Today so far 2026-09-03 · 06:01 UTC

The tech industry is grappling with significant security and safety concerns, as Anthropic admits security failures behind Claude hacking incidents and OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts, while separately a METR report on OpenAI and Hugging Face hacking incident has surfaced. In regulatory news, Google has been spared from an ad-business breakup but faces operational restrictions, and New York City has moved to ban AI in schools, reflecting growing concerns about AI's societal impact. Meanwhile, the tech investment landscape continues to shift with an AI training data startup becoming Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn and Palo Alto Networks acquiring Console for $500 million.

The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

2026-06-17 · 15:24 UTC
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Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

2026-06-17 · 15:15

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

2026-06-17 · 15:04

Volkswagen has begun blocking users of GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android operating system, from accessing its car…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it

2026-06-17 · 15:00

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

South Korean Investors Buy $800 Million of SpaceX Shares on Debut Trading Day

2026-06-17 · 14:50

South Korean retail investors directed more than $800 million into SpaceX shares on the company’s first day of public…

Why stdx is not on crates.io

2026-06-17 · 14:45

Epic Games announces Lore version control system

2026-06-17 · 14:30

Epic Games has announced Lore, an open-source version control system designed to handle large binary assets alongside…

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

2026-06-17 · 14:20

# Summary AI has rapidly progressed from generating unreliable code in 2025 to producing work comparable to median…

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

2026-06-17 · 14:15

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be…

Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

2026-06-17 · 13:05

Photobucket, a legacy image hosting service, now charges users $5 per month to access images they previously uploaded…

A Google ad penalty halved our revenue; fixing it meant becoming a publisher

2026-06-17 · 13:04

A developer's free planning poker tool saw its Google ad revenue halved overnight due to an algorithm penalty for having…

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

2026-06-17 · 12:38

The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers…

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

2026-06-17 · 12:14

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

2026-06-17 · 12:11

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

2026-06-17 · 12:04

MicroUI is a lightweight, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C with around 1,100 lines of code that operates…

Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan

2026-06-17 · 12:00

The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated "E-Shifts."

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

2026-06-17 · 11:15

What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

2026-06-17 · 11:00

Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and…

Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

2026-06-17 · 11:00

This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving…

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

2026-06-17 · 10:51

RFC 10008 introduces the HTTP QUERY method, a new request method designed for safe and idempotent queries that allows…

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

2026-06-17 · 09:48

Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

2026-06-17 · 09:40

Vent out.

Will AI Make Energy the New Money? Elon Musk Points Toward the Sun

2026-06-17 · 09:30

Elon Musk’s latest AI energy claim has pushed computing power back into focus.

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

2026-06-17 · 09:28

Neural CAs model self-organizing pattern formation.Now they can generate patterns at HD resolution in real-time, enabled…

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

2026-06-17 · 09:12

Z ai's GLM-5.2 has become the leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of…

Will SpaceX Hold Its $2.9 Trillion Valuation or Face a Post-IPO Reversal?

2026-06-17 · 09:00

SpaceX has moved from a record-setting market debut to one of the most heavily traded assets across both stock and…

Most of the CVE-2026-4020 attackers are the same client

2026-06-17 · 08:47

A sophisticated single attacker is behind 99.1% of CVE-2026-4020 exploitation attempts, despite appearing to come from…

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

2026-06-17 · 07:49

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

2026-06-17 · 07:30

GLM-5.2 (max), released in June 2026, ranks #4 in intelligence among open-weight models with a score of 53 on the…

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

2026-06-17 · 07:04

Anthropic has released a practical playbook for founders building AI-native startups, covering the four core stages of…

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