Commerce Commission report criticised for flawed rankings
Imagine that a public health authority publishes a report on the nation’s diet. After 22 years of data and a 100-page methodology, it announces the four least nutritious food groups. They are: beverages, snacks, prepared meals and condiments.

The categories tell you nothing, because beverages include both water and vodka, and snacks include both carrot sticks and deep-fried Mars bars. The four least nutritious … ⌘ Read more

For the love of a Marsden Point rail spur: Winston and Wayne write to one another
For the love of a Marsden Point rail spur, Rail Minister Winston Peters and Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown have been penning polite but corrective letters to one another.

Peters wrote to Brown last week after … ⌘ Read more

a2 Milk – caveat emptor reigns
By Brian Robins

It was the surefire safe investment choice of investment professionals to ride out the competing pressures buffeting the broader sharemarket – until it wasn’t. ⌘ Read more

Turners Automotive is betting on branches and Bunnings-style footprint to hit $100m target
How can Turners Automotive Group hit its $100 million profit target?

Look to the South Island for the blueprint. ⌘ Read more

Lume Music app raises $1.34m
A group of Kiwi tech entrepreneurs, including Substack’s Hamish McKenzie, The Spinoff’s Duncan Greive and Tim Harper of Glorious, are behind a new music app.

Lume Music – trading as Lume – has already raised $1.34 million in a friends and family round. ⌘ Read more

Government puts $2.5m towards billion-dollar underground asset striking problem
The Government is putting $2.5 million towards a possibly $1.45 billion problem: the accidental damage of underground cables and pipes.

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop announced on Thursday that work on a national underground asset … ⌘ Read more

London Mayor Blocks Palantir
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225489

Points: 20

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[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026
Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit
with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC’s BPF support in the past year.
This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar
updates in
2025 and
2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on
feature p … ⌘ Read more

Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026)
Article URL: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223303

Points: 5

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Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223258

Points: 13

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OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is
out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features,
including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous
systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable
delay, socket splicing, a
__pledge_open()
system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the
announcement and [the full\
changelog]( … ⌘ Read more

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733

Points: 3

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Hating AI Is Good
Article URL: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222366

Points: 16

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[$] Support for private memory nodes
Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in
current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can
make use of it. He is trying to implement the opposite policy — to make
some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically
to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss h … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distributi … ⌘ Read more

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221976

Points: 13

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Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221230

Points: 0

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Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696

Points: 4

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NZ sharemarket rallies, up almost 1%
The New Zealand sharemarket rallied nearly 1% after the large block of Contact Energy shares was quickly snapped up, and US President Donald Trump indicated he was in the final stages of a peace deal with Iran.

Following another rebound on Wall Street, the S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed to 12,878.07, a gain of 117.04 points or 0.92%. ⌘ Read more

Zespri benefits from more kiwifruit, better value
Zespri has improved its profitability by selling more fruit at a higher value, its chief executive says.

The grower-owned kiwifruit marketer released its full-year results for the 2025/26 season this week. ⌘ Read more

WasteCo crisis deepens as chair abroad during WorkSafe fatality probe
WasteCo chair and acting CEO Roger Gower has been overseas for several weeks while the company faces a health and safety and leadership crisis.

Last week BusinessDesk reported that WorkSafe was investigating a second fatality at the NZX-listed company, less than a year af … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: OpenSUSE site age restrictions; Lots of LSFMM+BPF coverage; The tenth OpenPGP email summit.

• Briefs: Firefox 151.0; pgBackRest funding; RIP Peter G. Neumann; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more

NZ clothing brand Harris Tapper reveals US expansion
New Zealand womenswear label Harris Tapper has entered the United States market, launching on Moda Operandi.

The Auckland-based clothing brand is entering the US with an exclusive Pre-Fall 2026 launch on the New York-based e-commerce retailer. ⌘ Read more

Tower Insurance half-year profit dips after surge of storms
Tower Insurance has reported a fall in half-year profits as a spell of golden weather in 2025 gave way to a series of storms.

Tower reported a net profit after tax of $22.9m compared with $49.7m for the same reporting period last year. ⌘ Read more

My Food Bag lifts profit and revenue as board weighs possible sale
Listed meal-kit company My Food Bag has reported revenue growth of 6.2% for the second half of the 2026 financial year.

