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US President says 'I love the inflation'

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/trump-inflation-cpi-iran-oil.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483445 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/man-created-written-language-cherokee-did-efficiently-elegantly-...

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Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

Article URL: https://learnfinly.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483345 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strange...

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Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, i...

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Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation." ...

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Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs

Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's...

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Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free

Article URL: https://news.immunologic.org/p/organic-foods-are-not-healthieror Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

“Defenders cannot afford to take weeks to patch,” one Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official warn...

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [pdf] (1974)

Article URL: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

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Trump Risks Key Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge o...

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Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4

Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to...

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Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5 billion from banks as AI spending continues

As AI spending continues to climb, the e-commerce giant has taken out a fresh $17.5 billion loan from a small coterie of...

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Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets

The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything fro...

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Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350

Article URL: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them

The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge.

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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike

North Koreans hackers posing as remote IT workers and recruiters remain a major threat to U.S., European, and Asian comp...

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Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore

Wing is expanding into seven more U.S. cities through its partnership with Walmart.

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A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents

Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

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The Abundance Illusion

Article URL: https://www.carlyle.com/carlyle-compass/the-abundance-illusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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Google's latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster. ...

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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/farmer-donates-land-for-a-park-city-sells-it-for-data-center-de...

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ΠFS

Article URL: https://github.com/philipl/pifs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480978 Points: 28 # C...

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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

Article URL: https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated Comments URL: https://news.y...

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Fable won’t answer basic biology questions

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and prai...

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Policy on the AI Exponential

Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

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The Best USB-C Cables (2026): for Smartphones, Tablets, and Laptops

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

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The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/economics/automation/1989-david.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479996 ...

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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft w...

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Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely

Article URL: https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484...