[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system
calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of
the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of
the current one. In Linux kernels, those system calls are better known as
clone()
and execve(),
but the core functionality remains the same. While there is elegance to
this process-cr … ⌘ Read more

Ruby’s Bundler adds a cooldown feature
Version\
4.0.13 of Ruby’s Bundler
package-manager has added\
dependency cooldowns in order to help mitigate the effect of
supply-chain attacks:

Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window:
an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any
bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves
str … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, exim4, frr, and haveged), Fedora (cockpit, freeipa, jpegxl, libre, nextcloud, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-Argon2, perl-Dist-Build, perl-ExtUtils-Builder, perl-ExtUtils-Builder-Compiler, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-libwww-perl, python-starlette, rubygem-yard, rust-sequoia-cert-store, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-wot, samba, and transmission), **Red … ⌘ Read more

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/09/#documentation-wins-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411510

Points: 21

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Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers
Article URL: https://nango.dev/careers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411227

Points: 0

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Do We Need Billionaires?
Article URL: https://bjhess.com/posts/do-we-need-billionaires

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411018

Points: 11

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Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409675

Points: 3

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ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol
Article URL: https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409306

Points: 3

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Changing How We Develop Ladybird
Article URL: https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409191

Points: 28

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There’s no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes
Article URL: https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/22/ansi-codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408995

Points: 3

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NZ sharemarket up 0.4%, Sanford dominates trading
The New Zealand sharemarket, flat for most of the day, was again helped by a late rise, while offshore investors began questioning the startling run in semiconductor stocks.

The S&P/NZX 50 sprang into life during the brokers’ matching session and closed at 13,161.97, a gain of 60.36 points or 0.46%. The index declined more than 0.6% for the shortened week. ⌘ Read more

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it’s 1995
Article URL: https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408442

Points: 4

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Air Chathams suspends Kāpiti to Auckland flights
Air Chathams has announced the suspension of its Kāpiti-to-Auckland flight service, effective July 31.

The decision comes after eight years of providing the only direct flight between the two locations. ⌘ Read more

Sharesies opens SpaceX IPO to its NZ wholesale investors
Sharesies is offering participation in the SpaceX initial public offering only to New Zealand wholesale investors registered before the offer period closes at 7pm NZ time on June 10.

The rocket and satellite company led by US billionaire Elon Musk aims to raise about US$75 billion (NZ$127b) in the IPO, the company said in a regulatory filing, valuing the company at more than US$1.77 trillion. ⌘ Read more

SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity
Article URL: https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/flying-high-on-impunity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407753

Points: 4

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The Causes of Long Covid
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/causes-long-covid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407451

Points: 3

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Auckland meat firm collapses owing $5.3m, director declared bankrupt
An Auckland meat wholesaler is in liquidation owing at least $5.3 million, less than a year after a business by the same director collapsed with debts of almost $1m.

Receivers were appointed to Merit Meats Ltd on March 24, followed by liquidators on May 29. ⌘ Read more

Meridian rejects Energy Minister’s concerns in late-stage fast-track submission
As Meridian Energy welcomes the fast-track panel’s draft decision to ease access restrictions on Lake Pūkaki hydro storage for a three-year period, new documents show it rejected concerns raised by the Energy Minister over electricity security of sup … ⌘ Read more

Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux
Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn’t tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the performance of the BORE scheduler for the Linux kernel on CachyOS. ⌘ Read more

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices
Article URL: https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406640

Points: 11

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Alibaba/Open-Code-Review
Article URL: https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406358

Points: 4

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Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners
Article URL: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/06/04/bricks-and-minifigs-salem-joshua-johnson-brandon-best-resignation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406328

Points: 6

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Analysts raise IkeGPS forecasts on sharper earnings and AI gains
Forsyth Barr analysts have raised their spot valuation on IkeGPS after the technology company delivered a “strong” full-year result.

The dual-listed utility pole assessment technology firm more than halved its net after-tax loss in the 12 months ending March 31, 2026, to $7.5 million from a net loss … ⌘ Read more

Northway consortium the preferred bidder for Warkworth to Te Hana expressway
A consortium led by Spanish infrastructure builder Acciona has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Warkworth to Te Hana expressway project.

The Northway consortium has beaten out two other major consortia, Go>North led by French giant VINCI, and Together North led by Australian-headquartered Plenary, to enter into negotiations with the NZ Transport Agency … ⌘ Read more

Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405931

Points: 7

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DP World to woo Lyttelton Port
Global port operator DP World is understood to be close to making a formal offer to manage the operations at the Port of Lyttelton for as long as 30 years.

Executives from the Australian and Singaporean offices of the Dubai-headquartered company, one of the world’s largest container port operators, are believed to be in Christchurch finalising the offer. ⌘ Read more

Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (SE Radio)
The Software Engineering Radio podcast has put up an\
interview with graphics maintainer Dave Airlie. Much of what is in
there will not be news to LWN readers, but it is an interesting overview of
the life of a large-subsystem maintainer.