In an NZX announcement on Thursday, My Food Bag (MFB) announced a net profit after tax of $6.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. ⌘ Read more

Turners Automotive Group beats guidance but flags Iran War impact
Retail auto group Turners says it’s pulling from its covid playbook to navigate softer consumer demand as a result of the US/Israel War with Iran.

The company posted a strong result for the year to March 31 on Thursday, with profit rising in its core automotive divisions and a record fourth quarter performance. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Thursday, May 21
Which vitamin improves the eye`s ability to see in the dark?
In which country did the dance the fandango originate?
Which book, written by Alice Walker, was made into a 1985 film starring Whoopi Goldberg?
What is the largest inland sea in the world?
What is Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, based on an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic, called?
Who had a hit single with Crocodile Rock in 1972?
Where was Warren Buffett born in the US? Ohio, Nebraska or Kent … ⌘ Read more`

OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO very soon
By Corrie Driebusch, Annamaria Andriots and Berber Jin

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has been working with bankers to prepare to file for an initial public offering in the coming days or weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. ⌘ Read more

Argosy profit edges up as dividend, possible buyback in focus
Argosy Property has posted steady annual results, with solid gains in occupancy, rental growth, and leasing activity, while management adjusted key settings to maintain the on-target dividend.

“The portfolio has actually performed reasonably well,” chief executive Peter Mence said, going on to express caution about the return of “non-productive imported inflation” courtesy of the Iran War. ⌘ Read more

Software startup Factor bursts out of Taiawa tech hub into the big time
Wellington technology hub Taiawa is celebrating the first exit of one of its in-house startup companies in a $24 million deal announced this week.

The day before BusinessDesk visited Taiawa, NZ company Gentrack revealed it was acquiring Taiawa’s resident startup Factor for $ … ⌘ Read more

The Government’s billion-dollar frigate question
Sailing from Wellington Harbour on Wednesday morning was a 5,500-tonne example of what could be a multibillion-dollar Budget item for the Government in the coming decade.

The 130m-long JS Kumano, a Japanese Mogami-class frigate built for stealth with flat steel panels and few distinguishable features other than a sensor-filled mast and 54-calibre cannon at its bow, spent four days tied up at Wellington’s wharf this week. ⌘ Read more

Space Mafia: How orbital AI changes everything
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to the data centres of Silicon Valley or the cloud regions dotted around the world. ⌘ Read more

Compass school lunches: one in three meals going to waste, survey shows
Schools reported throwing out nearly a third of Compass Group lunches late last year, as satisfaction with the supplier fell to its lowest point since the school lunch programme’s revamp.

On Friday, Associate Education Minister David Seymour … ⌘ Read more

Tackling the future workforce challenge
Some of the biggest challenges posed by the rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence have to be tackled in areas related to workforce management.

“Nowadays, we are experiencing the greatest change in work since the Industrial Revolution,” Deloitte’s talent and experience leader, Alexandra (Sasha) Kozlova, said at a Techweek26 panel in Wellington on Wednesday morning. ⌘ Read more

Direct flights, culture, and story all key to premium tourism for NZ, says luxury travel exec
The premium tourist may want many things, but one thing they don’t want is to waste time, the operations head of a global travel network specialising in luxury travel tells BusinessDesk.

Michael Londregan, senior vice president of globa … ⌘ Read more

Pro bono should be an obligation, not an option, lawyers say
Laura Scampion, managing partner at DLA Piper New Zealand, says pro bono should be viewed “as an obligation, not an option” as NZ’s first structured pro bono framework exceeds targets.

