Every generation gets a new interface: ⌨️ Keyboard 🖱️ Mouse 📱 Touchscreen What's next? submitted by /u/goto-con [link] [留言]

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new…

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Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/06/18/europeans-should-learn-to-love-the-air-conditioner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658484 Points: 16 # Comments: 31

I spent some time reading Grafana Alloy’s source code to understand how it loads configuration, builds a dependency graph, evaluates components, and runs them. I wrote a short breakdown of what I learned, mainly focused on the runtime/controller, loader, scheduler, services, and component lifecycle. It is not a complete deep dive into the whole project, but more of a source-code reading note from exploring a real production Go codebase. Feedback is welcome, especially from people familiar with observability systems or large Go codebases. submitted by /u/am0123 [link] [留言]

The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now, the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new…

The biggest Switch 2 exclusives so far have largely been about scale. Mario Kart World introduced a wide open continent to race across, Donkey Kong Bananza let you smash basically everything around you, and Pokopia brought an expansive Minecraft-style creative experience to the Pokémon universe. Star Fox is different. A remake of a Nintendo 64 […]

With its new pickup, Slate Auto is making a simple bet: price matters more than almost anything else. The company announced today that the American-made electric truck will start at $24,950, placing it squarely in the mid-$20,000 price range it had originally promised and making it the least expensive pickup truck and EV available today. […]

We now know the price of Slate Auto's affordable American-made electric truck, almost a year after the company warned it wouldn't hit its initial "under $20,000" target price. The no-frills pickup starts at $24,950 - matching the revised mid-$20,000 price range it promised last year, after the Trump administration announced it was putting an end […]

Launching with better specs than expected, the no-frills Bezos-backed electric pickup looks set to take on Ford’s Maverick—and be an EV truck you can afford and fix yourself.

The US government is reportedly asking Meta to share its AI models for review, in the midst of growing security and safety concerns over the technology.

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models. To understand this challenge, consider the foundation of the web itself. The web was not designed…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost $80 when pre-orders open on June 25th at midnight.