You can now legally walk with drinks on SF's Valencia St
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/valencia-drinking-san-francisco/
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/valencia-drinking-san-francisco/
Mission Local
You can now walk around with a drink on Valencia Street — legally
San Francisco’s new Valencia Street entertainment zone lets patrons legally carry drinks on the sidewalk between 16th and 21st streets, Sunday through Thursday. This first-of-its-kind pilot encourages outdoor socializing without special events, supporting…
Y Combinator startup Sorcerer raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/06/12/sorcerer-seed-weather-balloons
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/06/12/sorcerer-seed-weather-balloons
Axios
Sorcerer, a Y Combinator weather balloon startup, closed a $3.9M seed round
Its novel balloons are lighter and smaller than competitors.
Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-project-pixel-change/
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/android-open-source-project-pixel-change/
9to5Google
Google says Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change impacting custom ROMs
With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/9QhTM31-founding-product-ai-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/9QhTM31-founding-product-ai-engineer
Y Combinator
Founding Product AI Engineer at Roame
## **About Roame**
Our mission is to make travel perfect. Roame is a flight search engine using credit card points and miles. More than $69 billion worth of points issued every year. We empower over 1 million travelers to maximize the value of their points…
Our mission is to make travel perfect. Roame is a flight search engine using credit card points and miles. More than $69 billion worth of points issued every year. We empower over 1 million travelers to maximize the value of their points…
Cloudflare Investigating Authentication Incident
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25r9t0vz99rp
Cloudflarestatus
Broad Cloudflare service outages
Cloudflare's Status Page - Broad Cloudflare service outages.
Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00583-4
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00583-4
Current Biology
Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints
By treating nasal airflow as a 24-h time series, Soroka et al. find that individuals
have a unique respiratory pattern—a nasal respiratory fingerprint—that remains stable
over time. This fingerprint predicts various aspects of physiology, mood, and cognition…
have a unique respiratory pattern—a nasal respiratory fingerprint—that remains stable
over time. This fingerprint predicts various aspects of physiology, mood, and cognition…
Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring a President / CRO
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roundtable/jobs/wmPTI9F-president-cro-founding
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roundtable/jobs/wmPTI9F-president-cro-founding
Y Combinator
President / CRO (Founding) at Roundtable
Roundtable is a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. Roundtable seeks to research and build real-world Turing Tests, and to productize these developments in bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous…
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/27/the-curse-of-toumai-ancient-skull-disputed-femur-feud-humanity-origins
the Guardian
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars…
A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/
Krebs on Security
Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online…
Ask HN: Can anybody clarify why OpenAI reasoning now shows non-English thoughts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264325
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264325
Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264754
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264754
Urban Design and Adaptive Reuse in North Korea, Japan, and Singapore
https://www.governance.fyi/p/adaptive-reuse-across-asia-singapores
https://www.governance.fyi/p/adaptive-reuse-across-asia-singapores
www.governance.fyi
Adaptive Reuse Across Asia: Singapore's Fragmented Ownership, Japan's Rural Revival, & Korea's Material Limits
An interview with Architect Calvin Chua
Zero shot forecasting: finding the right foundation model for O11Y forecasting
https://www.parseable.com/blog/zero-shot-forecasting
https://www.parseable.com/blog/zero-shot-forecasting
Parseable
Zero-Shot Forecasting: Our Search for a Time-Series Foundation Model
Slow and steady, this poem will win your heart
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-ryan-turtle-poem.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/books/kay-ryan-turtle-poem.html
Nytimes
Slow and Steady, This Poem Will Win Your Heart
A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.
Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job
https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-vibe-coding-unfortunate-term-exhausting-job-2025-6
https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-ng-vibe-coding-unfortunate-term-exhausting-job-2025-6
Business Insider
Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a very real and exhausting job
Andrew Ng says when he vibe codes for a day, he's "frankly exhausted" by the end.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
NY Times
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.