top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-04

SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-jones-keeps-megacap-ipo-rules-as-is-after-consultation

4 months ago

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html

4 months ago

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174

4 months ago

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

4 months ago

U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/trump-ooi-amoc

4 months ago

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

4 months ago

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

4 months ago

★ 5.7k Python

When AI Builds Itself

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

4 months ago

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56

4 months ago

In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

https://electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-wind-solar-generated-more-power-than-gas-globally-april-2026/

4 months ago

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/

4 months ago

The Desperation of NYTimes

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/16

4 months ago

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

4 months ago

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html

4 months ago

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/

4 months ago

South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/south-korean-online-communities-will-need-to-scan-every-images-with-ai-censorship-tools/38341

4 months ago

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html

4 months ago

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

https://uruky.com/?il=en

4 months ago

The ways we contain Claude across products

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

4 months ago

Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032

4 months ago

12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/sagrada-familia-21065

4 months ago

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html

4 months ago

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

https://www.boxofcables.dev/wsl2-per-device-swiotlb-pools-for-virtiofs-and-virtioproxy/

4 months ago

American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn

https://economist.com/business/2026/06/03/american-capitalism-has-taken-an-apocalyptic-turn

4 months ago

Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/

4 months ago

OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system

https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2025_07_29_ocaml_onboarding_introduction_to_dune/

4 months ago

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

https://biohub.org/news/world-model-of-protein-biology/

4 months ago

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/kv-entropy-coder/

4 months ago

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/ipv6-zones-go-url/

4 months ago

KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei

https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN

4 months ago

★ 389 Python Apache-2.0

The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century

https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-theft

4 months ago

Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-energy-transition-iran-war/

4 months ago

Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)

https://andreashohmann.com/zig-struct-of-arrays/

4 months ago

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

https://cen.acs.org/materials/nanomaterials/buckyballs-boron-buckminster-fullerene-nanomaterials/104/web/2026/06

4 months ago

Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences

https://spectrum.ieee.org/faster-dna-synthesis-sidewinder

4 months ago

The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from

4 months ago

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397731

4 months ago

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06

4 months ago

"Maybe later" was a feature

https://arnorhs.dev/posts/2026-06-04/maybe-later-was-a-feature/

4 months ago

Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud

https://boxes.dev

4 months ago

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks

https://www.ft.com/content/d02d91b3-2636-454e-9442-dc7e69f51815

4 months ago

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed

https://github.com/schildep/verified-polygon-intersection

4 months ago

★ 40 Lean MIT

Do the Hardest Thing

https://justinjackson.ca/hard-thing

4 months ago

Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)

https://github.com/tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI

4 months ago

★ 313 JavaScript GPL-3.0

Dumbphone 2

https://dumb.co/

4 months ago

The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview)

https://theamphour.com/725-the-secret-life-of-circuits-with-lcamtuf-michal-zalewski/

4 months ago

Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search

https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss

4 months ago

Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/lufthansa-787-jet-suffers-front-wheel-collapse-frankfurt-gate-2026-06-04/

4 months ago

Fired 60 Minutes Scott Pelley: CBS told to inject 'falsehoods' into reporting

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/03/60-minutes-scott-pelley-cbs-accusations

4 months ago

Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v8964-released/

4 months ago

First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/03/new-world-screwworm-texas-reported-case/

4 months ago

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html

4 months ago

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

https://www.mercek.dev/

4 months ago

DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure

https://louwrentius.com/dns-is-for-people-not-for-it-infrastructure.html

4 months ago

Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue

https://respeak-io.github.io/lucide-motion-vue/

4 months ago

The Ü Programming Language

https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/

4 months ago

★ 108 C++ BSD-3-Clause

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future

https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineering-and-the-future

4 months ago

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/05/31/youll-never-guess-who-made-the-first-wireless-telephone/

4 months ago

Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/bitcoin-btc-falls-to-pre-iran-conflict-low-as-crypto-slide-extends

4 months ago

Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/summer-of-85-dosbos-is-rejected-by

4 months ago

WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime

https://www.patrickstevens.co.uk/posts/2026-06-04-announcing-woofware-pawprint/

4 months ago

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuAsLoginReplacement

4 months ago