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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

maltalex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:38:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421442

Points: 289

# Comments: 76

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

Ekami — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:31:51 +0000

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, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works.

I say this as someone who has spent more than 20 years honing their craft as a software engineer.

Let’s face it: by the time I manually ship version 1.0 of a product, the AI-assisted version could have been deployed 10x faster. By then, enough real-world feedback would have surfaced to identify the major issues, and tools like Claude Code would make it possible to fix and ship version 2.0 at an incredible pace.

At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420827

Points: 122

# Comments: 220

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

transistor-man — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148

Points: 150

# Comments: 48

Three of our worst VC stories

orgonon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:08:12 +0000

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273

More of these (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418641 below):

https://xcancel.com/gregisenberg/status/2061794787825479818 (<-- the OP)

https://xcancel.com/dunkhippo33/status/2062768969560510486

https://xcancel.com/typesfast/status/2062791307094048937

https://xcancel.com/awxjack/status/2062605286683336757

https://xcancel.com/travisk/status/2062224472426365045

https://xcancel.com/mark_cummins/status/2062293061426663612

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416845

Points: 221

# Comments: 111

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

toomuchtodo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:55:30 +0000

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/02/building-for-the-future-m...

https://www.adyen.com/press-and-media/adyen-payments-gov-uk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217

Points: 421

# Comments: 146

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

theanonymousone — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gemma-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414653

Points: 338

# Comments: 104

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

coffeemug — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414367

Points: 384

# Comments: 88

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things

jsve — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:39:38 +0000

Article URL: https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414027

Points: 297

# Comments: 230

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

speckx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:04:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413500

Points: 341

# Comments: 149

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

janpot — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413464

Points: 383

# Comments: 248

India's surprise baby bust

hakonbogen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:44:44 +0000

https://archive.ph/ZDxIe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413254

Points: 171

# Comments: 744

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

logicprog — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411635

Points: 391

# Comments: 398

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

mimorigasaka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:32:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409664

Points: 390

# Comments: 201

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

andrehacker — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:42:20 +0000

Most of us were amused when DALL-E and its peers went mainstream, and we were quick to point out the obvious flaws.

Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as a parlor trick that would never amount to much.

Using LLMs for coding initially was a only small step up from basic code completion, and a welcome farewell to Stack Overflow.

I am curious: what was the specific moment that you went from those quaint, dismissive observations to a slightly panicked, "Uh Oh" realization of what these models can do?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174

Points: 299

# Comments: 564

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

laxmena — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:10:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html