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Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus

After a very profitable decade on Microsoft's board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down to focus on his AI drug discovery…

Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant

Microsoft's internal strategy document reveals plans to make users "addicted" to its new Scout AI personal assistant…

Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction

"Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction" is an out-of-print book by Hassan Ait-Kaci that explains the…

Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names

A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird.

Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices

Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.

Hacker News, Sans AI

Elijah Potter created HNSansAI, a filtered version of Hacker News that automatically removes articles mentioning…

Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former…

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT.

Anthropic Is Helping the NSA Hack China. It Also Wants Everyone to Pause AI

The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI…

Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams)

Three of our worst VC stories

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

This paper is being published at ICLR 2026 (top AI conference), and was selected as one of three outstanding papers.

"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump

# Summary The article accuses Cloudflare's CEO of misrepresenting bot traffic data by claiming bots surpassed human…

GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this building

GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned.

As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew

Lectric, which says the U.S.

Sakana AI's Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab

Sakana AI has formally established a Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab dedicated to developing AI systems that…

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. …

Anthropic Calls For International Coordination On Advanced AI

What happens when a leading player asks to slow down a race they themselves help to accelerate?

Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay

Adyen has been appointed as the new payment services provider for GOV.UK Pay, replacing Stripe for non-Crown card…

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Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

The UK's Government Digital Service has replaced payment processor Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen for GOV.UK Pay…

Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended

The GitHub account of Ionut-Cristian (creator of mantine-datatable) was compromised in a supply-chain attack where…

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct (https://general-instinct.com/).After years of working in robotics,…

The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

A software developer describes their company's transformation from a people-focused organization that invested in…

Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like…