top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-01

The Newest Instagram "Exploit" Is the Goofiest I've Seen

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco

4 months ago

NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised

https://github.com/RedHatInsights/javascript-clients/issues/492

4 months ago

★ 7 TypeScript Apache-2.0

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)

https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/

4 months ago

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openai

4 months ago

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/

4 months ago

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

4 months ago

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

https://cs336.stanford.edu/

4 months ago

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC

https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

4 months ago

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

https://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.md

4 months ago

★ 1.9k Python MIT

Nvidia RTX Spark

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/

4 months ago

Chipotlai Max

https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max

4 months ago

★ 1k TypeScript

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/

4 months ago

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/

4 months ago

DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/duckduckgo-makes-its-no-ai-search-engine-easier-to-access-as-its-traffic-booms/

4 months ago

MacBook Pro Rival with the Nvidia Powered Surface Laptop Ultra

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/01/microsoft-builds-its-ultimate-macbook-pro-rival-with-the-nvidia-powered-surface-laptop-ultra/

4 months ago

Debug Project

https://debug.com/

4 months ago

The Dirt That Refused to Die

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/

4 months ago

OpenAI hit with lawsuit by Florida AG over AI risks

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/openai-hit-with-florida-lawsuit-00944215

4 months ago

Alphabet Announces $80B Equity Capital Raise to Expand AI Infra and Compute

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Alphabet-Announces-Proposed-80-Billion-Equity-Capital-Raise-to-Expand-AI-Infrastructure-and-Compute-2026-b0myAMewCa/default.aspx

4 months ago

GitHub and the Crime Against Software

https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

4 months ago