top 50% 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

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/

4 months ago

Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)

https://magicvinyldigital.net/2025/04/27/vinyl-succumbs-to-loudness-war-more-than-just-collateral-damage/

4 months ago

Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241

4 months ago

C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391

4 months ago

You Can Run

https://magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-cocaine-fugitives

4 months ago

Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack

https://blog.brixit.nl/cloning-a-sennheiser-ba2015-accu-pack/

4 months ago

Benchmarks in Leipzig

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818

4 months ago

US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-lawmakers-release-draft-bill-regulate-ai-2026-06-04/

4 months ago

Zig Zen Update

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/commit/621844bde551ee1a9b8142d7d146d1fa804247a2

4 months ago

★ 5.5k Zig

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

https://computerhistory.org/stories/explorers-of-the-lost-computers/

4 months ago

Life is too short for a slow terminal

https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/life-is-too-short-for-a-slow-terminal/

4 months ago

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/

4 months ago

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode

4 months ago

The new bibliomaniacs

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-new-bibliomaniacs/

4 months ago

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

https://oshogbo.com/blog/90/

4 months ago

I Love Lisp

https://medium.com/@ian_46319/why-i-love-lisp-0f0cd86014e5

4 months ago

Elfeed 4.0 (Emacs)

https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed/blob/main/NEWS.org

4 months ago

★ 1.7k Emacs Lisp Unlicense

Azure Linux Desktop

https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-desktop-a-build-2026-mashup-of-wslc-winui-reactor-and-azure-linux-4-0/

4 months ago

Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers

https://microsoft.github.io/RustTraining/python-book/

4 months ago

DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

4 months ago

The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

https://giodicanio.com/2026/06/05/how-to-declare-a-c-plus-plus-function-that-takes-a-blob-of-memory/

4 months ago

Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-keeps-delaying-the-release-of-its-new-ai-model-to-developers-f8569c8c

4 months ago

Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification

https://danielmangum.com/posts/fooling-go-x509-certificate-verification/

4 months ago

Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00414

4 months ago