Uber blows through its AI budget in 1 quarter
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287025

Points: 17

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Rio Tinto and Contact plan to re-start fourth potline at Tīwai Point
Rio Tinto and Contact Energy have done a deal to support the restart of the fourth aluminium potline at the Tīwai Point smelter.

The parties have signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for a power purchase agreement to support the restart of line four, which has been idle since 2020. ⌘ Read more

Bouncy Castle Communism Is the Solution
Article URL: https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-castle-communism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286428

Points: 4

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QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, May 27
Which range of hills forms a natural border between Scotland and England?
Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet?
Which famous artist`s career stretched from 1895 to his death in 1973?
Which American president ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
The song Moon River appeared in which 1961 film?
What does the word “forte” mean in music? Soft, fast or loud?
What colour is the Ferrari emblem’s background?
How many players make up a volleyball team?
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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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Stop Advertising in Your Commits
Article URL: https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283914

Points: 27

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In a blink: BlinkPay proofs Kiwi real-time payments
BlinkPay has proved that real-time payments are possible in New Zealand by using the existing open banking infrastructure and a Bank of NZ account to execute a test transaction.

BlinkPay’s chief executive, Adrian Smith, said a successful test payment in March took just 2.6 seconds to complete, compared with expectations of up to 5 seconds. ⌘ Read more

Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions
Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a
blog post
with a proposal on one way to ensure that a contribution is written by
a human and not AI; he suggests asking new contributors to record
their programming session using asciinema.

In the same way that LLMs generate patches, they can also generate
the asciinema recordings themselves. Then, the contributors c … ⌘ Read more

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282478

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The long game: how F&P Healthcare shrugged off a 52-week low
Few New Zealand companies have grown their capital expenditure by 89% in a single year, and there would be even fewer who, having done that, have plans to grow it further.

It is all part of what Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (FPH) CEO Lewis Gradon sees as taking the longer-term view of thing … ⌘ Read more

Director of failed Teak Construction flogging off gear
A director of collapsed Teak Construction is selling cars and building equipment on Trade Me as the liquidation of the failed group continues.

Teak’s shareholders put the Auckland construction business into liquidation in March owing subcontractors at least $3.2 million. ⌘ Read more

Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man
By Meghan Bobrowsky

Tensions were running high at Meta Platforms.

For weeks, rumours circulated that the company was planning a large layoff as it poured tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. Then, employees were told their keystrokes and mouse clicks would be recorded to help train AI agents to use computers. ⌘ Read more

Goodbye to the 2025/26 dairy season
Volatile commodity prices, strong milk flows, processor acquisitions and divestments, chief executive resignations, and a chunky capital return.

The 2025/26 dairy season has been anything but dull. ⌘ Read more

SRW’s solutions ride China’s longevity bid, skirt legal imbroglio
Biotechnologist Greg Macpherson’s healthy ageing solutions have proved lucrative for his Auckland-based wellness supplements business in China, but a court case involving his marketer has been a distraction.

Greg Macpherson is softly spoken, a little reserved. He sees himself as a super nerd, and that description seems apt for a man with a fixation on what makes mitochondria tick inside h … ⌘ Read more

AI, job cuts and a very fragile mandate
In a week when the Government announced 8,700 public sector roles will go and AI will help fill the gaps, a lunchtime event at Parliament turned into something of a reality check on how fragile trust in AI has become in New Zealand.

One NZ’s second annual AI in Trust report, a nationally representative survey of 1,001 New Zealanders, shows 76% of us have interacted with AI-powered services in the past … ⌘ Read more

CDC Data Centres next in Infratil’s Manawa playbook
Infratil will continue to pump cash into datacentres and renewable energy.

The infrastructure investor said on Tuesday it could sell another $1 billion in assets, on top of more than $1b it will pocket from re … ⌘ Read more

Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/26/ferrari-luce-ev-jony-ive-design-sports-car

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282034

Points: 14

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‘Incredible’ milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country
Article URL: https://www.thelocal.se/20260525/incredible-milestone-reached-as-sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281199

Points: 4

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Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
Article URL: https://www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russia/2026/05/26/stockholm-poised-to-become-leading-european-geospatial-intel-player,110772386-eve

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C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
Article URL: https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279842

Points: 6

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Stenberg: The pressure
Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg writes about\
the stress of keeping up with the current flood of security reports.

