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After resurrecting an iconic PC brand, Commodore is getting into flip phones

When Christian Simpson, a retro gaming YouTuber also known as Peri Fractic, bought the remains of an early PC company called Commodore in 2025, he decided to pick up right where the original Commodore...

The Verge • Jun 16, 2026 • David Pierce
Technology Jun 16, 2026

New way of making espresso with ultrasound

Article URL: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/06/New-way-making-espresso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges p...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Qobuz Is the Anti-Spotify Music Streamer You’ve Been Waiting For

With its music focus, no-AI content policy, and larger artist royalties, the hi-res streaming service is scooping up all...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

Article URL: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550936 Points:...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

Hey all, I made this. The archive started with my 2015 BA thesis on Amiga ASCII art when I was curious about the histor...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral ...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spen...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/microsoft-github-aws-ai-capacity-crunch Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/15/humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-coming-intelligence-explosi...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5

Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they're ...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

Article URL: https://www.narracomm.com/amazon-announces-multibillion-dollar-data-center-in-missouri/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Jun 16, 2026

Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

Article URL: http://ishmeetbindra.com/posts/reviews-have-become-expensive-rewrites-have-become-cheap/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Key mission for Europe's commercial space enterprise scrubbed again

Isar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight exp...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Show HN: Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject)

VS Code and JetBrains have official Claude Code IDE integration, but Visual Studio doesn't. There's an open GitHub issu...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

Article URL: https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants

Article URL: https://www.riksdagen.se/en/news/articles/2026/jun/9/permanent-residence-permits-to-be-abolished_cmsc5d86c...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs

Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12081882/san-francisco-has-been-trying-to-leave-pge-for-100-years-will-this-time...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Why I Email Complete Strangers

Article URL: https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, ...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’

In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of w...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean

Article URL: https://economist.com/the-americas/2026/06/11/techno-libertarians-are-flocking-to-the-caribbean Comments U...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, th...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told ...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

The Dead Economy Theory

Article URL: https://gmalandrakis.com/writings/ad-economicum.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology Jun 15, 2026

COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds

Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination. ...