Te Ara Ture’s Framework for Collaborative Pro Bono in Aotearoa (the Framework) released its inaugural report on Thursday, finding that participating firms exceeded the target of free legal work. ⌘ Read more

Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX
One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering. ⌘ Read more

[$] What is to be done about MGLRU?
“Reclaim” is the task of finding memory that can be taken away from its
current user and put to better uses within the system; it is a core part of
the memory-management picture. The addition of the multi-generational LRU (MGLRU) was meant to
provide a better reclaim implementation than the “traditional LRU” that
preceded it, but MGLRU has complicated the situation instead. No fewer than
three memory-management-track sessions at the 2026 [Linux Storage,\
Filesyst … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libpng, nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, and ruby:3.3), Debian (gnutls28 and linux-6.1), Fedora (dnsmasq, kernel, keylime-agent-rust, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, python-pysam, python-urllib3, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-ingredients, rust-oo7-cli, rust-rpki, rust-sevctl, and rust-tealdeer), Mageia (bind), Oracle (bind, giflib, gimp:2.8, kernel, libpng, rsync, ruby, and vim), Slackware (haveged and mozilla), SUSE (cockpit, dnsmasq, e … ⌘ Read more

[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit
The OpenPGP Email Summit is
an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related
topics. The tenth\
installment of this meeting took place in March 2026 and the minutes
have now been published. As usual, a wide range of topics were
discussed. Highlights included support for post-quantum cryptography
(PQC) with multiple actors planning roll … ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket whipsaws again, down over 1.6%
The normally stable energy sector stumbled after a large parcel of shares in Contact was put up for sale, and the New Zealand sharemarket fell more than 1.5% in a broad sell-off.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index was on a downward slide throughout the day and closed at 12,761.03, down 213.29 points or 1.64% – its lowest level in nearly seven weeks. ⌘ Read more

Beck wins legal battle to be reinstated as Heart of the City CEO
Heart of the City chief executive Viv Beck has won a legal challenge against the board of the Auckland city centre business association, which found she had an “arguable case” that she was “unjustifiably suspended” over a range of alleged governance and behavioural issues.

An Employment Relations Authority (ERA) decision dated May 15 orders the HOTC board to reinstate Beck as CEO on an inte … ⌘ Read more

From dispute to deal: Mevo acquired by car-share rival Carbn
New Zealand car-share business Mevo has been acquired by the company it was in a dispute with, after being tipped into liquidation this month, owing $4.3 million.

Carbn Group acquired the business assets of Mevo and plans to relaunch a Wellington-only model initially, keeping the Mevo brand. ⌘ Read more

Craigs adds Hamilton Hindin Greene in regional wealth push
Craigs Investment Partners has agreed to acquire Christchurch wealth management firm Hamilton Hindin Greene, continuing its expansion through acquisitions of regional advisory firms.

The deal will add Hamilton Hindin Greene’s investment advisers to Craigs and lift its Christchurch and Rangiora advisory team from 20 to 28. ⌘ Read more

California ‘rich dude’ fights $4.2m public beach access fine
By Jim Carlton

John Levy jnr built his dream home by a lagoon overlooking the Pacific Ocean and turned it into a private retreat he christened “Levyland,” complete with his own pickleball court. ⌘ Read more

Siren Gold’s Golden Bay mining application is declined
Siren Gold’s application to mine for gold in Golden Bay has been rejected, it announced on May 20.

The application was not on the fast-track approvals process and was declined by New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZPaM), a division of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) ⌘ Read more

Duncan McFarlane named new Icehouse chair
Icehouse has announced the appointment of Duncan McFarlane as its new chair, succeeding David Downs.

McFarlane, the founder of Indevin Group, New Zealand’s largest wine producer and exporter, will assume his new role on June 1. ⌘ Read more

Napier Port lifts dividend, reaffirms guidance despite headwinds
Napier Port lifted its interim dividend by 31% and is upbeat about the second half despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Directors declared a fully imputed interim dividend of 5.25 cents per share versus 4 cents per share in the same period a year earlier, it said in its half-year report on Wednesday. ⌘ Read more

Rockit Global signs Chinese star Wang Yibo to boost apple sales in China
Rockit Global has enlisted the services of influential Chinese celebrity Wang Yibo to promote its miniature apples in China.

The move represents one of the most significant brand plays the business has made to date, Rockit Global said. ⌘ Read more

Serko outlook lifts as AI travel tools offset Middle East war war
Serko’s chief executive says the corporate travel company is weathering the travel disruptions caused by the US and Israeli war with Iran surprisingly well, recording a “very strong” final quarter despite the global volatility.

Serko on Wednesday reported a 34% increase in total income to $120.9 million in the 12 months ended March 31, 2026, compared with $90.5m a year earlier. ⌘ Read more