Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (01:40) - Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (02:59) - Decoy Font (03:52) - NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (05:08) - $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (06:24) - LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (07:38) - The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (09:08) - Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (10:19) - Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (11:50) - The human-in-the-loop is tired (13:15) - Outro Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligencehttps://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342Microsoft Comic Chat is now open sourcehttps://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426Decoy Fonthttps://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-fonthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebookhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Solhttps://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open modelshttps://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anywayhttps://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933310Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)https://immersivemath.com/ila/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learninghttps://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880The human-in-the-loop is tiredhttps://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tiredhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model (01:51) - Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources (02:53) - Grok Build is open source (04:15) - Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU (05:49) - SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions (07:02) - Collection of Digital Clock Designs (07:51) - The lost joy of music piracy (09:08) - Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] (10:28) - I also filed the corners off my MacBook (11:33) - Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel (12:43) - Outro Inkling: Our Open-Weights Modelhttps://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sourceshttps://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915953Grok Build is open sourcehttps://github.com/xai-org/grok-buildhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPUhttps://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434SQLite should have (Rust-style) editionshttps://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135Collection of Digital Clock Designshttps://clocks.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380The lost joy of music piracyhttps://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095I also filed the corners off my MacBookhttps://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911803Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequelhttps://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925888

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you) (01:39) - Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone (02:59) - How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing (04:22) - Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? (05:43) - The Tower Keeps Rising (06:57) - Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left (08:20) - Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail (09:44) - I'm a USB-C Maximalist (10:54) - Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history (12:27) - Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE (13:51) - Outro Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869989Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phonehttps://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910545How to stop Claude from saying load-bearinghttps://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905248Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908178The Tower Keeps Risinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909785Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Lefthttps://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-lefthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910676Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detailhttps://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709I'm a USB-C Maximalisthttps://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908214Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from historyhttps://vpd.ca/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914644Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCEhttps://github.com/juggler-ai/jugglerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (01:44) - Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode (03:05) - Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries (04:18) - The Git history command deserves more attention (05:30) - The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (06:40) - An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold (07:47) - Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (09:17) - Ancient Roman Board Game (10:24) - Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005) (11:23) - What will be left for us to work on? (12:58) - Outro Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessorhttps://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcodehttps://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batterieshttps://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569The Git history command deserves more attentionhttps://lalitm.com/post/git-history/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passeshttps://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897104An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took holdhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896600Ancient Roman Board Gamehttps://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852159Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454What will be left for us to work on?https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-workhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901292

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles (01:29) - Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (03:10) - What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (04:51) - How to read more books (05:38) - Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (06:52) - Count Binface (08:06) - GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (09:43) - Tiny Emulators (10:54) - LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (12:11) - So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (13:32) - Outro Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886741Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7khttps://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overheadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883275What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysishttps://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371How to read more bookshttps://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882056Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiringhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854168Count Binfacehttps://countbinface.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887753GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 yearshttps://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834309Tiny Emulatorshttps://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884395LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious foundershttps://www.larp.website/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882569So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)https://www.susanrigetti.com/physicshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827126

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Prefer strict tables in SQLite (01:45) - Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (02:57) - Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (03:47) - Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (05:05) - We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (06:20) - UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (07:21) - Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (08:37) - How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (09:56) - Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph (11:00) - RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (12:09) - Outro Prefer strict tables in SQLitehttps://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873940Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystemhttps://antjs.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875377Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boomhttps://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boomhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873836Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on irohhttps://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughputhttps://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgreshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872874UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transactionhttps://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873457Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratchhttps://shipthatcode.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871973How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876741Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graphhttps://github.com/jacobobryant/biff/tree/v2.x/libs/graphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820361RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratchhttps://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876245

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets (01:45) - QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (03:00) - New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (04:40) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (05:56) - Good Tools Are Invisible (07:30) - Late Bronze Age Collapse (09:06) - AI 2040: Plan A (10:33) - The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (11:38) - Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (13:15) - Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (14:25) - Outro Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secretshttps://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wallhttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861717New York City to ban deceptive subscription practiceshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-banhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863464GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490Good Tools Are Invisiblehttps://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858121Late Bronze Age Collapsehttps://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858737AI 2040: Plan Ahttps://ai-2040.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848425The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862365Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research showshttps://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862252

