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June 28, 2026Hacker News – 28 Jun 2026
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SLEEP TECH AND BASHING BLOGS
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

ADVANCES IN CLUSTERING AND ROUTING
AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

GAMING AND EDUCATION IN TECH
OpenRA

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

SECURITY AND DNS SOLUTIONS
Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

ENGINEERING INSIGHTS AND MEDIA OWNERSHIP
Reflecting to optimise

The case for physical media ownership
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4min
June 27, 2026Hacker News – 27 Jun 2026
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AI Innovations and Regulations
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

Tech Nostalgia and Revivals
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off

Technical Developments and Innovations
DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]

Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512

Fusion Programming Language

Security and Threat Awareness
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
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5min
June 26, 2026Hacker News – 26 Jun 2026
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Open Source and Security Initiatives
We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together

Libre Barcode Project

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

In Memoriam
Om Malik has died

Innovations in Technology
IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

Unique Projects and Experiences
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Doing a masters while working in Spain

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
...more
4min
June 25, 2026Hacker News – 25 Jun 2026
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Browser Gaming Revolution
Half-Life 2 in a Browser

Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

AI Ethics and Developments
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Innovations in Tools and Frameworks
Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

Sustainability and Security in Tech
45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported

Cultural Reflections and Trends
Blogging can just be stating the obvious

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley
...more
4min
June 24, 2026Hacker News – 24 Jun 2026
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DNS Revolution
We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself

Vulnerability and Security Challenges
Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

Creative Tech Projects
Jerry's Map

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

AI and Language Innovations
FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

Tech Industry Insights
Swift Package Index joins Apple

Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
...more
3min
June 23, 2026Hacker News – 23 Jun 2026
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HTTP Innovations
The new HTTP QUERY method explained

Gaming and Hardware News
Steam Machine launches today

AI Models and Security
Will It Mythos?

VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO

OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber

Data Visualization and Programming
Plotnine

Improvements to Std:Format in C++26

Tech Reflections and Innovations
My Mathematical Regression

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components

Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform
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June 22, 2026Hacker News – 22 Jun 2026
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Desktop Development Innovations
Deno Desktop

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

AI and Open Models
Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions

Reflections on Programming and AI History
Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

Math, Science, and AI Integration
Everything is logarithms

Memory Safe Inline Assembly

Lisp in the Rust Type System

Financial Tech Developments
Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time

Identity verification on Claude

Sakana Fugu
...more
5min
June 21, 2026Hacker News – 21 Jun 2026
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Internet Infrastructure Milestones
Google Hits 50% IPv6

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux

Innovative Tech Projects
A 3D voxel game engine written in APL

Loupe – An iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

Community Initiatives and Trends
Renting a sewing machine from the library

Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

Health and Well-being Insights
Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

Nostalgia and Learning Experiences
Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU

Excessive nil pointer checks in Go

Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
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5min
June 20, 2026Hacker News – 20 Jun 2026
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Data Storage and Representation
I Stored a Website in a Favicon

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

Technology and Its Impact
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

Memory and Neurological Insights
The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

Data Compression Explained (2012)

Robotics and the Future
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

Cultural Reflections
Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
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4min
June 19, 2026Hacker News – 19 Jun 2026
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Java Innovations
Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

Database Developments
DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

Operating Systems and Research
To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust

Emerging Standards and Security
Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

Cultural Reflections
The AirPods Effect

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
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