[{"id":"0f0dfadc75a06c15","title":"Tidal AI Policy","link":"https://tidal.com/ai-policy","author":"hn8726","published_at":"2026-06-29T13:09:03+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://tidal.com/ai-policy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tidal AI Policy</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>201 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718840\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">231 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n&gt; Tidal will accept AI-generated music.<p>&gt; Tidal will hold AI-generated music to a higher standard of content integrity. We will not tolerate AI-generated music that exploits an individual’s or group’s music, name or likeness, deceives listeners, or diminishes the quality of our service.</p><p>I think this is a very reasonable approach, and probably also the best way to treat AI-powered copyright infringement as a whole. Just like we don't penalize artists for consuming content unless they produce actually infringing content, we should set the same focus for AI systems.</p><p>&gt; Starting today, AI-generated music will not be monetizable. We are only in the beginning of the era of AI-generated music.</p><p>Don't really agree that this follows from the stated principle here (\"... ensuring royalties go to original works produced, written and performed by people\"), but will definitely help with spam etc.\n— fxwin\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":201,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"7381e6da2f5f9610","title":"Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it","link":"https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/","author":"taubek","published_at":"2026-06-29T09:28:08+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>698 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716902\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">95 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nAh, yes, you know someone's desperate when you see a bogus DMCA claim like this. Not the first time this happened and definitely won't be the last.<p>This also demonstrates why it is bad for a law to mandate private entities to do moderation, in this case taking down copyright infringement materials when reported. Google, like basically all big platforms, doesn't care if a claim is fraudulent because the parties impacted cannot hold it accountable — google  will just tell you they are themselves victims of the fraudulent claim. And to be fair, they are. But it has to enforce the claims or else lose its safe harbor exemption. This practically allows bad actors to use platforms as their shields, and in the end no one but the victim suffers any consequences for their abuse of the copyright laws.</p><p>I think a more  sane approach would to require every copyright takedown to require a court order. Granted, the legal system is not perfect, but judges are not incentivized to always side with the supposed copyright holder like online platforms do. They will not be letting someone claiming to be living on a deserted island to file a claim and even when fraud does occur, they will at least know where the claim is actually coming from and be able to punish the fraudster accordingly.\n— pibaker\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":698,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"9a2978a0347f7edf","title":"Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?","link":"https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/","author":"DR_MING","published_at":"2026-06-29T08:58:09+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>199 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716634\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n&gt; The specific reason for the retractions was copyright violation, so there was nothing wrong with the actual papers from a scientific standpoint.<p>There is a reason why the German portmanteau word \"Zensurheberrecht\" (\"Zensur\": censorship; \"Urheberrecht\": the related concept to copyright in German law) exists.\n— aleph_minus_one\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":199,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"8ff3a3a95d4d472b","title":"Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech","link":"https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026","author":"arkhiver","published_at":"2026-06-29T03:42:07+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>285 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">154 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIf we taught systems thinking in schools things like internet age verification would never get past being an idea on the back of a napkin. People struggle to consider the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of <i>anything</i> so asking them to consider what <i>else</i> might happen if we bring in laws and technical mechanisms to 'protect the children' is unfortunately too a big leap for a lot of them. Most people are bad at spotting causal links between parts of a system, and people who are good at it exploit that.\n— onion2k\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":858,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1208e6c1299f5b85","title":"HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88","link":"https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats","author":"sambellll","published_at":"2026-06-29T01:44:40+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>235 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">54 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nAn alarming number of people don't understand that LLMs work via purely stochastic processes, so I'm happy to see in-depth pieces like this. I'm looking for a job and maybe this is why it's so hard to get a callback these days: resumes are just dumped in some LLM black hole and no one really knows how it works. The author says:<p>&gt; temperature 0.1 — low, supposedly nudging the model toward deterministic outputs</p><p>This is <i>not</i> correct (and is briefly touched on later in the piece when he sets temperature to 0), temperature is not some kind of \"deterministic\" switch, but rather it affects the sampling <i>distribution</i> (which becomes more \"spiky\"—but is still very much a distribution).\n— dvt\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":827,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"c2b1c9540037ca7a","title":"Librepods: AirPods liberated","link":"https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods","author":"rbanffy","published_at":"2026-06-28T18:48:53+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Librepods: AirPods liberated</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>243 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710232\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nTo clarify because this is confusing: The AirPods work as regular old BlueTooth earbuds on other devices already. This is an implementation of some of the extra features and interfaces that are integrated into Apple products.\n— Aurornis\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":456,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"747d7214b6efb31b","title":"Historical memory prices 1960-2026","link":"https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html","author":"vga1","published_at":"2026-06-28T18:32:53+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Historical memory prices 1960-2026</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>268 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">94 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nSays, not inflation-adjusted. With reason; adjusting those 1960-1980 prices for inflation would make the graph a lot taller.