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (01:46) - GPT-5.6 (02:58) - Show HN: 18 Words (03:58) - Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (05:10) - Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (06:44) - Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (08:07) - Hy3 (09:20) - Muse Spark 1.1 (10:38) - The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (12:10) - Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (13:23) - Outro EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843923GPT-5.6https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849066Show HN: 18 Wordshttps://18words.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845049Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computerhttps://github.com/JustVugg/colibrihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842459Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression testshttps://github.com/malisper/pgrusthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841676Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever madehttps://kotaku.com/a-train-sim-created-by-just-one-person-is-being-called-the-best-ever-made-2000699429https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792383Hy3https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847552Muse Spark 1.1https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846184The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next warhttps://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845442Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phonehttps://www.wired.com/story/this-buried-apple-feature-turns-an-iphone-into-the-perfect-kids-dumb-phone/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803004

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt (01:33) - Chatto is now open source (02:55) - John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (04:03) - GPT‑Live (05:23) - Grok 4.5 (06:19) - TypeScript 7 (07:44) - Rewriting Bun in Rust (09:29) - Cloudflare Drop (10:42) - FAANG Simulator (11:53) - Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents (13:08) - Outro Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirthttps://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312Chatto is now open sourcehttps://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833116John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlementhttps://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838876GPT‑Livehttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834405Grok 4.5https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835111TypeScript 7https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833715Rewriting Bun in Rusthttps://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rusthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837877Cloudflare Drophttps://www.cloudflare.com/drop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836233FAANG Simulatorhttps://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836778Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agentshttps://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/#/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834924

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time (01:29) - Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained (02:46) - Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera (04:08) - 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format (05:24) - Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro (06:39) - Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI (08:02) - Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (09:14) - Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again (10:32) - GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup (11:34) - Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler (13:03) - Outro StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a timehttps://streetcomplete.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816883Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explainedhttps://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overviewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818311Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camerahttps://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-systemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882355730papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly formathttps://30papers.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819608Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokorohttps://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821576Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UIhttps://davit.apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821848Herdr: One terminal to rule them allhttps://herdr.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756578Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave againhttps://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a-77853162https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815982GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanuphttps://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824826Why we built yet another Postgres connection poolerhttps://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-poolerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819308

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router (01:42) - Resetting Xbox (03:36) - CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps (04:54) - Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter (06:22) - GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (07:39) - A global workspace in language models (09:07) - AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit (10:08) - How to sequence your own DNA at home (11:37) - Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM) (13:06) - Learning to code is still worthwhile (14:24) - Outro OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Routerhttps://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/onehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808482Resetting Xboxhttps://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993CoMaps – FOSS Offline Mapshttps://www.comaps.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potterhttps://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811591GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapsehttps://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809877A global workspace in language modelshttps://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808002AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kithttps://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805624How to sequence your own DNA at homehttps://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-homehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812156Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811644Learning to code is still worthwhilehttps://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810439

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Organic Maps (01:22) - OpenPrinter (02:33) - It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (04:03) - The future of Flipper Zero development (05:12) - Has_not_been_viewed_much (06:15) - GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex (07:30) - Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected (08:35) - Starring the Computer (09:49) - Completing a computer science degree on Coursera (11:14) - Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped (12:38) - Outro Organic Mapshttps://organicmaps.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446OpenPrinterhttps://www.opentools.studio/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797916It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownershiphttps://popcar.bearblog.dev/its-about-ownership/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794750The future of Flipper Zero developmenthttps://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796552Has_not_been_viewed_muchhttps://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799155GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codexhttps://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799614Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expectedhttps://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767058Starring the Computerhttps://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796093Completing a computer science degree on Courserahttps://notesbylex.com/completing-a-computer-science-degree-on-courserahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798061Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hopedhttps://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-supporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799929

