Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
Article URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378495 Points: 47 # Comments: 11
Meta will reportedly let employees take 30-minute breaks from its tracking program
Workers can pause the all-seeing eye when they need to "check something personal."
AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/salinas_... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377761 Points: 140 # Comments: 130
Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis
Even in a future of robot taxis, someone still has to return the things passengers leave behind.
Cherry XTRFY launches first 8K ultra-wideband gaming keyboard — featuring more compact 70-percent layout
Cherry XTRFY launched the first 8K ultra-wideband wireless gaming keyboard at Computex 2026. The keyboard features a 70-percent layout, low-profile switches, and a gasket mount design.
Until Dawn 2 looks like Cabin in the Woods, but in a jungle
The sequel is headed to PS5 in 2027.
Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia
Article URL: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377496 Points: 59 # Comments: 4
Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
"It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.”
Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword arrives September 25 but there's a demo today
Capcom's latest game is looking sharp.
Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vram Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377404 Points: 196 # Comments: 57
Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows
Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. [...]
Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers
One hardware announcement and several software highlights from Microsoft Build.
Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses
The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.
OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5, as it plans to retire legacy ChatGPT models
OpenAI says it's rolling out a new update that improves the existing GPT-5.5 Instant model, and this move comes ahead of the scheduled retirement of multiple legacy models, including o3. [...]
God of War Laufey stars the wife of Kratos and a jelly cube
After playing as Kratos and Atreus, now we get to be Faye.
4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time
Article URL: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/mohenjo-daro-grew-more-equal-over-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377140 Points: 65 # Comments: 36
Gleam v1.17.0 Released
Article URL: https://gleam.run/news/single-file-gleam-beam-programs-with-escript/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377080 Points: 32 # Comments: 2
God of War Laufey is coming to the PS5
Sony ended its big State of Play showcase with a major reveal: the next God of War. The new title is called God of War Laufey, and is once again developed by Sony's Santa Monica Studio. Currently, the game doesn't have a date, but it's coming to the PS5 whenever it does launch. This time, instead...
Critical Kirki flaw exploited to hijack WordPress admin accounts
Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-8206) in the Kirki plugin for WordPress to take over any user account, including those belonging to administrators. [...]