6.17.26 | Running local models is good now, SpaceX to buy Cursor for 60 billion dollars, GrapheneOS ported to Android 17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Running local models is good now (01:33) - SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (02:57) - GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (03:57) - Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (04:59) - TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (06:29) - Stop Using JWTs (07:39) - Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? (09:23) - Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (10:57) - Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures (12:05) - But yak shaving is fun (2019) (13:13) - Outro Running local models is good nowhttps://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60Bhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561654Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrityhttps://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-ofhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCPhttps://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558018Stop Using JWTshttps://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558147Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail timehttps://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563394Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatureshttps://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696But yak shaving is fun (2019)https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838