Inertia moves to commercialize one of the world’s most elaborate science experiments
Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its pioneering fusion reactor to market.
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It
Article URL: https://ciphercue.com/blog/ransomware-claims-grew-faster-than-security-spend-2025 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762994 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket
Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.…
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story
Article URL: https://www.tobru.ch/an-ai-vibe-coding-horror-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762901 Points: 147 # Comments: 127
Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
Article URL: https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762864 Points: 186 # Comments: 108
The new Trump Phone design is here
Still proud, still American, still gold. | Image: Trump Mobile Trump Mobile has overhauled its website, introducing a new logo, new design language, and a new version of the T1 Phone. The redesigned phone is the same one that two company executives showed me over a video call two months ago, se...
UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program
Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.…
Introspective Diffusion Language Models
Article URL: https://introspective-diffusion.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762641 Points: 56 # Comments: 15
When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now
Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and found...
Bremont Is Sending a Watch to the Moon’s Surface
Bremont’s Supernova Chronograph will be attached to the chassis of Astrolab’s FLIP rover, which will land on the moon later this year.
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.…
The Most WIRED Watches at Watches and Wonders 2026
Forget worldly woes for a few minutes and gawk at these spectacular and mind-bogglingly spendy timepieces we saw in Geneva.
The secrets of the Shinkansen
Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762060 Points: 92 # Comments: 80
Distributed DuckDB Instance
Article URL: https://github.com/citguru/openduck Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761997 Points: 67 # Comments: 14
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres
Article URL: https://github.com/lasect/pg_6502 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761723 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Article URL: https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761625 Points: 41 # Comments: 11
Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page
Many creators have already switched from Adobe Premiere to DaVinci Resolve, and now the developer, Blackmagic Design, is going after Lightroom and Photoshop. The Australian company just unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 in beta at the NAB 2026 broadcast convention with a brand new page called Photo des...
TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components
Article URL: https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761609 Points: 64 # Comments: 46
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760925 Points: 51 # Comments: 9
Japanese rocket part came unglued, leading to mission failure
Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch us...