"US has the troops in place to attack Cuba" per Politico
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303594 Points: 20 # Comments: 11
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Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google's 2025 Year in Search campaign.
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303131 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-insider-trading.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302822 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Can we have the day off?
Article URL: https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302745 Points: 385 # Comments: 238
FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302151 Points: 98 # Comments: 52
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Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
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You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302319 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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Pelica (YC P25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pelica/jobs/MDeC49o-machine-learning-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301851 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Internet traffic in Iran increasing
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301603 Points: 44 # Comments: 30
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Warm up your MacBook (2019)
Article URL: https://z3ugma.github.io/2019/11/18/warm-up-your-macbook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300342 Points: 42 # Comments: 39
Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness
Hi I'm Dan from Elodin, making an open source real-time capable flight software simulation. For AI Grand Prix contestants, the wait for the Round 1 virtual qualifier simulation has been grueling. If you’re competing, check out our simulation harness
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Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9
The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is "maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date."
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Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.
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CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers
Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.