Larry Ellison: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording”
Article URL: [https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacy] … ⌘ Read more

Intelligent Terminal 0.1
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-intelligent-terminal-version-0-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373231

Points: 9

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Adafruit Pauses Blog After Demand Letter From Flux.ai’s Lawyers
Longtime Slashdot reader Matt_Bennett shares a blog post from Adafruit: Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter charact … ⌘ Read more

Analysts: Fonterra on track to replace Mainland Group earnings two years early
Analysts believe Fonterra Co-operative Group could be on track to hit its target of replacing the lost earnings from Mainland Group two years earlier than expected.

When the co-op announced the sale of its consumer business to Lactalis, a deal completed two months ago, it said … ⌘ Read more

Pāmu reintroduces PKE on some dairy farms after decade-long ban
Pāmu has reintroduced palm kernel expeller as a feed supplement at some of its conventional dairy properties, albeit in what it says is a “balanced decision” between environmental and commercial realities.

Ten years ago, under the leadership of Steven Carden as CEO, the state-owned far … ⌘ Read more

Business of Government: From public service reform rhetoric to reality, David Seymour’s spaghetti nightmare and more
A little black cloud

Budget 2026 makes one thing clear: Nicola Willis’ public service reform programme has moved from rhetoric to the fiscal machine. ⌘ Read more

What the SpaceX IPO means for Rocket Lab
When Elon Musk finally pulls the trigger on a SpaceX initial public offering, which could happen as soon as June 12, it will likely be the biggest public listing in history.

Retail investors will pile in, institutions will scramble for allocation, and the Nasdaq will briefly look like a launchpad, with millions watching its ticker from around the world, just as they regularly tune in to watch Starship rockets blasting off. ⌘ Read more

NZX50 board fees plateau amid economic uncertainty
Directors on the boards of New Zealand’s largest listed companies have seen their fees grow at less than half the pace of the country’s median wage over the past decade, even as governance workloads and scrutiny have risen sharply.

BusinessDesk analysis of 10 years of annual reports from companies in the NZX50 found director fee pools increased by just 7.3% in real terms between 2016 and 2025. ⌘ Read more

Forsyth Barr lowers Tourism Holdings to neutral
Forsyth Barr analysts lowered their rating on Tourism Holdings to neutral from outperform after a weak trading update and news that it had received a second bid approach from the BGH-Capital-led consortium.

It also lowered its 12-month target price to $3.10 from $3.60. ⌘ Read more

Tanks for 90 million-litre diesel buffer ready, first shipment en route
Channel Infrastructure says additional tanks to store around 93 million litres of diesel will be ready this week, in time for the first delivery of the back-up supply bought by the Government.

The first of two shipments for [the additional diesel reserve](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/fuel-fallout/govt-contracts-z-energy-to-provide-90-million-litres-of-extra-diesel-supply … ⌘ Read more

Aroa’s winning formula: From sheep guts to US growth
At a site near Auckland International Airport, about 30,000 litres of water a day are used to purify and remove cells from sheep stomachs.

The sheep forestomachs are sourced from a local processing plant and, through a series of processes, transformed into a human-safe scaffolding that helps to repair wounds. ⌘ Read more

Coreutils for Windows
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372853

Points: 15

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Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security
Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372578

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Americans don’t know how to fight AI so they’re fighting data centers
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/490350/data-center-moratoria-ai-backlash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371592

Points: 43

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Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c152yvwjwkko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371224

Points: 7

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Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors
CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors. ⌘ Read more

[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata
Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been
around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format,
has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing
need to make use of package metadata for more than software management: for
example, in vulnerability scans, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more. On
May 19, Damián Vicino spoke at the [Open Source Summit North America](https://events.linux … ⌘ Read more

Expanding Project Glasswing
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369863

Points: 5

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Vim Classic 8.3 released
Version\
8.3 of Vim Classic has been
released. This is the first release of the Vim fork since the project
was announced
in March.

This release is based on Vim 8.2.0148, with a number of bug fixes
and patches conservatively backported from future versions of Vim
upstream. We elected to clean up this version of Vim, prepare it for a
release, and imagine an alternate history wh … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (php:8.2 and php:8.3), Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, symfony, and yelp), Fedora (dovecot, freeipa, hplip, libpng, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, postfix, samba, unbound, and vim), Mageia (assimp, libcaca, sdl2_sound, and tar), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (alloy, apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text,, apache2, bubblewrap, busybox, chromium, cups, docker-stable, ffmpeg-8, google-osconfig-agent, gsasl, ignition, java-26-openjdk, k … ⌘ Read more

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/J5TNvQH-ai-engineer-intern

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369098

Points: 0

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CSS-Native Parallax Effect
Article URL: https://dan-webnotes.com/posts/2026-06-02-css-native-parallax-effect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368291

Points: 3

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Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/big-short-michael-burry-spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-bubble-claude-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368187

Points: 13

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Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai
Article URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121

Points: 5

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Why Janet?
Article URL: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/why-janet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367907

Points: 4

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Not Every Byte Gets a Vote
Article URL: https://mitander.xyz/posts/not-every-byte-gets-a-vote/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367009

Points: 3

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NZ sharemarket falls 0.5% on busy day
The New Zealand sharemarket fell more than 0.5% on a busy day that featured a bank merger, a healthcare sale and a sharp rebound by software firm Gentrack.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index traded steadily in the morning but dipped strongly at midday and closed at 13,170.71, down 73.84 points or 0.56% after reaching an intraday high of 13,257.19. ⌘ Read more

Companies chosen for Marsden Pt rail spur ‘design sprint’
Three companies have been chosen for a Marsden Point rail spur “design sprint”, Rail Minister Winston Peters says.

