news, !paper 2026-06-08

1169 Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes / vorpus.github.io / 210

819 Dopamine Fracking / igerman.cc / 416

731 Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models / macrumors.com / 561

689 xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab / martinalderson.com / 549

688 Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf] / signal.org / 339

680 Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds / bbc.com / 462

672 Siri AI / apple.com / 700

666 Stop the Apple Music app from launching / lowtechguys.com / 274

665 AI is slowing down / wheresyoured.at / 764

624 MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second / mimo.xiaomi.com / 482

518 EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices / foodwatch.org / 299

482 A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center / 404media.co / 532

439 How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? / reeserichardson.blog / 91

433 Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI? / news.ycombinator.com / 757

373 The Cypherpunk Library / cypherpunkbooks.com / 96

366 Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill / techcrunch.com / 62

364 Apple Core AI Framework / developer.apple.com / 107

359 Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC / openai.com / 315

334 Doing nothing at work / seangoedecke.com / 116

327 Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust / gitdot.io / 304

319 Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M / admin.ch / 816

300 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse / troyhunt.com / 121

262 Apple WWDC 2026 / apple.com / 530

262 We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued / morningstar.com / 289

259 Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet? / news.ycombinator.com / 233

254 FrontierCode: An eval to measure whether you would actually merge the code / cognition.ai / 57

224 Zig by Example / github.com/boringcollege / 106

222 Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints / pgedge.com / 44

215 Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank / computerweekly.com / 196

197 Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art / thi.ng / 36

195 Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 / tomshardware.com / 57

189 Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee / alaskasnewssource.com / 349

184 Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post / human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev / 246

183 Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway / sbbresale.ch / 112

178 Why are so many young people getting cancer? / nature.com / 223

170 OneDrive data now has an expiry date / ms365news.com / 156

167 Why are cells small? / burrito.bio / 80

166 Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now? / pyrefly.org / 205

162 Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses / gitpush--force.com / 175

159 Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet / oldavista.com / 43

151 The EU Open Source Strategy / digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu / 150

149 Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System / siraben.github.io / 24

147 I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station / old.reddit.com / 55

132 Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design / handson.money / 82

129 Richard Scolyer Has Died / bbc.com / 34

123 Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO / reuters.com / 113

118 Spherical Voronoi Diagram / jasondavies.com / 30

117 Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code / intunedhq.com / 54

113 I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet / inavoyage.blogspot.com / 137

101 Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump / techcrunch.com / 55

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