ Read more
Du Val statutory management costs $4.12m
The statutory management of failed property group Du Val has cost the Government $4.12 million to date, Budget documents show.
In August 2024, the Government placed 70 Du Val entities into the rarely used regime amid an ongoing investigation by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). ⌘ Read more
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303131
Points: 17
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Greens attack Government over claimed $1.4b carbon auction shortfall
The Green Party says a string of failed carbon auctions has left a $1.4 billion fiscal hole because the Government was banking on the revenue they would generate.
Of 10 carbon auctions held between December 2023 and March this year, only auctions in March and December 2024 actually cleared. ⌘ Read more
Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says
Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295460
Points: 4
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The VibeSec Reckoning
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/vibesec-reckoning.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294670
Points: 4
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Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
Article URL: https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291947
Points: 4
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Uber blows through its AI budget in 1 quarter
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287025
Points: 17
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Bouncy Castle Communism Is the Solution
Article URL: https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-castle-communism
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286428
Points: 4
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Les étudiants étrangers contre les frais différenciés: «C’est une façon de nous dire: “Rentrez chez vous!”»
Dès la rentrée, la grande majorité des étudiants non européens vont devoir s’acquitter de 3 000 euros par an pour une licence, et de 4 000 euros pour un master. La plupart d’entre eux pourraient aussi se voir privés d’aide au logement. Un coup de grâce pour les budgets les plus serrés. ⌘ Read more
‘Incredible’ milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country
Article URL: https://www.thelocal.se/20260525/incredible-milestone-reached-as-sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281199
Points: 4
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Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
I asked this in 2024 and would love to see the change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748125
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275508
Points: 10
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Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274794
Points: 4
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Ryman reset right for market conditions, CEO says
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman’s reset of its model means it now has the flexibility to grow as property market conditions allow, but not the obligation, chief executive Naomi James says.
The operator of 47 villages, offering 9,959 retirement units and 4,686 aged care beds, decided two years ago to scale back development to focus on returns from existing assets, she said. ⌘ Read more
Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/21/why-the-smart-home-bubble-popped/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274667
Points: 4
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EB Games reports $11.4m loss for NZ business as it winds down
Gaming and pop-culture retailer EB Games has released its latest financial report detailing the New Zealand arm’s demise, with the business reporting an $11.4 million loss for its last financial year.
EB Games announced it would be shutting down its New Zealand business and closing all its stores in January. ⌘ Read more
TP-7 Field Recorder
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273531
Points: 4
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Ferrari-driving failed firm owner owes $4m, faces probe
An Auckland businessman who goes by multiple aliases is under investigation for director conduct, as customers report paying for goods they never received from a company that owes $4 million to creditors.
BusinessDesk can reveal the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) has two open investigations into Laurence Robert Pope, who also uses the alias, Max Bailey. ⌘ Read more
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266906
Points: 4
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Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
Article URL: https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266485
Points: 4
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Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
Article URL: https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259784
Points: 12
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Mastering Dyalog APL
Article URL: https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256475
Points: 4
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The Worlds Left to Conquer
Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-worlds-left-to-conquer/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256192
Points: 4
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Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
Article URL: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593
Points: 4
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Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-…
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386
Points: 4
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Pardon MIE?
Article URL: https://ironpeak.be/blog/bypassing-apple-mie/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251229
Points: 4
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CC-Wiki: Turn Claude Code sessions into a shareable knowledge base wiki
Article URL: https://github.com/tejpalv/cc-wiki
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250126
Points: 4
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Polestar 4 coupe long-range: luxury by the numbers
Pros
- Big price reduction since launch
- Still looks stunning inside and out
- Pleases driver and passengers in equal measure
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Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and “Spreading Rapidly”
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak-now-third-largest-recorded-and-spreading-rapidly/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248659
Points: 13
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I Miss Terry Pratchett
Article URL: https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247127
Points: 4
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
Article URL: https://isaiprofitable.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243863
Points: 4
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FBI director’s Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a ‘ClickFix’ attack
Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293
Points: 16
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Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
Article URL: https://www.kanbots.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239413
Points: 8
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NZ sharemarket down almost 4% year to date
The retirement village stocks stole the show as the New Zealand sharemarket ended a volatile week with a gain of nearly 1%.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed strongly in the late afternoon and closed at 12,991.31, up 113.24 points or 0.88%. ⌘ Read more
Slumber a TUI HTTP Client
Article URL: https://slumber.lucaspickering.me
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231938
Points: 4
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It is time to build a new internet
Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231226
Points: 4
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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network
Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588
Points: 41
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Sponsored: Bayleys Total Property Issue 4 out now
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In this issue, we explore how private capital continues to dominate global commercial real estate investment, driv … ⌘ Read more
Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
Hey HN, We’re Gus and Carlos from Runtime ( https://runtm.com). We’re building infra that lets your whole team (including non-engineers) ship with Claude Code, Codex, and other agents without engineering having to handhold every session.
After Mentum (YC S21) was acquired, I personally shipped 4 full-stack products in 3 months using coding agents. When I tried to roll the same workflow out to the rest of the team, it fell apart: Most PRs were unme … ⌘ Read more
说出来我都不信：Linux 漏洞第4、第5爆了 / Nginx 也继续爆漏洞
这是今天（2026年5月21日）早上： 这是今天晚上： 也不知道说什么了，直接看吧。 Linux 第4漏洞：CVE-2026-46333（7.1分） 这是继 Copy Fail（4 月 29 日）、Dirty Frag（5 月 7 日）和 Fragnesia（5 月 13 日）之后，在短短三周内爆出 ⌘ Read more
Hating AI Is Good
Article URL: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222366
Points: 16
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distributi … ⌘ Read more
Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696
Points: 4
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SpaceX Reveals Its Finances For the First Time
SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX’s revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required of firms that are seeking to go public. In the first three months of this year, revenue rose to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion i … ⌘ Read more
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more
Energiepreise trieben Inflation im April auf 3,4 Prozent ⌘ Read more
Pressée par Trump, l’Union européenne parvient à un accord sur les droits de douane
Le compromis a été annoncé à l’aube, au terme d’une nuit d’intenses négociations à Strasbourg entre les représentants du Parlement européen et des États membres. Le président états-unien avait donné à l’UE jusqu’au 4 juillet pour s’entendre. ⌘ Read more
From dispute to deal: Mevo acquired by car-share rival Carbn
New Zealand car-share business Mevo has been acquired by the company it was in a dispute with, after being tipped into liquidation this month, owing $4.3 million.
Carbn Group acquired the business assets of Mevo and plans to relaunch a Wellington-only model initially, keeping the Mevo brand. ⌘ Read more
California ‘rich dude’ fights $4.2m public beach access fine
By Jim Carlton
John Levy jnr built his dream home by a lagoon overlooking the Pacific Ocean and turned it into a private retreat he christened “Levyland,” complete with his own pickleball court. ⌘ Read more
Napier Port lifts dividend, reaffirms guidance despite headwinds
Napier Port lifted its interim dividend by 31% and is upbeat about the second half despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Directors declared a fully imputed interim dividend of 5.25 cents per share versus 4 cents per share in the same period a year earlier, it said in its half-year report on Wednesday. ⌘ Read more