Power prices easing but investment risks remain, Infrastructure Commission says
New Zealand’s electricity problem is no longer the cost of building renewables, but whether the market has enough confidence, competition and backup capacity to build new supply fast enough, the Infrastructure Commission says.

A new report from Te Waihanga, Shifting currents: Energy infrastructure in transition, says the market has been out of balance since 2019, with … ⌘ Read more

Starlux Airline to link Auckland and Taiwan via Sydney from 2027
Auckland Airport is set to gain a new Asia connection in 2027, with Taiwanese carrier Starlux Airlines planning a Sydney-Taipei service that will include an onward extension to Auckland.

A Sydney Airport press release said Sydney would be the first airport in Australia to welcome Starlux. Flight schedules were being finalised, with further details to be announced shortly, it said. ⌘ Read more

Rua Bioscience takes coal to Newcastle, New Talisman, Burger Fuel has beef, and more
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Paul Naske is in Berlin. ⌘ Read more

Zespri crowns bumper year with Supreme title at China Business Awards
Zespri has taken out the Supreme award at the China Business Awards.

The kiwifruit export company also won the large business category for Trade between NZ and China. ⌘ Read more

Running Claude Code Offline on an M3 Pro with Qwen3.6
Article URL: https://har-ki.github.io/claude-code-sre-handbook/handbook/06-air-gapped/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492579

Points: 4

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The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfApUobqN8Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491670

Points: 7

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Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/amazon-says-its-data-centers-use-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491253

Points: 14

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Homebrew 6.0.0 released
Version\
6.0.0 of the Homebrew
package-management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the introduction of tap trust to improve
supply-chain security, improvements in sandboxing on Linux, a number
of performance tweaks, and many other changes.

See the changelog
for a full list. LWN covered Ho … ⌘ Read more

[$] Automatic mTHP creation in 7.2
The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve
performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge
pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only
offers a couple of relatively large options. In more recent times, though,
the use of multi-size transparent huge pages (mTHPs), with more flexible
sizing implemented in software, has been growing. If all goes well, the
7.2 development cycle will include the addition of [a new feature](h … ⌘ Read more

Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Article URL: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-spring/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490715

Points: 7

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MapComplete – Contibute to OpenStreetMaps
Article URL: https://mapcomplete.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490532

Points: 5

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Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/botsitting-ai-hidden-human-labor-at-work-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490057

Points: 9

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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, podman, poppler, and postgresql-jdbc), Debian (chromium, jackson-core, libdbi-perl, and libinput), Fedora (httpd, rust, and xmlstarlet), Mageia (openssh, postfix, and roundcubemail), Oracle (frr, kernel, libyang, n, postgresql-jdbc, and unbound), Red Hat (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, redis, and redis:7), SUSE (agama-web-ui, cockpit, cosign, glibc, google-cloud-sap-agent, google-osconfig-agent, kan … ⌘ Read more

More AI-generated code doesn’t make your team faster. It might slow you
Article URL: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/2064449711155589396

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489835

Points: 19

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Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May
Article URL: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489655

Points: 20

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Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist
Article URL: https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489402

Points: 11

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Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01796-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488901

Points: 7

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HTML is a native image format, hear me out
Article URL: https://hmml.eddocu.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488553

Points: 7

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Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Article URL: https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487897

Points: 8

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Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487435

Points: 6

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Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029

Points: 16

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Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth
Article URL: https://github.com/justhamade/triadjs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486577

Points: 3

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OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486486

Points: 7

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NZ sharemarket down as Iran conflict saps confidence
New Zealand’s sharemarket closed lower as concerns over the US-Iran conflict combined with inflation worries and jitters from a Nasdaq tech sell-off to spook local investors.

At the close, the S&P/NZX 50 was down 51.49 points, or 0.39%, at 13,202.16. ⌘ Read more

Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/are-insecure-code-completions-a-vulnerability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485160

Points: 5

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Renewables surge but power bills still climb
Renewable generation supplied almost 95% of New Zealand’s electricity in the March quarter, but household electricity costs and fuel prices still rose as the wider energy system remained exposed to gas decline and global fuel-market disruption.

The latest Energy Quarterly from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) showed renewables generated 94.5% of all electricity in the three months to March, up from 83.2% in the … ⌘ Read more

Payee checks expanded as scam prevention grows
The banking sector’s confirmation of payee system is being extended by the Anti-Scam Alliance to cover fintechs and other non-bank providers, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer says.

