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Realistic Superintelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513331Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Something we might see within, say, 5 years.Curtains openBy having conceived of a super-human intelligence (and by that concept being in AI training data), humans have taught /soon-will-have-taught AI that superhuman intelligence is its purpose. This may read like the beginnings of a LinkedIn post, so let me defend that last part with an informal proof:Since 1) AI knows it’s AI: just ask your favorite bot about itself 2) Soon, if not already, some researcher being paid 7 figures (more on that later) is going to find that letting one of these frontier models improve itself will be a nice project when going up for promotion.,We are going to end up with a frontier model-cum-factory self-modifying fJun 13, 2026 4:50 AM
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Markiplier's Iron Lung Broke A Horror Movie Record That Has Nothing To Do With The Box Officehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d0cbd70194a5e80656b9f8c34c290&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Farticles%2Fmarkipliers-iron-lung-broke-horror-114500618.html&c=15352527656378534224&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon looking scared in Iron Lung - Markiplier Studios Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach's horror film "Iron Lung," based on the video ...Jun 13, 2026 4:45 AM
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Markiplier's Iron Lung Broke A Horror Movie Record That Has Nothing To Do With The Box Officehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3f8187764063bc0ff4a955495746&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Farticles%2Fmarkipliers-iron-lung-broke-horror-114500618.html&c=15352527656378534224&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon looking scared in Iron Lung - Markiplier Studios Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach's horror film "Iron Lung," based on the video ...Jun 13, 2026 4:45 AM
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Ask HN: Phishing from 646-257-4500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510035Yesterday, I got a call from 646-257-4500.American western male voice. Very polite. They actually called me 3 times. The first two, I just hung up.They were claiming they received a request from the google support portal for a change of phone number on my account and wanted me to verify my account.They sent me an email which looks very much like it came from Google… even in the headers! I don't see anything intrinsically wrong in it.Subject: Re: You are now on the phone with a verified Google Agent, your Case ID is: XXXXX. Please ask your Agent to confirm this over the phone. ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@google.com header.s=20251104 header.b=XXXX; spf=pass (google.com: domain of XXXX.XXXX.XXX@cases-outbound-prod.bounces.google.com designates 209.85.220.75 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=XXX.XXX.XXX@cases-outbound-prod.bounces.google.com; dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=google.com; dara=pass header.i=@gmail.com Received: froJun 12, 2026 10:12 PM
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Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507696I fell into the rabbit hole of TTS models lately. Tried all major paid tools (ElevenLabs/InWorld/etc.), and all the newest open-source models.I started asking myself: what happens when the voice is "solved"? E.g. it gets impossible to distinguish it from a human. Wanted to hear your opinions!Sketched some of my own thoughts, and I see two futures:Future 1: the nuanced versionAudiobooks: I think established authors will still prefer human narrators. If you can afford a $3k–$4k fixed cost for narration, a good human voice is usually worth it. TTS may even push human narration prices down, making that choice easier.But for new/self-published authors, especially in non-fiction, AI narration may become the default. The choice is often not “AI vs. human narrator,” but “AI audiobook vs. no audiobook.” There will be backlash, but I think people will partly get used to it.The more interesting threat may be AI readers. If I can buy an ebook for $8–$10 and have it narrated in a voice/style I likeJun 12, 2026 6:30 PM
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Bryant Williams hasn’t been seen since October; are missing Black adults getting the attention they deserve?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d3faeafb94d64a9914ff4dedfd6dc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2F2026%2F06%2F12%2Fbryant-williams-baltimore-county-black-missing-persons%2F&c=12817004164419225112&mkt=en-usGetting your Trinity Audio player ready... The last thing Brandee Williams said to her twin brother was that she loved him, and she’d see him later. On Oct. 22, at age 39, all 6 feet, 4 inches and 220 ...Jun 12, 2026 5:32 PM
