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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/14/ai-is-code-and-cant-be-prompted-into-being-smarter/5254141 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532178 Points: 19 # Comme...

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Technology Jun 14, 2026

UK may ban social media for children under 16

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

Article URL: https://yusufaytas.com/vibe-coder-vs-software-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely

Article URL: https://siri4eu.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531986 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Chaosnet

Article URL: https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/amber.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531449 Poi...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/joske/yserver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531394 Points: 15 # ...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

Article URL: https://friedkielbasa.substack.com/p/rome-fell-and-nobody-noticed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos w...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

Article URL: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530382 Points: 6 # Comm...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

A clear fishing wire is tied around the island of Manhattan

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/boea4v/a_clear_fishing_wire_is_tied_around_the_isla...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

Article URL: https://github.com/tamnd/kage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990 Points: 13 # Com...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo

Article URL: https://dir.dillo-browser.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529645 Points: 9 # Com...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."

Technology Jun 14, 2026

FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation

FTX held a diluted 7.84% stake in Anthropic, according to Reuters.Anthropic’s latest reported valuation is around $96...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Conclave is the sound of a NYC summer block party

I have this vivid memory of walking to pick up my oldest from school in June of 2022. For a variety of reasons, I was in...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-ten-million/...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playin...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated

University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Linux 7.1

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4BF4bMhZNZ1tqs+FFV4OuZRe3ZqdWB+LxRLmRweUzQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u Comme...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

How to watch most of the World Cup matches with free trials

Hoping to catch some World Cup matches while spending as little money as possible? You have a few options for finding a ...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528587 Points:...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

Article URL: https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371 Poi...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey. I built...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15897903/measles-surge-utah-US-elimination-status.html Comments URL...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Perlisisms

Article URL: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Cloud-based LLM gold rush is ending

Article URL: https://automato.substack.com/p/apple-wwdc-and-the-fable-5-embargo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 14, 2026

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

Article URL: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-set-announce-social-media-34119132 Comments URL: h...

Technology Jun 14, 2026

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/breast-milk-research-chemicals Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Jun 14, 2026

No, everyone is not using AI for everything

Article URL: https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...