Hacker NewsSaturday, June 20

Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million to gain full control of the robotics company. This follows Hyundai's 2021 acquisition of 80% for $880 million. Boston Dynamics plans to deploy its Atlas humanoid robot at Hyundai's Georgia EV plant by 2028, marking a shift from YouTube demos to real factory work. Meanwhile, SoftBank is pivoting to AI infrastructure with its new $100 billion Roze AI venture focused on data centers and construction robotics.

Git offers three levels of file ignoring beyond the standard .gitignore file: .git/info/exclude for repository-specific ignores not checked into version control, ~/.config/git/ignore for global machine-level ignores, and customizable global ignore files. Use git check-ignore -v to determine which file is ignoring a specific file.

Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects will be integrated into OpenJDK targeting JDK 28. This represents the first part of Project Valhalla, which aims to create types that "code like a class, work like an int" - providing the convenience of classes with the performance of primitives. The project addresses Java's memory inefficiency where objects are references requiring pointer indirection, causing performance issues at scale. After years of development and multiple prototypes since 2014, this preview feature will allow developers to create value classes that are stored densely in memory like primitives while maintaining object-oriented programming benefits.

The author provides a preview of new features coming in Emacs 31, highlighting improvements they've been testing in their daily configuration. Key additions include simplified tree-sitter setup that automatically installs language grammars, a new experimental markdown-ts-mode with Org-like keybindings and live code block highlighting, enhanced Eglot documentation rendering, improved completion with eager updates, new window layout commands for rearranging panes, speedbar integration in side windows, version control improvements, and editable xref buffers for bulk search-and-replace operations.

Discussion about difficulties exercising consumer rights in the US, with examples of rental agreements, medical forms, and digital signatures where people are forced to accept unfavorable terms or face exclusion from essential services.

The author and their design partner created a website that tests how well various AI models (both advanced and smaller ones) recognize individuals. The tool queries multiple models simultaneously, groups their responses, and provides a recognition strength score to show what digital traces people leave in AI model weights.

CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell computer science course on programming language implementation taught by Adrian Sampson. The self-guided online version covers compiler topics like intermediate representations, data flow, optimizations, parallelization, and garbage collection through 14 lessons with videos, papers, and coding tasks using LLVM and an educational intermediate representation called Bril.

A comprehensive directory of website submission platforms for startups and products to gain backlinks and visibility. Includes major sites like Medium, Crunchbase, Hacker News, Product Hunt, and specialized directories for AI tools, developer resources, and design galleries.

Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, has donated half a billion dollars to charity and joined The Giving Pledge, encouraging wealthy individuals to give away their fortunes. He opposes recent criticism from billionaires like Peter Thiel who discourage philanthropy, saying extreme wealth should be shared with those in need.

ENAS is an enterprise storage platform that eliminates costly licensing and proprietary hardware limitations while delivering high performance, scalability, and simplified management. It features ARM Neoverse processors, ZFS architecture, expandable storage up to one petabyte, and integrates with UniFi for centralized file management, backup orchestration, and virtualization support without recurring software costs.