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Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

karakoram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:07:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impact-on-society-a-new-study-shows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573332

Points: 340

# Comments: 339

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

brownrout — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:44:15 +0000

Hey HN, I built a website to watch live baseball games in an 8-bit broadcast. It takes live MLB data streams and converts them into near real-time pixel art gamecasts.

Been waiting to share this for when there’s actually a good slate of games happening since the site is pretty bare otherwise.

Here is today's schedule:

Mets @ Reds - 9:40am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/824503

Royals @ Nationals - 10:05am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/822721

Marlins @ Phillies - 10:05am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/823450

Tigers @ Astros - 11:10am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/824178

Padres @ Cardinals - 11:15am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/823044

..and another 14 games throughout the later day.

I'm still early on in this project, but I've tried to add little details with actual stadiums, day and night modes, between inning graphics and interstitials, live scoreboards, etc.

Would love any feedback and ideas. Thanks for checking it out!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573012

Points: 128

# Comments: 78

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

bookofjoe — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/french-physicist-and-media-star-loses-doctorate-after-plagiarism-investigation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571767

Points: 112

# Comments: 108

Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

thm — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fable.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571660

Points: 117

# Comments: 127

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

microtonal — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:04:47 +0000

Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526

Points: 303

# Comments: 214

Why stdx is not on crates.io

Keyb0ardWarri0r — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://kerkour.com/stdx-cratesio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571266

Points: 59

# Comments: 53

Epic Games announces Lore version control system

regnerba — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081

Points: 673

# Comments: 370

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

BerislavLopac — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:20:44 +0000

Article URL: https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570948

Points: 241

# Comments: 115

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

ilreb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570763

Points: 112

# Comments: 51

Want your images back? That'll be $5

lutr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:05:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569954

Points: 528

# Comments: 224

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

thm — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:11:27 +0000

Article URL: https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569278

Points: 903

# Comments: 471

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

schappim — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502

Points: 251

# Comments: 116

U.S. science is in chaos

presspot — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:54:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568058

Points: 378

# Comments: 426

Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

julienreszka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:40:33 +0000

Vent out. Maybe one of us will find a fix.

I'm mad that economic policies in France aren't based on what models say is best next action but on elections. Democracy really sucks.

I'm also very annoyed that models are censoring stuff without even clarifying what's wrong with the prompt.

I don't like that content distribution is still mostly owned by a few platforms. Something is deeply odd with that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567958

Points: 36

# Comments: 114

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

himata4113 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567759

Points: 645

# Comments: 332

Hacker News but for independent blogs

headalgorithm — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://bubbles.town/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

Points: 446

# Comments: 156

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

e2e4 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:04:42 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566832

Points: 172

# Comments: 137

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566791

Points: 67

# Comments: 103

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

giuliomagnifico — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:55:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498

Points: 158

# Comments: 134

DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'

dlgeek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/doj-claims-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-are-a-matter-of-national-economic-and-energy-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565429

Points: 88

# Comments: 80

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn

TechApocalypse — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:47:29 +0000

Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565130

Points: 217

# Comments: 239

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

slymax — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696

Points: 335

# Comments: 273

Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15

alok-g — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563609

Points: 211

# Comments: 112

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

denysvitali — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563394

Points: 347

# Comments: 88

The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

hn_acker — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/the-uks-teen-social-media-ban-is-political-theater-not-child-safety-policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562957

Points: 132

# Comments: 143

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

Cider9986 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654

Points: 962

# Comments: 540

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

SXX — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:37:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935

Points: 514

# Comments: 324

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

root-parent — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559188

Points: 248

# Comments: 285

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

gpjt — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/06/10g-ethernet-switching-to-broadcom-sfp-plus