6.2.26 | Instagram exploit, Language Modeling course, Stanford AI agent guidelines

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen (01:29) - CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch (02:59) - AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford (04:06) - Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? (05:34) - Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet? (07:12) - OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS (08:33) - macOS needs its grid back (09:35) - Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? (11:05) - Chipotlai Max (12:10) - What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (13:35) - Outro The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seenhttps://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiascohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359102CS336: Language Modeling from Scratchhttps://cs336.stanford.edu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357075AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanfordhttps://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359232Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363882OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWShttps://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132macOS needs its grid backhttps://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364800Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360054Chipotlai Maxhttps://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-maxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363765What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geologyhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357905