2. Dopamine Fracking (igerman.cc)
The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit
3. Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models (www.macrumors.com)
Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google using the technologies behind the Gemini family. The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, which Apple says are adapted to run both on-device and on servers through its existing Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.
5. xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab (martinalderson.com)
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
6. Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds (www.bbc.com)
Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.
8. Stop the Apple Music app from launching (lowtechguys.com)
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play
9. AI Is Slowing Down (www.wheresyoured.at)
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10. MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (mimo.xiaomi.com)
11. EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices (www.foodwatch.org)
foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.
13. A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center (www.404media.co)
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
14. How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? (reeserichardson.blog)
We’ve documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
15. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision (runtimewire.com)
DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.
16. The Cypherpunk Library (www.cypherpunkbooks.com)
A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
17. Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill (techcrunch.com)
The bill is expected to blanket-ban companies and startups from selling people's precise location data across the state.
18. Apple Core AI Framework (developer.apple.com)
Run AI models in your app on Apple silicon.
19. OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC (openai.com)
OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.
20. Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust (gitdot.io)
A better open-source GitHub
21. Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M (www.admin.ch)
On 14 June 2026, Swiss citizens will vote on the popular initiative: ‘No to a Switzerland with 10 million! (Sustainability Initiative)’.
22. The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (ranpara.net)
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
23. 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse (www.troyhunt.com)
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
24. New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections (www.science.org)
26. Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2 (teenage.engineering)
a professional record cutter built and designed for producingoriginal playback discs with superior sound quality in real time.
27. FrontierCode (cognition.ai)
Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code, but the question we should really be asking is: can models actually write good code?
29. Zig by Example (github.com)
Zig by example. Contribute to boringcollege/zig-by-example development by creating an account on GitHub.