Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600312

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595511

There are no instances in ATProto
https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515

The AirPods Effect
https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592832

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352

How many of the 170k English words do you know?
https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586

Court Records Should Be Free
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546890

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583928

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583356

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583606

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
https://www.intheweights.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591348

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386

Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553388

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543311

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
https://lore.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081

Midjourney Medical
https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209

DeepSeek Introduces Vision
https://chat.deepseek.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Running local models is good now
https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018

Stop Using JWTs
https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558147

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
https://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563394

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696

But yak shaving is fun (2019)
https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 16, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546294

Iroh 1.0
https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
https://tinywind.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543475

Hetzner Price Adjustment
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb
https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779

Fox to buy Roku
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550693

My Homelab AI Dev Platform
https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542433

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 15, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Firewood Splitting Simulator
https://screen.toys/firewood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471638

Your ePub Is fine
https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533848

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
https://github.com/tamnd/kage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537165

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-users-are-tired-of-microsoft-account-requirements-and-workarounds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533101

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
https://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538229

Formal methods and the future of programming
https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526633

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779

Even more batteries included with Emacs
https://karthinks.com/software/even-more-batteries-included-with-emacs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535886

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 14, 2026.

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Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377

Every Frame Perfect
https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516251

Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578?st=Yct6gx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092

GLM 5.2 Is Out
https://twitter.com/jietang/status/2065784751345287314
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518684

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-revealed-cancers-master-switch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517199

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
https://news.sky.com/story/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-for-using-ai-to-create-evidence-in-multiple-cases-13553661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807

AI coding at home without going broke
https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336

Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
https://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523080

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515454

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 13, 2026.

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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072

Open source AI must win
https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511908

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231

Electric motors with no rare earths
https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510010

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513536

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506659

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046

Leaving Mozilla
https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490024

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012

MiMo Code is now released and open-source
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490826

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491830

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489229

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
https://fablepool.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496539

Lines of code got a better publicist
https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489402

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483

πFS
https://github.com/philipl/pifs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480978

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477135

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/cybersecurity-researchers-arent-happy-about-the-guardrails-on-anthropics-fable/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478969

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464258

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484584

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029

Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481857

GeoLibre 1.0
https://geolibre.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479852