Hacker News – 01 Jun 2026

Table of Contents Old Hardware, New Tricks A 10 year old Xeon is all you need ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks Corporate Censorship and Innovations Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions Innovative Tools for Developers Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace Tech and Nature Collide Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers Miscellaneous Headlines United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert Why are large language models so terrible at video games?