New Zealand invests $143m in agricultural productivity
The New Zealand government has announced a $143 million investment in six commercial projects aimed at optimising land use and boosting productivity in the food and fibre sector.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay highlighted the importance of the sector, which accounts for over 80% of the country’s exports. ⌘ Read more

Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/starlink-takes-page-from-cable-firms-with-10-monthly-rental-fee-for-hardware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469459

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AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice
Article URL: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ai-misidentification-results-wrongful-arrest-man-seeks-justice/I7UQJWV33FBN3LMKHCSXI6FIVA/

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766

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QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, June 10
Where in your body would you find the anvil and the stirrup?
On the Beaufort Scale of wind speed, what comes after a fresh breeze?
Who shared a Nobel prize in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for his discovery of the antibiotic penicillin?
In which year were Oscars first awarded for supporting actors and actresses? 1936, 1956 or 1976?
Kiwi country guy Keith Urban had a big hit single that name-dropped three Johns: John Cougar, John 3:16, and … ⌘ Read more

Exif Smuggling
Article URL: https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467759

Points: 5

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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570

Points: 19

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Google’s 20% ‘project’ has become AI’s 120% ‘attention’
Article URL: https://joe.dev/posts/new-20pct-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466917

Points: 5

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Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Article URL: https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466277

Points: 9

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Future of Ubuntu MATE
Thomas Ward has published
an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a
26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in
April:

There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to
help take over flavor management. They haven’t formally introduced
themselves yet, but I can safe … ⌘ Read more

[$] Eliminating long-lived credentials with trusted publishing
Trusted\
publishing is an authentication mechanism that relies on
short-lived credentials to reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. At
the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America, Mike Fiedler walked the audience
through why trusted publishing exists, how it works, and made the case
for its adoption. … ⌘ Read more

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
Article URL: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464330

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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140

Points: 8

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Govt proposes electricity sector dry-year insurance rules
The Government has effectively declared that the electricity market has failed to manage dry-year risk, proposing to force the country’s largest electricity retailers and generators to secure firm winter energy cover in advance or face penalties of up to 10% of turnover.

Energy Minister Simeon Brown is consulting on a new two-layer “winter energy reliability obligation”, which would sit alongside the [Governmen … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI files to go public in test of investor appetite for top AI startups
By Corrie Driebusch and Berber Jin

OpenAI, which kick-started the artificial-intelligence boom with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, is officially preparing to stage an initial public offering that will test investor appetite for AI companies. ⌘ Read more

Eroad chair ‘part of solution, not problem’, NZSA says
Eroad executive chair John Scott has the tentative backing of the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association as the NZX-listed company’s largest shareholder seeks his ouster.

Shareholders of fleet management technology company Eroad are weighing a challenge to the board by New York-based Ampfield Managemen … ⌘ Read more

Global food automation surge drives new contracts for Scott Technology
Automation in global food production is accelerating, and manufacturers seeking to stay competitive must scale, Scott Technology’s chief executive, Mike Christman, says.

The NZX-listed company announced this week that it had secured “several” contracts within its Material Handling and Logistics (MHL) business across Europe and North America, with a total value of over $12 milli … ⌘ Read more

The world comes to Mystery Creek
There is a “growing appetite” for international delegations to use Fieldays as a place to learn about New Zealand’s agricultural sector, its chief executive says.

The national four-day event, which starts in Hamilton on Wednesday, is set to have 73 international exhibitors, up from 66 last year, from countries such as Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. ⌘ Read more

Trans-Tasman AI: what we could build together
When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met his Australian opposite, Anthony Albanese, over the weekend in Queensland, the talk predictably drifted to rugby, trade and the usual geopolitical irritants.

This time, however, artificial intelligence was on the agenda – and that’s exactly where it needs to stay. ⌘ Read more

Software and overseas-focused firms got biggest director pay increases in NZX50
New Zealand’s listed software firms and those with large overseas footprints have had the biggest increases in director fees over the past decade, bucking a trend in which fees for a third of NZX50 companies declined in real terms.

