I design with Claude more than Figma now
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431981

Points: 8

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The circus freaks of open source
Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Circus-freaks-of-FOSS/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431952

Points: 19

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Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months
Article URL: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/issues/398

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431461

Points: 23

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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431286

Points: 3

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Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430923

Points: 4

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An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World
Article URL: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/an-ohio-valley-100000-watt-fm-signal-is-severed-in-broad-daylight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430860

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A good article on AI: https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

Public Domain Image Archive
Article URL: https://pdimagearchive.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430539

Points: 4

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DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military’s Recognized Religion List
Article URL: https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430212

Points: 10

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No Babies? Blame Capitalism
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/birth-rates-capitalism-socialism-germany

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429940

Points: 5

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They are looting your life savings
Article URL: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116705256401454865

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429343

Points: 6

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Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory
Article URL: https://universalmemoryprotocol.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428796

Points: 4

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Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Article URL: https://ntsc.rs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428025

Points: 4

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Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highest-level-sources-say-rcna348565

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427523](https://news.ycombinator.com … ⌘ Read more

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta’s new AI agents to run your whole business
By Meghan Bobrowsky

For 20-plus years, Meta Platforms has been a consumer business. That is now starting to change. ⌘ Read more

The benefits of listening to an audiobook while reading along
By Katherine A. Powers

Until recently, I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilisation were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and providing another level of interpretation and richness through the voices of gifted narrators. ⌘ Read more

Gozney Arc XL tested: Premium pizza oven goes beyond Margheritas
It is a glorious time to be alive, when one needn’t travel all the way to Naples to savour authentic Neapolitan pizza.

Institutions like Non Solo Pizza, Ooh Fa, Dantes and [Bivacco](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/the-life/review-bivacco-the-italian-restaurant-that-d … ⌘ Read more

My Expat Life: NZ tech entrepreneur and Whip Around founder James Colley on Bali life
New Zealand tech entrepreneur James Colley is relaxing beside the pool at his young family’s villa in Bali, speaking with a calmness that contrasts sharply with the life he led until recently.

For years, Colley’s world revolved around airports, investor meetings and constant travel as co-founder of NZ fleet software success story [Whip Around](https: … ⌘ Read more

My Net Worth: Ana-Marie Lockyer, CEO and board director of Pie Funds
Ana-Marie Lockyer is the chief executive and board director of Pie Funds. She has three daughters and lives in Auckland with her husband.

I am one of four children; I have three brothers, so I started life having to keep up with them, which probably put me in good standing for life. I had a lovely big family at home, but also a lovely big extended family, which meant lots of fa … ⌘ Read more

Fiji’s Rise Beyond the Reef collective: women weaving fashion with compassion
Conscious consumers and those who like to mix their fashion with compassion are always looking to do the right thing.

If you’re not buying local, you’re asking questions. Was this product made in a sweatshop or an ethical clothing factory? ⌘ Read more

Balloon Dog: ‘Warm, funny and quietly devastating theatre’
Indian Ink’s Balloon Dog, written by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan and directed by Lewis, opened at Q Theatre on June 3 and runs until June 20.

Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala, the production relocates the 19th-century tale to contemporary Auckland, transforming it into an exploration of migration, parenthood and the assumptions we make about strangers. ⌘ Read more

Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426022

Points: 5

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Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425528

Points: 7

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Benchmarks in Leipzig
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425247

Points: 9

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Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
Article URL: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424605

Points: 6

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Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/WYAcNkX-founding-machine-learning-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424103

Points: 0

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There’s still no point in gigabit broadband
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/theres-still-no-point-in-gigabit-broadband/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424098

Points: 7

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Do Women’s Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.martiehaselton.com/_files/ugd/3ae410_aeb76edab75f457aae0c14c4c68d93c0.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423541

Points: 8

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GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422798

Points: 39

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Zig Zen Update
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/commit/621844bde551ee1a9b8142d7d146d1fa804247a2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422769

Points: 10

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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421442

Points: 11

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OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode
Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421145

Points: 7

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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
Article URL: https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419571

Points: 6

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Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
Article URL: https://disassociated.com/microsoft-users-addicted-ai-personal-assistant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419023

Points: 4

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Hacker News, Sans AI
Article URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/hacker-news-sans-AI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417916

Points: 7

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Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490

Points: 15

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GitHub Accidentally Deletes Slack and Teams Subscriptions
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/2nmfnbknhlnv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416936

Points: 30

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Sakana AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab
Article URL: https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415633

Points: 4

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The NZX: Not enough belles at the ball
The market, as the hackneyed phrase goes, is a “voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term”.

And this tends to be true. I mean, the market is often inefficient in the short term, but over the long run, exceptional companies are rewarded with high stock prices and mediocre companies with low stock prices. ⌘ Read more

BYD is showing Tesla how to build trust in robocars
By Liam Denning

BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle giant, is making a habit of stealing Tesla Inc.’s thunder. BYD scored a hat-trick last year. ⌘ Read more

We need a new valuation tool
We are going to talk about “growth” investing.

I can confidently say that outside of private equity, “value”  investing will never be a thing again. There is simply no patience for it. ⌘ Read more

Anthropic urges global pause in AI development, flags ‘self-improvement’ risk
By Bradley Olson and Sam Schechner

Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose significant societal risks. ⌘ Read more

On the Money: Rod Drury, Duncan Saville, Paula Oliver, Mike Hosking, a Fieldays preview, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

Did you think the New Zealand edition of Monopoly was novel enough? Think again. ⌘ Read more

Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-stripe/5250763

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217

Points: 7

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pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414367

Points: 9

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Stop Using Conventional Commits
Article URL: https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414027

Points: 29

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Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be ‘Addictive’
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413924

Points: 14

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Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air leaks
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413464

Points: 13

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New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Article URL: https://scienceaim.com/new-york-just-passed-a-one-year-temporary-ban-on-data-centers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413303

Points: 9

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India’s surprise baby bust is a warning to the world
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413254

Points: 4

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