<p>Pricing \"per GB\" before 1990 is unrealistic, though; nobody thought in GB or purchased GB quantities, or conceived of GB systems. I remember a moment circa 1973 when I saw an IBM CE about to do an upgrade on a 370 system at Cal Berkeley. He had a box with several carefully-packed, large circuit boards. \"So, is that a megabyte?\" I asked. \"Yup, that's a meg.\"\n— fernly\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":383,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5da0c3ac586fc29c","title":"GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks","link":"https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/","author":"jms703","published_at":"2026-06-28T17:50:47+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>338 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">157 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI have taken another look on these open models after the fiasco of Fable and GPT 5.6 this weekend and... GLM-5.2 truly is a good workhorse model for daily programming. I consider myself a heavy user of LLMs and a seasoned developer. A typical session for me with GPT is usually over a hundred dollars...<p>This weekend I programmed a matrix bot with encryption and a Rust agent with some tools. Because I need one and OpenClaw just felt... not what I wanted. Two days later and 20 dollars poorer I have what I need: a multimodal agent written in rust that has access to my homelab.</p><p>Nothing felt off with GLM. It did what I wanted, was fast, had a decent not very annoying personality and was much cheaper than Opus or GPT.</p><p>I used it unquantized through Fireworks, but there are multiple other providers too.\n— pimeys\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":1040,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"a4355f30d3360d0f","title":"Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown","link":"https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html","author":"geox","published_at":"2026-06-28T16:41:12+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>367 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">486 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIn the AI era, tests are going to have to be in person and hand written.<p>I have written an article on how I have adjusted my classes to the situation:</p><p><a href=\"https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/</a></p><p>Ironically, I think the AI era may make university degrees a better signal of the intellectual abilities of students due to the presence of pre-computer infrastructure like large lecture halls, industrial-scale copiers, etc.\n— recursivedoubts\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":506,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d0f9b8e98e4bc1f3","title":"I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI","link":"https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus","author":"engmarketer","published_at":"2026-06-28T16:35:19+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>308 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">418 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI'm a radiologist but can't really weigh in without seeing the full 3D MRI dataset. Regarding this point:<p>&gt; They performed shockwave therapy on my shoulder even though a recent clinical practice guideline says clinicians should not use or recommend shockwave therapy for rotator-cuff tendinopathy without calcification; I was told during ultrasound that there was no calcification.</p><p>Ultrasound isn't a great way to assess for calcification. It'll find large calcification but easily miss small ones. Plain radiograph would be more helpful, but the MRI may have revealed it as well. Either way, shockwave therapy isn't harmful in the absence of calcification--it's just not helpful.</p><p>Edit: when a radiology report says something isn't present, there's always an implicit caveat that the finding isn't present within the context of the modality and images obtained. So an ultrasound report can state there are no calcifications while a plain radiograph can report the presence of calcifications without being inconsistent. Obviously very confusing to patients and people unfamiliar with medical jargon, but clarifying this in reports would make them sound even more qualified, \"hedgey\", and annoying to read than they already are.\n— sxg\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":533,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1b020355a84ab062","title":"Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing","link":"https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing","author":"theahura","published_at":"2026-06-28T16:24:10+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>183 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708795\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">269 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nFolks have been saying “things are different now, the agents are now compounding success instead of error” for at least a year now, but I just don’t see it. I was lucky enough to receive a weeklong $50k per head AI training from the people saying these things, and one of their few helpful concrete recommendations was to constantly clear context all the time, to avoid things going off the rails.<p>However, I think finding security vulnerabilities is one use case where it doesn’t matter. Tokenmaxxing is absolutely effective for that. We as an industry are in the middle of adopting very expensive, complex continuous fuzzers.\n— et1337\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":183,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b7c156c9e5f9b1c1","title":"Show HN: Zanagrams","link":"https://zanagrams.com/","author":"pompomsheep","published_at":"2026-06-28T15:26:14+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://zanagrams.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Show HN: Zanagrams</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>255 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">58 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIt’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.<p><a href=\"https://www.puzzmo.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.puzzmo.com</a>\n— jasonpeacock\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":359,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5d9c6f3b70b45892","title":"Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers","link":"https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/","author":"cebert","published_at":"2026-06-28T14:46:03+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>229 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707769\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">173 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nThere's a weird incuriosity in the responses here for a place that calls itself Hacker News. \"This doesn't happen to me\" is about the least interesting or useful response you could have to someone telling you something happens to them. Someone is telling you the world works differently for them than it does for you, which means you've got an opportunity to learn something new about the world and expand your model. Every good hack comes from understanding the world well enough to see the hack in the first place - someone telling you about their lived experience of the world is a gift.