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2026-06-02

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (0xsid.com)

Meta's AI support system allows account takeover with only a username and spoofed location, bypassing two-factor authentication.

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Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services (GitHub)

Malicious versions of 31 npm packages in the @redhat-cloud-services scope were published across 95 compromised versions.

757 pts · 438 comments

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (point.free)

Running a 26B parameter language model at reading speed on a 2016 Xeon with 128GB DDR3 RAM and no GPU using speculative decoding and CPU-specific optimizations.

703 pts · 280 comments

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (torrentfreak.com)

The Pirate Bay survived its 2006 raid because a co-founder made a backup moments before police arrived, enabling resurrection within three days.

596 pts · 295 comments

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (Stanford CS336)

Stanford's CS336 course teaches language model development end-to-end, from tokenization through alignment, with five major assignments and public lecture videos.

511 pts · 49 comments

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (anthropic.com)

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC for a potential initial public offering.

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Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? (economist.com)

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI plan to raise up to $195 billion combined through IPOs, potentially adding $4 trillion to US market value.

498 pts · 863 comments

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (GitHub)

Stanford's CS336 course provides guidelines for AI agents to act as teaching assistants, not solution generators, in programming assignments.

453 pts · 141 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark (NVIDIA RTX Spark)

Nvidia launches RTX Spark slim laptops and small desktops with integrated AI and RTX graphics capabilities.

402 pts · 396 comments

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet? (Mullvad VPN)

Age verification for social media, framed as child protection, actually enables government control of the internet and threatens anonymity and free expression.

326 pts · 226 comments

macOS needs its grid back (Hopefully Useful)

Developer builds GridLion, a macOS app restoring grid-based virtual desktops removed in Lion 2011.

321 pts · 183 comments

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS (openai.com)

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS through Bedrock and direct integration.

315 pts · 110 comments

DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms (TechCrunch)

Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.

303 pts · 146 comments

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? (30fps.net)

Dividing RGB values by 255 vs. 256 reflects two quantizer types with different precision and convenience tradeoffs.

292 pts · 122 comments

Chipotlai Max (GitHub)

GitHub project forks OpenCode into Chipotlai Max, an AI coding agent that exploits Chipotle's free chatbot for compute.

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Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai (Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!)

Adafruit received a cease-and-desist letter from Flux.ai's counsel demanding it stop publishing an article about Flux.

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What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (Quanta Magazine)

Sterilized soil continues releasing CO2 for years, suggesting biochemical reactions occur without living cells.

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Why Janet? (2023) (ianthehenry.com)

Janet is a small Lisp dialect suited for scripting, CLIs, and side projects due to its simplicity and distributable compiled binaries.

251 pts · 117 comments

Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks (politico.com)

Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.

248 pts · 185 comments

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra (Windows Latest)

Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Ultra, an NVIDIA-powered ARM laptop competing with MacBook Pro, featuring up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute.

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