[$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things
autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate
code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about\
rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly
rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways:
reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even
persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the [Anaco … ⌘ Read more

Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476751

Points: 5

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Buildroot 2026.05 released
Version\
2026.05 of the Buildroot tool
has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the process of
building embedded Linux systems using cross-compilation. Notable
changes in this release include support for Arm Neoverse cores,
addition of XFS rootfs generation, as well as many package updates and
bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file f … ⌘ Read more

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466

Points: 4

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I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys
Article URL: https://danq.me/2026/06/09/fn-keys/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475938

Points: 28

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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (poppler), Debian (dnsmasq, mistral, okular, openssl, poppler, and strongswan), Fedora (exim, firefox, pcs, putty, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (freeciv, golang-x-net, jq, libssh, libxmp, libxpm, minetest, ruby-net-ssh, tor, and wireshark), SUSE (389-ds, ack, agama-web-ui, amazon-ssm-agent, avahi, dpkg, elemental-register, elemental-system-agent, elemental-toolkit, ggml-devel-9500, go1.25, go1.26, kernel, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, … ⌘ Read more

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Article URL: https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483

Points: 25

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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
Article URL: https://jivx.com/eki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475100

Points: 7

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Port React Compiler to Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473662

Points: 5

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Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Article URL: https://media.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/bebac2af-acdc-465a-9538-adb0bf3d8ccf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472877

Points: 5

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NZ investors worry over Iran conflict as NZ sharemarket rises slightly
Another late rise moved the New Zealand sharemarket into positive territory as Middle East tensions continued to simmer and unsettle investors.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index hit an intraday low of 13,107.72 before climbing to close at 13,253.65, up 49.56 points or 0.38%. ⌘ Read more

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970

Points: 17

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Élevage industriel: une législation protectrice de l’animal bafouée depuis 50 ans
Pour les cinquante ans de l’adoption de l’article L214, qui dispose que l’élevage doit respecter les «impératifs biologiques» des animaux, reconnus comme des «êtres sensibles», l’association homonyme dresse un bilan accablant de l’action de l’État, qui n’a cessé de piétiner ce droit pour favoriser l’agrobusiness. ⌘ Read more

Waikato’s Sanctuary Mountain dominates global biodiversity credit sales
Biodiversity credits from New Zealand’s Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari made up 43% of sales in a global biodiversity market in May.

Sanctuary Mountain operates NZ’s largest predator-free fence in the Waikato and has started selling biod … ⌘ Read more

Kiwibank rolls out Startup+ finance programme full time after one-year pilot
Kiwibank is rolling out its loan scheme for startup businesses after a one-year pilot attracted three times the expected interest.

Startup+ allows eligible borrowers to access up to $450,000 of lending, up from $150,000 for the pilot launched last June. ⌘ Read more

The Evolution of ‘More Like This’
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470975

Points: 4

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German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
Article URL: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248](https://n … ⌘ Read more

Government puts up $51m to push adoption of on-farm methane technologies
The Government is launching a $51 million Early Adoption Accelerator to push take-up of on-farm methane reduction technology.

The lack of incentives was a major talking point at the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference in Wellington in late April. ⌘ Read more

Genesis takes Unit 5 offline as hydro storage lifts
Genesis Energy is shutting down its 400-megawatt Huntly Unit 5 from July 1 to Dec 31 to make gas available to commercial and industrial users.

It is another sign the sector believes it will get through winter without an energy shortfall, given high hydro storage levels and the exist … ⌘ Read more

New Zealand invests $143m in agricultural productivity
The New Zealand government has announced a $143 million investment in six commercial projects aimed at optimising land use and boosting productivity in the food and fibre sector.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay highlighted the importance of the sector, which accounts for over 80% of the country’s exports. ⌘ Read more

Starlink shifts hardware from one-time purchase to $10/month rental
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/starlink-takes-page-from-cable-firms-with-10-monthly-rental-fee-for-hardware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469459

Points: 12

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AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice
Article URL: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ai-misidentification-results-wrongful-arrest-man-seeks-justice/I7UQJWV33FBN3LMKHCSXI6FIVA/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468789

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766

Points: 6

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QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, June 10
Where in your body would you find the anvil and the stirrup?
On the Beaufort Scale of wind speed, what comes after a fresh breeze?
Who shared a Nobel prize in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for his discovery of the antibiotic penicillin?
In which year were Oscars first awarded for supporting actors and actresses? 1936, 1956 or 1976?
Kiwi country guy Keith Urban had a big hit single that name-dropped three Johns: John Cougar, John 3:16, and … ⌘ Read more