\n— roughly\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":270,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"6e9c2a3096f42677","title":"5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)","link":"https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/","author":"xbryanx","published_at":"2026-06-28T14:44:56+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)</a></p>\n<a href=\"https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/</a>\n\n\n<p><small>311 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">83 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nAnyone interested in this might also like the tidbit that in Germany, they used to, and still count beer consumed as pencil strikes on the beer paper mat. Altering the number by the guest is legally considered forgery and the disappearance of the beer mat is also punishable by law.<p><a href=\"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierdeckel#Urkundencharakter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierdeckel#Urkundencharakter</a> (in German, English wiki doesn't have this info)\n— ricardobayes\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":397,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f81ea309c378622f","title":"EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors","link":"https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/","author":"NeutralForest","published_at":"2026-06-28T14:40:13+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>259 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">154 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nThe global push to kill privacy makes me sad.<p>Feels like I grew up in a golden age and subsequent generations won't care because they never knew a different world\n— Havoc\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":703,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"95fc7ed235c6d0aa","title":"Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast","link":"https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/","author":"SanjayMehta","published_at":"2026-06-28T14:35:26+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>206 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707673\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">114 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIt's legal for any random citizen to build one of these surveillance networks, right?\n— microgpt\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":383,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"244391de03ab0e0c","title":"The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)","link":"https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/","author":"colinprince","published_at":"2026-06-28T12:44:24+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>200 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706814\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">68 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI believe the fact that Polish uses the Latin alphabet (with a small Slavic twist to express the extra sounds) meant it was much easier for Poland to align itself westward. I think the average Pole is much closer culturally to the Western neighbours than to a Ukrainian or Russian (maybe apart from cuisine).\n— quibono\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":250,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"91f15d1e1cd7fa15","title":"A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex","link":"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847","author":"pikseladam","published_at":"2026-06-28T12:27:33+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>222 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706714\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">140 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nYou can do this now: change the file permissions such that the user you run codex as can't read them, or run codex in a container without those files mounted.<p>If you don't do that, the agent will be able to incidentally upload them. What if the model runs \"rg foo\", and one of those files contains the string \"foo\"? It uploads the tool output, which includes the file contents.</p><p>And so, the only solution is to make it so the codex process is unable to access those files, hence using a container, or unix permissions, or deleting the files. Which you can already do.</p><p>I imagine this isn't resolved primarily because people expect it to apply to bash tool use, not just the \"read\" and \"edit\" tools, and people also expect those files to still be accessible i.e. if the agent invokes \"make\", which makes it impossible to solve perfectly.\n— TheDong\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":222,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d78028cd0c1876a2","title":"The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online","link":"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online","author":"bilsbie","published_at":"2026-06-28T11:56:16+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>273 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706560\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">241 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nWould this website (HN) be a \"covered platform\" according to the bill?<p>As far as I can tell, the answer is no, because it doesn't do what's described in Section 201 (E):</p><p>\"Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, market, or make content recommendations.\"</p><p>Neither does, for example, my bank's website, or someone's personal blog, or many other discussion sites like this one. So from what I can see, while the set of covered platforms is certainly not negligible, it's still a lot smaller than \"basically every website on the Internet that anyone cares about\". So the title of the EFF article is overstating the case; the thing the bill would require age checks for (in effect, if not by the explicit language of the bill) is not \"get online\" but something more like \"get on social media\".\n— pdonis\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":603,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"b055e9b62f69c7d4","title":"Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly","link":"https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html","author":"speckx","published_at":"2026-06-28T03:09:13+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>199 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703968\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">123 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nGet ready for this to become a common theme. Boardrooms are still engaged in the fever-dream promise that AI will solve all their problems, particularly those involving pesky humans. The simple lesson of \"AI is another tool\" will be a hard-learned one. Some industries, such as software, will take more time to mop themselves into a corner before they discover that velocity should never be a first-class concern. Speed should only come as a side-effect of quality.\n— murphomatic\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":238,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"57c56fd9685124b8","title":"Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep","link":"https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep","author":"reaperducer","published_at":"2026-06-28T02:23:08+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>228 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703759\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">56 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nOne trick that makes me sleepy really fast: After I close my eyes, I imagine someone throwing black paint on them. The first coat is kinda gray and has lots of blob and not fully black. Then another coat. And another. Each one gets darker until it's just pure black and I'm usually asleep by then.