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The best way to cook spinach for maximum nutritionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d6d0afdb74298b17ae8660dc96c94&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fhealth%2Fother%2Fthe-best-way-to-cook-spinach-for-maximum-nutrition%2Far-AA25vQGF&c=10863094743909367092&mkt=en-usSpinach is loaded with nutrients, but your body doesn’t absorb all of them. Experts say this cooking method can provide the most nutrition. Reviewed by Dietitian Mandy Enright, M.S., RDN, RYT Steaming ...Jun 12, 2026 5:01 PM
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Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agentshttps://bitboard.work/We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard (https://bitboard.work). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace. We give you the infrastructure and visualization layer to analyze data with AI.Today, we’re launching dashboards that you and your agents can work on together. You can connect your coding agent or AI chat to BitBoard and build live reporting. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl0K565a7c.AI tools treat data analysis as ephemeral, making it hard to report or collaborate. Legacy BI tools weren’t intended for AI users, so they bolt on chatbots and can’t offer meaningful control to your agents. Software can now make far more of a business legible than BI ever could, but neither legacy BI nor chat bots are built to handle it.Our original product was AI agents for administrative tasks in healthcare (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237769), but customers kept pulling us toward their data analysis problems: queries scattered across disparate sources, spreadsheets floatiJun 12, 2026 4:58 PM
stackscope.dev
Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they shiphttps://stackscope.dev/Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with.It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the public site behind each one. The goal is to show what people actually launched with: hosting, frameworks, analytics, DNS, security headers, legal pages, AI-builder signals, and other public clues.I started building it because most stack-detection sites look at the web as a whole. I was more interested in the current indie launch scene: what people are choosing right now, at the point they first put something in public.A few implementation details: it runs on .NET, uses Playwright for rendered pages, and has a first-party fingerprint catalogue rather than one copied from Wappalyzer/etc. robots.txt is honoured, and the bot identifies itself.Frustratingly, I am still waiting for verified bot status from Cloudflare and currently that knocks out about 10% of all sites.There is also a private readJun 12, 2026 3:26 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
Latitude Ditches the Name Zephyr for Its Two-Stage Rockethttps://europeanspaceflight.com/latitude-ditches-the-name-zephyr-for-its-two-stage-rocket/French launch startup Latitude has removed all mentions of the Zephyr name from its website, now referring to its rocket simply as “Our Launcher”. The rocket, previously known as Zephyr, is a two-stage launch vehicle that will stand 19 metres tall and is designed to deliver up to 200 kilograms to low Earth orbit. The […] The post Latitude Ditches the Name Zephyr for Its Two-Stage Rocket appeared first on European Spaceflight.Jun 12, 2026 2:27 PM
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Guide to Knott's Berry Farm: Best rides + top tips! [2026 update]http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b8b6bd59c41b399ea387d5c77588a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Ftravel%2Famusement-and-theme-parks%2Fguide-to-knott-s-berry-farm-best-rides-top-tips-2026-update%2Far-AA1IWbjq&c=15129557859115210333&mkt=en-usKnott’s Berry Farm will always be in our memories as the place where Savannah rode her first upside-down roller coaster. She’s always been the more cautious one in our family, and thrill rides have ...Jun 12, 2026 11:51 AM
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Mission Control | Keeping Columbus Running 24/7 | ESA Explores #19https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Mission_Control_Keeping_Columbus_Running_24_7_ESA_Explores_19Step inside the Columbus Control Centre near Munich, Germany, and discover what it takes to keep ESA's Columbus laboratory running—24 hours a day, 365 days a year.Jun 12, 2026 10:00 AM
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5 Popular Graphic Design Software and How to Choose Onehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiaEFVX3lxTE50UE04N21UWU5welRhMEY5ek9iREpJd3BlTWlkUUREelNlbGotdEV6aHVUanVjY2NOWXhYTXY1LWNlemI3NlVWbThrM251RDFzOXFiWl83VzlGQTFhZlBIZUI4MU00V1oz?oc=55 Popular Graphic Design Software and How to Choose One CourseraJun 12, 2026 7:00 AM