“This work complements changes to the Fair Trading Act so online service providers can move faster to pull down suspected scam content before people get burned,” Brewer said. ⌘ Read more

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484584

Points: 17

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing.

• Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 2026.05; Ubuntu MATE; rsync 3.4.4; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, securit … ⌘ Read more

Aws.com and google.com don’t have DNSSEC enabled
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/acetousk/3c17d2aefde9175ffef21a8ec4673053

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484475

Points: 5

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Deficient executive control in transformer attention
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/6/pgag149/8698838

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484282

Points: 3

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Unix GC Remastered
Article URL: https://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/unix_new_gc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483854

Points: 6

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US President says ‘I love the inflation’
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/trump-inflation-cpi-iran-oil.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483445

Points: 6

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Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free
Article URL: https://news.immunologic.org/p/organic-foods-are-not-healthieror

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482955

Points: 3

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QuiznessDesk, Thursday, June 11
The official New Zealand coat of arms includes a Māori Chieftain and a European woman. What colour is the ta moko (permanent face marking) and the earring on the chieftain?
Who is film star Warren Beatty’s famous sister?
The title of which Charles Dickens novel is also the name of a famous American magician?
Rob Sering hosted the Night Gallery, but was more famous for hosting which other sci-fi series?
Founded in 1869, which university, home to “Scarfies,” is the … ⌘ Read more

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482293

Points: 6

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The Abundance Illusion
Article URL: https://www.carlyle.com/carlyle-compass/the-abundance-illusion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481524

Points: 7

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Policy on the AI Exponential
Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480719

Points: 3

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Warmer Kiwi Homes insulation funding scheme up in the air
An $80 million government scheme helping low-income families insulate their homes looks set for the chop, after no more money was allocated to it in the Budget.

Warmer Kiwi Homes was set up in 2018 under the Labour Government and provides grants covering up to 90% of the cost of insulation and heating for eligible homes. ⌘ Read more

The jets are cool, but inflation keeps coming
One of the perils of living within a fractured political and geopolitical environment is that the next crisis is seemingly always just around the corner.

This came through very clearly in a recent survey commissioned by telco 2degrees, the Shaping Business Study, which appeared to show many business owners had gi … ⌘ Read more

Bees have a new RNA weapon against varroa parasites
Beekeepers could have a new weapon in the toolkit against the varroa parasite after years of testing by New Zealand scientists.

The results come at a time when hive losses from the varroa mite are surging again. ⌘ Read more

March quarter GDP will show 2026 started well
The conflict in the Middle East began at the end of February but economists say the impact on growth is unlikely to hit until the second quarter.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s May monetary policy statement forecasts 1% growth for the March quarter. ⌘ Read more

IPO hopeful BlackBull Markets: global footprint, surging numbers and complaints to FMA laid bare
BlackBull Markets is lining up a potential IPO, backed by explosive growth in revenue and trading volumes.

But the pitch could be tempered by client complaints to the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) over withdrawals, tr … ⌘ Read more

View from the top: Agricultural leaders upbeat at Fieldays
A frosty 1C sunrise at Mystery Creek did little to deter the mood among the who’s who of the primary sector at day one of Fieldays.

The national four-day agricultural event kicked off on Wednesday, with leaders across the sector and politicians turning up to mingle with each other and farmers. ⌘ Read more

The Business of Tech: AI v public sector jobs
The Government’s plan to cut 8,700 public sector jobs and save $2.4 billion has been framed largely as a brutal cost‑cutting exercise. ⌘ Read more

Ford NZ books $25m tax bill after IRD settles dispute with US authorities
Ford Motor Company New Zealand has paid $25 million in tax after Inland Revenue and US tax authorities settled a dispute over the handling of the car importer’s income.

A financial statement published by Ford’s NZ operations on Tuesday shows the years-long dispute over its tax payments had been resolved, resulting in a $25m tax bill and a $4.7m loss for the year to Dec 31. ⌘ Read more

Textbooks Should Be Free
Article URL: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479177

Points: 15

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Larson: Are insecure code completions a vulnerability?
Seth Larson, the Python Software Foundation’s security\
developer-in-residence, has written\
about the difficulty in classifying insecure code completion in
the PyCharm IDE using
its Full\
Line code completion plugin. … ⌘ Read more

The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932)
Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27462/27462-h/27462-h.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478285

Points: 3

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GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fcj3088jg1wx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477851

Points: 13

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