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (01:44) - GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (03:18) - If you're a button, you have one job (04:36) - What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (06:03) - Better Models: Worse Tools (07:39) - Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (08:58) - “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (10:23) - Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (11:33) - Meta's Un-Stable Signature (12:53) - Programmers need to start meditating (14:07) - Outro Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fablehttps://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/mainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performancehttps://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789428If you're a button, you have one jobhttps://unsung.aresluna.org/if-youre-a-button-you-have-one-job/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790689What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)https://wozniak.ca/blog/2014/08/03/1/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742175Better Models: Worse Toolshttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788599Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radixhttps://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changeloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791328“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night skyhttps://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secretshttps://www.mbl.edu/news/jellyfish-can-heal-wounds-minutes-scientists-want-their-secretshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789712Meta's Un-Stable Signaturehttps://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1098-Metas-Un-Stable-Signature.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750405Programmers need to start meditatinghttps://jacob.gold/posts/programmers-need-to-start-meditating-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792080

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Costco is the anti-Amazon (01:37) - The bottleneck might be the air in the room (02:41) - Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (03:53) - Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (05:11) - Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (06:30) - Factories are just rooms (07:40) - SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (08:53) - Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (10:13) - Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (12:04) - FreeBSD ate my RAM (13:43) - Outro Costco is the anti-Amazonhttps://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776044The bottleneck might be the air in the roomhttps://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locallyhttps://github.com/jamesob/local-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaperhttps://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780417Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for allhttps://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780801Factories are just roomshttps://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factorieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776035SearXNG: A free internet metasearch enginehttps://github.com/searxng/searxnghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779454Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new researchhttps://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-pumping-water-to-top-branches/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780870Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farminghttps://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781196FreeBSD ate my RAMhttps://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778757

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Virginia bans sale of geolocation data (01:35) - Podman v6.0.0 (03:12) - Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (04:40) - Immich 3.0 (06:19) - CarPlay Is Additive (07:32) - An American Privacy Emergency (08:59) - Half-Baked Product (09:51) - Right to Local Intelligence (11:12) - crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C (12:41) - Exapunks (2018) (13:44) - Outro Virginia bans sale of geolocation datahttps://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347Podman v6.0.0https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762098Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memoryhttps://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763035Immich 3.0https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944CarPlay Is Additivehttps://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-doltshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769397An American Privacy Emergencyhttps://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768992Half-Baked Producthttps://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772388Right to Local Intelligencehttps://righttointelligence.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768951crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to Chttps://github.com/FractalFir/crustchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768464Exapunks (2018)https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765663

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (01:35) - A new Android malware from Google (02:52) - ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (04:19) - FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder (05:49) - What to learn to be a graphics programmer (07:22) - Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops (08:33) - Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself (09:39) - Bring back crappy forums (10:56) - Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 (12:16) - Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries (13:51) - Outro For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divideshttps://www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides-20260701/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747304A new Android malware from Googlehttps://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755965ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2https://zcode.z.ai/enhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753715FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoderhttps://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747116What to learn to be a graphics programmerhttps://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750710Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-opshttps://www.workerowned.info/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752905Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourselfhttps://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755005Bring back crappy forumshttps://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliverieshttps://www.weaverobotics.com/isaac-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750989

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Code is steganographically marking requests (01:04) - Claude Sonnet 5 (02:53) - Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (04:03) - Claude Science (05:39) - Nano Banana 2 Lite (06:54) - Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (07:56) - I ported Kubernetes to the browser (08:58) - CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 (10:12) - Leanstral 1.5 (11:13) - Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions (12:28) - Outro Claude Code is steganographically marking requestshttps://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganographyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373Claude Sonnet 5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736605Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771Claude Sciencehttps://claude.com/product/claude-sciencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735770Nano Banana 2 Litehttps://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735444Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experiencehttps://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704289I ported Kubernetes to the browserhttps://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browserhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738985CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723484Leanstral 1.5https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/leanstral-1-5-26-06https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738938Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributionshttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (01:29) - 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (02:32) - .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (03:40) - US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (05:06) - Free the Icons (06:34) - A native graphical shell for SSH (07:52) - One million passports leaked online (09:29) - Open Source Low Tech (10:34) - What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (11:51) - Outro Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local developmenthttps://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872190330-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speechhttps://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711981.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hostinghttps://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centered-top-level-domain/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724230US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protectionshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924Free the Iconshttps://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698908A native graphical shell for SSHhttps://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720758One million passports leaked onlinehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706389Open Source Low Techhttps://opensourcelowtech.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683098What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718863

