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Here's Audi's next Q7 SUV and US-only SQ7, now with an RS V8
At night, the car projects its turn signals onto the road to alert other road users.
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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462308 Points: 23 # Comments: 8
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Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462184 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462156 Points: 110 # Comments: 51
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Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462062 Points: 31 # Comments: 4
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Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19773 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461311 Points: 25 # Comments: 0
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Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460863 Points: 30 # Comments: 12
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Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.
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Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.
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Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
Some models run in Google's cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.
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First Drive: The 2027 Rivian R2 entirely changes the EV game
Rivian's second EV is the sub-$60,000 R2, and it was worth the wait.
WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
Article URL: https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461226 Points: 28 # Comments: 15
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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
Article URL: https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461012 Points: 60 # Comments: 11
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The better the autopilot the worse the pilot
Article URL: https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460758 Points: 38 # Comments: 27
Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein
Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step