top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-06

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

4 months ago

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/

4 months ago

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/

4 months ago

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highest-level-sources-say-rcna348565

4 months ago

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420827

4 months ago

GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos

4 months ago

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

https://ntsc.rs/

4 months ago

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/

4 months ago

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

https://pokeemerald.com/

4 months ago

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/

4 months ago

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739

4 months ago

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve

4 months ago

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html

4 months ago

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

https://mashable.com/tech/motorola-wifi-routers-stop-working-motosync-plus-app-down

4 months ago

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

4 months ago

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker

https://www.randalolson.com/2026/06/04/recent-grad-unemployment-flip/

4 months ago

Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec7671

4 months ago

More Molly Guards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/more-molly-guards/

4 months ago

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/

4 months ago

Python JIT project was asked to pause development

https://discuss.python.org/t/an-announcement-from-the-steering-council-regarding-the-jit-project/107638

4 months ago