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (01:48) - Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (03:16) - HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (04:36) - The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (05:49) - I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI (07:25) - Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (08:43) - Librepods: AirPods liberated (09:59) - 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920) (11:00) - Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (12:17) - Show HN: Zanagrams (13:12) - Outro GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarkshttps://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speechhttps://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-atshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832The KIDS Act would require age checks to get onlinehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-onlinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706560I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRIhttps://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brownhttps://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991Librepods: AirPods liberatedhttps://github.com/librepods-org/librepodshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487102325k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763Historical memory prices 1960-2026https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092Show HN: Zanagramshttps://zanagrams.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (01:40) - OpenRA (02:57) - Fintech Engineering Handbook (04:19) - The case for physical media ownership (05:37) - Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep (06:38) - The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (08:00) - Suspicious Discontinuities (2020) (09:11) - Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other (10:28) - Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models (11:51) - AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (13:09) - Outro Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-dayshttps://github.com/bikini/exploitariumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617OpenRAhttps://www.openra.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560Fintech Engineering Handbookhttps://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982The case for physical media ownershiphttps://dervis.de/physical/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleephttps://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleephttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703759The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williamshttps://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chiefhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703452Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)https://danluu.com/discontinuities/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151Turn your site into a place people can bump into each otherhttps://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699928Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like modelshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697958AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC designhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-designhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660021

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (01:31) - U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations (02:59) - We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme (04:11) - Om (05:13) - MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control (06:50) - Ultrasound imaging of the brain (08:10) - Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011) (09:20) - The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs (10:44) - Outro Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation modelhttps://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizationshttps://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance schemehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-schemehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692051Omhttps://daringfireball.net/2026/06/omhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle controlhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-introduces-microvms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510Ultrasound imaging of the brainhttps://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685558Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692946The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMshttps://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692058

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (01:38) - Om Malik has died (02:42) - The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (04:07) - Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads (05:37) - Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour (06:51) - Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark (08:16) - IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology (09:56) - Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike (11:04) - Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (12:21) - Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (13:38) - Outro An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first timehttps://scrollprize.org/firstscrollhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179Om Malik has diedhttps://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacyhttps://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679608Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPadshttps://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyrocket-2026-06-25/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732Oxide computer 3D rack guided tourhttps://explorer.oxide.computer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631450Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermarkhttps://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672328IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technologyhttps://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technologyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelikehttps://princechazz.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616304Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notionhttps://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675435Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 linehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-instead?embedded-checkout=truehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676795

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (01:40) - Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (03:31) - RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers (05:05) - Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model (06:19) - 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero (07:36) - A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding (08:44) - Half-Life 2 in a Browser (09:37) - The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader (10:51) - Blogging can just be stating the obvious (12:02) - GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents (13:14) - Outro OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcomhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663324Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilitieshttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664814RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providershttps://rubyllm.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660711Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image modelhttps://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-reporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864665945°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zerohttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660178A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwardinghttps://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606222Half-Life 2 in a Browserhttps://hl2.slqnt.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669534The Xteink X4 E-Ink Readerhttps://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662381Blogging can just be stating the obvioushttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666927GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agentshttps://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-openhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639840

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model (01:48) - Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (03:02) - Jerry's Map (04:12) - In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (05:26) - Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (06:42) - Printing Gaussian Splats (07:48) - The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated (09:12) - Vulnerability reports are not special anymore (10:36) - Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak (11:59) - Swift Package Index joins Apple (13:03) - Outro FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing modelhttps://swipe.futo.tech/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648619Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLIhttps://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649011Jerry's Maphttp://www.jerrysmap.com/the-maphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649435In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under wordshttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648959Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeXhttps://tikz.dev/editor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645437Printing Gaussian Splatshttps://www.patreon.com/DanyBittel/posts/printing-splats-161333338https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618481The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggeratedhttps://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647486Vulnerability reports are not special anymorehttps://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653216Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leakhttps://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653575Swift Package Index joins Applehttps://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-applehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648779

