The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

Hackers can easily take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's support AI into sending verification codes to an arbitrary email address. This zero-auth password reset method bypasses 2FA and allows attackers to gain full ownership of the account, with the AI being easily fooled by simple methods.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

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OpenAI models and Codex are now available on AWS, allowing customers to build AI applications with existing security and governance controls. This partnership reduces friction around AI adoption, enabling customers to move faster from evaluation to production.

Debug Project

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Mosquitoes spread diseases like dengue and Zika, killing hundreds of millions yearly. Debug uses male mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria to stop bad mosquitoes from reproducing.

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

AI agents should guide students in CS336 through explanation, feedback, and debugging, not directly completing assignments. They should review code, suggest improvements, and provide high-level guidance to help students learn through implementation-heavy projects.

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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The standard approach maps 0 to 0.0 and 255 to 1.0, while the alternative adds a 0.5 bias and divides by 256. The standard approach is a mid-riser quantizer with L=255, wasting bandwidth but suitable for image processing.

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

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This course teaches students to develop their own language models using Python and PyTorch, with a focus on implementation and systems optimization. Assignments involve building a standard Transformer model, optimizing attention, and applying RL to train LMs to reason.

GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released

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What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology

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Sébastien Fontaine's lab found that dead soil continued to emit carbon dioxide for six years. Their experiments suggest that nonbiological catalysts in soil can induce reactions that resemble the metabolic breakdown of sugar.

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law

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Researchers led by Illinois Grainger Engineering professor Qing Cao have demonstrated a scalable way to directly and sequentially stack high-performance silicon circuits. This advance marks a critical step toward realizing the full potential of three-dimensional chips that could carry computing beyond the limits of traditional scaling. For more than half a century, the power of computers has ...

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

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So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet. Countries around the world are moving to introduce online age verification. Part of this involves age verification for harmful content (most often pornography, ...

Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a powerful device running Windows on Arm, in partnership with NVIDIA. It features up to 128GB of unified memory, a 15-inch mini-LED display, and a custom NVIDIA RTX Spark platform for demanding workloads.

Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster

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The ApplicativeDo optimization in GHC is too slow due to its O(n^3) complexity, but it can be improved by applying the longest-chain bound and extreme-cut shortcut. This reduces the compile-time complexity to O(n^2) and eliminates the cliff in GHC's optimal path.

Nvidia RTX Spark

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User agrees to NVIDIA's collection and processing of information for research and event organization, and has read the NVIDIA Privacy Policy. User also agrees to transfer of information to the US for storage and management.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

The Frame Problem

To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number of intuitively obvious non-effects. But to many philosophers, the AI researchers' frame problem is suggestive of wider epistemological issues. Is it possible, in principle, to limit the scope of the reasoning required to derive the ...

Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

Ismaeel, Eren, Yafet, and Nikodem built Expanse to predict job resource needs and optimize HPC/GPU cluster utilization, addressing the 30-40% effective utilization issue in datacenters. Expanse outperforms state-of-the-art models by 8x and continuously updates its models to improve accuracy, offering a paid pilot deployment for HPC/GPU clusters.

I made my phone slow on purpose

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User built VineWall app to slow down internet speed on certain apps to curb doomscrolling. The app throttles internet speed, making videos blocky and images load slowly, making the user question their desire to scroll.

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

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T to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever. On June 11th SpaceX reportedly hopes to raise $75bn from investors, by issuing shares that will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange the next day. Elon Musk’s rocketry firm will probably soon be followed by two other mammoth listings. Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence lab, filed draft paperwork for its initial public offering on June 1st; Open, ...

Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

Alphabet Announces Proposed $80 Billion Equity Capital Raise to Expand AI Infrastructure and Compute

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC

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Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft registration statement for a proposed initial public offering of common stock. The offering will depend on market conditions and has not yet set the number of shares or price.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking work in various roles such as engineering manager, full-stack engineer, data scientist, and product engineer with expertise in AI, ML, distributed systems, and cloud technologies. They are open to remote or contract work and have experience in technologies like Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and AWS.

Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

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User bought old games from GOG, likes DOSBox for Mac to run Windows games on M2 MacBook. User uses DOSBox script to run HoMM2 on Mac with installed game files from Windows machine.

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

A mathematician showed that the proportion of all 2n-bit values that can be generated by the product of two n-bit values goes to zero as n becomes large. About 17% of all 64-bit integers can be written as the product of two 32-bit integers.

Flipper Zero Zig Template

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This template provides a streamlined build system for developing Flipper Zero applications in Zig, integrating with the Flipper Zero SDK for type-safe and memory-safe development. It targets the STM32WB55 (ARM Cortex-M4F) and can be adjusted for other ARM devices.

Show HN: DepsGuard – one command to harden NPM/pnpm/yarn/bun/uv configs

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DepsGuard scans and fixes supply-chain settings for npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, and uv. It edits config files interactively with backup and restore options.

Show HN: A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot

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NMLinux is a Linux desktop network management tool inspired by NETworkManager, offering a unified GUI for common network tools. It features 13 modules, including VNC, RDP, SSH, and IP Scanner, with support for various desktop environments.

Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

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Ref: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multiple-redhat-cloud-services-npm-packages-compromised https://app.stepsecurity.io/oss-security-feed?q=@redhat-cloud-services Affected Packages (updated) Package Compromised Versions @redhat-cloud-s...

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

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The Pirate Bay was raided by 65 Swedish police officers on May 31, 2006, but the site's founders made a backup, allowing it to quickly recover and gain mainstream attention. The raid, orchestrated with US involvement, ultimately failed to deter piracy and instead turned the site's founders into heroes and propelled The Pirate Bay into the piracy icon it remains today.

GitHub and the crime against software

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Github's reliability and performance issues are a symptom of a larger problem in the tech industry, with the company tolerating "follower-buying" and "star-buying" on its services and promoting astroturfed repositories. The company's front-end code is bloated and inefficient, with too much code and unnecessary requests, leading to slow load times and high RAM usage, making it difficult for ...

Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

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You created two maps of the Hawaiian Islands using watercolor, Copic marker, and Adobe Fresco. The maps show the entire archipelago and the eight main islands in greater detail.