TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated
University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066
Linux 7.1
Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4BF4bMhZNZ1tqs+FFV4OuZRe3ZqdWB+LxRLmRweUzQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528729 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
How to watch most of the World Cup matches with free trials
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - JUNE 11: In-Beom Hwang #6 of Korea Republic scores his team's first goal past Matej Kovar #1 of Czechia during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match between Korea Republic and Czechia at Guadalajara Stadium on June 11, 2026 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty ...
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
Article URL: https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371 Points: 26 # Comments: 11
Your Kindle could unlock thousands of free books: These are the best places to find them
Our self-proclaimed Scroogian (cheapskate) book-loving writer has put together a guide on finding free books for your Kindle.
I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey. I built a project to index them locally on my M1 Max using open-source ML models, search for those moments, and send the best clips straight to my DaVinci Resolve timeline. I indexed 6...
Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress
Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15897903/measles-surge-utah-US-elimination-status.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528025 Points: 90 # Comments: 44
Intel's upcoming 'Raptor Lake Next' will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding — Lineup may include a special 10-core SKU with 24MB of L3 cache
Intel's Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.
Perlisisms
Article URL: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527820 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
Cloud-based LLM gold rush is ending
Article URL: https://automato.substack.com/p/apple-wwdc-and-the-fable-5-embargo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527817 Points: 37 # Comments: 6
Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/breast-milk-research-chemicals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527731 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
No, everyone is not using AI for everything
Article URL: https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527700 Points: 186 # Comments: 175
Apple still has three unannounced iOS 27 features in the pipeline: report
Apple wrapped up its WWDC 2026 keynote this week, outlining all of its major new software features for the coming year, with Siri AI and improved stability taking the spotlight. That said, there are a few new features that are reportedly still in the works, and we should still see them by Septemb...
Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks
Article URL: https://twitter.com/zenmagnets/status/2065796012820848699 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527634 Points: 86 # Comments: 25
Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU
Article URL: https://github.com/alebal123bal/khadas_yolov8n_multithread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527623 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
FBI disrupts massive AI-powered phishing service using a million URLs
In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise with thousands of phishing websites used to steal credit card data and passwords. [...]
Extinction-Level Capitalism
Article URL: https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527533 Points: 66 # Comments: 22
Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens — company also boasts of its improvements in water efficiency
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
Article URL: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527377 Points: 33 # Comments: 3