Hacker News on Thursday, 4 June 2026

SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P(bloomberg.com)

825 points by tristanj 4 months ago | 412 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that S&P Dow Jones Indices kept its rules unchanged, denying fast index entry to megacap IPOs like SpaceX after a consultation.

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

646 points by andrehacker 4 months ago | 1029 comments

Ask HN discussion thread asking users to describe the moment they realized generative AI models were more capable than they had assumed.

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare(blog.cloudflare.com)

641 points by coloneltcb 4 months ago | 279 comments

Cloudflare blog post by Evan You and Steve Faulkner announcing that VoidZero, the company behind Vite and related JavaScript tooling, is joining Cloudflare.

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot(fieggen.com)

534 points by mooreds 4 months ago | 202 comments

Instructional page from Ian's Shoelace Site explaining how to tie Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, a symmetrical double slip knot that won't come undone.

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery(github.com)

504 points by binyu 4 months ago | 140 comments

GitHub repository from Anthropic with Claude skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, and patching, plus an autonomous vulnerability scanning harness.

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement(anthropic.com)

448 points by meetpateltech 4 months ago | 597 comments

An Anthropic page titled "When AI builds itself" describing the company's progress toward recursive AI self-improvement and its implications.

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56(france24.com)

379 points by fidotron 4 months ago | 112 comments

France 24 news report that French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, known for 'Persepolis', has died at 56.

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases(aoav.org.uk)

342 points by XzetaU8 4 months ago | 194 comments

AOAV report finding UK media failed to disclose defence and arms industry links of commentators presented as military experts in nearly 60% of cases.

Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026(electrek.co)

334 points by speckx 4 months ago | 296 comments

Electrek article reporting that in April 2026 wind and solar together generated more electricity globally than gas for the first time.

Retro-Tech Parenting(havenweb.org)

327 points by mawise 4 months ago | 222 comments

A Haven blog post titled "Retro-Tech Parenting" about raising kids with older technology like landline phones, CD players, and floppy disks.

The desperation of NYTimes(rozumem.xyz)

291 points by rozumem 4 months ago | 266 comments

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses(buchodi.com)

288 points by buchodi 4 months ago | 258 comments

Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video](fb.watch)

288 points by jenders 4 months ago | 114 comments

Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool(github.com)

243 points by geoffbp 4 months ago | 67 comments

South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools(discuss.privacyguides.net)

237 points by Cider9986 4 months ago | 142 comments

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

219 points by BrunoBernardino 4 months ago | 198 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development(saturnci.com)

210 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 93 comments

Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants(arxiv.org)

202 points by Anon84 4 months ago | 39 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting(momentsingraphics.de)

183 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 67 comments

OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system(ocamlpro.com)

159 points by andrewstetsenko 4 months ago | 26 comments

Sagrada Família Lego set(lego.com)

154 points by speckx 4 months ago | 127 comments

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access(boxofcables.dev)

143 points by haydenbarnes 4 months ago | 105 comments

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology(biohub.org)

141 points by gmays 4 months ago | 24 comments

Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×(fergusfinn.com)

137 points by kkm 4 months ago | 28 comments

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei(github.com)

134 points by theanonymousone 4 months ago | 13 comments

Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks(404media.co)

119 points by elorant 4 months ago | 78 comments

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake(xeiaso.net)

111 points by xena 4 months ago | 85 comments

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved(cen.acs.org)

109 points by crescit_eundo 4 months ago | 30 comments

Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)(andreashohmann.com)

109 points by Tomte 4 months ago | 38 comments

American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn(economist.com)

106 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 108 comments

Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences(spectrum.ieee.org)

103 points by natalcleft 4 months ago | 26 comments

Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition(bloomberg.com)

102 points by toomuchtodo 4 months ago | 77 comments

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers(cen.acs.org)

91 points by gmays 4 months ago | 18 comments

"Maybe later" was a feature(arnorhs.dev)

85 points by arnorhs 4 months ago | 29 comments

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

78 points by juliusceasar 4 months ago | 85 comments

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

73 points by tejaswigowda 4 months ago | 23 comments

The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true(tumblr.com)

71 points by thdr 4 months ago | 37 comments

The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century(montanaskeptic.substack.com)

68 points by 400thecat 4 months ago | 34 comments

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

65 points by nab 4 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed(github.com)

65 points by permute 4 months ago | 14 comments

Do the Hardest Thing(justinjackson.ca)

63 points by levhawk 4 months ago | 39 comments

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

58 points by ChrisGammell 4 months ago | 5 comments

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager(castor.web.cern.ch)

57 points by naves 4 months ago | 24 comments

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future(ashbyhq.com)

56 points by fredley 4 months ago | 38 comments

Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing(goto10retro.com)

54 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 14 comments

Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search(fremaconsulting.ch)

53 points by tohms 4 months ago | 4 comments

WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime(patrickstevens.co.uk)

53 points by Smaug123 4 months ago | 17 comments

You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone(signoregalilei.com)

50 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS(mercek.dev)

48 points by utibeumanah 4 months ago | 17 comments

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks(ft.com)

46 points by jawiggins 4 months ago | 16 comments

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login(utcc.utoronto.ca)

45 points by ankitg12 4 months ago | 11 comments

Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt(reuters.com)

45 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue(respeak-io.github.io)

45 points by evolabs 4 months ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call(cost.dev)

42 points by akh 4 months ago | 23 comments

Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap(yon-lang.org)

41 points by amenn 4 months ago | 39 comments

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11(cl.cam.ac.uk)

38 points by kristianp 4 months ago | 8 comments

A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm(devblogs.microsoft.com)

37 points by soheilpro 4 months ago | 12 comments

Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)(fagnerbrack.com)

36 points by shantnutiwari 4 months ago | 34 comments

Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960)(groups.csail.mit.edu)

36 points by rballpug 4 months ago | 3 comments

Using XDG-Compliant Config Files (2024)(wxwidgets.org)

34 points by ankitg12 4 months ago | 7 comments