<p>For some reason, my brain follows it, and I fall asleep much faster. It works way better for me than box breathing or most other sleep tricks I've seen. Sharing in case someone else finds this useful.\n— superasn\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":410,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d7ecf366d950dae7","title":"Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams","link":"https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief","author":"herbertl","published_at":"2026-06-28T01:28:10+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>175 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703452\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">98 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI agree.<p>This Robin Williams monologue nails exactly why LLMs make us so uneasy.</p><p>They speak fluently and confidently about experiences it’s impossible for them to have.  They can’t taste a strawberry or do any of the things Robin Williams names.</p><p>There are a number of people building these machines who literally believe the machines will replace us and because they will be more powerful than us so nothing meaningful will be lost.</p><p>They need to watch this clip.</p><p>Even though they probably still won’t understand it.\n— jimbokun\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":394,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d9710e67ae4af235","title":"Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C","link":"https://decomp-academy.dev","author":"jackpriceburns","published_at":"2026-06-28T01:21:20+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://decomp-academy.dev\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C</a></p>\nOver the past few months I've been heavily involved in the decompilation community. I've been hands-on decompiling a beloved game from my childhood (Star Fox Adventures). I started this journey with zero prior decomp experience—and to make things worse I had never really touched C nor assembly either.<p>Learning how to decompile was challenging. It's difficult to find any good learning resources for it and any open-source projects for this are inactive and/or contain little actual learning material.</p><p>So I put together Decomp Academy! Decomp Academy is an interactive way to learn how to decompile PowerPC assembly back into C. The site runs a live Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler, converts your C into assembly, and then checks how close your assembly matches the target. If even 1 instruction or bit is off, that's a fail. This is the gold standard for video game decompilation and this is much stricter than a normal decompile.</p><p>As of writing there are 250+ lessons on the site and the lessons start at the very basics so anyone with a little programming experience should be able to jump straight in, even if you're not a C expert. Some lessons also have real functions taken from live open source decomp projects (Star Fox Adventures, Mario Party 4, Pikmin, Metroid Prime). The idea being you learn everything you need to know to be able to jump in and contribute to a real decompilation project when done.</p><p>The site is completely free, open source and you have access to all lessons without having to sign up. All lessons are stored in markdown in the repo (src/curriculum), it's trivial to add or modify lessons. The site is very new and the lessons are rapidly changing every day with a whole C++ section on the way. The site has already been well received by the decomp community and I'm happy to share it with HN. I'm very keen on others to contribute to this project and I hope this becomes the best resource on the internet for learning the art of decompilation. Please let me know what you think!</p><p>Source: <a href=\"https://github.com/JackPriceBurns/decomp-academy-fe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/JackPriceBurns/decomp-academy-fe</a>\n\n\n</p><p><small>194 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703412\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">73 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI'd love it if there was some way to contribute to ongoing game decompilation projects, with a similarly streamlined web interface - it's something I'd be willing to dedicate some brain time to every so often, but setting up the toolchain etc. feels too much like work.<p>By the way, I was able to \"cheat\" on the second lesson with</p><p></p><pre><code>    void identity(void) { return; }\n</code></pre>\nI gave up at <a href=\"https://decomp-academy.dev/lesson/workflow-what-matching-means\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://decomp-academy.dev/lesson/workflow-what-matching-mea...</a> when I was presented with a wall of LLM-flavoured text\n— Retr0id\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":194,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"e5656a8e1a86a46c","title":"AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide","link":"https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md","author":"jakogut","published_at":"2026-06-28T00:46:52+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>208 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703258\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">62 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI have two 128gb Strix Halos and have been extremely excited about Antirez's (Redis author) work on DS4, especially with 4bit quant using two machines: <a href=\"https://github.com/antirez/ds4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/antirez/ds4</a><p>Right now the speed isn't good for GLM 5.2, Deepseek V4 Flash speed is okay for me (actually reading the output) and quite usable. See kyuz0's great recent video here: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKXm_mKCCM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKXm_mKCCM</a></p><p>With a bit more speed and model improvements, local AI becomes a reasonable practical thing! The biggest problem is all the tech companies making consumer hardware completely unaffordable, and I don't think this is accidental. Look at Micron's profits and share price lately...</p><p>I got my Strix machines for ~2k eur each, best computers this 90s kid has ever owned, but those days are gone :(\n— pixelpoet\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":229,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1d801eb252e8d4a7","title":"Choosing a Public DNS Resolver","link":"https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html","author":"pawal","published_at":"2026-06-27T22:11:28+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choosing a Public DNS Resolver</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>245 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702273\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">105 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nEvery time that this comes up, be it a general list like this or someone announcing a new service, my reaction, and that that I see of surprisingly many other people on Hacker News, is fairly unmoved.  I've run my own proxy DNS service for about a quarter of a century at this point, using three different sets of softwares on six different operating systems, and every single point on the filter tab is something that I can (and do) just do for myself.