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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

TechCrunch Jun 5, 2026 Sean O'Kane
Technology Jun 5, 2026

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

This paper is being published at ICLR 2026 (top AI conference), and was selected as one of three outstanding papers. C...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors. ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Gone in 60 minutes

It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Aging and Eye Problems

Article URL: https://ldstephens.net/posts/aging-and-eye-problems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416264 ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

GroWell Cap Review: I Have Hair for the First Time in 15 Years

I shaved my head 15 years ago and never looked back. This GroWell LED cap changed that.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The US Has a Plan to Combat Screwworm. It Involves a Lot More Flies

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited cap...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/cloudflare-ceo-is-lying-to-you-about-the-bot-traffic-jump/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this building

GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to mak...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew

Lectric, which says the U.S. market is ripe for competition and choice, has launched three new brands in the past six mo...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Sakana AI's Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab

Article URL: https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415633 Points: 6 # Comment...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction....

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era

Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The Sonos Era 100 speaker is down to its lowest price in months

Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Fake Money Built America

Article URL: https://mail.blockworks.com/p/how-fake-money-built-america Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay

Article URL: https://www.adyen.com/press-and-media/adyen-payments-gov-uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis

Article URL: https://aibenchy.com/ro/showcase/hamster-playing-table-tennis-svg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-stripe/52507...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended

Article URL: https://github.com/icflorescu/mantine-datatable/discussions/813 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Am I Unc?

Article URL: https://amiunc.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414974 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Technology Jun 5, 2026

This is your laptop… on AI

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices

Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct (https://general-instinct.com/).After years of working in robotics...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

Article URL: https://superlemon.bearblog.dev/the-company-i-work-for-is-losing-all-of-its-humanity-but-i-dont-know-where...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gemma-4/ Com...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made

Article URL: https://www.human-made.work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414627 Points: 27 # Comm...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Logitech G512 X 98 Review: A Hybrid Mish-Mash

The Logitech G512 X 98 lets you swap between mechanical and analog switches in an attempt to achieve the best of both wo...