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

Hacker News Highlights · Jun 2, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2026.

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(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…