<p>The list is not so much interesting for the options that it presents, as far as I am concerned, but for the things that it reveals.  Every single entry that is explicitly marked 'China' also has 'operates under Chinese regulations'; which is, in 2026, something that is of concern for more than just the Chinese entries on the list, to people on my continent for starters.</p><p>'Run by one individual in Denmark.' is an interesting statement of bus factor, but I don't think that all of the other entries should be assumed to be better just because they are mute on the point.  There's far less information about who is behind DNS.Watch than there is about Thomas Steen Rasmussen.  And it appears that DNS.Watch went off the air at least once in recent years, so it is a legitimate concern.</p><p>Then there are all sorts of things not on this list that might matter to people, such as Quad101 looking like it has geographic restrictions on whom it is available to and Gcore being an AI company.\n— JdeBP\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":279,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"7297f2d6452490bb","title":"Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs","link":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-AA26Cusu","author":"littlexsparkee","published_at":"2026-06-27T21:44:57+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-AA26Cusu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>193 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702060\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">87 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nselectively giving away free money to big business is straight corruption. there is no other way to put it. everyone involved should lose re election and get investigated by the financial crimes unit.<p>but i dont think \"leave it up to the market\" is a better idea. investments like this just need to be transparent, open to everyone and set up strict punishment for stealing the money with prison for executives.</p><p>if they wanted to actually create jobs they would support small companies and set up open competitive programs based on project quality. or start a state investment bank giving super low interest loans so factories can expand without cutting profitable divisions like in china.\n— tancop\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":200,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"00a11f8c4d4bd9bb","title":"What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis","link":"https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis","author":"randycupertino","published_at":"2026-06-27T21:34:06+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>191 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701984\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">508 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI'd take them even if they didn't make me lose weight - and I'm the type of person that doesn't like takeing Tylenol unless absolutely necessary.<p>The best way I can describe it: my body and mind are no longer is in starvation mode. I plan, do, act and sleep well.\n— dirtbagskier\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":200,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"c8a3db9a2917e9a8","title":"'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence","link":"https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/meta-wynn-williams-surveillance-gag-order-lawsuit-2026/","author":"1vuio0pswjnm7","published_at":"2026-06-27T21:14:19+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/meta-wynn-williams-surveillance-gag-order-lawsuit-2026/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence</a></p>\n<a href=\"https://archive.ph/LqnaQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://archive.ph/LqnaQ</a>\n\n\n<p><small>184 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701822\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">77 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nMost of the related discussion today:<p><i>Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers</i></p><p><a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684</a>\n— ChrisArchitect\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":218,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"963e79b2c146ae96","title":"IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet","link":"https://ipcrawl.com/","author":"arm32","published_at":"2026-06-27T19:09:49+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://ipcrawl.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>201 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700834\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">110 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nPerhaps someone could have some fun with this...<p>Feeding faked looped security camera footage is a classic plot device in many films, and could make some good comedy!\n— bouncycastle\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":331,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"117aa30ec88d13be","title":"Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other","link":"https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/","author":"eustoria","published_at":"2026-06-27T17:11:20+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other</a></p>\nRelated: <i>Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites</i> - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608570 - June 2026 (166 comments)\n\n\n<p><small>205 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699928\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">87 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p></p><pre><code>    &gt; The goal wasn't to build another social network.\n    &gt; It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen.\n    &gt; Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. There are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. Messages exist only while people are there to read them.\n</code></pre>\nCute idea! But maybe this is just me having a different experience, but people having accounts/permanence was one of the defining “old web” feelings people keep talking about. A few people that were always in comment threads, or people with their own blogs linking back to you etc. People didn’t have the sign guestbooks with the same info every time, but they would anyway because they’re building up a persona. I get that you don’t want any social-media-y popularity contests, but… that is sort of what the web 30+ years ago was like.\n— graypegg\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":310,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"3abb023c90a0c057","title":"Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers","link":"https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/","author":"HotGarbage","published_at":"2026-06-27T14:38:05+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>213 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">81 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIt's not increasingly bizarre, really, if you just allow for the possibility of one thing:<p>There's something else worse that they know <i>could</i> be in such a book, but isn't yet, and it is so bad that it is worth doing this.</p><p>Perhaps they know that Wynn-Williams could have put it in the book and didn't. Perhaps they know that someone else — someone else British, say? — could write such things in a book and so far hasn't.</p><p>Once you assume their motivation is grounded in real fear, it gets easier to see why this isn't bizarre at all; it's inevitable.