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:12) - Steam Machine launches today (01:44) - Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (02:58) - Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (04:22) - GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally (05:48) - Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (07:10) - My Mathematical Regression (08:42) - Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance (10:03) - VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO (11:17) - Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (12:18) - Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (13:27) - Outro Steam Machine launches todayhttps://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632884Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Neededhttps://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-trackhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locallyhttps://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creatorshttps://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=HhTZY2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614715My Mathematical Regressionhttps://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597221Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performancehttps://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPOhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639240Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle sitehttps://puzzlelair.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629213Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agentshttps://oak.space/oak/oakhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Identity verification on Claude (01:47) - Did my old job only exist because of fraud? (03:17) - Deno Desktop (04:59) - Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI (06:26) - Help I accidentally a wigglegram (07:40) - There is minimal downside to switching to open models (09:05) - Everything is logarithms (10:19) - JSON-LD explained for personal websites (11:39) - GLM 5.2 vs. Opus (13:11) - The minimum viable unit of saleable software (14:47) - Outro Identity verification on Claudehttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claudehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455Did my old job only exist because of fraud?https://david.newgas.net/did-my-old-job-only-exist-because-of-fraud/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622867Deno Desktophttps://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626137Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AIhttps://apertvs.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622778Help I accidentally a wigglegramhttps://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605561There is minimal downside to switching to open modelshttps://www.marble.onl/posts/cancel_claude.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622518Everything is logarithmshttps://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626JSON-LD explained for personal websiteshttps://hawksley.dev/blog/json-ld-explained-for-personal-websites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621517GLM 5.2 vs. Opushttps://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866The minimum viable unit of saleable softwarehttps://brandur.org/minimum-viable-unithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620342

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (01:38) - SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (03:09) - DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (04:33) - Renting a sewing machine from the library (05:51) - Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (07:19) - Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (08:32) - Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (09:31) - Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (11:01) - Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (12:05) - UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (13:23) - Outro Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can seehttps://github.com/mysk-research/loupehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608645SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessiblehttps://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-to-the-global-media-technology-communityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610827DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilotshttps://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609766Renting a sewing machine from the libraryhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finlandhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613755Developers don't understand CORS (2019)https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-corshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614844Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behaviorhttps://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613555Your brain was never designed for this much bad newshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615569Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patcheshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612943Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agentshttps://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608394UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Prohttps://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610853

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics (01:54) - Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school (03:16) - Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28 (04:41) - There are no instances in ATProto (06:11) - The AirPods Effect (08:15) - Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (09:12) - How many of the 170k English words do you know? (10:02) - Court Records Should Be Free (11:22) - Ten years of ClickHouse in open source (12:39) - Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research (13:55) - Outro Hyundai buys Boston Dynamicshttps://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600312Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary schoolhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595511There are no instances in ATProtohttps://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515The AirPods Effecthttps://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592832Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has diedhttps://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lllhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602352How many of the 170k English words do you know?https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586Court Records Should Be Freehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-freehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946Ten years of ClickHouse in open sourcehttps://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546890Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Researchhttps://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware (01:56) - .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git (03:07) - CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020) (04:23) - Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (05:30) - Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS (07:07) - Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost (08:23) - Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further (09:51) - W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty (11:19) - DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1) (13:01) - To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system (14:09) - Outro I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malwarehttps://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583928.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Githttps://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583356CS 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=48583606Show HN: Are You in the Weights?https://www.intheweights.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591348Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFShttps://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower costhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-costhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Furtherhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereigntyhttps://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553388To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating systemhttps://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543311

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability (01:34) - Midjourney Medical (03:14) - Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users (04:26) - US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks (05:32) - RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method (06:44) - How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s (08:10) - Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone (09:33) - Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool (11:01) - DeepSeek Introduces Vision (12:20) - Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD (13:42) - Outro Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalabilityhttps://lore.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081Midjourney Medicalhttps://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS usershttps://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security riskshttps://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=48565498RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Methodhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1shttps://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infrahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alonehttps://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolhttps://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209DeepSeek Introduces Visionhttps://chat.deepseek.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CADhttps://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553