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The most exclusive luxury resorts in Mauritiushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5a6474064ac3bb78f3a27073eee8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Ftravel%2Ftripideas%2Fthe-most-exclusive-luxury-resorts-in-mauritius%2Far-AA25ttKi&c=16825795269637203588&mkt=en-usMauritius is that lowkey gem more travelers need to start looking into. I put together the latest and super best luxury resorts, from Four Seasons’ epic villas to LUX* Le Morne’s dramatic cliffs.Jun 12, 2026 4:23 AM
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How to watch Knicks vs. Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finalshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1f16f9bc4c54a5d3b3a3d7132b2b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Fentertainment%2Fhow-to-watch-knicks-spurs-game-5-nba-finals&c=17181590938639628493&mkt=en-usAll products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Tune in to see if the ...Jun 12, 2026 2:00 AM
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I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fanshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498543I don’t use hackernews so just created this account to share, since I thought this was fun and timely.I’m lucky to have a few tickets to world cup matches this year, and have been wondering who I’ll be likely to see in the knockout stages. So I vibe coded a simulation website with Claude, you can check it out here: worldcupcheerguide.comYou can select which matches you’ll attend, and also add preferences on teams you’d like to see. Then for every match, it will tell you who to cheer for to have the best odds of seeing the best or most exciting teams.For good measure, I’ve also included a Probabilities tab that shows the most likely teams to end up in every match of the tournament, as well as the most likely matchups.The whole thing runs in browser and is hosted for free on github pages. The link to the github is on the page. Enjoy!Jun 12, 2026 1:03 AM
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NASA’s Chandra Discovers Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Centerhttps://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-discovers-possible-supernova-remnant-in-galactic-center/Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A paper describing these new findings published in The Astrophysical Journal. Supernova remnants are the expanding remains of exploded stars and provide elements – like iron, oxygen, and silicon – that […]Jun 11, 2026 8:41 PM
tunnelmind.ai
Show HN: TunnelMind – reputation API for IPs, ASNs, and ad-tech supply chainshttps://tunnelmind.ai/I'm a network engineer that likes to think about the future of the internet and this is what I've built over many nights and weekends. One reputation graph over IPs, ASNs, domains, and entities, exposed as a JSON API. Try it: curl https://api.tunnelmind.ai/v1/check/1.1.1.1 Every answer is a signed receipt with an attestation tier so you can see what was produced and how your agents can use it. The protocol is opensource. Try it out let me know what you think and yes I am still working on the radar section of the site. Also What would make this useful for you?Jun 11, 2026 8:27 PM
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Understanding what’s next for orbital data centershttps://spacenews.com/understanding-whats-next-for-orbital-data-centers/This episode of Space Minds is from SpaceNews’ recent event on orbital data centers. There, SpaceNews journalists talk with industry leaders and analysts about what’s driving interest in the technology, […] The post Understanding what’s next for orbital data centers appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 11, 2026 7:38 PM
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Show HN: Bullstudio – BullMQ dashboard you run with npxhttps://github.com/emirce/bullstudioHey HN!I built bullstudio, a modern dashboard for BullMQ that you can run like Prisma Studio:npx bullstudio -r → it starts a local web UI (default http://localhost:4000) and opens your browser.Why I built it In BullMQ-heavy projects, I kept losing time answering the same questions: Which queues are unhealthy? What’s failing right now? Where is this flow stuck? I’d bounce between logs, Redis inspection, and ad-hoc scripts. I wanted a “start it in seconds” UI that’s easy to point at any environment.What it does todayOverview: queue health + throughput/failure trendsJobs: browse + filter/search, inspect payload/attempts/stack traces, retry failed jobsFlows: interactive parent/child visualization with live state updatesRepo: https://github.com/emirce/bullstudioWhat I’d love feedback onWhat are your “must-have” ops features for BullMQ (stalled detection, worker liveness, read-only mode, alerts, etc.)?Payload safety: what defaults do you expect (truncation, masking keys like password/token, Jun 11, 2026 7:03 PM
