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The world’s largest privately owned laser just turned on

Fusion startup Xcimer fired up the world's largest privately owned laser.

TechCrunch • Jun 3, 2026 • Tim De Chant
Technology Jun 3, 2026

Best Apple 3-in-1 Travel Chargers (2026): Anker, ESR, Satechi

Keep your trio of Apple gadgets powered up wherever you go with these compact folding chargers.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Enclayve Is a Drab Black Box for Your Private Group Chats

I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices

Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to mi...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation

Article URL: https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 3, 2026

AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI

Article URL: https://dmanco.dev/2025/08/17/fear-not-even-ai-engineers-will-be-replaced-by-ai.html Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

Article URL: https://leidendeclaration.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380670 Points: 16 # Com...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/doubling-down-controversial-claims-microsoft-accelerates-quantum-c...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code

Article URL: https://alphapixeldev.com/recovering-eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-source-code/ Comments URL: ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/americas-data-center-build-out-is-falling-way-behind-schedule-e408a9a8 Comment...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

Article URL: https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/ Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

Article URL: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device Comments U...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

The American Missile Crisis

Article URL: https://research.contrary.com/report/the-american-missile-crisis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

HHS is overriding peer review to require changes to research scope, design

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-hhs-now-weighing-science-nih-grants Comments URL: https:...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Agentic Mfw

Article URL: https://agenticmotherfucking.website Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379203 Points: 8...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab

Article URL: https://getnlab.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379005 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-ai-produce-writing-that-we-actually-want-to-read Comments U...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

Article URL: https://www.capstone-engine.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378925 Points: 11 # ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

Article URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378495 Poi...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs

Article URL: https://medium.com/@kivancgunalp/i-found-a-bug-in-apples-fsck-hfs-here-s-how-i-tracked-it-down-edc782ce5cf...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me

Article URL: https://searchzee.com/blog/search-without-ai-summaries Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series

Article URL: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

My Students Can't Read

Article URL: https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-students-cant-read Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Jun 2, 2026

More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support

Article URL: https://www.axa.com/en/press/press-releases/2026-mind-health-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Jun 2, 2026

AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study

Article URL: https://law.stanford.edu/press/ai-outperforms-law-professors-in-stanford-law-study/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology Jun 2, 2026

LLMs are not the black box you were promised

Article URL: https://www.jay.ai/blog/llms-are-not-a-black-box Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483776...

Technology Jun 2, 2026

Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis

Even in a future of robot taxis, someone still has to return the things passengers leave behind.

Technology Jun 2, 2026

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

Article URL: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...