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Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies. The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page. The project is still very early, but currently includes: Startup profiles Search and filtering Company categorization Public API (in progress) I'm especially interested in feedback on: What information you look for when researching startups Features missing from existing startup databases API use cases I'd love to hear feedback. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610224 Points: 184 # Comments: 58

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption

A new ransomware operation named 'Prinz Eugen' prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. [...]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

Article URL: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766 Points: 196 # Comments: 57

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Laguna by Poolside

Foundation models for agentic coding and long-horizon work Discussion | Link

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots

When Project Valkey released version 9.1 last month, users, contributors and maintainers alike were understandably excited: There were new functionalities The post Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots appeared first on The New Stack .

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

Article URL: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vpn-ban-update-uk-households-34141063 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609385 Points: 285 # Comments: 317

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers

Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. [...]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs

Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/windows-11s-new-media-player-uses-35x-more-ram-charges-for-popular-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609343 Points: 250 # Comments: 133

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even […]

AI · The Decoder

OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever

OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill," and then repeats it on its own. The feature isn't available yet in the EU, the UK, or Switzerland. The article OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever appeared first on The Decoder .

AI · The Decoder

NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran believes a potential AI crash would be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble because the industry is building massive amounts of debt-financed physical infrastructure rather than lightweight software. Even if AI succeeds, he sees a problem. The actual business model is to replace entire jobs, with unclear consequences for society. The article NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Thumbmagic

AI thumbnail generator trained on top-performing thumbnails Discussion | Link

Business · CNBC Technology

AI buildout gives tech investors new reasons to watch bond market

Tech giants are depleting cash reserves and raising debt in their ambitious data center buildouts, a dynamic that's forcing investors to watch interest rates.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Toy Story has the right take on tech

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

CSSQuake

Article URL: https://cssquake.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223 Points: 395 # Comments: 88

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself

The most-said line in one of my group chats this week was three words, on repeat: “I miss Fable.” I The post Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself appeared first on The New Stack .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys

Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API keys, secrets, and OAuth tokens

AI · The Decoder

Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI agents

Seven AI agents work together like a newsroom. The "Data Journalist Agent" from Oxford and Stanford turns a CSV file into a finished interactive article with graphics, web research, and verifiable source links for 93 percent of all statements. In a reader study, 74 percent preferred the agent's output over the human original. But against elaborately crafted long-form reports, the agent managed a tie. The article Data2Story turns a CSV file into a verified interactive news article using seven AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems. The post French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Notable Blogs · Seth Godin

99% might be enough (or not)

A 100-foot long boat that’s 99% complete is going to sink before it leaves the dock. That gaping hole is more than enough to do it in. On the other hand, a baked ziti that’s 99% as good as the best baked ziti ever made is exactly good enough to serve in any setting. Mediocrity […]

Business · CNBC Technology

Massive bonuses for South Korea's chip workers puts central bank on inflation alert

Workers from tech industries receive bonus worth millions of won, prompting the Bank of Korea to warn of the upward pressure to inflation.

AI · The Decoder

ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or delete them. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. The previous "Pulse" feature is being retired. The article ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls appeared first on The Decoder .