MIT Researchers Develop a Low-Cost Technique To Get Lithium Out of Rocks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting batt … ⌘ Read more

Rust 1.96.0 released
Version\
1.96.0 of the Rust programming language has been released. Changes
include a new set of Copy-implementing Range types,
assertions with pattern matching, a number of stabilized APIs, and two
Cargo vulnerability fixes. ⌘ Read more

I’m “Retiring” from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/chadwhitacre.com/post/3mmvzlutrvk2g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315784

Points: 7

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Budget 2026: Sector glad for $6.8b capital commitment, now to actually spend
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the 2026 Budget’s $6.8 billion in capital spending is being directed to projects that are “ready to go”.

The capital package in the Budget delivered onThursday contained major transport items, including a $1.7b express … ⌘ Read more

Zendesk forced a customer from 2016 to pay 4X more, they rebuilt it in 48 hours
Article URL: https://tradecore.com/resources/blog/we-replaced-zendesk-in-48-hours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310604

Points: 11

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DOJ Charges Google Employee With $1.2 Million Polymarket Bet On Search Term
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to … ⌘ Read more

[$] Policies for merging new filesystems
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein wanted to
discuss his proposed\
documentation on adding new filesystems to the kernel. There are a
number of unmaintained and untestable filesystems already in the kernel,
which are a burden to VFS-layer developers who are trying to make sweeping
changes, suc … ⌘ Read more

24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework
While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won’t die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver’s intemediate representation (IR) handling… ⌘ Read more

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

NZ sharemarket falls 0.1% on Budget Day
The New Zealand sharemarket fell slightly on Budget Day, while Mainfreight had a sharp rise even though it wasn’t happy with its annual financial result.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index peaked at lunchtime at 13,310.5 but began sliding as the Budget was announced, closing at 13,206.11, down 27.10 points, or 0.16%. ⌘ Read more

‘Serious and unacceptable’: RBNZ moves against The Co-operative Bank
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has filed civil proceedings in the High Court against The Co-operative Bank over core-requirement breaches of laws to stop money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The parties jointly recommended a $1.425 million penalty for The Co-operative Bank to the court, the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) said in a statement. The court would decide the final penalty. ⌘ Read more

Internet Traffic in Iran Increasing
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301603

Points: 9

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Google Security Engineer Arrested in Million-Dollar Polymarket Trading Scheme
According to federal prosecutors, Michele Spagnuolo made more than $1 million on the prediction market platform using confidential information about Google Search traffic. ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware… ⌘ Read more

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

Unicode 18.0.0 Beta
Article URL: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881

Points: 9

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L’avocat de Claude Guéant au procès des financements libyens: «Le numéro 2 fait strictement ce que lui dit le numéro 1!»
L’avocat de l’ancien préfet Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi a dénoncé la volonté de Nicolas Sarkozy de «sacrifier Claude Guéant». Jean-Yves Le Borgne et Florence Bourg ont plaidé respectivement la relaxe pour Éric Woerth et Brice Hortefeux. ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket up over 1.2% on back of heavyweight rises
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and Infratil again led the way as the New Zealand sharemarket rose more than 1.2%, while the Reserve Bank of NZ kept the Official Cash Rate unchanged in a close call.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index traded strongly from midday and closed at 13,227.81, a gain of 158.07 points or 1.21%. ⌘ Read more

LG Promo Codes and Coupons for June 2026
Save 20% with an LG promo code today, plus up to $1,000 off appliances, 40% off bestselling TVs and monitors. ⌘ Read more

Scientists say they’ve reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022018.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288478

Points: 8

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Straker updates on ongoing fraud investigation
Straker has provided an update on its ongoing investigation into transaction anomalies involving the bank accounts of its US subsidiary, Straker Translations.

The Auckland translation technology company, Straker, was suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after discovering suspected fraud at its United States subsidiary involving at least US$1.5 million (NZ$2.5m) and possibly more. ⌘ Read more

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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Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security f … ⌘ Read more

Ferraris E-Auto irritiert Anleger und Fans
Der italienische Luxussportwagenhersteller Ferrari steigt spät, aber doch in den E-Automarkt ein. Am Montag und Dienstag präsentierte der Konzern das Modell Luce mit vier Elektromotoren und einer Gesamtleistung von mehr als 1.000 PS. Doch an den Börsen löste Luce nicht gerade Begeisterung aus. Auch Fans reagierten enttäuscht, vor allem wegen des für Ferrari untypischen Designs. Der Luce könne den Mythos Ferrari zerstören, hieß es. ⌘ Read more

AI, job cuts and a very fragile mandate
In a week when the Government announced 8,700 public sector roles will go and AI will help fill the gaps, a lunchtime event at Parliament turned into something of a reality check on how fragile trust in AI has become in New Zealand.

