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An Open Strait of Hormuz Won’t Fix Gas Prices Overnight
Even if peace holds up between the US and Iran, oil prices aren’t going back down to where they were any time soon.
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Jun 19, 2026
Prediction Market Philosophers Got What They Wanted. They’re Not Happy About It
Getting the future right is now big business. But at a festival in Berkeley, forecasters worry that sports markets could...
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Jun 19, 2026
Canada Missed Chances to Inspect Titan Before Fatal Implosion
A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in...
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Jun 19, 2026
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
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Jun 19, 2026
Pseudoscientific Cancer ‘Treatment’ Involves Gassing Naked People in Plastic Bags With Bleach
A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while the...
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Jun 19, 2026
Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
Article URL: https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Jun 19, 2026
So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI
Article URL: https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595331 Poi...
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Jun 19, 2026
The ISA Doesn't Matter Where It Counts
Article URL: https://www.chipstrat.com/p/the-isa-doesnt-matter-where-it-counts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...
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Jun 19, 2026
Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment
Article URL: https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Jun 19, 2026
DARPA Heavy Life Challenge
Article URL: https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594933...
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Jun 19, 2026
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge...
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Jun 19, 2026
Fable Converted Pylint to Rust
Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/prylint/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594733 Points: 12 #...
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Jun 19, 2026
Let's Encrypt has been down most of today
Article URL: https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594715 Points: 15...
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Jun 19, 2026
Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest
Article URL: https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...
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Jun 19, 2026
GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It
Article URL: https://vettedconsumer.com/glm-5-2-the-most-powerful-open-weight-model-yet-and-the-brutal-reality-of-runni...
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Jun 19, 2026
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...
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Jun 19, 2026
Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand
Article URL: https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593694 Poin...
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Jun 19, 2026
Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps
Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
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Jun 19, 2026
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
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Jun 19, 2026
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this." ...
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Jun 18, 2026
Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative
Article URL: https://www.nsf.gov/news/update-ocean-observatories-initiative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Jun 18, 2026
Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
Crypto Clipper spreads over USB and communicates over Tor.
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Jun 18, 2026
The AirPods Effect
Article URL: https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
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Jun 18, 2026
Prime Day Early Deals 2026: Breville and Ninja Espresso Maker Deals
The Breville Barista Express and Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro are two of the best early Prime Day deals I've seen in 2026.
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Jun 18, 2026
How Smashing The NIMBYs Created Modern Capitalism
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-abolishing-the-stakeholder-state-caused-the-industrial-revolution/ Co...
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Jun 18, 2026
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and w...
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Jun 18, 2026
FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
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Jun 18, 2026
Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP
Article URL: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
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Jun 18, 2026
As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas. ...
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Jun 18, 2026
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" m...