Weekly news | 2026-06-03

news

• Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
• GTA 6 Developers Unionize
• The dead economy theory
• I am retiring from tech to live offline
• Ten Basic Clouds
• Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
• The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
• Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you
• SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
• Let's compile Quake like it's 1997
• Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
• We should be more tired than the model
• Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
• Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
• Please Use AI
• High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building
• Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)
• CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents
• The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
• Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV
• Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump
• Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test
• The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
• Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek
• New Beam Spring Keyboards
• Nvidia RTX Spark
• CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
• Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity
• Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
• Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)
• Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace
• What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
• I made my phone slow on purpose
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
• Finding success in industry as a chip designer
• Sysadmining Like It's 2009
• The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers
• Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
• Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas
• Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
• Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
• DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
• Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
• Why Janet? (2023)
• A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
• Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
• Squillions: How money laundering won
• How is Groq raising more money?
• MAI-Code-1-Flash
• A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law
• Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
• CQL: Categorical Databases
• CSS-Native Parallax Effect
• Crystal Nights (2008)
• OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing
• Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
• Show HN: Eyeball
• Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
• CT scans of BYD car parts

AI: - Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC - OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS - Expanding Project Glasswing

• AWS:
  • Aurora MySQL integration with Kiro Powers
  • Backup OTP verification for Multi-party approval on logically air-gapped vaults
  • Bedrock Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS
  • Bedrock expands support for Service Quotas
  • Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget
  • Connect Customer generative AI-powered post-contact summaries to eight new languages
  • Connect Customer generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service interactions
  • Connect Customer granular access controls for the agent login/logout report
  • Connect Customer scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance
  • Deadline Cloud browsing job attachments in the monitor
  • Elemental Inference now supports Smart Subtitles for automated live captioning
  • End User Messaging RCS for Business +20 countries
  • GameLift Streams gen 6e stream classes for high-fidelity game streaming
  • GuardDuty Malware Protection Backup supports Amazon S3 continuous backups
  • Interconnect multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier
  • IoT Core APIs for MQTT connection management
  • IoT Core direct messaging for point-to-point communication
  • OpenSearch Serverless next-gen is now generally available
  • Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions
  • Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes
  • Partner Central deal sizing using total contract value (TCV)
  • RDS ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication
  • Resilience Hub next generation is now generally available
  • SageMaker HyperPod Slurm minimum capacity requirements with continuous provisioning
  • SageMaker Notebook Instances Region Expansion of P6-B200
  • SageMaker Unified Studio interactive interface for managing Feature Store in IAM Domains
  • SES inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring
  • Shield Advanced introduces DDoS attack flow logs
  • Transform now modernizes networks during migrations
  • VPC IPAM tags on IPAM pool allocations
  • WorkSpaces Applications adds support for Windows Desktop OS
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
• HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager
• Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
• Flipper Zero Zig Template
• AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
• Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
• Chipotlai Max
• Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer

blogs

• Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
• SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
• Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request
• It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
• Orchestrating AI code review at scale
• Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T
• The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
• A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
• Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers
• GitHub and the crime against software
• macOS needs its grid back
• Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
• Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
• Love systemd timers
• Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
• Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
• Stop Ruining It
• Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
• Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API