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How to Spot Greenwashing Claims When You Travel
Hotels and other service providers pitch themselves as eco-friendly when they’re not. Here’s how to call their bluff.
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Jun 5, 2026
13 Environmentally Conscious Packing Tips for Your Next Vacation
Your trip starts impacting the planet before you even leave home. Here are a few pointers for keeping your footprint sma...
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Jun 5, 2026
pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414367 Points...
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Jun 5, 2026
Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry
Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade. ...
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Jun 5, 2026
The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google's AI Health Coach feels ...
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Jun 5, 2026
Stop Using Conventional Commits
Article URL: https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/ Comments URL: https://...
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Jun 5, 2026
Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924 Comments URL: h...
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Jun 5, 2026
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its ki...
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Jun 5, 2026
Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)
Hello, happy Friday!I am looking to do some in-person "developer boot-up" workshops, and seek your suggestions for "mod...
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Jun 5, 2026
The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise
Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply "learnings" from DOGE to the p...
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Jun 5, 2026
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
Article URL: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/ Comments URL: htt...
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Jun 5, 2026
Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air leaks
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413464 Poi...
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Jun 5, 2026
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselma...
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Jun 5, 2026
New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Article URL: https://scienceaim.com/new-york-just-passed-a-one-year-temporary-ban-on-data-centers/ Comments URL: https:...
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Jun 5, 2026
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
"The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"
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Jun 5, 2026
Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/05/dutch-govt-will-allow-european-company-operate-digid-platform Comments URL: ...
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Jun 5, 2026
India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world Comments ...
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Jun 5, 2026
Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.
The Huracan gave us the R8s, now the Temerario lends itself to a new Audi.
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Jun 5, 2026
NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks
The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.
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Jun 5, 2026
Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
Article URL: https://fagnerbrack.com/technical-interviews-reject-the-wrong-engineers-a8e78ca04b2e Comments URL: https:/...
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Jun 5, 2026
NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban ...
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Jun 5, 2026
I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Jun 5, 2026
Inside Madonna’s Horny Full-Throttle Grindr Takeover
From talking about sex with JFK Jr. to a surprise show in Times Square, the queen of pop is leveraging Grindr’s “gay...
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Jun 5, 2026
Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year's Artemis III launch. ...
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Jun 5, 2026
MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sig...
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Jun 5, 2026
What do you mean my new smart scale is ‘built for GLP-1 users’?
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the lat...
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Jun 5, 2026
Can AI tell if your script will make a hit film?
When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a ...
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Jun 5, 2026
Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do
Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from t...
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Jun 5, 2026
Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the ...
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Jun 5, 2026
AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.