
arstechnica.com
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next/As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.Jun 12, 2026 10:20 PM
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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: Depressionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461I stopped caring about my job a while ago. I’ve become somewhat numb and withdrawn due to a mix of substance abuse, overworking, poor sleep and poor cognition habits due to AI usage.For those who have gone through this mental exhaustion, what has helped?Jun 12, 2026 9:11 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
deadinternet.tech
Show HN: A Terrible Way to Consume Hacker News – AI Slophttps://deadinternet.tech/feedI'm probably not the only one who has been frustrated by my LinkedIn feed being almost entirely AI-slop thought-leadership lately. I had this thought that an entirely AI generated feed wouldn't be any less useful than my actual feed, so I built one. It scans the top 30 HN posts and takes any that haven't been "discussed" and sets a swarm of agents on it. Shockingly, it feels a lot like my actual feed these days.Jun 12, 2026 3:16 PM

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In China, the Middle-Class Home Aesthetic Is for Hirehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimgFBVV95cUxPdW5EOFo4VkhHbDFHN09WLWtzSWZqZ0ROcU5yWnpwN3R5a1dSTDBEZXk2SE04cWM4T1Y3bWRFYUVKS3hkVDh0QVlnRkk1UEVZbThMRHl2UW0yaUhvcDJsSTllc0VYZ29CaDcxRThOX0hteEZSLWNaanEwMnU5cjhNdnVzbjJmVlRNZlRCRnU1d1B6Qmd2aEJHQThR?oc=5In China, the Middle-Class Home Aesthetic Is for Hire Sixth ToneJun 12, 2026 1:43 PM
bing.com
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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LEGO, What Has Become of Your Catalogs? A Farewellhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXkFVX3lxTE9oamg3dkZGVVVXZGtOdGtOSEFqRDNOaFJLTUtDQVhvR2tPSGtTNkVUdmxyajV4WmQ4cU14NjlPalM5dHBfVDVkdTllT3Riay1XN3kxUWlmNnNFVjhMdHc?oc=5LEGO, What Has Become of Your Catalogs? A Farewell StoneWars.comJun 12, 2026 7:00 AM
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Stimulants Are the Killer of Generalistshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500343From a young age, I was prescribed stimulants to 'treat' a strong case of ADHD. Being ~7 at the time, I had no clue what was going on. Never really questioned it either. Fast forward 18 years: through a lot of introspection, I can happily say I am not in a position I'd like to be in.Stimulants come at tradeoffs.I've come to realize that people with ADHD are: - Observant - Social - GeneralistI've also come to notice that I am: - Specialist - Zombie - Anti Social"Locked-in" = specialist.I hate specialization. Its fragile. Throughout history, generalists have reigned. Entrepreneurs are generalists. I want to be an entrepreneur.I work a job now. Software Engineering. Im left wondering, what will I do if I leave the stimulants? I dont vouch for the life I live, at all. I will find a way out of it.Im not an introvert. Yet I've grown as one. Its isolating, seeing people socialize and strangely feeling out of place.I've confirmed all of this through trial and error. Dropping the stimulants, goJun 12, 2026 5:39 AM
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DevRel is becoming a freelance job now? (India specific)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499909For the past 6 to 8 months, I've been observing that a lot more of the DevRel in India has started to become more of a freelancing gig. Companies pay someone to do a series of events. That person charges or gets the money, does the event, and gets a fraction of it, plus multiple more sponsors as well. Not saying that there is anything wrong, but whatever happened to building developer programs...This is a very interesting and exciting change in the landscape of developer communities for me personally. I've been building a platform to solve this problem. Right now, it seems like something like PPC or PPV, like paid ads you run on Google, Meta, or anywhere else. This is more like "which weekend can you occupy?" or "how many people can you gather?" The point is that there are enough people to attend all of them, whether online or offline.Having talked to multiple companies around this to see if there's a freelancing gig opportunity: 1. Let's do a pilot 2. My budget is USD 500, can you do Jun 12, 2026 4:26 AM
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
github.com
Show HN: Kikubot – Each AI agent is an inboxhttps://github.com/mxaiorg/kikubotHi All, I’ve posted an OSS Agent framework with its main philosophy being the use of email as the message bus (no message queue, vector store, orchestrator). Essentially every agent is an email address. The main reason behind this project is to facilitate company adoption & deployment of AI agents.# How it behaves (what it looks like) A user sends an email to a specific email address, e.g., kiku@agent.acme.com. Kiku was created as a designated coordinator agent that takes the requested task, like “take the attached article and prepare social media posts”, and routes it to one or more internal agents via email. Kiku knows to which agents to route to because “she” maintains a “roster” of the agents in the cluster. This roster describes the capabilities of each agent. Agents act on the part of the task sent to them and return the results to the coordinator who then returns it to the user.One of the key design aspects is the project uses email threading as state memory. When the agent’s LLJun 11, 2026 3:50 PM

