2 Best Bluetooth Trackers of 2026, Plus Honorable Mentions
These are the best Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular gadgets to ensure you never lose anything ever again.
Finland deploys new system to detect threats to undersea cables — distributed acoustic sensors measure vibrations from the seabed and informs the authorities and operators of suspicious activities
Finnish companies and academic institutions, alongside the Finnish Navy and Border Guards, worked together to develop a system that used existing undersea cables to detect potential disturbances on the seabed. This system would allow the authorities to respond to any detected anomaly, potentially...
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
Velotric Nomad 2 Fat Tire Ebike, Tested and Reviewed (2026)
This wide-tired bike rolls comfortably over dirt, gravel, and whatever curbs you happen to bounce down.
Retro gaming enthusiast attempts loading games to Sega Genesis from a vinyl record player, recording game data as sound — Mega EverDrive Pro and Pi Pico 2 board not enough to overcome limitations of the turntable
A quirky tech enthusiast attempted to load Sega Genesis console games through a vinyl record player.
How to Share a Link to a Particular Phrase
Modern browsers let you share a link that jumps straight to whatever text you wish to highlight. Here’s how the feature works.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month to use xAI's data centers
Google has just signed a $30 billion AI computing power deal with SpaceX.
The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets
New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.
‘It’s Not a Joke’: A ‘Simpsons’ Writer Holds His First Presidential Campaign Rally
At a small kickoff event in Los Angeles, Dan Greaney explained why he could no longer stand by and watch the demolition of American democracy.
GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422798 Points: 237 # Comments: 127
Zig Zen Update
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/commit/621844bde551ee1a9b8142d7d146d1fa804247a2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422769 Points: 54 # Comments: 17
Azure Linux Desktop
Article URL: https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-desktop-a-build-2026-mashup-of-wslc-winui-reactor-and-azure-linux-4-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422451 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then
EA's Star Wars Zero Company drops August 27
Star Wars Zero Company's developers released a gameplay trailer, which features a short appearance by Anakin Skywalker.
Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421171 Points: 83 # Comments: 23
Lockdown Mode
Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421145 Points: 62 # Comments: 26
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421079 Points: 102 # Comments: 29
Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Genuine question. Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines. I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this,...
The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
Article URL: https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148 Points: 176 # Comments: 60
Chrome for Mac breaks benchmark records on the latest MacBook Pro
A new post on Google’s Chromium blog shares the results of the latest Chrome performance benchmarks, including record scores on tests running on an M5 MacBook Pro. Here are the details. more…