For the second straight day, U.S. warplanes struck targets inside Iran, Tehran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, oil jumped, copper fell, and a ceasefire that seemed imminent 48 hours ago now looks like wreckage while stateside, the Knicks staged the largest comeback in Finals history and the courts moved quietly but steadily through a crowded docket.
U.S. Central Command confirmed it struck multiple targets in Iran for the second consecutive day, citing unwarranted and continued aggression from Tehran, even as Trump warned Iran would pay the price for stalling interim peace talks, casting serious doubt over whether a ceasefire can hold.
A federal judge ordered Alabama to find an alternate execution method for Jeffery Lee, convicted of murder, ruling the nitrogen gas protocol unconstitutional, and an appeals court upheld the decision, halting the execution.
Federal prosecutors indicted several University of Michigan pro-Palestinian activists on conspiracy charges, a move seen as a significant escalation of the Trump administration campaign against campus activism.
The New York Knicks erased a 29-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4, the largest comeback in NBA Finals history, taking a commanding 3-1 series lead.
Opening statements began in the trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, accused of igniting the Palisades Fire on New Year Day 2025; prosecutors say he wanted revenge on society, while the defense argued no physical evidence ties him to the blaze.
Senate Republicans are struggling to extend a critical surveillance authority set to lapse this weekend after Trump nominated Bill Pulte, head of FHFA with no intelligence background, alienating key lawmakers needed for passage.
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed in retaliation for a second wave of U.S. airstrikes; Tehran also claimed it struck a U.S. base in Bahrain, though U.S. Central Command said commercial shipping was still transiting and that its latest round of strikes was completed.
Markets swung sharply on renewed Middle East fighting: oil climbed on supply fears as Iran threatened the Strait of Hormuz, while copper slid to a three-week low on expectations that escalation will stoke inflation and slow global growth.
South Korean regulators fined Coupang a record 624.7 billion won (409 million USD) for a hack that exposed the personal data of nearly two-thirds of the country, the largest privacy fine in South Korean history.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino told critics to relax over a Somali referee being denied entry to the United States, saying FIFA cannot override government immigration policy, as the list of blocked players, officials, and referees continued to grow.
Narendra Modi drew congratulations from Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni after becoming India longest-serving elected prime minister, underscoring New Delhi elevated geopolitical standing ahead of the G7 summit.
Hundreds of Nigerian migrants are leaving South Africa after a xenophobic group issued a deadline for undocumented foreigners to depart, with residents describing widespread fear and violence in communities around Johannesburg.
A developer ditched JavaScript-heavy frameworks for server-rendered HTML and saw a dramatic overnight jump in traffic, sparking a 300-comment debate about web over-engineering.
A filesystem that stores files by recording their offset in the digits of pi: technically infinite free storage, practically unusable, entirely delightful.
A charitable land gift intended for a public park became a 10M windfall for city government after officials sold it to a data center developer.
Users discovered Claude Desktop silently spins up a full 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on startup even when just chatting, igniting debate about sandboxing tradeoffs and resource bloat.
A systematic look at where Anthropic mythological naming is headed and what models named after Tartarus or Elysium might signal about capability tiers.
Anthropic new top-tier models require mandatory 30-day conversation retention, drawing fire from security researchers who say this kills enterprise deployments.
The Lean Startup author returns to HN to discuss why good companies drift toward exploitation and how a handful like Costco and Novo Nordisk have structured themselves to resist it.
PgDog, a Postgres connection pooler with built-in query routing, announced funding as a simpler alternative to PgBouncer plus Citus for teams hitting horizontal scaling walls.
Engineering heroics keeping Curiosity alive in 2026: aging wheels, degraded batteries, and a ground team improvising fixes across a 20-minute radio delay.
Maciej Ceglowski investigates how siloxane compounds found in cosmetics and cookware became entangled in a labyrinthine European regulatory fight.
Open, privacy-respecting Google Maps alternative built on OpenStreetMap that runs entirely client-side.
Apache officially incubated Burr, a Python framework for stateful AI agent pipelines with built-in observability.
Fable restrictions block routine offensive-security work like pen testing and CVE analysis, making the model nearly useless for the infosec community.
Raspberry Pi doubled the top-end RAM on the Pi 5 to 16GB, now enough to run small LLMs locally.
Thomas Nagel classic philosophy paper resurfaces on HN, newly resonant in an era of debating whether language models have any inner experience.