Budget 2026’s thorny political issues
This week’s pre-election Budget suggests the Government believes it will have done just enough to win on Nov 7 this year and is instead setting itself up for the 2029 election, promising looser purse strings then.

That is a confident call. ⌘ Read more

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-just-exploded-during-a-static-fire-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318678

Points: 11

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‘We’re really proud’: TradeWindow targets WiseTech
TradeWindow’s management is confident the trade software minnow is on the path toward breaking even, as it goes head-to-head with its larger Australian rival, WiseTech Global.

The dual-listed company, which counts some of New Zealand’s biggest exporters, including Silver Fern Farms, Zespri and Sealord, among its customers, reported a net after-tax loss of $2.6 million in the financial year ended March 31. ⌘ Read more

Cars are trying to spy on you, and it’s only just the beginning
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481

Points: 9

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Article URL: https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774

Points: 22

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Energy Minister Simeon Brown opposes Meridian’s Pūkaki storage bid
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has made a late intervention opposing Meridian Energy’s fast-track application to use more water from Lake Pūkaki, warning the proposal in its current form could weaken the electricity system’s dry-year security while gas supply declines and wider market reforms remain unresolved.

The intervention puts the Government directly at odds with Meridian over one of the co … ⌘ Read more

Govt backs study into grower bid for Hastings McCain plant
The Government has announced its support for Hawke’s Bay growers in their efforts to explore the possibility of a farmer-led purchase of the McCain Foods vegetable processing site in Hastings.

Agriculture Minister Todd McClay said the Government would provide $50,000 for the first stage of a feasibility study. ⌘ Read more

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
Article URL: https://minimaxir.com/2026/05/openrouter-hy3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317294

Points: 3

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Budget 2026’s verdict? Zero progress
Zero. That is how much progress we have seen in turning the Government books around.

That remains the order of the day out to the 2026/27 fiscal year. ⌘ Read more

Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down
Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/garnix-is-shutting-down-not-oc/77895

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317043

Points: 5

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Minimax M3
Article URL: https://www.minimax.co.uk/products/water-softeners/minimax-m3-water-softener/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316462

Points: 9

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Tāiko Critical Minerals posts $8.7m full year loss ahead of planned 2028 mining start
Tāiko Critical Minerals reported a net loss of $8.7 million as it continues work on a planned West Coast mining project north of Greymouth.

The company, which was listed on the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) in March this year, released its preliminary unaudited results for March 31, 2026, on May 29. ⌘ 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

THL considers revised $3.10 per share takeover offer
Tourism Holdings Limited is considering a revised takeover offer of $3.10 per share from a consortium comprising BGH Capital and the Trouchet family.

The indicative all-cash offer represents a 41% premium to THL’s last traded price of $2.20. ⌘ 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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QuiznessDesk, Friday, May 29
What is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and also a town in England?
The 1812 Overture was written to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon in which city?
Which European state became two separate states in January 1993?
Which has the larger ears: the African or Asian elephant?
In which Italian city is the Uffizi Gallery?
What is the name of the current Israeli president?
In what 1980s film did Daryl Hannah play a mermaid?
What brand of beer does Homer Si … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walking-back-ai-jobs-apocalypse-prophecies-ipo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314363

Points: 18

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I really like your style of writing, btw. It’s much calmer and less aggressive then mine. :-) When I turned my bullet points into paragraphs, I got a bit mad in the process.

Sure, feel free to include anything you want. Regarding citing, this is where twtxt falls short in my opinion. Especially with feed rotation, classic links die quickly. Message hashes only help so much. Nobody outside the twtxt universe knows how to deal with them. So, not perfect for inclusion on a web page. Linking to a thread or message on some yarnd instance might be the more user-friendly option. But the disadvantage is that it’s “just” a mirror, not the primary or original source. In all reality, this could be considered splitting hairs, though.

I should have probably written a proper article. That would have given me time to review the result more carefully, too. ;-) Perhaps that’s something for the future. But honestly, I’m not sure if I really want to waste my time and energy on that subject. So many other fun or useless things come to mind right away that I could do instead. 8-)

So, yeah, do whatever feels best to you. I don’t mind being cited or linked, but I also don’t mind not to be cited or not to be linked to. :-D Not a helpful answer, I know. Sorry. ;-) But anyway, thanks for asking, mate! I do appreciate it.

To finish my thought, linking to my frontpage is probably also useless, since I deliberatly do not have a table of contents there. In fact, my entire frontpage is rather silly.

On further examination, all the articles have the same timestamps. Whenever the feed was fetched. :-O

Google Hates You
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/new-google-ai-22279112.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313538

Points: 37

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Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530

Points: 44

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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313048

Points: 18

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks. I noticed the <updated> of the feed, too. But for some reason, some articles were suddenly marked as new.

On some YouTube feed <entry>s, I noticed updated <updated> fields showing today’s timestamps. But unless there is no <published>, the <updated> is not even considered. I verified that in the source code. Yet, all the affected articles in Newsboat show today’s timestamp, not the years old publication timestamp. I generate the YouTube feeds from the original feeds myself once a day, so I doubt that this is cause by some YouTube shenanigans.

