Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487435
Points: 6
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Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029
Points: 16
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Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth
Article URL: https://github.com/justhamade/triadjs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486577
Points: 3
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OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486486
Points: 7
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NZ sharemarket down as Iran conflict saps confidence
New Zealand’s sharemarket closed lower as concerns over the US-Iran conflict combined with inflation worries and jitters from a Nasdaq tech sell-off to spook local investors.
At the close, the S&P/NZX 50 was down 51.49 points, or 0.39%, at 13,202.16. ⌘ Read more
Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/are-insecure-code-completions-a-vulnerability
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485160
Points: 5
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Renewables surge but power bills still climb
Renewable generation supplied almost 95% of New Zealand’s electricity in the March quarter, but household electricity costs and fuel prices still rose as the wider energy system remained exposed to gas decline and global fuel-market disruption.
The latest Energy Quarterly from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) showed renewables generated 94.5% of all electricity in the three months to March, up from 83.2% in the … ⌘ Read more
Payee checks expanded as scam prevention grows
The banking sector’s confirmation of payee system is being extended by the Anti-Scam Alliance to cover fintechs and other non-bank providers, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer says.
“This work complements changes to the Fair Trading Act so online service providers can move faster to pull down suspected scam content before people get burned,” Brewer said. ⌘ Read more
AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484584
Points: 17
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing.
Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 2026.05; Ubuntu MATE; rsync 3.4.4; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, securit … ⌘ Read more
Aws.com and google.com don’t have DNSSEC enabled
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/acetousk/3c17d2aefde9175ffef21a8ec4673053
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484475
Points: 5
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Deficient executive control in transformer attention
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/6/pgag149/8698838
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484282
Points: 3
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Unix GC Remastered
Article URL: https://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/unix_new_gc/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483854
Points: 6
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US President says ‘I love the inflation’
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/trump-inflation-cpi-iran-oil.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483445
Points: 6
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Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free
Article URL: https://news.immunologic.org/p/organic-foods-are-not-healthieror
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482955
Points: 3
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QuiznessDesk, Thursday, June 11
The official New Zealand coat of arms includes a Māori Chieftain and a European woman. What colour is the ta moko (permanent face marking) and the earring on the chieftain?
Who is film star Warren Beatty’s famous sister?
The title of which Charles Dickens novel is also the name of a famous American magician?
Rob Sering hosted the Night Gallery, but was more famous for hosting which other sci-fi series?
Founded in 1869, which university, home to “Scarfies,” is the … ⌘ Read more
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482293
Points: 6
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The Abundance Illusion
Article URL: https://www.carlyle.com/carlyle-compass/the-abundance-illusion
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481524
Points: 7
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Policy on the AI Exponential
Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480719
Points: 3
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Warmer Kiwi Homes insulation funding scheme up in the air
An $80 million government scheme helping low-income families insulate their homes looks set for the chop, after no more money was allocated to it in the Budget.
Warmer Kiwi Homes was set up in 2018 under the Labour Government and provides grants covering up to 90% of the cost of insulation and heating for eligible homes. ⌘ Read more
The jets are cool, but inflation keeps coming
One of the perils of living within a fractured political and geopolitical environment is that the next crisis is seemingly always just around the corner.
This came through very clearly in a recent survey commissioned by telco 2degrees, the Shaping Business Study, which appeared to show many business owners had gi … ⌘ Read more
Bees have a new RNA weapon against varroa parasites
Beekeepers could have a new weapon in the toolkit against the varroa parasite after years of testing by New Zealand scientists.
The results come at a time when hive losses from the varroa mite are surging again. ⌘ Read more
March quarter GDP will show 2026 started well
The conflict in the Middle East began at the end of February but economists say the impact on growth is unlikely to hit until the second quarter.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s May monetary policy statement forecasts 1% growth for the March quarter. ⌘ Read more
IPO hopeful BlackBull Markets: global footprint, surging numbers and complaints to FMA laid bare
BlackBull Markets is lining up a potential IPO, backed by explosive growth in revenue and trading volumes.
But the pitch could be tempered by client complaints to the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) over withdrawals, tr … ⌘ Read more
View from the top: Agricultural leaders upbeat at Fieldays
A frosty 1C sunrise at Mystery Creek did little to deter the mood among the who’s who of the primary sector at day one of Fieldays.