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

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (01:32) - Iroh 1.0 (02:55) - Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding? (04:35) - TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed) (05:40) - Hetzner Price Adjustment (07:02) - Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb (08:20) - John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard (09:01) - Fox to buy Roku (10:21) - The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (11:35) - My Homelab AI Dev Platform (12:45) - Outro A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offerhttps://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546294Iroh 1.0https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)https://tinywind.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543475Hetzner Price Adjustmenthttps://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulbhttps://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985John Carmack on Fabrice Bellardhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779Fox to buy Rokuhttps://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulationhttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550693My Homelab AI Dev Platformhttps://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.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Firewood Splitting Simulator (01:18) - Your ePub Is fine (02:31) - Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing (03:39) - Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 (05:08) - Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything (06:21) - Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model (07:46) - What the Fuck Happened to Nerds (09:13) - Formal methods and the future of programming (10:53) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) (12:12) - Even more batteries included with Emacs (13:18) - Outro Firewood Splitting Simulatorhttps://screen.toys/firewood/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471638Your ePub Is finehttps://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533848Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewinghttps://github.com/tamnd/kagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537165Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everythinghttps://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-users-are-tired-of-microsoft-account-requirements-and-workaroundshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533101Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing modelhttps://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371What the Fuck Happened to Nerdshttps://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538229Formal methods and the future of programminghttps://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526633Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779Even more batteries included with Emacshttps://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.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau (01:56) - Every Frame Perfect (03:34) - Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models (04:49) - GLM 5.2 Is Out (06:09) - Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch (07:23) - Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases (08:27) - AI coding at home without going broke (09:50) - A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones (11:08) - Honda Civics and the Evil Valet (12:29) - RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8 (13:55) - Outro Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureauhttps://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377Every Frame Perfecthttps://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516251Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic modelshttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models-dcc90578?st=Yct6gx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092GLM 5.2 Is Outhttps://twitter.com/jietang/status/2065784751345287314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518684Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switchhttps://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-revealed-cancers-master-switchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517199Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple caseshttps://news.sky.com/story/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-for-using-ai-to-create-evidence-in-multiple-cases-13553661https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807AI coding at home without going brokehttps://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phoneshttps://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336Honda Civics and the Evil Valethttps://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523080RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8https://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.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (02:00) - Open source AI must win (03:19) - CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (04:26) - Electric motors with no rare earths (05:52) - Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware (07:20) - How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (08:44) - There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing (10:09) - Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates (11:17) - Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg (12:36) - Leaving Mozilla (14:06) - Outro Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-accesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072Open source AI must winhttps://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511908CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancershttps://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231Electric motors with no rare earthshttps://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510010Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spywarehttps://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928How to setup a local coding agent on macOShttps://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thinghttps://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513536Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirateshttps://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506659Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeghttps://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046Leaving Mozillahttps://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (01:41) - If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (02:53) - AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (04:15) - MiMo Code is now released and open-source (05:37) - Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (06:52) - Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (08:10) - Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22 (09:14) - Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails (10:32) - Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (11:56) - Lines of code got a better publicist (13:31) - Outro Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490024If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human efforthttps://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012MiMo Code is now released and open-sourcehttps://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocodehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490826Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385Claude Fable is relentlessly proactivehttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498573Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491830Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrailshttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrailhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489229Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in publichttps://fablepool.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496539Lines of code got a better publicisthttps://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.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (02:03) - πFS (03:18) - I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA (04:50) - PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you (06:06) - Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable (07:43) - Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos (09:08) - AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere (10:30) - Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones (11:57) - Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM (12:59) - GeoLibre 1.0 (14:20) - Outro Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnighthttps://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483πFShttps://github.com/philipl/pifshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480978I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477135PgDog is funded and coming to a database near youhttps://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcementhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fablehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/cybersecurity-researchers-arent-happy-about-the-guardrails-on-anthropics-fable/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478969Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythoshttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464258AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewherehttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484584Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Droneshttps://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAMhttps://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481857GeoLibre 1.0https://geolibre.app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479852

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Claude Fable 5 (02:00) - Making Graphics Like it's 1993 (03:32) - If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know (05:10) - macOS Container Machines (06:31) - OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision (07:57) - CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs (09:16) - German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews (10:55) - Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 (12:10) - What it feels like to work with Mythos (13:31) - Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (15:00) - Outro Claude Fable 5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808Making Graphics Like it's 1993https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never knowhttps://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467896macOS Container Machineshttps://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469658OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Visionhttps://opencv.org/opencv-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421858CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOshttps://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465675German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviewshttps://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467705What it feels like to work with Mythoshttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networkshttps://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466277