\n— dofm\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":766,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"4467dd7fba1ecdf7","title":"Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days","link":"https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium","author":"binyu","published_at":"2026-06-27T14:31:00+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>616 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">241 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI took a look at the Ghidra ones (because I use Ghidra), and I'm unimpressed: <a href=\"https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium/blob/main/ghidra-12.1.2-rce-ace-calc-poc/docs/classification.md\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium/blob/main/ghidra-12.1...</a><p>The first requires being able to overwrite binaries in the Swift tool directory. Yes, if you overwrite binaries executed by ghidra, you can trigger code execution. This is not a surprise.</p><p>The second, idk, I'm not familiar with TraceRMI (but it's probably worth noting that \"RMI\" stands for Remote Method Invocation).</p><p>The third is not a vulnerability in the slightest, they just demonstrate that native 7zip parsing code is reachable. <i>Maybe</i> there is a bug in the 7zip parser, but without that it's meaningless.\n— Retr0id\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":930,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5191b940b8add941","title":"Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)","link":"https://danluu.com/discontinuities/","author":"tosh","published_at":"2026-06-27T13:32:20+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://danluu.com/discontinuities/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>199 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nThe marathon one has a simple - and fun - explanation: it’s great to run with people!<p>Many (most?) marathons have pace runners who run the course, hewing to each 30 minute and 15 minute finish. So there’ll be a 3:30:00 pacer, a 3:45:00 pacer and so on. Your local pacer might even have their pace on their shirt and may even have a flag so they’re super hard to miss as you’re running.</p><p>One friend of mine runs with a speaker, to play music and keep everyone’s spirits up.</p><p>By the end of the race they’d acquired a small army of marathoners! You could see their smiles for miles, and when they all finished together they had a huge party in the recovery area with the speaker :)</p><p>I’m surprised the marathon time discontinuity isn’t bigger :)\n— cadamsdotcom\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":273,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"2144adcf1b8f34c6","title":"Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models","link":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/","author":"bogdiyan","published_at":"2026-06-27T13:10:21+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>211 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697958\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">161 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI tried the Fugu models with some real world tales in C# and unity using mcp and open code. I exhausted the $20 plan 5 hour window in one prompt to review my theme system and plan some color changes. So I upgraded to the $100 to see the implementation and result. Well the result was worse than Opus, incredibly slow, and I ended up exhausting the new 5 hour window and have used 35% of the weekly now and it hardly created something opus was able to do at a fraction of the time and cost.<p>Do what you wish with this info, but it seems to be a complete waste of $$.\n— cdurth\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":270,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"1a7e6021f8c332cd","title":"Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California","link":"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/streaming-services-obnoxiously-loud-ads-become-illegal-on-july-1-in-california/","author":"speckx","published_at":"2026-06-27T12:43:16+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/streaming-services-obnoxiously-loud-ads-become-illegal-on-july-1-in-california/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>241 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697768\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">72 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n&gt; [...] opposed the bill. The groups argued that “many” streaming services were already trying to manage the “loudness of advertisements that come from server-side ad insertion that may be inconsistent with the loudness of the programs,”<p>Well, stop \"trying\" and fix it already.  It's your own damn system.\n— kube-system\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":286,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"298288ae1fe918ba","title":"OpenRA","link":"https://www.openra.net/","author":"tosh","published_at":"2026-06-27T12:10:27+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.openra.net/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OpenRA</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>289 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIf you play the original and then OpenRA you will be amazed how well OpenRA is balanced.<p>As an example, while in the original game using allied artillery against soviet tesla coils was a dead sentence in OpenRA is great to be able to fire well beyond its range forcing you to come out of the base to defend it.</p><p>They also added a ton of features which make the game truly enjoyable and fun to play.</p><p>Well done OpenRA team!\n— liendolucas\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":790,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0f08f9a3e25dbef4","title":"The case for physical media ownership","link":"https://dervis.de/physical/","author":"cemdervis","published_at":"2026-06-27T11:32:10+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://dervis.de/physical/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The case for physical media ownership</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>344 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">227 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI agree with the sentiment implied by the author, but I would reword it slightly. If you don't have the freedom to share something, you don't own it.<p>I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. Digital ownership is still ownership. I go out of my way to find music on Bandcamp, games on GOG, and rip movies myself using MakeMKV.</p><p>I wish I could encourage people to continue embracing physical media but most people value convenience over true ownership. And most companies value market capture and \"security\" over user rights. In crypto the sentiment of \"not your keys, not your wallet\" is held a core truth, yet people use 2factor authentication and Passkeys without respecting the same truth. I am not arguing against the use of 2factor, but at the same time certain accounts can not be logged into freely without push notifications in Duo or Microsoft. I still don't see a universal ability to export Passkeys, and I believe that's by design.</p><p>I hope laws catch up to modern technology in terms of digital goods. I can't imagine companies choosing to open up their walled gardens otherwise.