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McDonald's Just Announced a Big Change to Its Drive-Thrus

https://www.allrecipes.com/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-change-11991109
1•mikhael•1h ago

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randycupertino•1h ago
One of my vendors who I have to call a lot for biopsy emergencies recently change from a phone-tree with a keypad directory where you type in your party's extension to an AI-voice recognition system and you CANNOT get through to the correct person AT ALL it is infuriating. You ask for Bryce Martens and it sends you to someone totally different. There's not even an option to type in the correct party anymore.
rolph•1h ago
new development arch:

we know the AIreceptionist has, ~challenges, click on the mp3 link to play a prompt that the AI will understand, so you can be connected more efficiently.

"BryceMartens.mp3"

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

https://computerhistory.org/stories/explorers-of-the-lost-computers/
1•andrewstuart•1m ago•0 comments

366-byte C program emulator can run Linux and Doom – IOCCC29 winner

https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/cable/prog.c
1•s-macke•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Kodiqa Agent

https://github.com/Kodiqa-Solutions/Kodiqa-agent
1•open_source_new•10m ago•0 comments

Total Engineering

https://vietthan.github.io/blog/2026/06/05/total-engineering/
2•vietthan•16m ago•0 comments

Sansar – In development Gaussian Splat rendering [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fwbKn9jGk
1•ugjka•18m ago•0 comments

Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer Than Ever–and Remaking the Auto Industry

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/americans-are-keeping-their-cars-longer-than-ever-and-remaking...
3•JumpCrisscross•19m ago•2 comments

Heaven knows I'm perplexed now

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/perplexed
1•smaddrellmander•20m ago•0 comments

The Honest Case for the Humanities

https://substack.com/@napinillos/p-199545151
3•dsubburam•21m ago•0 comments

A USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/highly-reviewed-speaker-can-be-hacked-over-the-air-to-in...
3•leecoursey•22m ago•1 comments

Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

https://universalmemoryprotocol.io/
6•edihasaj•22m ago•0 comments

WindowSwap: Someone else's window view from anywhere in the world

https://www.window-swap.com/
1•davidbarker•24m ago•0 comments

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker

https://www.randalolson.com/2026/06/04/recent-grad-unemployment-flip/
1•davidbarker•26m ago•0 comments

China has approved the first invasive brain-computer chip

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/
2•davidbarker•27m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Unveils Lockdown Mode to Protect Sensitive Data from Prompt Injection

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/06/openai-unveils-lockdown-mode-to-protect-sensitive-data-from-pro...
4•odig•29m ago•0 comments

Shadow Blister Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_blister_effect
2•thunderbong•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Typedframes – Pandas/polars column name checking at lint time

https://github.com/w-martin/typedframes
2•w-martin•29m ago•2 comments

I am giving up on VM Gaming

https://deployonfri.day/posts/i-am-giving-up-on-vm-gaming
1•BoKKeR11•30m ago•0 comments

The Case for Space Datacenters

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/to-boldly-go-the-case-for-space-datacenters
4•davedx•30m ago•0 comments

Eating Out

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/06/06/eating-out/
2•speckx•30m ago•0 comments

Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_hissing_cockroach
3•davedx•31m ago•1 comments

Thermometry at the MK Scale, Revisited

http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/06/thermometry-at-mk-scale-revisited.html
1•EvgeniyZh•35m ago•0 comments

Milky Way black hole's missing wind found after a half-century-long search

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-milky-black-hole-century.html
3•davedx•36m ago•0 comments

For Whom the Boys Troll

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/us/groypers-young-men-trolls-nick-fuentes-cec
3•1659447091•36m ago•0 comments

Elfeed 4.0 (Emacs)

https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed/blob/main/NEWS.org
4•DASD•36m ago•1 comments

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet? – EE Times

https://www.eetimes.com/computex-2026-are-we-heading-for-the-agentic-pc-era-yet/
4•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/otzis-mummified-body-is-home-to-ancient-strains-of-yeast-...
2•speckx•41m ago•0 comments

Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X hijackable over Bluetooth; vendor denies flaw

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/creatives-sound-blaster-katana-v2x-can-...
2•sbulaev•42m ago•0 comments

Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100k illegal bugs in record bust

https://apnews.com/article/illegal-cockroaches-seized-australia-madagascar-hissing-dubia-e35889bf...
3•randycupertino•44m ago•0 comments

Learn from Your Mistakes: Tree-Like Self-Play for Secure Code LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03489
1•Extropy_•48m ago•0 comments

Made my first plugin – How I orchestrated 3 LLMs to ship a plugin in 2 hours

https://byacommonthread.com/blog/what-should-i-eat
1•kaydub•49m ago•1 comments