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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692058 Points: 16 # Comments: 8

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Technology Jun 26, 2026

We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme Comment...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming. ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions

As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691893 P...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian apps

Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Best Ninja Prime Day Deals (2026) Slushi, Creami, Crispi, Cafe Luxe

Ninja Creami Swirl, Crispi, Slushi, and Cafe Luxe Pro are all on Prime Day deals that will soon go away.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Reed-Solomon for OCR: error correction for messy printed codes

Article URL: https://github.com/chasangchual/reed-solomon-for-ocr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013 Comments URL: https...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony. ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/israel-facebook-censor-content-moderation-iran-war/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Samsung’s Excellent OLED Monitors Are Up to 38 Percent Off for Prime Day

Samsung makes some of the very best OLED gaming monitors, and they’ve never been this affordable.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic

General Atlantic has tapped tennis legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690709...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

FCC accused of hiding Chairman Carr's messages with DOGE and Musk

FCC refuses to provide messages, has "wasted a year" of court's time, filing says. ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

How to See the Giant Asteroid That Will Pass by Earth This Weekend

The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to lo...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

Article URL: https://gossamer-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690231 Points: 19 # Commen...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

Article URL: https://github.com/skx/slisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690200 Points: 30 # Comm...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100

Article URL: https://sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/2026/06/26/sedonadb-04-gpu-accelerated-spatial-joins/ Comments URL: ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

U.S. government will decide who gets to use latest upgrade to ChatGPT

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its-latest-a...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info. ...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S.

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

I'm Adding These Bose Headphones to My Prime Day Cart (2026)

Bose headphones are already one of our favorites for comfort, sound, and noise canceling. Now they’re cheaper.

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for-it/ Comm...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

The beautiful shame

While European tourists marvel at ranch dressing, Buc-ee's, and other wonders of Middle America, would-be World Cup atte...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients

Article URL: https://github.com/tau-org/tau-tower Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689760 Points: 5...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

This video bird feeder is the surprise hit of Prime Day

I can understand why The Verge readers are flocking to the BirdBuddy deal we posted at the beginning of Prime Day. The B...

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Antibiotic "megacluster" discovery provides new strategy to fight superbugs

It's "an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal."

Technology Jun 26, 2026

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI j...