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A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight 

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

TechCrunch Jun 18, 2026 Rebecca Bellan
Technology Jun 18, 2026

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

Article URL: https://www.submission.directory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586631 Points: 23 #...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different

The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

Quick framing, since the post is long: I did robotic manipulation research at OpenAI from 2017–2020, and the tabletop...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

Hey HN - we’re Oskar, Szymon, and Piotr, and we’re building TesterArmy (https://tester.army). TesterArmy is an agen...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000

Article URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Google Calendar finally has more color options for events

Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn't be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Migrate from OpenClaw

Article URL: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/migrate-from-openclaw Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Article URL: https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare

One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2026

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been cover...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Article URL: https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html C...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts

Article URL: https://gerrymandle.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585739 Points: 8 # Comments: ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live

Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they'r...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The best robot vacuum deals available ahead of Prime Day

If you’ve been wanting to buy a robot vacuum but have been put off by how much it can cost to get a good one, now ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore

Article URL: https://www.realtor.com/advice/rent/wages-in-america-are-too-low-for-the-30-rule-to-work-for-renters-anymo...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Git platform built for agentic era

Article URL: https://gitlawb.com/node Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584873 Points: 5 # Comments:...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

At Cajal (YC W26) we’re excited to share Talos (https://github.com/cajal-technologies/talos), an open source framewor...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft bundle is almost half off for Prime Day

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is on sale for $182.97 (originally $334.97) as an early Prime Day deal, th...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like

Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets yo...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants

Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now ro...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Waymo Recalls Robotaxis Over Risk They'll Drive at Speed Into Freeway Construction Zones

The company's latest recall of 3,871 vehicles follows incidents of its autonomous cars prioritizing other hazards or fai...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Has W Social switched to closed source?

Article URL: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

https://web.archive.org/web/20260618100028/https://www.wired... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classi...