Peters on Tuesday afternoon said Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona, a Downer-HEB joint venture, and Auckland City Rail Link (CRL)-builder Martinus Rail had been selected by KiwiRail to complete a “design sprint” for the proposed 19km rail line in Northland. ⌘ Read more

Class-action lawyer critical of ANZ NZ’s move to appeal CCCFA ruling
Law firm Russell van Hout says it is disappointed that ANZ New Zealand is appealing a High Court ruling on a potentially $125 million class-action lawsuit centred on the bank’s alleged breaches of consumer-protection legislation.

“We say ANZ [NZ] should have accepted the Court’s decision and resolved this matter for the customers affected,” Scott Russell, a lawyer leading the class actio … ⌘ Read more

strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/strace-ui-bonsai-term-and-the-tui-renaissance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365904

Points: 4

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TSB Heartland merger to form $18.3b regional challenger bank
The proposed tie-up of Heartland Bank and TSB Bank will create the sixth-largest deposit taker in New Zealand with more than $18 billion in total assets and a bent for scooping up regional market share.

The merged entity – styled as a challenger bank focused on the regions – would be known as TSB Heartland Bank. ⌘ Read more

U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It’s Not at the Ballot Box
Article URL: https://blog.checkpoint.com/exposure-management/the-2026-u-s-midterms-have-a-cyber-problem-but-its-not-at-the-ballot-box/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365237

Points: 4

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Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Article URL: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364754

Points: 3

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Former Sacred Hill executive charged with fraud
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has filed charges against Richard Foddy, a former executive and director of Sacred Hill Vineyards.

Foddy is facing 18 charges of false accounting, with six of those charges having an alternate charge of obtaining by deception. ⌘ Read more

Green Cross sells The Doctors to Tend Health in $270m iwi-backed deal
Tend Health co-founder Cecilia Robinson says the firm is delighted to keep NZ’s largest primary health care provider in NZ hands.

On Tuesday Tend Health announced an iwi-backed $270 million acquisition of The Doctors from NZX-listed [Green Cross Health.](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/markets/green-cross-health-tamaki-health-group-why-private-equity-has-an-enduring-appetite-for-healt … ⌘ Read more

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055

Points: 5

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ComCom says grocery competition shows ‘little change’
The Commerce Commission’s third Annual Grocery Report has found that New Zealand’s lack of supermarket competition is yet to improve.

“There has been little observable change in core competition metrics over the year”, ComCom wrote in its executive summary of the report, relea … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132

Points: 13

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Heartland Group, TSB Bank propose $620m merger
Heartland Group Holdings has signed a $620 million agreement to merge its Heartland Bank with TSB Bank, creating a challenger bank with a regional focus.

The proposed new bank would be known as TSB Heartland Bank, and Heartland said it would increase banking competition and choice for New Zealanders. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, June 02
Which was the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
Table Mountain overlooks which of the following cities? Cape Town, Toronto or Rio de Janeiro?
Which animal lives in a drey?
Which country will celebrate its semiquincentennial in July?
Where was New Zealand’s first capital?
What name was given to films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s that were made as a companion to a main feature in a double-bill programm … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic files to go public in blockbuster year for IPOs
By Kate Clark and Corrie Driebusch

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence lab recently valued at nearly US$1 trillion (NZ$1.6t), said Monday it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, setting up a blockbuster year for IPOs. ⌘ Read more

Ombredanne: An AI agent ported our codebase from Python to Rust
Over on the AboutCode blog, lead
maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes
about an agentic LLM system porting the ScanCode\
Toolkit to Rust. In the process, the LLM (or the people behind it)
infringed the ScanCode trademark, stripped copyright and license notices,
“and started an outreach campaign, without ev … ⌘ Read more

Debug Project
Article URL: https://debug.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362347

Points: 3

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DataMasque raises $7m
Auckland startup DataMasque solved a real-life privacy and security problem for people who build software – or, more recently, for those who need to get a new AI-based app up to speed.

That helped it land marquee clients like payroll giant ADP, New York Life and the Best Western hotel chain in the United States and One NZ here. ⌘ Read more

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361346

Points: 7

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[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a
function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the
kernel’s tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function
or where its arguments are stored.
Alan Maguire and Yonghong Song spoke at the 2026
Linux\
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about their work on
recording information regarding c … ⌘ Read more

GitHub and the Crime Against Software
Article URL: https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361064

Points: 6

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360137

Points: 6

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Seven stable kernels for the first day of June
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.11, 6.18.34, 6.12.92, 6.6.142, 6.1.175, 5.15.209, and 5.10.258 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to
upgrade. ⌘ Read more

Cybersecurity startup Blacklock aims to raise $5m for new AI software spinoff
Wellington-based cybersecurity startup Blacklock is separating its software development operations into a new company and is planning a US$3 million (NZ$5m) capital raise to develop and scale its products.

Blacklock was set up to streamline and automate services, including penetration testing, also known as white-hat hacking. The new spinoff company is known as Cyra. ⌘ Read more