NZ sharemarket down 0.9% following strong overseas sell-offs
The New Zealand sharemarket, down nearly 1%, followed strong overseas sell-offs, with AI-linked stocks cooling, but it did gain support from Ebos Group and a2 Milk.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell sharply at the opening following the plunge on Wall Street over the weekend (NZ time) and closed at 13,038.24, down 123.73 points or 0.94%. ⌘ Read more
Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026
Article URL: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610
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Why isn’t the U.S. better at soccer?
Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437848
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Kate Beckinsale’s R-Rated Movie & More Hulu Releases This Week
Hulu releases this week include Kate Beckinsale’s R-rated movie, plus other fresh additions. Coming to Hulu on June 9, Underworld: Blood Wars follows vampire death dealer Selene, played by Beckinsale, as she battles both the Lycan clan and a treacherous faction of vampires. Each side is hunting for the blood of her hidden daughter, Eve, […]
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9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://9mothers.com/careers
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433987
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/scientists-ejected-from-diabetes-conference-for-distributing-journal-reprints/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410
Points: 9
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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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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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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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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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Eli Roth’s New Movie Trailer Explores What Happens Behind Closed Doors After We Die
Eli Roth’s new documentary pulls back the curtain on what could happen to our bodies after death. The trailer reveals a funeral industry unprepared for the millions of Baby Boomers nearing life’s end. The film, helmed by Jessica Chandler, will premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York on June 9. It comes at a […]
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What Man of Tomorrow’s Intense Fight Set Video Could Mean for DCU Movie
An intense fight scene from Man of Tomorrow recently surfaced online. While it remains mostly mysterious, there are some things that it could mean for the upcoming DCU movie. As of now, little is known about Man of Tomorrow, outside of the fact that it will release on July 9, 2027. James Gunn will once […]
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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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Best Close-up of Lex Luthor’s Warsuit Revealed With Brutal Superman Fight
DC fans got a glimpse of Lex Luthor‘s iconic warsuit in recent set images from Man of Tomorrow. The photos went viral online, with many fans praising how the suit resembles the one seen in the comics. Man of Tomorrow is expected to have a worldwide release on July 9, 2027. Lex Luthor’s warsuit gets […]
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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
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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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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X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI
There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it’s a disaster and “it’s worse than it looks”, it continues holding true… ⌘ Read more
The Newest Instagram “Exploit” Is the Goofiest I’ve Seen
Article URL: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359102
Points: 61
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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, flatpak, httpd, and thunderbird), Debian (chromium, corosync, cyborg, dovecot, exim4, git-lfs, imagemagick, kernel, keystone, linux-6.1, php-twig, python-aiohttp, sentry-python, swift, and symfony), Fedora (chromium, djvulibre, docker-compose, giflib, haveged, libsoup3, libssh2, mingw-objfw, netatalk, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-m … ⌘ Read more
It’s Not Just X. It’s Y
Article URL: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350149
Points: 9
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Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
Article URL: https://claudefolio.com/blog/anyone-can-build-a-platform-now-almost-nobody-can-get-people-to-find-it
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342097
Points: 20
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Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!.. ⌘ Read more
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
Points: 9
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Oh, nice. In my endeavors of time in C++, I came across cal 9 1752. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/brief-history-mktime
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
Points: 7
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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
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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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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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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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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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool.
Briefs: Stenberg security stress; GTK PDF problems; Morton 2004 keynote; OpenBSD 7.9; Bambu’s AGPLv3 violations; Quotes; …
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Stride Property Group lifts annual profit to $31.3m, confirms 8c dividend
Stride Property Group posted an improved full-year profit in a period it describes as one of strategic progress, during which it paid an 8-cent-per-share combined cash dividend.
Its full-year profit after tax was $31.3 million, up $9.6m from $21.7m in FY25. Net rental income was $58.9m, down from $69.1m. Management fee income was $22.9m, from $20.4m. ⌘ Read more
Internet Traffic in Iran Increasing
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301603
Points: 9
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Fonterra to open new season with a $9.75/kgMS opening forecast
Fonterra Co-operative Group will start the new dairy season with a forecast farmgate price of $9.75 per kilogram of milk solids, within a range of $8/kgMS to $11/kgMS.
The co-op was expected to start the season with a wide range, but its opening price sits at the upper end of forecasts from major NZ banks. ⌘ Read more
Unicode 18.0.0 Beta
Article URL: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881
Points: 9
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Agent Memory: An Anatomy
Article URL: https://brgsk.xyz/agent-memory-anatomy/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287808
Points: 9
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Cloudflare Flagship
Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468
Points: 9
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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (May 2026)
Bugonia, Good Boy, and Send Help are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month. ⌘ Read more
Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712
Points: 9
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AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2… ⌘ Read more
Ryman reset right for market conditions, CEO says
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman’s reset of its model means it now has the flexibility to grow as property market conditions allow, but not the obligation, chief executive Naomi James says.
The operator of 47 villages, offering 9,959 retirement units and 4,686 aged care beds, decided two years ago to scale back development to focus on returns from existing assets, she said. ⌘ Read more
Does Anybody Actually Like React?
Article URL: https://jsx.lol
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274077
Points: 21
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Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812
Points: 9
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SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day
“The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,” reports Spaceflight Now.
The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to more than 10,000 already in low Earth orbit:
This was SpaceX’s 60th orbital flight of the year, consisting of 59 Falcon 9 rocket … ⌘ Read more
Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
Article URL: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206
Points: 41
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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260331
Points: 10
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Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API
Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248954
Points: 9
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Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
Article URL: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896
Points: 38
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