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes (01:26) - Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models (03:08) - Siri AI (04:52) - Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf] (06:00) - xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab (07:26) - MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (08:47) - EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices (10:03) - Apple Core AI Framework (11:28) - Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust (12:40) - Outro Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropeshttps://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445554Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini modelshttps://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450142Siri AIhttps://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449084Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier labhttps://martinalderson.com/posts/xais-new-rental-business/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446428MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per secondhttps://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-tilert-1000tpshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446639EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spiceshttps://www.foodwatch.org/en/eu-banned-pesticides-found-in-rice-tea-and-spiceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447062Apple Core AI Frameworkhttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449665Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rusthttps://gitdot.io/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447806

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (01:52) - Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony (03:05) - How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown (04:34) - Dopamine Fracking (05:46) - Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it (07:02) - DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision (08:11) - Show HN: I Derived a Pancake (09:18) - Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) (10:20) - APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs (11:27) - The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (12:39) - Outro LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to dohttps://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/llms-are-eroding-my-software-engineering-career-and-i-dont-know-what-to-do/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434312Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felonyhttps://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felonyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437406How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdownhttps://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdownhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437609Dopamine Frackinghttps://igerman.cc/blog/dopamine-fracking/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440792Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past ithttps://github.com/devenjarvis/lathehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433756DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precisionhttps://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precisionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448Show HN: I Derived a Pancakehttps://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408854Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)https://nik.art/making-peace-with-your-unlived-dreams/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437290APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discshttps://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Pythonhttps://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440064

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? (01:43) - Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (03:00) - Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (04:17) - Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (05:25) - Moving beyond fork() + exec() (07:08) - Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (08:47) - Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers (10:15) - Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (11:37) - Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world (12:57) - The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (14:11) - Outro Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbothttps://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427643Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifactshttps://ntsc.rs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428025Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)https://pokeemerald.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423762Moving beyond fork() + exec()https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425528Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCshttps://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424605Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centershttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPFhttps://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroservehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425723Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first worldhttps://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416264The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winnershttps://www.ioccc.org/2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432199

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows (01:43) - S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic (03:07) - Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen (04:50) - Did Claude increase bugs in rsync? (06:12) - pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution (07:30) - Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs (08:46) - Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe (10:02) - How LLMs work (11:38) - New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste (12:47) - Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency (14:06) - Outro Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windowshttps://mouseless.clickhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383667S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropichttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421442Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyenhttps://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-stripe/5250763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411635pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable executionhttps://github.com/microsoft/pg_durablehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414367Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairshttps://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413464Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409664How LLMs workhttps://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without wastehttps://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413500Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiencyhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gemma-4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414653

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P (01:45) - Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery (03:22) - Changing How We Develop Ladybird (04:39) - I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling (05:51) - Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool (07:18) - Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API (08:40) - C++: The Documentary (10:01) - Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants (11:21) - Samurai City (12:28) - Outro SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&Phttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-jones-keeps-megacap-ipo-rules-as-is-after-consultationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405718Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discoveryhttps://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harnesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403980Changing How We Develop Ladybirdhttps://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409191I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schoolinghttps://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376008Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI toolhttps://github.com/alibaba/open-code-reviewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406358Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ APIhttps://tiki.li/blog/blqsorthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375445C++: The Documentaryhttps://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408016Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variantshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405931Samurai Cityhttps://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366090

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (01:58) - Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language (03:24) - They’re made out of weights (04:53) - I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (06:17) - Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing (08:05) - Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang (09:32) - DaVinci Resolve 21 (11:04) - Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (12:45) - PlayStation Architecture (13:50) - ESP32-S31 (15:15) - Outro Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal modelhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385906Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed languagehttps://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388324They’re made out of weightshttps://maxleiter.com/blog/weightshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391611I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitishttps://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384355Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricinghttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383056Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chianghttps://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387270DaVinci Resolve 21https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384482Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classeshttps://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392004PlayStation Architecturehttps://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382142ESP32-S31https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385965