This is a never-before seen or experienced pressure on the curl
project and its security team members. An avalanche of high
priority work that trumps all other things in the project that is
primarily mental because we certainly could ignore them all if we
wanted, but we feel a responsibility, we have a conscience and we
are p … ⌘ Read more

[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages
Huge pages can improve performance by increasing translation lookaside
buffer (TLB) utilization and reducing memory-management overhead.
Transparent huge pages (THPs) are supposed to make huge-page usage,
well, transparent, Nico Pache said at the beginning of his session in the
memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. That transparency has
never worked as well as many wo … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (postorius and spip), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, linux-firmware, tor, and unbound), Mageia (ffmpeg, nginx, perl-Imager, and tigervnc, x11-server, x11-server-xwayland), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, gvisor-tap-vsock, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, podman, rhc, rhc-wo … ⌘ Read more

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
Article URL: https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-human-who-made-the-difference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279321

Points: 41

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Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it
Article URL: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/05/nearly-half-of-every-t-shirt-goes-to-waste-before-you-even-buy-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278832

Points: 7

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GitHub Actions down again today
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/?today

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278374

Points: 25

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The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277784

Points: 11

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Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277355

Points: 7

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DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
Article URL: https://dynip.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276363

Points: 8

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NZ sharemarket up 0.7% after strong results
Heavyweight Fisher & Paykel Healthcare surprised some commentators with another strong annual financial result, driving the New Zealand sharemarket higher by more than 0.7%.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached a morning high of 13,182.35 following Fisher & Paykel’s bumper release, then cooled off in the afternoon to close at 13,069.74, up 99.46 points, or 0.77%. ⌘ Read more

GenomNZ win Science NZ top prize for decades of genetic livestock improvement
GenomNZ has picked up the supreme award at this year’s Science New Zealand Awards, as well as the success in innovation/commercialisation award.

The commercial animal DNA genotyping laboratory is part of the Crown Research Institute (CRiI) AgResearch, which has now been merged into the new Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI). ⌘ Read more

Straker suspended after suspected US employee fraud
Auckland translation technology company Straker has been suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after discovering suspected fraud at its United States subsidiary involving at least US$1.5 million (NZ$2.5m) and possibly more.

Straker requested the voluntary suspension on Tuesday, saying it had identified transactions totalling approximately US$1.5m that it was confident had been misappropriated … ⌘ Read more

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274794

Points: 4

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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

Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/05/21/why-the-smart-home-bubble-popped/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274667

Points: 4

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EB Games reports $11.4m loss for NZ business as it winds down
Gaming and pop-culture retailer EB Games has released its latest financial report detailing the New Zealand arm’s demise, with the business reporting an $11.4 million loss for its last financial year.

EB Games announced it would be shutting down its New Zealand business and closing all its stores in January. ⌘ Read more

Nick Beeby appointed Meat Industry Association chief executive
Nick Beeby has been appointed the chief executive of the Meat Industry Association.

He joins the industry group having been the CEO of the NZ Meat Board since January last year. ⌘ 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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Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto
Article URL: https://secvant.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274018

Points: 5

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Goodman NZ hikes 2026 profit, tips dividend rise
Goodman New Zealand has more than doubled its 2026-year profit on rises in property values and share of earnings from associates, as well as flagging a dividend hike for the current year.

“Our full-year 2026 financial results were delivered in line with guidance, reflecting strong performance across the business,” chief executive James Spence said. ⌘ Read more

F&P Healthcare lifts dividend after tariff-defying profit rise
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has lifted its total dividend for the year by 22% after posting a 24% rise in annual net profit after tax, even in the face of US tariffs.

The Auckland-based medical equipment manufacturer’s revenues rose 14% to $2.31 billion across the financial year, while ne … ⌘ Read more

VC firm Pacific Channel expands into Asia-Pacific with ENGIE Factory acquisition
Venture Capital firm Pacific Channel has acquired Singapore-based ENGIE Factory, and its shareholdings in seven startup ventures in the Asia-Pacific region.

ENGIE Factory is the venture arm of French multinational electric utility company ENGIE Group. ⌘ Read more

TP-7 Field Recorder
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273531

Points: 4

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Electricity Authority introduces new rules for gentailers: non-discrimination obligations
The Electricity Authority has stuck to its guns and introduced non-discrimination obligations on the four gentailers when they deal with independent retailers.

The obligations (NDOs) require Contact, Genesis, Mercury and Meridian to supply risk management contracts (hedges) on an even-handed basis to all buyers, meaning they cannot favour their own … ⌘ Read more

Mighty Ape making ‘progress’ to profitability
Kogan Group has reported higher profits as it continues to focus on its strategic turnaround of the Mighty Ape subsidiary.

Kogan.com (Kogan Group) released its results for the 10 months ended April 30 2026, on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Tuesday. ⌘ Read more

Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-memory-cd1de7f4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272954

Points: 3

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NZ King Salmon scales up after positive half
NZ King Salmon Investments has told investors that the fish firm is recovering on all fronts and that US tariffs are not slowing sales.

The company said net profit after tax for the six months to March 31 was $13.8 million. This compares with a net loss of $20.8m in the prior corresponding period to July 31, 2025. The … ⌘ Read more

Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/market-outlook/2026/05/25/market-outlook-canada-losing-top-talent-as-workers-head-to-the-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272749

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Infratil rides AI boom, calls it ‘opportunity of a lifetime’
If you’re sick of reading about artificial intelligence, look away now.

Infratil pointed to AI as a growth driver in its full-year result, with stronger earnings led by its datacentre and renewable energy businesses. ⌘ Read more

Ferrari Luce, Maranello’s first ever electric car
Article URL: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/its-finally-here-meet-ferrari-luce-maranellos-first-ever-fully-electric-car

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271933

Points: 3

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