The national four-day agricultural event kicked off on Wednesday, with leaders across the sector and politicians turning up to mingle with each other and farmers. ⌘ Read more
The Business of Tech: AI v public sector jobs
The Government’s plan to cut 8,700 public sector jobs and save $2.4 billion has been framed largely as a brutal cost‑cutting exercise. ⌘ Read more
Ford NZ books $25m tax bill after IRD settles dispute with US authorities
Ford Motor Company New Zealand has paid $25 million in tax after Inland Revenue and US tax authorities settled a dispute over the handling of the car importer’s income.
A financial statement published by Ford’s NZ operations on Tuesday shows the years-long dispute over its tax payments had been resolved, resulting in a $25m tax bill and a $4.7m loss for the year to Dec 31. ⌘ Read more
Textbooks Should Be Free
Article URL: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479177
Points: 15
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Larson: Are insecure code completions a vulnerability?
Seth Larson, the Python Software Foundation’s security\
developer-in-residence, has written\
about the difficulty in classifying insecure code completion in
the PyCharm IDE using
its Full\
Line code completion plugin. … ⌘ Read more
The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932)
Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27462/27462-h/27462-h.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478285
Points: 3
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GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fcj3088jg1wx
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477851
Points: 13
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[$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things
autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate
code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about\
rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly
rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways:
reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even
persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the [Anaco … ⌘ Read more
Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476751
Points: 5
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Buildroot 2026.05 released
Version\
2026.05 of the Buildroot tool
has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the process of
building embedded Linux systems using cross-compilation. Notable
changes in this release include support for Arm Neoverse cores,
addition of XFS rootfs generation, as well as many package updates and
bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file f … ⌘ Read more
PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466
Points: 4
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I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys
Article URL: https://danq.me/2026/06/09/fn-keys/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475938
Points: 28
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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (poppler), Debian (dnsmasq, mistral, okular, openssl, poppler, and strongswan), Fedora (exim, firefox, pcs, putty, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (freeciv, golang-x-net, jq, libssh, libxmp, libxpm, minetest, ruby-net-ssh, tor, and wireshark), SUSE (389-ds, ack, agama-web-ui, amazon-ssm-agent, avahi, dpkg, elemental-register, elemental-system-agent, elemental-toolkit, ggml-devel-9500, go1.25, go1.26, kernel, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, … ⌘ Read more
Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Article URL: https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483
Points: 25
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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
Article URL: https://jivx.com/eki
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475100
Points: 7
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Port React Compiler to Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473662
Points: 5
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Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Article URL: https://media.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/bebac2af-acdc-465a-9538-adb0bf3d8ccf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472877
Points: 5
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NZ investors worry over Iran conflict as NZ sharemarket rises slightly
Another late rise moved the New Zealand sharemarket into positive territory as Middle East tensions continued to simmer and unsettle investors.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index hit an intraday low of 13,107.72 before climbing to close at 13,253.65, up 49.56 points or 0.38%. ⌘ Read more
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
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Élevage industriel: une législation protectrice de l’animal bafouée depuis 50 ans
Pour les cinquante ans de l’adoption de l’article L214, qui dispose que l’élevage doit respecter les «impératifs biologiques» des animaux, reconnus comme des «êtres sensibles», l’association homonyme dresse un bilan accablant de l’action de l’État, qui n’a cessé de piétiner ce droit pour favoriser l’agrobusiness. ⌘ Read more
Waikato’s Sanctuary Mountain dominates global biodiversity credit sales
Biodiversity credits from New Zealand’s Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari made up 43% of sales in a global biodiversity market in May.
Sanctuary Mountain operates NZ’s largest predator-free fence in the Waikato and has started selling biod … ⌘ Read more
Kiwibank rolls out Startup+ finance programme full time after one-year pilot
Kiwibank is rolling out its loan scheme for startup businesses after a one-year pilot attracted three times the expected interest.
Startup+ allows eligible borrowers to access up to $450,000 of lending, up from $150,000 for the pilot launched last June. ⌘ Read more
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
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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](https://n … ⌘ Read more
Government puts up $51m to push adoption of on-farm methane technologies
The Government is launching a $51 million Early Adoption Accelerator to push take-up of on-farm methane reduction technology.
The lack of incentives was a major talking point at the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference in Wellington in late April. ⌘ Read more
Genesis takes Unit 5 offline as hydro storage lifts
Genesis Energy is shutting down its 400-megawatt Huntly Unit 5 from July 1 to Dec 31 to make gas available to commercial and industrial users.
It is another sign the sector believes it will get through winter without an energy shortfall, given high hydro storage levels and the exist … ⌘ Read more