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Pedal Electric H/T Review: A Fast, Powerful, Stylish Ebike

The pedal-assist can be jerky, but the throttle offers smooth, powerful acceleration.

Wired • Jun 12, 2026 • Billy Brown
Technology Jun 12, 2026

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users. ...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

"If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Why Real-Life Disclosure Day Will Look Nothing Like Steven Spielberg’s New Movie

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485023...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

The Future of Email

Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-future-of-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4850...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Sheeran Loopers Looper X Review: Create Your One-Person Tour

The musician created his own line of loopers that record and layer riffs in a loop. The pricey Looper X does what it cla...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men

Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for “traditional” and “conse...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup

FIFA announced agreements with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube that include the participation of dozens of internat...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

You Probably Won’t Get Rich Off the SpaceX IPO

The company has set aside an unusually high number of shares for retail investors. Still, experts say, you’re just get...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test

The rocket maker debuts on Nasdaq today under a wave of criticism about Musk’s near-absolute control. It’s how the c...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Report on an Unidentified Space Station

Article URL: https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012 Point...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview ...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

Article URL: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577 Comments UR...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

Article URL: https://www.korte.co/2026/06/11/digital-sovereignty-becomes-an-imparative-as-the-us-reads-dutch-emails/ Co...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

Article URL: https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/ Comments U...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Device Clock Generation

Article URL: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2025/12/17/devclk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499890...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reco...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers

The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCor...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Deconstructing Datalog

Article URL: https://www.rntz.net/post/my-thesis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498442 Point...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

Article URL: https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Jun 12, 2026

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2002) [pdf]

Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jun 11, 2026

Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors wit...

Technology Jun 11, 2026

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/biological-evolution-and-information Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Jun 11, 2026

If You Are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 11, 2026

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water from Thin Air

Article URL: https://news.utexas.edu/2026/06/11/this-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air/ Comments URL: https://n...