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The Forge We Deserve

Article URL: https://btao.org/posts/2026-05-09-the-forge-we-deserve/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582147 Points: 6 # Comments: 3

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Technology Jun 18, 2026

Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer

Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."

Technology Jun 18, 2026

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on th...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion

Article URL: https://www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581489...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain

Article URL: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-become-a-person-after-smartphones-have-rotted-your-brai...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

Article URL: https://chat.deepseek.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458 Points: 9 # Comment...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

I Hate Compilers

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/697641379212298072 Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

Article URL: https://conf.nim-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580504 Points: 4 # Comment...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wyxvqdx1zo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580466...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Midjourney Medical goes from generating ‘cat images’ to full-body ultrasound scans

Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, w...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

Article URL: https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4858020...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Continue has been acquired by Cursor

Article URL: https://www.continue.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580147 Points: 6 # Comments...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes

Article URL: https://opencomputer.dev/blog/scaling-one-vm-to-million-sandboxes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 18, 2026

[x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification

Article URL: https://x86ecosystem.org/resource/ai-compute-extensions-ace-specification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Midjourney Ultrasonic CT Scanner

Article URL: https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579718 Po...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Midjourney Medical

Article URL: https://www.midjourney.com/medical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650 Points: 9 #...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools

I built the desktop app that detects and redacts personal data (or PII) locally without sending any text to server. It ...

Technology Jun 18, 2026

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

Technology Jun 18, 2026

ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery

Article URL: https://mindgard.ai/blog/chatgpt-spontaneously-generated-violent-images-from-a-viral-prompt Comments URL: ...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is "unsustainable."

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

Article URL: https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578388 Points:...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Clojure Hosted on Go

Article URL: https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578326 Points:...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

The (real) dead economy theory

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy

Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy

Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy." ...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

Article URL: https://storiedcolors.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577374 Points: 6 # Comment...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journ...

Technology Jun 17, 2026

Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?

Article URL: https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...