Experts say the measured remuneration le … ⌘ Read more

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
Article URL: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463811

Points: 41

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Claude Fable 5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808

Points: 113

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Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commission-says-2026-06-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463024

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Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
Article URL: https://biffweb.com/p/core/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463018

Points: 10

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‘Sloppenheimer:’ Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/sloppenheimer-amazon-employees-mock-the-companys-ai-on-slack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462823

Points: 43

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Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462156

Points: 5

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Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462062

Points: 4

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Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta
The Asahi Linux project,
which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned\
its users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 “Golden Gate”
beta.

Apple has changed how the boot picker and Startup Disk applications
detect valid OS boot volumes. When using either from macOS 27, your
Asahi partition will not be visible! We believe this to be a bug, and
have filed a report (FB2 … ⌘ Read more

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
Article URL: https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461226

Points: 5

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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner’s $4B Resort Triggers’Flamingo Revolution’
Article URL: https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461012](https://news. … ⌘ Read more

[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution
The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of
statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its
history, but its fundamental approach to simple for loops has not
changed.
When it encounters a loop, it evaluates it, iteration by iteration, until reaching
an exit condition — a process that can cause the verifier to mistakenly hit the
limit on the number of allowed instructions where a better implementation
would not.
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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and libyang), Debian (keystone and openssl), Fedora (mingw-objfw, objfw, sentencepiece, and tailscale), Mageia (packagekit and suricata), Oracle (bind, bind9.16, go-toolset:ol8, ImageMagick, kernel, samba, and vim), SUSE (apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text, apache-commons- configuration2, apache-commons-cli, apache-commons-io, apache-commons-codec, avahi, busybox, chromedriver, chromium, csync2, firewalld, frr, gleam, helm … ⌘ Read more

Linux App Summit 2026 (Heise)
Heise is carrying a\
report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May.

The slightly more than a dozen talks were symbolically framed
between the opening keynote by systemd creator Lennart Poettering
and the closing talk by Jorge Castro, initiator of the Universal
Blue project, from which the modern Linux systems Bluefin and
Bazzite emerged. Both Castro and Poettering ca … ⌘ Read more

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459968

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Three stable kernels for Tuesday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 stable kernels. Each contains
important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade. ⌘ Read more

Making Graphics Like it’s 1993
Article URL: https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294

Points: 3

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GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI
Article URL: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458890

Points: 14

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Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-computer-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458636

Points: 4

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Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state.(2025)
Article URL: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458257

Points: 4

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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457830

Points: 5

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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457181

Points: 10

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NZ sharemarket jumps over 1.2%
The New Zealand sharemarket rose more than 1% following rebounds offshore, and investors’ attention is turning to this week’s trillion-dollar listing by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index started slowly and hit a morning low of 13,022.9 but traded strongly in the afternoon to close at 13,204.08, up 165.84 points or 1.27%. ⌘ Read more

Chance Voight entity evicted
An entity controlled by controversial Chance Voight director Bernard Whimp has been evicted from its Rangiora offices.

In May, the owner of the Cone St commercial premises asked for a High Court order giving it possession of the property and cancelling CVI Management Services LP’s (CVI) lease. ⌘ Read more

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
Article URL: https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456245

Points: 7

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CityFitness fined $1.12m for misleading ‘transaction fee’
The biggest gym business in New Zealand, CityFitness, has been fined $1.12 million for charging customers a misleading “transaction fee”.

The company was found to have misled customers about the price of its gym memberships and the reason for charging an additional fee. ⌘ Read more

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/2vbzAw8-backend-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456015

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Job: Head of Stonehenge
Article URL: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/?jobRef=16449

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455928

Points: 7

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We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
Article URL: https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/why-we-think-spacex-ipo-is-overvalued?content_id=20768396545

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455233

Points: 26

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Lululemon NZ profit jumps 45% despite US brand challenges
Retailer Lululemon athletica has had a 45% increase in the net profit of its New Zealand segment year on year.

The Canadian brand reported net profit after tax of $3.2 million in NZ for the period ended Feb 1, 2026, up from $2.21m the previous year. ⌘ Read more

Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee
Article URL: https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/06/08/federal-judge-blocks-h1-b-visa-100k-fee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454210

Points: 23

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