Exif Smuggling
Article URL: https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467759

Points: 5

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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570

Points: 19

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Google’s 20% ‘project’ has become AI’s 120% ‘attention’
Article URL: https://joe.dev/posts/new-20pct-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466917

Points: 5

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Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Article URL: https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466277

Points: 9

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Future of Ubuntu MATE
Thomas Ward has published
an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a
26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in
April:

There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to
help take over flavor management. They haven’t formally introduced
themselves yet, but I can safe … ⌘ Read more

[$] Eliminating long-lived credentials with trusted publishing
Trusted\
publishing is an authentication mechanism that relies on
short-lived credentials to reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. At
the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America, Mike Fiedler walked the audience
through why trusted publishing exists, how it works, and made the case
for its adoption. … ⌘ Read more

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
Article URL: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464330

Points: 3

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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140

Points: 8

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Govt proposes electricity sector dry-year insurance rules
The Government has effectively declared that the electricity market has failed to manage dry-year risk, proposing to force the country’s largest electricity retailers and generators to secure firm winter energy cover in advance or face penalties of up to 10% of turnover.

Energy Minister Simeon Brown is consulting on a new two-layer “winter energy reliability obligation”, which would sit alongside the [Governmen … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI files to go public in test of investor appetite for top AI startups
By Corrie Driebusch and Berber Jin

OpenAI, which kick-started the artificial-intelligence boom with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, is officially preparing to stage an initial public offering that will test investor appetite for AI companies. ⌘ Read more

Eroad chair ‘part of solution, not problem’, NZSA says
Eroad executive chair John Scott has the tentative backing of the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association as the NZX-listed company’s largest shareholder seeks his ouster.

Shareholders of fleet management technology company Eroad are weighing a challenge to the board by New York-based Ampfield Managemen … ⌘ Read more

Global food automation surge drives new contracts for Scott Technology
Automation in global food production is accelerating, and manufacturers seeking to stay competitive must scale, Scott Technology’s chief executive, Mike Christman, says.

The NZX-listed company announced this week that it had secured “several” contracts within its Material Handling and Logistics (MHL) business across Europe and North America, with a total value of over $12 milli … ⌘ Read more

The world comes to Mystery Creek
There is a “growing appetite” for international delegations to use Fieldays as a place to learn about New Zealand’s agricultural sector, its chief executive says.

The national four-day event, which starts in Hamilton on Wednesday, is set to have 73 international exhibitors, up from 66 last year, from countries such as Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. ⌘ Read more

Trans-Tasman AI: what we could build together
When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met his Australian opposite, Anthony Albanese, over the weekend in Queensland, the talk predictably drifted to rugby, trade and the usual geopolitical irritants.

This time, however, artificial intelligence was on the agenda – and that’s exactly where it needs to stay. ⌘ Read more

Software and overseas-focused firms got biggest director pay increases in NZX50
New Zealand’s listed software firms and those with large overseas footprints have had the biggest increases in director fees over the past decade, bucking a trend in which fees for a third of NZX50 companies declined in real terms.

Experts say the measured remuneration le … ⌘ Read more

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]
Article URL: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463811

Points: 41

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Claude Fable 5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808

Points: 113

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Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commission-says-2026-06-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463024

Points: 20

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Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
Article URL: https://biffweb.com/p/core/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463018

Points: 10

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‘Sloppenheimer:’ Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/sloppenheimer-amazon-employees-mock-the-companys-ai-on-slack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462823

Points: 43

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Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462156

Points: 5

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Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462062

Points: 4

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Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta
The Asahi Linux project,
which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned\
its users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 “Golden Gate”
beta.

Apple has changed how the boot picker and Startup Disk applications
detect valid OS boot volumes. When using either from macOS 27, your
Asahi partition will not be visible! We believe this to be a bug, and
have filed a report (FB2 … ⌘ Read more

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
Article URL: https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461226

Points: 5

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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner’s $4B Resort Triggers’Flamingo Revolution’
Article URL: https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461012](https://news. … ⌘ Read more

[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution
The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of
statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its
history, but its fundamental approach to simple for loops has not
changed.
When it encounters a loop, it evaluates it, iteration by iteration, until reaching
an exit condition — a process that can cause the verifier to mistakenly hit the
limit on the number of allowed instructions where a better implementation
would not.
Edua … ⌘ Read more