Hacker Newsroom for 28 June: GitHub 0 Day Drops, Meta Whistleblowers, OpenRA Revival, Anthropic Mythos Access

Hacker Newsroom for 28 June recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through github 0 day drops, meta whistleblowers, openra revival, anthropic mythos access. 1. GitHub 0 Day Drops The next story is about a GitHub project called Exploitarium, where an anonymous account is mass-posting proof-of-concept exploits for vulnerabilities it says were still unreported when published. The project frames the drops as open disclosure and a way to draw people into vulnerability research, and its README says many of the findings came from AI-assisted fuzzing with human oversight. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Meta Whistleblowers The next story is about a Pluralistic article, Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers, on Meta's effort to silence former executive Sarah Wynn-Williams after her memoir Careless People. The article says Meta used nondisclosure terms, nondisparagement clauses, and arbitration penalties to stop her from discussing the book, then escalated further by treating even a silent stage appearance as another violation. Story link Hacker News discussion 3. OpenRA Revival The next story is OpenRA, an open source project that rebuilds Red Alert, Command & Conquer, and Dune 2000 for modern systems with improved controls, online play, modding tools, and community-driven balance updates. The project page highlights a fresh 2026 playtest with random map generators, Dune 2000 balance and visual upgrades, progress on high-definition Tiberian Dawn assets, map editor improvements, smarter bots, auto-save options, and assorted performance fixes. Story link Hacker News discussion 4. Anthropic Mythos Access The next story is about the U. S. Story link Hacker News discussion 5. Fintech Engineering Handbook The next story is Fintech Engineering Handbook, a project that distills practical rules for building software that handles money around three ideas: no invented data, no lost data, and no trust. The project walks through the fundamentals of fintech systems, from representing money and rounding safely to ledgers, timestamps, audit trails, idempotency, reconciliation, and operational controls, with a clear focus on avoiding silent errors that become expensive later. Story link Hacker News discussion 6. Physical Media Ownership The next story is about an article called The Case for Physical Media Ownership, which argues that discs, cartridges, and books still offer something digital storefronts usually do not: durable control. The post runs through examples of revoked licenses, delisted games and movies, store shutdowns, DRM restrictions, and rising subscription costs to make the case that many so-called purchases are really temporary access. Story link Hacker News discussion That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.