Iran uses Lebanon as wedge between Trump and Israel
Iran is using Lebanon as leverage in peace talks with the U.S., exploiting tensions between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in the process.  Trump held two expletive-laden calls with Netanyahu earlier this week, demanding he retreat on a major...
3 questions answered by The Hill’s Invest in America Summit
The Hill held its second annual Invest in America Summit on Wednesday, as lawmakers, regulators and industry leaders spoke about how the U.S. economy is changing and keeping up with its competitors.  Whether it was how artificial intelligence (AI) and President Trump’s tariffs are impacting ...
Ableton Extensions SDK
Article URL: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389681 Points: 29 # Comments: 8
Conservative think tank alleges widespread ObamaCare enrollment fraud
An influential conservative think tank contends that a quarter of all ObamaCare exchange enrollments were improper, adding more fuel to claims from the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers that the exchanges are rife with fraud.  The Paragon Health I...
Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)
Article URL: https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389586 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
'Crazy' phone call between Trump and Netanyahu complicates Iran talks
Israel's PM laughed off reports of friction, but he has tested the patience of other US presidents.
2026 FIFA World Cup Bracket: Simulating the Tournament Based on Betting Favorites - FOX Sports
2026 FIFA World Cup Bracket: Simulating the Tournament Based on Betting Favorites FOX Sports
Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources."
Oil prices inch back toward $100 a barrel as U.S. stocks retreat from records
Oil prices rose Wednesday following the latest flare-up in fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, and U.S. stocks retreated from their records. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% from its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 466 points, or 0.9%, with an hour remaining in trad...
A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)
Article URL: https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389284 Points: 44 # Comments: 19
Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year
The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.
One killed and dozens injured in Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait airport
Iran says the attack on Kuwait was in retaliation for earlier US strikes on an Iranian oil tanker and island.
Nvidia is already planning N2X and N3X chips — the goal is the Star Trek computer
Just in case you were wondering, Nvidia's RTX Spark isn't supposed to be a one-off. The company is not just flirting with becoming the fifth high-profile vendor of consumer laptop chips to see if people bite. At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed at least two additional ge...
Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers
President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.
Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen
Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.
Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.
Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.
Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)
Article URL: https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388909 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
One of NYC’s Standout Omakases Celebrates the Chicken Oyster
Chef Atsushi “ATS” Kono has long been a yakitori expert, grilling and smoking skewers at Yakitori Torishin and his Chikarashi Isso yakitori pop-up at Hotel 40 Bowery. He flaunts those skills through his chicken yakitori tasting menu at Kono, his Chinatown restaurant, which he opened in 2022. The ...
Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5
Article URL: https://brume.aftertone.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388870 Points: 39 # Comments: 14
Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
If Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.
Homeowners are suddenly pulling their houses off the market—and this is why
As the scales tip in favor of homebuyers, more sellers are finding themselves unhappy with their prospects—and yanking their homes off the market. In April, 5.8% of all home listings in the U.S. were taken off the market, according to a new analysis from Redfin. That rate matches the record hi...
Uber lays off 23% of its HR and recruiting team that became ‘too complex and fragmented’
Uber is cutting 23% of jobs in its recruitment and human resources divisions, Bloomberg reported Wednesday morning. While Uber didn’t specify the number of employees impacted, the cuts account for less than 1% of the company’s workforce of 34,000. Other HR employees who were approved to work ...
Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it
Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app's sad fate after sweeping layoffs.
Manhattan DA: Thieves busted after stealing 25K pounds of cheese, $4.5M in wholesale goods
A surveillance image of alleged suspects in a national wholesale theft ring. Scammers showed up in trucks with fake logos and registrations to boost copper, cigarettes and a whole lot of Manchego cheese, officials said. [ more › ]
Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond
Substack's new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give creators greater control over how their audiences respond.
Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.
Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
Article URL: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388324 Points: 419 # Comments: 142
The best Bluetooth trackers for Apple and Android phones
Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they’re supposed to be, keys never go missing, and remotes never slip between the couch cushions. And then there’s the rest of us — the folks who can’t ever seem to find the thing that was right there a few seconds ago. For us, Blue...
Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland
Article URL: https://rootshell.is Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388253 Points: 37 # Comments: 29