Very weird, it doesn’t make any sense at all. What is going on here? O_o It doesn’t appear that I have duplicates in the database either.

Górny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy\
article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux
distribution, in response to a\
thread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary
method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,
that doesn’t mean manually building stuff, following some kind of
how-to: finding all t … ⌘ Read more

Hold on for Dear Life
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/28/we-live-in-a-society/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312734

Points: 11

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You didn’t change your Atom feed by any chance yesterday or today, @movq@www.uninformativ.de? Not only do I have a metric shitton of “new” old items in my YouTube feeds, but also a bunch of your old articles are shown as new.

I fear that this is a Newsboat bug. I rebuilt it yesterday from master.

Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/bipartisan-alpr-amendment-killed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312082

Points: 9

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Housing sector pleased with Budget initiatives to encourage growth
The residential property sector is welcoming announcements in the Budget to further boost housing growth.

The Government has allocated $400 million to a fund that will return development levies to councils, encouraging them to invest in the infrastructure needed for more housing. ⌘ Read more

Chinese regulators investigate Auckland’s Tiger Brokers in offshore clampdown
Chinese regulators have launched a probe into Auckland-based Tiger Brokers over alleged illegal cross-border business activities as part of a wider clampdown on offshore trading platforms allegedly helping investors sidestep Beijing’s capital controls.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced on Friday it was cracking down on several offshore bro … ⌘ Read more

Startups win, science funding static in Budget 2026
Startup entrepreneurs had some good news in Budget 2026, while scientists were largely treading water amid major sector reforms.

According to the NZ Association of Scientists (NZAS), funding for NZ’s science and innovation system was about $30 million higher in 2026 than last year and was tracking slightly below inflation. ⌘ Read more

Budget 2026 in five charts
For the best experience, visit BusinessDesk for the interactive version of this article.

This year’s budget was fiscally prudent and some of it quite surprising. Here are five charts that tell the story. ⌘ Read more

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

Investors beeline for Comvita, Amano owner Savor-ing the moment, Rural Land’s rocketing bill, and more
Stay ahead with BusinessDesk’s regular Small Cap Wrap – all the latest small cap opportunities, market trends and more.

Comvita has finally put its long-awaited capital raise behind it – and the … ⌘ Read more

NZ’s early AI adopters are already reaping the benefits
When Air New Zealand updated its uniforms last year, it faced a large and potentially expensive job: updating its library of 18,000 brand images.

“So, what are we going to do?” the airline’s data and AI lead, Mike Parsons, asked rhetorically at one of the last formal Techweek26 sessions in Auckland last week. ⌘ Read more

Budget 2026: Business leaders see ‘hold the line and hope for the best’ as theme
An election-year Budget built for steadiness rather than surprise won cautious approval from business leaders on Thursday, but left the bigger questions about productivity, energy and small business for another day. ⌘ Read more

Your opportunity to provide feedback on the employment disputes system
The opportunity I have been waiting for a long time is finally here.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has launched a consultation process to seek feedback on the employment disputes system. ⌘ Read more

Wide Fonterra forecast range points to volatility ahead
Fonterra Co-operative Group’s opening forecast milk price is a “solid number”, but the wide range around it is “very real”, its chief financial officer says.

The co-op will open the new dairy season with the same range as at the start of the outgoing season, between $8/kgMS and $11/kgMS, but with … ⌘ Read more

Claude Opus 4.8
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647

Points: 139

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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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Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct
Article URL: https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot/tree/master

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309645

Points: 5

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[$] 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

EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309302

Points: 4

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Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309233

Points: 28

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IBM’s “Project Lightwell”
IBM has sent out a\
press release touting a claimed $5 billion investment into an
operation called Project Lightwell:

Project Lightwell will establish a trusted enterprise clearinghouse
combined with a global force of engineers to identify and fix
vulnerabilities at scale. The clearinghouse will serve as a
security coordination layer, using advanced AI capabilities to
val … ⌘ Read more

[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page
The kernel’s memory-management subsystem is currently partway through a
multi-year project to replace the page structure (which represents
a page of physical memory) with memory\
descriptors. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Vishal Moola ran a
fast-paced session in the memory-management track to describe the current
state of that work and wha … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, gnutls, kernel, libexif, mysql8.4, postgresql16, postgresql18, python3.14, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (krb5, roundcube, starlette, unbound, and varnish), Fedora (kernel, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, perl-Imager, poppler, python-uv-build, rrdtool, rust-astral-tokio-tar, rust-astral_async_http … ⌘ Read more

Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims
Article URL: https://lenz.io/research/llm-disagreement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307887

Points: 66

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AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307231

Points: 5

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AI sticker shock hits corporate America
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307098

Points: 5

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The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
Article URL: https://www.inc.com/connor-jewiss/the-problem-with-the-ferrari-luce-ev-offers-a-lesson-for-every-leader/91351070

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306675

Points: 5

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