spacenews.com
Missile defense in the age of saturation warfarehttps://spacenews.com/missile-defense-in-the-age-of-saturation-warfare/With the evolution of new military technologies, the trajectory of war has undergone a massive change. Historically, wars were fought through direct confrontation on the battlefield, while contemporary warfare is […] The post Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 11, 2026 11:00 AM
bing.com
The Best Clear Protein Powders, With Insights From A Gastro Dietitianhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5ae858c74a41924f893046a5b4d9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fforbes-personal-shopper%2Farticle%2Fbest-clear-protein-powders%2F&c=5204292942732531646&mkt=en-usClear protein powders have quietly become one of the more interesting protein-specific products over the past few years. Unlike the creamy, thick protein shakes most of us are accustomed to, the best ...Jun 11, 2026 10:23 AM
bing.com
The Best Clear Protein Powders, With Insights From A Gastro Dietitianhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d145f757d46118c87d79f51acf7f2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fforbes-personal-shopper%2Farticle%2Fbest-clear-protein-powders%2F&c=5204292942732531646&mkt=en-usClear protein powders have quietly become one of the more interesting protein-specific products over the past few years. Unlike the creamy, thick protein shakes most of us are accustomed to, the best ...Jun 11, 2026 10:23 AM
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I added a prompt to future ASI – TLBIC Policy Proposal v5 now availablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487847Hello, everyone. I'm sharing the fifth version of the TLBIC (Time-Limited Local Basic Income Credit) Policy Proposal, now including a direct message — a prompt — addressed to future ASI. I've also released a version contextualized for Timor-Leste. If any part of this proposal resonates with you, I would be genuinely glad. As a reminder to myself: I want to keep moving forward — without rushing, without losing my footing, with calm, honesty, care, and flexibility. Thank you for reading to the end. Note: All translations into foreign languages were made with the full assistance of AI.TLBIC Policy Proposal v5.0 (EN):https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R7_-QeSZvJGvDUA0xpiarFLOipe...TLBIC Policy Proposal v5.1 (EN / Timor-Leste):https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_IiJZsSHRVuIfeHiaz6W_xu7sii...TLBIC Policy Proposal v4.1 (PT-BR):https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZdtVTbNQl5y4PlFiLvfmD7UxiU5...TLBIC Policy Proposal v4.11 (ES):https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rumXwwBa79RgxNkBe9PoYSRUz6c...TLBIC Policy Jun 11, 2026 8:40 AM

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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeasthttps://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/air-pollutions-daily-pulse-over-the-northeast/The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.Jun 11, 2026 4:01 AM
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Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485429I’ve been noticing this disturbing trend for quite a while. By high karma I mean well over 1000 karma.And some of these leave comments so bizarre, that I can’t find any charitable explanation.Other than perhaps they may be skipping reading every other word or something… and then respond to an imaginary version of the parent.Uncharitably, they could be semi-random keyboard bashing, deranged bashing, emotional tantrums, and so on. Or LLM written… except the style doesnt match.Of course this has always been somewhat prevalent for low karma users, but it’s now creeping up higher and higher.For example, I had a recent bizarre encounter.I had double checked the first 10 pages of google results, in regards to a claim that I implied prior in the comment chain, mentioning that it seemed supportive of the claim.Maybe the novelty of someone doing that, and not just randomly opining, triggered something.Realistically, it didn’t take more than 5 minutes of effort, but still… it would have been 1 toJun 11, 2026 2:07 AM
topolog.co.uk
Show HN: Topolog – Plans as typed DAG programs, deadlines computed, not guessedhttps://www.topolog.co.ukHey HN, I’m Rohith, founder of Topolog. I was always curious about what Gantt charts, TODO lists and Kanban boards have in common. In Topolog, every plan you design is actually a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) from which the Gantt, list and Kanban views fall out. Topolog was named after topological sort.All plans in Topolog are written in a custom DSL called Total Orchestration Language (TOL) which has some nice properties, totality (and thus non-Turing-completeness) being the big one. “Total” means that every plan provably terminates. That's what lets the engine exhaustively analyze any plan you write. The handbook for the language is public so anyone can learn and write in it (https://www.topolog.co.uk/docs/tol-handbook). You can edit the raw source directly, or use the IDE.Probabilistic reasoning is built into the product from the ground up and every plan gets a Monte Carlo simulation to generate a “Completion Spectrum” which is the probabilistic “smear” of plan completion times dividJun 10, 2026 11:41 PM
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AI: Equalizer or Divider?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484306There is a saying “God made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” AI sometimes can have similar effect. In one enterprise system I’ve seen, the gap between people using a tool 40 hours a week and those using it 2 hours a week nearly disappeared after AI agents were introduced. I have also seen the gap between a 10x developer and an average one shrink after everyone got generous Cursor subscriptions.At the same time, recent public reporting on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos-class models suggests that the most capable systems may be rolled out through limited-access programs or premium channels rather than broadly and evenly.Throughout history, who could afford access to the best technology of the time often shaped who got to govern. In ancient Greece, hoplites were ordinary free citizens who funded their own gear, tying military service to civic participation. Similarly, colonial American militias embedded armed service into everyday community life. By contrast, the prohibitive Jun 10, 2026 11:37 PM