Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

231 lukasgross 2026-06-18 17:50:07 UTC twitter.com/noamshazeer Full Share 194

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

131 speckx 2026-06-18 18:50:07 UTC thatprivacyguy.com Llama Share 45

A customer club's marketing arrangement was found to be unlawful due to forced consent. The company was fined NOK 20 million for violating GDPR rules on consent, transparency, and data processing.

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

605 theorchid 2026-06-18 11:50:07 UTC orchidfiles.com Llama Share 138

The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.

Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia

32 sebg 2026-06-18 21:50:07 UTC bomwiki.com Llama Share 10

BOMwiki is a free encyclopedia of bill-of-materials, detailing products down to individual components. It lists various products, including excavators, commercial airliners, and smartphones, with massive numbers of parts involved.

American Express: Cell-Based Architecture for Resilient Payment Systems

47 birdculture 2026-06-18 19:50:07 UTC americanexpress.io Llama Share 11

American Express uses a cell-based architecture to ensure high availability and low latency in its payments ecosystem. This architecture isolates failures, maintains low-latency processing, and scales capacity without expanding the failure domain.

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

228 ksec 2026-06-18 14:50:07 UTC blog.ui.com Llama Share 207

ENAS offers a private, local storage platform with performance, scalability, and simplicity, eliminating costly licensing and proprietary hardware. It integrates with UniFi for centralized management, secure access, and multi-site backup orchestration without recurring software costs.

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

9 niyikiza 2026-06-18 21:56:07 UTC blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Prefix Share 2

The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension is now stable. Organizations can centrally manage authorization for MCP servers and end-users can access all connected MCP servers through a single log in. The extension is being adopted by Anthropic, Microsoft, Okta and a growing number of MCP servers. The Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) extension is now stable. We’ve heard from the ...

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

66 dstala 2026-06-18 18:50:07 UTC wired.com Llama Share 40

The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's AI technology due to concerns over SK Telecom's ties to China. Anthropic revoked access to its models for foreign nationals after the White House ordered it to do so.

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

632 leonidasrup 2026-06-18 14:50:07 UTC bluewin.ch Llama Share 484

The Federal Palace in Bern is bustling with activity as the National Council and Council of States debate various important issues during their summer session. The agenda includes the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, federal finances, and the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

82 speckx 2026-06-18 17:50:07 UTC rednafi.com Llama Share 90

The user previously used GNU stow to manage their dotfiles but switched to chezmoi due to symlinking issues. Chezmoi keeps a source directory with copies of live files and applies changes to the home directory.

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

62 lackoftactics 2026-06-18 17:50:07 UTC mroczek.dev Llama Share 69

The author is skeptical of RTK's long-term viability due to its misleading savings statistic and critical structural flaws. RTK's optimization may lead to silent failures and decreased task accuracy, making it an operational risk.

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost

269 giuliomagnifico 2026-06-18 10:50:07 UTC kcl.ac.uk Llama Share 114

Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

269 ibobev 2026-06-18 11:50:07 UTC cs.cornell.edu Llama Share 39

CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

19 dpola 2026-06-18 20:50:07 UTC dpolakovic.space Llama Share 1

User investigated the origin of the word "zork" in the game Zork, initially believing it was a jargon word for unfinished programs. After researching and contacting experts, they found no evidence to support this claim.

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

90 okwasniewski 2026-06-18 15:50:07 UTC tester.army Llama Share 40

TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.

Agentic Resource Discovery Specification

40 damick 2026-06-18 18:50:07 UTC agenticresourcediscovery.org Llama Share 10

The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD) solves the problem of discovering available capabilities for AI clients. ARD lets clients ask what agentic resources can help with a task, returning matching capabilities with details on who provides them.

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty

165 nemoniac 2026-06-18 12:50:07 UTC blog.elenarossini.com Llama Share 114

The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

104 turtlesoup 2026-06-18 21:50:07 UTC intheweights.com Full Share 77

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

253 FergusArgyll 2026-06-18 10:50:07 UTC nelson.cloud Llama Share 81

Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further

206 Vinnl 2026-06-18 11:50:07 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 58

Modos Flow is a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with higher resolution and touch input, improving on the Paper Monitor Dev Kit. The Flow's crowdfunding campaign is live on Crowd Supply, with cofounders discussing engineering and lessons learned from their crowdfunding journey.

The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars

276 Tomte 2026-06-18 17:50:07 UTC independent.co.uk Llama Share 195

Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, donates half a billion dollars to charity, giving away his wealth to those in need. He believes in kindness over riches, inspired by his childhood lessons from Holocaust survivors.

Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month

159 felipevb 2026-06-18 19:50:07 UTC ns.nl Full Share 71

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Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?

55 asim 2026-06-18 18:50:07 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 29

You're revisiting A2A protocol, an agent-to-agent protocol from Google, and wondering if anyone is using it yet. It seems like A2A could enable relevant context and query answering between agents with tools, services, and data.

Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts

116 realmofthemad 2026-06-18 14:50:07 UTC gerrymandle.cc Llama Share 53

I will draw district lines to favor the yellow party. I will use gerrymandering techniques like packing and cracking to concentrate yellow voters in a few districts and split opponents across multiple districts.

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

117 tzury 2026-06-18 13:50:07 UTC worksinprogress.co Llama Share 89

Alberta, a Canadian province, has been rat-free for over 70 years despite being surrounded by infested areas. Its success is due to a proactive rat control program that began in the 1950s, focusing on a narrow border zone and using a combination of surveillance, education, and targeted poisoning.

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

399 frou_dh 2026-06-18 12:50:07 UTC rahuljuliato.com Llama Share 217

The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

9 skogstokig 2026-06-18 21:50:07 UTC paulbuchheit.blogspot.com Prefix Share 3

By now, everyone is tired of hearing about the iPad, but the negative responses are so perfectly misguided that it would be wrong to waste this opportunity. Even better, we can look back at the 2001 iPod launch and see the exact same mistakes. But this isn't about the iPad or the iPod -- it's about product design. The most famous iPod review was from Slashdot, which simply declared, ...

A website that lists websites to submit your website to

375 azeemkafridi 2026-06-18 15:50:07 UTC submission.directory Llama Share 85

Submit your website to various platforms for backlinks and visibility. Choose from launch directories, review marketplaces, and founder networks to reach target audiences and improve search engine rankings.

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

565 Adam-Hincu 2026-06-18 12:50:07 UTC windowslatest.com Llama Share 376

Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.

Emacs, how it all started for me

132 nukifw 2026-06-18 14:50:07 UTC xvw.lol Llama Share 50

The author chose Emacs as their primary editor due to its wide range of language support and ease of use on Windows. They eventually switched to Linux and continued using Emacs, learning to customize it effectively over time.