Hacker News on Saturday, 6 June 2026

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic(arstechnica.com)

1365 points by maltalex 4 months ago | 472 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the S&P 500 won't waive its profitability rule to fast-track SpaceX, also blocking quick entry for OpenAI and Anthropic.

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision(opencv.org)

802 points by ternaus 4 months ago | 143 comments

OpenCV team blog post announcing the release of OpenCV 5, describing its major new features for computer vision and deep learning.

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot(this.weekinsecurity.com)

643 points by speckx 4 months ago | 233 comments

Newsletter article reporting Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts without 2FA were hijacked by tricking its Meta AI chatbot into resetting passwords.

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

479 points by MilnerRoute 4 months ago | 367 comments

NBC News exclusive reporting that the Defense Intelligence Agency raised the counterintelligence threat level for Israeli spying on the U.S. to its highest level.

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute(techcrunch.com)

403 points by ramanan 4 months ago | 577 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing capacity.

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts(ntsc.rs)

390 points by gregsadetsky 4 months ago | 117 comments

Homepage of ntsc-rs, an open-source tool that emulates analog TV and VHS video artifacts, offering downloads and a web app.

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

387 points by Ekami 4 months ago | 645 comments

An Ask HN post asking why Hacker News commenters are skeptical of AI coding tools, arguing that shipping speed matters more than code elegance.

GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS(discuss.grapheneos.org)

386 points by Cider9986 4 months ago | 307 comments

GrapheneOS forum thread discussing a claim that Yoti's age/ID verification service flags GrapheneOS devices and reports users to authorities.

Moving beyond fork() + exec()(lwn.net)

337 points by jwilk 4 months ago | 323 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet on a proposal for kernel "spawn templates" as an alternative process-creation primitive to fork() plus exec().

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)(pokeemerald.com)

326 points by tripplyons 4 months ago | 95 comments

A browser-playable WebAssembly build of the Pokemon Emerald decompilation project, with on-screen controls and a speed slider.

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs(twitter.com)

312 points by tosh 4 months ago | 501 comments

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF(su3.io)

253 points by losfair 4 months ago | 58 comments

Public Domain Image Archive(pdimagearchive.org)

234 points by davidbarker 4 months ago | 32 comments

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation(mashable.com)

171 points by thisislife2 4 months ago | 89 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight(acoup.blog)

168 points by gostsamo 4 months ago | 51 comments

More Molly Guards(unsung.aresluna.org)

167 points by zdw 4 months ago | 20 comments

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker(randalolson.com)

167 points by davidbarker 4 months ago | 169 comments

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy(blog.includesecurity.com)

155 points by nikcub 4 months ago | 51 comments

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git(ataraxy-labs.github.io)

146 points by rohanucla 4 months ago | 49 comments

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

140 points by sneela 4 months ago | 216 comments

Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements(ft.com)

139 points by nmstoker 4 months ago | 45 comments

Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health(science.org)

137 points by speckx 4 months ago | 130 comments

The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover(devblogs.microsoft.com)

133 points by paulmooreparks 4 months ago | 43 comments

Python JIT project was asked to pause development(discuss.python.org)

133 points by kbumsik 4 months ago | 59 comments

Benchmarks in Leipzig(arxiv.org)

130 points by root-parent 4 months ago | 44 comments

Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack(blog.brixit.nl)

128 points by zdw 4 months ago | 19 comments

You Can Run(magazine.atavist.com)

115 points by bryanrasmussen 4 months ago | 62 comments

Zig Zen Update(codeberg.org)

107 points by tosh 4 months ago | 44 comments

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar(computerhistory.org)

96 points by andrewstuart 4 months ago | 20 comments

US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules(reuters.com)

90 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 52 comments

Life is too short for a slow terminal(mijndertstuij.nl)

89 points by emschwartz 4 months ago | 67 comments

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM(simonwillison.net)

84 points by theanonymousone 4 months ago | 26 comments

Lockdown Mode(help.openai.com)

76 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 33 comments

The new bibliomaniacs(engelsbergideas.com)

73 points by RickJWagner 4 months ago | 69 comments

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose(oshogbo.com)

67 points by zdw 4 months ago | 11 comments

Azure Linux Desktop(boxofcables.dev)

62 points by haydenbarnes 4 months ago | 40 comments

The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++(giodicanio.com)

52 points by movd128 4 months ago | 104 comments

Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers(microsoft.github.io)

50 points by linhns 4 months ago | 19 comments

Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification(danielmangum.com)

46 points by hasheddan 4 months ago | 25 comments

Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models(arxiv.org)

44 points by rsn243 4 months ago | 8 comments

Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers(wsj.com)

42 points by mekpro 4 months ago | 17 comments

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting(gwern.net)

39 points by telotortium 4 months ago | 10 comments

Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf](martiehaselton.com)

36 points by rzk 4 months ago | 31 comments

Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory(universalmemoryprotocol.io)

36 points by edihasaj 4 months ago | 19 comments

120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend(kyle.au)

35 points by kylephillipsau 4 months ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis(alexandrefrancois.org)

32 points by arjf 4 months ago | 11 comments

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?(eetimes.com)

30 points by rbanffy 4 months ago | 30 comments

Giant Floating Victorian Drydock(mastermariners.org.au)

29 points by dtj1123 4 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised(classic100.gotski.workers.dev)

26 points by gotski 4 months ago | 17 comments

DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List(military.com)

25 points by Balgair 4 months ago | 9 comments

Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil(jonasdevlieghere.com)

21 points by JDevlieghere 4 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals(domaintasker.com)

17 points by si_164 4 months ago | 9 comments

There's still no point in gigabit broadband(shkspr.mobi)

17 points by Fudgel 4 months ago | 24 comments

Rayforce(github.com)

16 points by tosh 4 months ago | 4 comments

A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf](sfu.ca)

16 points by luu 4 months ago | 7 comments

AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume(hamishcampbell.com)

13 points by speckx 4 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler

13 points by bOZbfU4YdRnJQ 4 months ago | 6 comments

SAT-Physical Thermodynamic Framework: treating constraints as a thermal system(github.com)

11 points by kauai1 4 months ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores(github.com)

10 points by alexpadula 4 months ago | 0 comments

Context Sculpting(perceptiontheory.bearblog.dev)

10 points by perceptronblues 4 months ago | 3 comments