Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Agent 37 Cloud
Give every customer their own Hermes or OpenClaw agent Discussion | Link
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over […]
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
Alai 2.0
AI design partner for presentations, social posts, and more Discussion | Link
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Article URL: https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611411 Points: 367 # Comments: 146
The EU doesn't really know what a deepfake is, and that's becoming a problem for retail
Eurocommerce, the trade association behind Amazon, H&M, and IKEA, wants AI-generated ads exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules. The argument: an AI-generated living room image used to sell a sofa isn't a deepfake. Zalando alone says 90 percent of the marketing content on its platform is already AI-generated. The article The EU doesn't really know what a deepfake is, and that's becoming a problem for retail appeared first on The Decoder .
Toolport
Every tool, one port. One MCP setup for all your AI agents Discussion | Link
UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
Article URL: https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853 Points: 202 # Comments: 38
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
Article URL: https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-community Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827 Points: 258 # Comments: 77
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
Gemini CLI vs. Antigravity: What works, not the spec sheet
Google has decommissioned its Gemini CLI, the open-source terminal tool that just shipped last year. It had over 100,000 GitHub The post Gemini CLI vs. Antigravity: What works, not the spec sheet appeared first on The New Stack .
Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies. The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page. The project is still very early, but currently includes: Startup profiles Search and filtering Company categorization Public API (in progress) I'm especially interested in feedback on: What information you look for when researching startups Features missing from existing startup databases API use cases I'd love to hear feedback. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610224 Points: 184 # Comments: 58
New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption
A new ransomware operation named 'Prinz Eugen' prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. [...]
Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives
Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and […]
DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
Article URL: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766 Points: 196 # Comments: 57
Laguna by Poolside
Foundation models for agentic coding and long-horizon work Discussion | Link
Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots
When Project Valkey released version 9.1 last month, users, contributors and maintainers alike were understandably excited: There were new functionalities The post Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots appeared first on The New Stack .
VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Article URL: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-update-uk-households-34141063 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609385 Points: 285 # Comments: 317
Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers
Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. [...]
Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-popular-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609343 Points: 250 # Comments: 133
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even […]
OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever
OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill," and then repeats it on its own. The feature isn't available yet in the EU, the UK, or Switzerland. The article OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever appeared first on The Decoder .