One NZ’s second annual AI in Trust report, a nationally representative survey of 1,001 New Zealanders, shows 76% of us have interacted with AI-powered services in the past … ⌘ Read more

CDC Data Centres next in Infratil’s Manawa playbook
Infratil will continue to pump cash into datacentres and renewable energy.

The infrastructure investor said on Tuesday it could sell another $1 billion in assets, on top of more than $1b it will pocket from re … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (postorius and spip), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, linux-firmware, tor, and unbound), Mageia (ffmpeg, nginx, perl-Imager, and tigervnc, x11-server, x11-server-xwayland), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, gvisor-tap-vsock, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, podman, rhc, rhc-wo … ⌘ Read more

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
Article URL: https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-human-who-made-the-difference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279321

Points: 41

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The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277784

Points: 11

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Straker suspended after suspected US employee fraud
Auckland translation technology company Straker has been suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after discovering suspected fraud at its United States subsidiary involving at least US$1.5 million (NZ$2.5m) and possibly more.

Straker requested the voluntary suspension on Tuesday, saying it had identified transactions totalling approximately US$1.5m that it was confident had been misappropriated … ⌘ 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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Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features
In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more

Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812

Points: 9

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Commerce Commission’s gas pipe ruling to test who pays for system’s decline
The Commerce Commission’s final decision on gas pipeline regulation this week will test how far it is prepared to go in letting network owners recover costs earlier as gas demand weakens and the future of the network becomes more uncertain.

On Wednesday, the regulator will set the default price-quality path for gas pipeline businesses from Oct 1, 2026 (DPP4). The decision cover … ⌘ Read more

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols
Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library… ⌘ Read more

[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to
the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux
Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside
chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar
pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds’s
complicated relationshi … ⌘ Read more

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
Article URL: https://github.com/exmergo/research-chatgpt-guesses-between-1-and-100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265745

Points: 12

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Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed… ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket trades flat, down 0.1%
The New Zealand sharemarket was a little hesitant as it entered a pivotal week for company earnings releases and economic moves.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached an intraday high of 13,101.27 but then fell late, closing at 12,970.80, down 21.03 points, or 0.16%. ⌘ Read more

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263711

Points: 19

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30% Off Canon Promo Codes | May 2026
Save an extra 10% or 30% with Canon coupon codes, plus up to $1,600 on cameras, printers, and more this May. ⌘ Read more

Eroad faces ‘distraction’ as largest shareholder tries to overhaul board
Eroad’s chair says a reset towards the New Zealand and Australian market is being distracted by a shareholder’s board takeover effort.

Alongside publishing full-year results on Monday that showed flat revenue and a $161.1 million loss, the fleet technology company said its largest single shareholder, Ampfield Management, was seeking to overhaul its board. ⌘ Read more

I went 1-for-2 again at Magic today, winning the first game with my (mostly standard) Fallout “Hail, Caesar” deck by creating a swarm of soldiers and slapping people across the face with them (LOL!), before quitting the 2nd game for lack of time after my board got wiped (I mean, I might have lucked into something eventually, but it was getting late, so I dropped out).

I hope to play more regularly going into the summer, but who knows.

Government backs $1.2b loan scheme to shift firms off gas
The Government will guarantee up to $1.2 billion of bank lending to help businesses reduce their reliance on natural gas, as it looks to preserve dwindling domestic supply for users with fewer alternatives.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis, Energy Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones said the [Gas Transition Loan Guarantee Scheme](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/budget-2026/gas-users-b … ⌘ Read more

发现频道：最近10日的热门排行榜[2026年第21期]
最近10日，来自小众软件论坛的发现频道的热门排行榜，由系统自动生成，直接列出来： 序号 主题 1️⃣ Moeli 阅读：轻量易用的漫画小说阅读器 2️⃣ 一个剪贴板实时同步工具 | 五端支持 | P2P | 跨网络 | UniClipboard 3️⃣ 【开源自荐】格图X | 多文件夹 ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Quoth Linus:

I’m not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial
stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary,
but at the same time I’m really not convinced the churn is worth it
at rc5 time. These things are “fixes”, sure, but at the same time a
lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they’d be better
off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes… ⌘ Read more

The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260331

Points: 10

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