Hacker News 200 points

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below: https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424605

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024): https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148

How LLMs work: https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360

Tracy Kidder has died: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519802

Artemis II is not safe to fly: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF: https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425723

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy: https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422993

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts: https://ntsc.rs/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428025

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427643

Moving beyond fork() + exec(): https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425528

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highest-level-sources-say-rcna348565

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427523

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS): https://pokeemerald.com/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423762

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423990

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol: https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409306

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development: https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398925

India's surprise baby bust: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413254

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420827

GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422798

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux: https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-4-0-is-microsofts-first-general-purpose-linux/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421442

Three of our worst VC stories: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416845