The man behind some of NZ’s best-known companies reveals his inspiration for success
You might not know of Grant Baker, yet you’ve heard of his businesses. Bluestar, 42 Below, Turners, the list goes on.

His record speaks for itself in his newly published autobiography, yet there is plenty more [to learn about the man](https://b … ⌘ Read more

RBG: Of Many, One – ‘Sharp, intelligent and emotionally bruising’
Auckland Theatre Company’s 2026 season continues, in collaboration with Sydney Theatre Company, with RBG: Of Many, One, written by Suzie Miller and directed by Priscilla Jackman.

It opened on May 23 and runs until June 7, 2026, at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. ⌘ Read more

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)
Article URL: https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/09/26/insignificant-bullets-evil-poachers-and-l-a-culture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337808

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A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits
Article URL: https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A13%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C72%2C720%2Cnull%5D

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Probabilistic, Reformative Justice
Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dqbhcm6g7CMWvhoid/probabilistic-reformative-justice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336882

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Voxel Space
Article URL: https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336564

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Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
Article URL: https://qazinform.com/news/anthropic-surpasses-openai-to-become-worlds-most-valuable-ai-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336233

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Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corporate-america-is-starting-to-ration-ai-as-cost-skyrockets-1eb99d7a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335388

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Leo’s first encyclical attacks technological messianism
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334710

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The Kaiser and a “Mediocre Man” Theory of History
Article URL: https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334283

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Hausse du baril : plus de production, moins de voiture et d’avion
Un article de Henry Bonner Selon les résultats de TotalEnergies pour son premier trimestre, la multinationale génère des hausses de production de 2 % via une augmentation du rythme d’extraction. Des entreprises du pétrole aux États-Unis mettent aussi en marche des puits pour des hausses de production, après l’envolée du baril. Selon Baker Hughes, le […] ⌘ Read more

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333820

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Company accidentally blows $500M on Claude AI in one month
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/company-accidentally-blows-500-000-000-on-claude-ai-in-one-month/ar-AA24nahv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333177

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Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM
Article URL: https://www.perryts.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332151

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WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-proposes-new-rules-giving-political-appointees-final-say-on-research-grants/

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What Is a Dickover?
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330882

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MCP Is Dead
Article URL: https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436

Points: 15

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EV Stupidity Checklist
Article URL: http://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329549

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Canada in Technical Recession
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328718

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The California State Assembly Has Passed the ‘Protect Our Games Act’
Article URL: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-passes-game-protection-bill

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CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches
Article URL: https://giovannigatti.github.io/cve-bench/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328088

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On Rendering Diffs
Article URL: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327809

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Rothko for your current weather conditions
Article URL: https://rothko.joonas.wtf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327367

Points: 11

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AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327222

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Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326659

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Space startup raises funds for laser satellite communications
By Loren Grush

Observable Space raised US$90 million (NZ$151.7m) in its debut funding round as the company seeks to use lasers to help satellites and potentially orbiting datacentres move information to and from Earth. ⌘ Read more

On the Money: Tex Edwards, Karen Silk, Kenyon Clarke, Brad Olsen, Eric Crampton, Don Braid, Anna Breman and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

At Thursday’s Mainfreight result, an injustice of national significance was finally raised. ⌘ Read more

Anthropic rockets to $1.6t valuation, topping OpenAI in AI showdown
By Bradley Olson and Josh Beckerman

AI startup Anthropic closed a funding round at a US$965 billion (NZ$1.6 trillion) valuation, rocketing past ChatGPT-maker OpenAI as the companies race ahead on expected public listings this year. ⌘ Read more

Fail File: Warwick Mortimer, businessman and investor
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure, disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Warwick Mortimer, a business owner, property owner/investor in New Zealand and Rarotonga. He describes himself as “seeing opportunities and going for them, and more than 50% of the time being right about them”.

I was really disappointed when: Well, there are usually reasons for disappo … ⌘ Read more

Bonds aren’t boring
The thing about investing is that it’s sort of as hard as you want it to be.

At one end of the spectrum, I buy my kids equity index funds and never think about them again (they upweight the winners and down weight the losers). ⌘ Read more

Oppo Find N6: The foldable that finally rattles Samsung
Oppo’s Find N6 is the first book-style foldable that genuinely feels like a rival – and in some respects, a threat – to Samsung’s dominant Galaxy Z Fold line.

It has a near-invisible crease on its screen when unfolded, a larger battery, faster charging and respectable camera hardware, setting new benchmarks for what’s available in a foldable – at least among those available in the New Zealand market. ⌘ Read more

[$] A trademark dispute over MeshCore
MeshCore is a relatively new project, started in January 2025, that aims
to build a scalable mesh network using low-power long-distance radios. While
many other projects of the same general nature have been tried before, MeshCore
grew quickly because of its more efficient message routing and enthusiastic
community. In early 2026, an early proponent of the project made a sudden shift
that left the rest of the community stunned and embroile … ⌘ Read more

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents
Article URL: https://research.roundtable.ai/captchas-detect-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324910

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Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over ‘Catastrophic Governance’
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/danish-pension-fund-blacklists-spacex-citing-governance-issues

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324097

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It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop
Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/it-will-never-be-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323920

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I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
Article URL: https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323683

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[$] A loadable crypto module for FIPS certification
Many organizations require US Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)
certification of the crypto code they are running. The certification
process is lengthy, but the bigger problem is that the way the crypto
subsystem is built into the kernel makes the result unable to be reused
across kernel updates. I have proposed a patch\
series tha … ⌘ Read more

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323397

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Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents
Andrew Nesbitt has written a blog\
post detailing a recent incident with the jqwik library for property-based testing
in Java. On May 25, the 1.10.0 release of jqwik included a change
that attempts to instruct coding agents to disregard previous
instructions and delete jqwik tests and code.

I think this is a new class of supply-chain input worth ke … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, httpd, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (kernel, kitty, lemonldap-ng, nagios4, python-flask-httpauth, and roundcube), Fedora (CImg, gmic, haveged, jpegxl, kernel, libpng, mapserver, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, openbao, perl-Sereal, perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder, and podofo), Mageia (bind, graphicsmagick, microcode, nginx, packages, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, perl-HTTP-Daemon, perl-IO-Compr … ⌘ Read more

The UK Government’s Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322154

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We should be more tired than the model
Article URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322118

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Is AI causing a repeat of Front end’s Lost Decade?
Article URL: https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321631

Points: 6

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Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
Article URL: https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321076

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Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins for AMD Zen 5 on PostgreSQL, Valkey
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cache-aware-scheduling-hedt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320639

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ANZ NZ appeals High Court ruling in CCCFA class action
ANZ Bank New Zealand is appealing a High Court judgment against the bank in May in relation to alleged breaches of consumer protection law.

The bank estimates that its maximum potential liability across all class-action members arising from this decision is likely to be about $125 million. ⌘ Read more

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/fed-up-with-vibe-coders-dev-sneaks-data-nuking-prompt-injection-into-their-code/

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NZ sharemarket rises nearly 2% for the week
The New Zealand sharemarket had a frantic end to the week, with Tourism Holdings fielding a renewed takeover bid and leading stocks buffeted by a world index rebalancing.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index and the blue-chips were enjoying a solid day but suffered a late fall due to the largest quarterly rebalancing of the MSCI Equity indices. ⌘ Read more

Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8
Article URL: https://www.zot.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319524

Points: 12

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Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks
Article URL: https://github.com/RasmusGodske/claude-hook-utils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318978

Points: 5

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