\n— knaik94\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":483,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"d04363df4d0a6c38","title":"Fintech Engineering Handbook","link":"https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/","author":"signa11","published_at":"2026-06-27T10:28:53+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fintech Engineering Handbook</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>307 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">105 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI glanced, and I found this handbook shallow and - in some areas - even bad advice.<p>E.g. If I ever see a monetary value stored in something else than integers I'm going to run away screaming (thank you Rust decimals represented as JSON floats). It's always integers unless you have a VERY good reason to do otherwise (though exported view can be in anything, even in weird bitcoded formats).</p><p>FX exchange. Resolution of FX isn't a point-in-time thing, things like buyer rate-in-time, seller rate-in-time, agreement, agreement tolerance, agreed upon resolution timestamp come in the effect.</p><p>Immutability - that's why you want to have event sourcing everywhere that touches money:</p><p></p><pre><code>    # Resolved stream\n    A -&gt; B -&gt; E\n\n    # Actual stream\n    A0 -&gt; Edit(A0, A) -&gt; B -&gt; C -&gt; D -&gt; Rollback(B) -&gt; E\n\n</code></pre>\nThough in the end Fintech != Fintech. I worked at Fintech where money was treated like a baggage, and in other where money was a central point of everything.\n— xlii\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":623,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"80a686daa56c8dc2","title":"DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]","link":"https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf","author":"aurenvale","published_at":"2026-06-27T09:18:52+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>635 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696585\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">239 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nDeepSeek continues to not only push the boundaries but also publish these incredible papers explaining how they achieved their gains - something the American labs no longer do unfortunately. Chinese labs are doing the most interesting work in AI right now.\n— kamranjon\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":789,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"eb7d7cffd1496094","title":"OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1","link":"https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/06/25/openttd-16-0-beta1","author":"untilted","published_at":"2026-06-27T04:31:06+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/06/25/openttd-16-0-beta1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>211 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695149\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">41 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI always know what kind of game I want to play, but it's overwhelming to set up, if even possible. It's tons of packages, forums, idk.. so I just end up playing vanilla, with maybe some rules among the players. But I wish there was a comprehensive interface to allow me to set all the stuff that I want.<p>From the top of my head (haven't played in over a year) it would be: cargo destination for people, cargo prices reflect proximity of other productiosn, mono/maglev only has passenger cabs, regular rail still gets upgrades, no planes I guess, \"automatic\" public transport within cities - no need to build stops, just buses driving around (transferring people to train stations). And probably more I can't think of now.\n— rplnt\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":230,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f68a03530ff6d831","title":"WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)","link":"https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm","author":"droidjj","published_at":"2026-06-27T03:30:01+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>169 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694853\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">92 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIf you're like me and grew up using pseudo-Wordstar keybindings (me by way of Turbo Pascal and Turbo C) you may appreciate JOE: <a href=\"https://github.com/joe-editor/joe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://github.com/joe-editor/joe</a>\n— EvanAnderson\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":169,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"f7eaaa352174ebed","title":"Om","link":"https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om","author":"throw0101a","published_at":"2026-06-26T23:33:46+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Om</a></p>\nRelated: <i>Om Malik has died</i> - <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852</a> - June 2026 (161 comments)\n\n\n<p><small>296 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nrare to see images, let alone with color in a Daring Fireball post<p>great read</p><p>RIP Om\n— tosh\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":514,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"493f87e0d02c19e5","title":"U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations","link":"https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies","author":"bobrenjc93","published_at":"2026-06-26T22:48:28+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations</a></p>\n<a href=\"https://archive.md/ArXuF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://archive.md/ArXuF</a><p><a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/us-government-gives-anthropic-green-light-limited-re-release-mythos-5-rcna352018\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/us-government-gives-a...</a>\n\n\n</p><p><small>362 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">360 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nThis makes me sad since it implies that the best LLM I will ever be allowed to use is GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. Anything smarter than that is deemed too risky.<p>So much wasted potential.</p><p>And why would I pay Anthropic or OpenAI once consumer hardware gets powerful enough to run an open weight Chinese version of Opus 4.8? Even more so when mobile phones are able to run similar LLMs.</p><p>Their financial growth looks doomed. It looks like they will be heavily regulated just like the next missile factory. This is antagonist to VC led turbo growth startup regime.\n— bel8\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":548,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"667fc3cff2d8e18f","title":"Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)","link":"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed","author":"ProxyTracer","published_at":"2026-06-26T22:43:29+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>318 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692946\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">167 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIt's easiest to visualize in terms of conversion from potential energy.<p>We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. And we also know when they fall, by the time they reach the ground and all the potential energy has been converted to kinetic energy, the previously higher ball will have twice the kinetic energy too.</p><p>But a twice higher ball won't have even close to twice the speed at impact. So let's look at why not.</p><p>The force of gravity is a constant force that causes constant acceleration in free fall regardless of speed. (Ignoring air resistance, inverse sq considerations, etc.)