Fingerguns: Reddit, HN & TechMeme digest

Fingerguns: Reddit, HN & TechMeme digest

Generated Jun 29, 2026 at 15:28

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Reddit Top 5 across tech subs · duplicates removed

Hacker News Top 5 past 30 days · duplicates removed

TechMeme Latest 5 RSS river order (newest first) · duplicates removed

Hacker News 25 posts

▲ 3.2k

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
anthropic.com 16d ago 💬 2.3k
▲ 2.6k

Claude Fable 5
anthropic.com 19d ago 💬 2.2k
▲ 2.2k

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
0xsid.com 27d ago 💬 490
▲ 1.9k

Steam Machine launches today
store.steampowered.com 6d ago 💬 1.7k
▲ 1.8k

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
tombedor.dev 17d ago 💬 503
▲ 1.7k

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
scrollprize.org 3d ago 💬 365
▲ 1.6k

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
roman.pt 13d ago 💬 304
▲ 1.6k

Open source AI must win
opensourceaimustwin.com 16d ago 💬 482
▲ 1.6k

Running local models is good now
vickiboykis.com 13d ago 💬 607
▲ 1.5k

They’re made out of weights
maxleiter.com 25d ago 💬 711
▲ 1.5k

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
arstechnica.com 23d ago 💬 502
▲ 1.5k

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
brew.sh 18d ago 💬 363
▲ 1.5k

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
lantian.pub 17d ago 💬 535
▲ 1.4k

Iroh 1.0
iroh.computer 14d ago 💬 462
▲ 1.4k

Midjourney Medical
midjourney.com 11d ago 💬 877
▲ 1.3k

Om Malik has died
om.co 3d ago 💬 170
▲ 1.3k

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
news.ycombinator.com 14d ago 💬 562
▲ 1.3k

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
mohkohn.co.uk 19d ago 💬 568
▲ 1.3k

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
lore.org 12d ago 💬 680
▲ 1.3k

macOS Container Machines
github.com 19d ago 💬 437
▲ 1.2k

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
moddedbear.com 26d ago 💬 828
▲ 1.2k

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
vorpus.github.io 21d ago 💬 213
▲ 1.2k

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
washingtonpost.com 2d ago 💬 1.2k
▲ 1.2k

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
reuters.com 13d ago 💬 1.7k
▲ 1.2k

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev 22d ago 💬 1.1k

TechMeme 15 posts

▲ 10.0k

SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt (NPR)
npr.org 1m ago 💬 0
▲ 10.0k

Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX (Emma Roth/The Verge)
theverge.com 1h ago 💬 0
▲ 10.0k

Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program (James Hunt/The Block)
theblock.co 1h ago 💬 0
▲ 10.0k

Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
theinformation.com 2h ago 💬 0
▲ 10.0k

Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a "point-to-voucher" system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com 3h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
bleepingcomputer.com 3h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com 4h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)
wired.com 4h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit $26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com 4h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month (David Segal/New York Times)
nytimes.com 5h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com 5h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge (Sam Fleming/Financial Times)
ft.com 5h ago 💬 0
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Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies (Reuters)
reuters.com 5h ago 💬 0
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An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com 5h ago 💬 0
▲ 9.9k

Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500 (Timothy Prickett Morgan/The Next Platform)
nextplatform.com 6h ago 💬 0