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

# Comments: 5 ⌘ Read more

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

# Comments: 7 ⌘ Read more

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

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

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

# Comments: 7 ⌘ Read more

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

# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more

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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[$] 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

# Comments: 10 ⌘ Read more

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