I was talking to a few of the Rust people, and I thought: these are
very young people, these are a group of people in their 20s, maybe
30s, they are a you … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Friday, June 05
Which of the following large lakes is not in North America? Michigan, Huron or Victoria?
What type of animal is a Bombay Duck?
New Zealander Wendy Jarnet holds the title of having the world’s largest collection of paraphernalia related to what back-of-the-alphabet safari mammal?
Which `P` is the book of the Bible that comes after Job and before Proverbs?
Which of the following is not one of the standard playing pieces in the game of Monopoly? Ship, Hat or Bike?
By … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic’s open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403980

Points: 24

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Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
Article URL: https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403753

Points: 11

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Meta’s ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403588

Points: 68

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Fear and Social Pressure Are ‘Overarming’ the U.S.
Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052

Points: 4

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The desperation of NYTimes
Article URL: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401965

Points: 81

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Julia Hoare leads NZ’s highest-paid directors amid rising board pressures
Some of New Zealand’s highest-paid company directors are collecting more than $700,000 a year across multiple board roles, highlighting both the concentration of governance experience within the NZX50 and the growing demands placed on a relatively small pool of directors.

A BusinessDe … ⌘ Read more

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zettascale/jobs/O9S1vqO-founding-engineer-fpga-rtl-asic-architect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401433

Points: 0

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NZ startup wins Dubai airport contract
Auckland-based aviation compliance startup OneReg has signed Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest international airport, as a customer.

While currently impacted by the war in Iran, Dubai is the home base airport for the global airline Emirates and has long been the world’s most heavily trafficked international hub. ⌘ Read more

2degrees pushes on with satellite-to-mobile plans despite rocket explosion
The boss of 2degrees says the company remains on track to enter the latest space race – using satellites to connect mobile customers in far-flung places – despite the setback facing its US partner after a spectacular rocket explosion in Florida.

2degrees hopes to begin testing a satellite-to-mobile service powered by Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile from the middle of this year. … ⌘ Read more

Gym injury costs jump to $72m, rising three times faster than claims
Anna* was 57 when she broke her wrist in a gym class. She is the kind of claimant ACC is seeing more of, and her injury is the kind of gym injury that is driving costs up far faster than the number of claims. Cecile Meier reports.

It was a strength class at a small independent gym in late 2025. The exercise was a box jump: leaping from the floor onto a raised platform. Anna had do … ⌘ Read more

The untapped potential of New Zealand’s $1b fibre sector
The almost billion-dollar New Zealand fibre industry has “untapped potential”, according to new research.

The Future of Fibre Aotearoa research maps NZ’s diverse fibre types together as a connected sector for the first time. ⌘ Read more

Budget tax changes, M&A moves add pressure to NZX outlook
Life doesn’t get any easier for the New Zealand Exchange.

Not only are we seeing the return of M&A activity, which could cause further shrinkage of the NZ Exchange (NZX), but we also saw arguably a negative Government Budget announcement for the NZX regarding foreign investment fund (FIF) tax rules. ⌘ Read more

Sapere tells Govt: pause LNG, test diesel first
The Government is being urged to pause its push for imported LNG after a Sapere report argued that diesel, renewables, and faster industrial fuel switching could provide a cheaper dry-year electricity backstop.

The report, From faultlines to resilience, was commissioned by Rewiring Aotearoa, which advocates for electrification. ⌘ Read more

[$] Splicing out vmsplice()
The splice()
and vmsplice()
system calls are meant to improve performance for certain data-movement
tasks by minimizing (or avoiding altogether) system calls and the copying
of data. They also have a long history of security problems. The recent
flood of LLM-discovered vulnerabilities has drawn attention, once again, to
splice() and vmsplice(); as a result, they may end up
being removed a … ⌘ Read more

When AI Builds Itself
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400842

Points: 9

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Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/lufthansa-787-jet-suffers-front-wheel-collapse-frankfurt-gate-2026-06-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400242

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KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei
Article URL: https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399974

Points: 10

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One step forward, two steps back on CA age bill (EFF Deeplinks Blog)
The EFF has a blog\
post looking at a new bill in California that would exempt
open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act
passed last year, but has problems of its own:

While the open source exemption, if passed, would improve the law, the
remaining amendments proposed by AB 1856 would require all web
browsers and w … ⌘ Read more

In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-wind-solar-generated-more-power-than-gas-globally-april-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399332

Points: 7

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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, delve, expat, httpd:2.4, libexif, mod_http2, openssl, ruby4.0, samba, thunderbird, unbound, and vim), Debian (ceph and sudo), Fedora (libsoup3, pie, roundcubemail, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (lxc), Oracle (expat, gnutls, kernel, php:8.2, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Slackware (httpd, net, proftpd, tigervnc, and xorg), SUSE (apache-sshd, apptainer, atril, bind, busybox, c … ⌘ Read more

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398055

Points: 36

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When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login
Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuAsLoginReplacement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397199

Points: 4

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