Technology

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.

Ars Technica Jun 5, 2026 Stephen Clark
Technology Jun 5, 2026

Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India

The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

This chunky little tablet got my kid to clean up his toys

Never underestimate the power that a cheap tablet holds over a kid under six. The Skylight Buddy is a device with one jo...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS Broadcasts a Numbers Station

Article URL: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=865273&p=62&view=issueViewer Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

Article URL: https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484116...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

Article URL: https://adblock.turtlecute.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411542 Points: 5 # Co...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/09/#documentation-wins-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures

Article URL: https://freenet.monster/china-unicom.html?lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers

Article URL: https://nango.dev/careers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411227 Points: 0 # Comments...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

I customized a MacBook Neo with colorful spare parts

The MacBook Neo is Apple's cheapest laptop, its most colorful, and its easiest to repair in years. That means owners can...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods

Article URL: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308501 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Do We Need Billionaires?

Article URL: https://bjhess.com/posts/do-we-need-billionaires Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484110...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT

“Why don’t we just frickin’ call Apple?”

Technology Jun 5, 2026

We spent $50 to measure Pearl's "AI mining" – 320K GPUs produce zero AI

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04819 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410769 Points: 11 # ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

EveryPlate Meal Kit Review (2026): Low Cost, Simplicity, Flavor

EveryPlate is an actual budget meal kit whose plates taste delicious. Options and ingredients are fewer, but simplicity ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549

The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Porsche’s Cayenne Coupe Turbo will even make 911 owners nervous

Back in 2002, Porsche fans sputtered with rage as the Cayenne made its debut at the Paris Motor. More than 20 years late...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy

Article URL: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-european-tech-sovereignty-accompanied-eu-op...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?

I got really tired, as a human, of parsing the standard marketing heavy web we have today. I've always loved the simpli...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides

“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Why Apple Might Put Cameras Into Its Next AirPods

From battery life to privacy, there are many hurdles to the idea taking off.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

The Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)

These are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and toys actually worth buying for pool season.

Technology Jun 5, 2026

‘Doo Doo Water and a Few Needles’: Inside the Mystery of the New York City Manhole Prowlers

An “urban explorer” tells WIRED their mother checked in to make sure they weren’t one of the people seen scurrying...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens

Hi HN,Not sure if anyone would be interested.But, just wanted to share that I've been maintaining my small tool called ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

AI Has Come for Serif Fonts

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/ Comment...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409664 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

Show HN: I benchmarked LLM agents on fixing real-world security vulnerabilities

I built a benchmark with 20 real CVEs across 18 Python projects (Pillow, GitPython, yt-dlp, urllib3, etc). I've run it ...

Technology Jun 5, 2026

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

Article URL: https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409306 Poi...