</p><p>Suppose it takes 1 second for the ball on the 10ft ladder to hit the ground with kinetic energy of 10 and a speed of 100. Again, gravity as a constant acceleration force is speed increase per time... not speed per distance. In the ladder example, it took 1 full second for gravity to accelerate the object to speed 100.</p><p>Now think about the 20ft ladder: the ball is dropped. How much kinetic energy and speed does the ball have after it has fallen 10 feet (but still has 10 left to go)? Well it has the same exact amount as the other ball did after falling 10 feet for a duration of 1 second: kinetic energy of 10 and speed of 100.</p><p>Now the crux: thinking about when the final 10 feet of the fall look like. We know for sure the ball still has 10 ft of potential energy to covert into kinetic, and that that will happen as it falls. But what of the impact speed? Since the current velocity of the ball as it enters the last 10 feet is already 100, we know it will spend less time transiting this distance than it did the first half where it started at off at speed 0. Since gravity imparts speed in free fall as a function of time - consequently less speed will be imparted over the second 10 foot interval. That concept is enough to prove the relationship isn't linear.</p><p>If you do the actual calculation or tests, you will see one ball needs to be dropped from 4x the hight of another to hit the ground at 2x the speed, but yet with still 4x the kinetic energy.\n— cubic_earth\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":367,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"fef6493c14a21321","title":"AI in mathematics is forcing big questions","link":"https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics","author":"rbanffy","published_at":"2026-06-26T22:36:51+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI in mathematics is forcing big questions</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>201 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692883\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">169 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nHere’s one way to think about the difference between coming up with a formal proof and having something other mathematicians can use:<p>&gt; A clear explanation can be found in Alex Kontorovich’s account of his own learning curve with formalized mathematics. In a nutshell: Mathlib, the dominant Lean library, is a human-curated formalization of an ever-growing fraction of existing human mathematics. It exposes clean APIs and abstractions, without which no autoformalization could take place. By contrast, Math Inc’s autoformalized proof of Viazovska’s results exposes no intelligible interface. Who in their right mind would merge a 200,000-line unaudited vibe-coded blob into the master branch of global human science?</p><p><a href=\"https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-e...</a>\n— skybrian\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":204,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"5e93160112d66503","title":"The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs","link":"https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm","author":"kkm","published_at":"2026-06-26T21:14:47+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>279 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692058\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">207 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nIMHO, the biggest problem with the future of open weights models is that currently, open weights models are the result of philanthropy by some private org. (e.g. DeepSeek).<p>The spigot can be turned off at any time.</p><p>Until there's some sort of \"community owned hardware\", open weights models are always at risk of being discontinued.\n— profsummergig\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":300,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"0523a594d2bdf34e","title":"We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme","link":"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme","author":"hn_acker","published_at":"2026-06-26T21:13:50+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>345 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692051\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">119 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nMy kindergartner has a 3D printer.<p>I got a call from the school principal. She said “another parent called and said your son 3D printed a gun and brought it to school”.</p><p>I looked at the print history. It was a tiny toy mandalorian figurine holding a blaster pistol in his hand.</p><p>I bought my son a bigger 3D printer and told him to stop playing with that boy.\n— gdiamos\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":506,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"43fc05c44fc1adbf","title":"PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts","link":"https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013","author":"ortusdux","published_at":"2026-06-26T20:07:18+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>249 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691346\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">137 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nPiracy is justified especially when it comes to movies!<p>If I am buying a DVD, I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. If I \"buy\" or \"purchase\" something online, I expect the same thing.</p><p>I'm not always a fan of the EU over-regulating some things but I feel like they should start fining companies who want to re-define the meaning of the word purchase\n— thomasmarton\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":323,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"9aea35c47a99d9b5","title":"U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6","link":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its-latest-ai-model/","author":"alain94040","published_at":"2026-06-26T18:23:14+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its-latest-ai-model/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6</a></p>\n<a href=\"https://archive.ph/PCQQl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://archive.ph/PCQQl</a>\n\n\n<p><small>744 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">859 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nAll: for comments on the technical side please go to the related thread:<p><i>Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model</i> - <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028</a>\n— dang\n</p></blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":1167,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}},{"id":"e32f5a30dfdb4028","title":"Data centers trigger voter backlash","link":"https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327","author":"randycupertino","published_at":"2026-06-26T17:24:21+00:00","content":"\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data centers trigger voter backlash</a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>197 points | <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689275\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">372 comments</a></small></p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\nI can tell you, based on local examples, that politicians are setting up deals to bring in data centers without trying to build community support first. Not only that, they are often signing NDAs that prohibit them from telling voters what they have agreed to. It's no way to operate in a democracy, and voters are right to be angry.\n— thewillowcat\n</blockquote>\n","metadata":{"score":200,"source_feed_id":"hn-best","source_feed_type":"hackernews"}}]