Sunday closed on a near-record Spider-Man opening — $355 million, two million shy of Endgame — while Ukraine pushed long-range strikes deep into Russia, Gaza strikes continued after a fragile disarmament outline, and the Iran pause left Hormuz still unsettled.
Sony and Marvel’s latest Spider-Man film opened to an estimated $355 million in North America — just $2 million shy of Avengers: Endgame’s all-time record — after a $169 million Friday that itself topped Endgame’s first day. Tom Holland’s Brand New Day also shrugged off a multi-hour bootleg leak online; Nolan’s The Odyssey slipped to second for the weekend with $51 million.
Three people were killed and seven injured, some critically, in a Saturday afternoon shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. Police found the suspected gunman dead nearby, said the community threat was over, and were still identifying victims and motive after a chaotic scene in a busy shopping plaza around 2 p.m.
AP-NORC finds Americans less proud of the country’s history and how its democracy works than a decade ago, with declines since 2017 across military strength and global influence as well. Separate Gallup polling puts those “extremely” or “very” proud to be American at 53%, a low in a series dating to 2001, even as most still say being American is central to their identity.
A small-business adviser reports that tariffs have faded from client agendas after the latest round landed mostly in the 10–12.5% range — far below last year’s Liberation Day spikes and China peaks near 145%. Refunds from prior levies and narrower product coverage have made the new wave feel manageable compared with the shock of 2025.
President Zelensky said overnight strikes hit the Engels strategic airfield and a Saratov-region oil refinery some 600 km inside Russia, plus a Kaluga oil depot — framing them as “long-range sanctions.” Russia reported eight killed, claimed 635 drones downed, and said another Wildberries warehouse was hit; Moscow also struck Ukrainian ports and vessels in the Black Sea.
Gaza officials said Israeli strikes on Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Deir el-Balah killed at least 13 people, including children — a second straight night of attacks days after Hamas accepted a disarmament plan tied to Trump’s Board of Peace. The IDF said it killed Hamas operatives; Israel’s energy minister said no deal exists to stop strikes and floated full Israeli control if Hamas does not disarm.
Rescuers recovered British-Nepali climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja’s body around 5,700 m on Broad Peak, with three more bodies sighted nearby. Purja, 43, famed for summiting all 14 eight-thousanders in just over six months in 2019, was among ten killed in Saturday’s avalanche; Prince William and Nepal’s prime minister were among those paying tribute.
Two firefighting helicopters collided near Psatha, about 65 km west of Athens; video shows one striking the other’s rotors before both fell into a ravine. Two of four crew were found unconscious and two lightly hurt as Greece battles multiple blazes fanned by strong winds, part of a wider European heat-driven fire season.
Dewardric McNeal argues Washington is reacting to a Chinese multi-lab ecosystem — DeepSeek, Moonshot’s Kimi K3, Alibaba’s Qwen, Tencent Hunyuan, Zhipu, MiniMax — that repeatedly hits frontier capability, not a single shock model. The piece says that breadth should worry policymakers and allies more than any one benchmark score.
Blowout earnings from Exxon, Chevron, and Valero underscored how Hormuz disruption minted short-term oil and refiner profits; volatility and refiner ETFs were six-month winners. Strategists caution that geopolitics is a hard long-term thesis and point investors toward other energy themes once the shock fades.
Goldman’s equities revenue surged 72% to a record $7.42 billion last quarter as volatility and a cross-sell push from banking and wealth into markets paid off; FICC rose 32% and investment banking 55% on deals including SpaceX and Alphabet’s raise. The firm is positioned for one of its best trading years ever if the tape stays lively.
Student protests after a leaked competitive-exam paper are the spark; economists say the fuel is scarce secure, well-paid jobs for the world’s largest youth cohort. Ultra-competitive exams gatekeep limited good posts, turning each scandal into a referendum on Modi’s growth story versus graduate unemployment.
U.S. airfares in June ran 26.5% above a year earlier even as carriers expect fuel bills to jump by billions on the Iran war. Airline executives told Wall Street they still see pricing power through year-end; passengers report once-cheap routes now costing hundreds more in economy.
Steve Huffman told investors Reddit is the “antidote to an automated web” as AI floods the internet with summaries, and said AI Overviews have yet to create the ecosystem win that ten blue links did. The comments land as Reddit weighs the future of its Google licensing deal and shares slide.
Andrej Karpathy’s pelican riff lit up the front page and dragged half of HN into the quote-tweet meta.
A data story on how “essential” ESL vocabulary lists have shifted over time — and what that says about the culture doing the teaching.
A userspace compatibility layer aiming to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM — early, ambitious, and very HN.
Stack Overflow argues tool loyalty is less nostalgia than accumulated trust about failure modes and defaults.
F* keeps drawing interest as a practical path to proof-oriented systems code beyond pure theorem-prover niches.
Printable gores and folding patterns for paper globes — pure tactile geometry nerd bait.
Two decades of keeping Acorn’s RISC OS alive in the open — a quiet survival story from the ARM home world.
A clear-eyed tour of PKM practice that treats systems as servants of thinking, not the other way around.
Alibaba’s Qwen team ships 3.8-Max with coding and “cowork” claims — another frontier drop from China’s multi-lab bench.
A blunt postmortem on SwiftUI’s long adolescence — performance, escape hatches, and still-missing pieces.
A gloriously specific image-gen stress test: can your model draw a Habsburg frog that actually looks wrong in the right ways?
Milwaukee’s hand-drawn transit passes get the Letterform Archive treatment — graphic design as civic infrastructure.
California’s Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) gains teeth — one form to tell data brokers to erase you.
Declarative NixOS bring-up for NVIDIA’s DGX Spark — reproducible AI boxes for people who refuse golden images.
A deliberately unsafe, speed-obsessed terminal emulator — performance theater with a self-owning name.