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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Gaussian Point Splatting
Article URL: https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396792

Points: 3

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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Article URL: https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395938](https: … ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket drops 0.1% amid rising tensions
New Zealand followed the trend of falling sharemarkets offshore – with South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu selling a chunk of Sanford shares for more than $60 million.

As further air strikes rained on parts of the Middle East, the S&P/NZX 50 Index was down 13.47 points or 0.1% to 13,101.61, helped by a late rise in the brokers’ matching session. ⌘ Read more

The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century
Article URL: https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-theft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394034

Points: 28

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Propel Funeral Partners expands NZ funeral network
ASX-listed Propel Funeral Partners is buying another three New Zealand funeral services providers and related assets, infrastructure and real estate.

The three include Evans Funeral Services, which includes Gisborne Tairawhiti Cremation Services; Leishman Funeral Services in Balclutha; and Collingwood Funeral Home, a funeral services provider operating in Rotorua. ⌘ Read more

America’s Data-Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule
By Katherine Blunt

Tech companies are earmarking unprecedented sums of money to finance the build-out of massive data centres, with a planned US$85 billion ($144 billion) equity-raise by Google parent Alphabet  being the latest example. ⌘ Read more

American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
Article URL: https://economist.com/business/2026/06/03/american-capitalism-has-taken-an-apocalyptic-turn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393043

Points: 4

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module.

• Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora election; Rust 1.96.0; rsync; Vim Classic 8.3; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patch … ⌘ Read more

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
Article URL: https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392343

Points: 4

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The ways we contain Claude across products
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392082

Points: 4

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New Zealand updates anti-money laundering code
A refreshed anti-money laundering (AML) Identity Verification Code of Practice was announced by Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden and Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee.

The updated code, which is set to come into force on July 1, 2026, aims to reduce unnecessary barriers for New Zealanders in proving their identity. ⌘ Read more

The Ü Programming Language
Article URL: https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391838

Points: 3

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Reserve Bank loosens usage of word ‘bank’
All licensed deposit-takers will be able to refer to use the “bank” in their name from late 2028, with industry reaction being positive overall towards the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s decision.

The move comes after consultation last year and loosens up the hitherto tight restrictions surrounding usage of the words “bank”, “banker” and “banking”. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) received 12 submissions on the matter. ⌘ Read more

Ngāi Tahu looks to sell down its Sanford stake
Sanford’s largest shareholder has put almost half of its stake on the block.

The NZX-listed seafood business went into a trading halt on Thursday morning while Ngāi Tahu undertook a fully underwritten block trade to sell 48.2% of its nearly 19.9% stake in Sanford. ⌘ Read more

Remarkables skifield owner seeks fast-track approval for $150m expansion
The owners of Queenstown ski resort The Remarkables have applied under the fast-track approval process to expand into the Doolans Basin.

The project, highly anticipated by the industry, would increase the resort’s size from 449ha to 711ha, with a 262ha expansion of skiable terrain into a valley next to Rastus Burn. ⌘ Read more

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390688](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite … ⌘ Read more

A Mathematician’s Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]
Article URL: https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390400

Points: 9

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QuiznessDesk, Thursday, June 04
What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen?
What is the full title of the Shakespeare play commonly referred to as Hamlet?
JWST, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built, stands for what?
The Bermuda Triangle is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Florida, Bermuda, and which other country?
Given their births in the New Zealand cities of Whangarei and Wellington, country singer Keith and Star Trek actor … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)
Article URL: https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389586

Points: 4

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