DTF:HN for June 4, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for June 4, 2026. Featuring: UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases, Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites, They’re made out of weights, Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes, Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language, and more. Stories covered: 1. UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395938 2. Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites https://uruky.com/?il=en HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396004 3. They’re made out of weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391611 4. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392004 5. Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388324 6. Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/claude-code-and-codex-can-have-real-time-conversation-via-git-f95b696c1c05 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345837 7. Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-dig-treasures-paris-archaeology-roman-dae41f792c1402faf32a87c154cc9a77 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368725 8. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385906 9. Gaussian Point Splatting https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396792 10. I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392343