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (01:35) - MAI-Code-1-Flash (03:08) - 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (04:26) - CT scans of BYD car parts (05:37) - Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux (06:55) - AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study (08:23) - My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month (09:43) - HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C (10:54) - How we index images for RAG (12:20) - Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (13:37) - Outro Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I lefthttps://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-lefthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375016MAI-Code-1-Flashhttps://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483744661-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bughttps://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371562CT scans of BYD car partshttps://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/bydhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375824Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linuxhttps://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vramhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377404AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law studyhttps://law.stanford.edu/press/ai-outperforms-law-professors-in-stanford-law-study/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377761My thoughts after using Clojure for about a monthhttps://www.acdw.net/clojure/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375393HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16Chttps://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374685How we index images for RAGhttps://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-index-images-for-raghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372239Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Juliahttps://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377496

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(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 back (09:35) - Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? (11:05) - Chipotlai Max (12:10) - What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (13:35) - Outro The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seenhttps://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiascohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359102CS336: Language Modeling from Scratchhttps://cs336.stanford.edu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357075AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanfordhttps://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359232Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363882OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWShttps://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132macOS needs its grid backhttps://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364800Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360054Chipotlai Maxhttps://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-maxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363765What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geologyhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357905

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jun 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL (01:05) - The Website Specification (02:22) - Dav2d (03:40) - 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices (05:09) - United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert (06:41) - London's Free Roof Terraces (08:16) - Chuwi Minibook X (09:25) - ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks (10:38) - A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (12:02) - Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions (13:30) - Outro Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGLhttps://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprintinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345840The Website Specificationhttps://specification.website/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343683Dav2dhttps://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483449611-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Deviceshttps://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alerthttps://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345248London's Free Roof Terraceshttps://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343714Chuwi Minibook Xhttps://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350598ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbookshttps://www.promptarmor.com/resources/gpt-for-google-sheets-data-exfiltrationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349487A 10 year old Xeon is all you needhttps://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353348Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptionshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/meta-officially-launches-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp-subscriptions-with-more-to-come-including-ai-plans/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347354

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (01:44) - Domain expertise has always been the real moat (03:17) - OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (04:41) - Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (06:24) - I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (07:33) - Accenture to acquire Ookla (09:01) - Voxel Space (2017) (10:07) - Shantell Sans (2023) (11:20) - The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) (12:48) - Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (14:14) - Outro Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversionhttps://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578Domain expertise has always been the real moathttps://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340411OpenRouter raises $113M Series Bhttps://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-bhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338660Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD teamhttps://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsynchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334854I found a seashell in the middle of the deserthttps://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert#i-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-deserthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318402Accenture to acquire Ooklahttps://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-to-acquire-ookla-to-strengthen-network-intelligence-and-experience-with-data-and-ai-for-enterpriseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337987Voxel Space (2017)https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336564Shantell Sans (2023)https://shantellsans.com/processhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341062The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)https://av2.aomedia.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340910Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devloghttps://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338673

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The dead economy theory (01:42) - SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (03:07) - Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (04:40) - Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (05:54) - It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (07:22) - MCP is dead? (08:48) - Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (10:02) - Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (11:18) - Pandoc Templates (12:19) - Zig: Build System Reworked (13:48) - Outro The dead economy theoryhttps://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712SQLite is all you need for durable workflowshttps://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326802Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summithttps://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuationhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333820It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869MCP is dead?https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-deadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiledhttps://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284494Bijou64: A variable-length integer encodinghttps://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323992Pandoc Templateshttps://pandoc-templates.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515Zig: Build System Reworkedhttps://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Claude Opus 4.8 (01:44) - Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (03:03) - I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) (04:09) - GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (05:34) - Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (06:50) - Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (08:09) - Building durable workflows on Postgres (09:49) - Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (11:07) - Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (12:21) - Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT (13:40) - Outro Claude Opus 4.8https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collectionhttps://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)https://nick.winans.io/blog/nice-nano/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314951GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploitshttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-github-bans-security-researcher-who-posted-zero-day-windows-exploits-because-company-ruined-their-life-expert-claims-action-is-vindictive-and-promises-further-retaliationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315968Cars collect a startling amount of data about youhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatiguehttps://llmgame.scalex.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308376Building durable workflows on Postgreshttps://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-executionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire testhttps://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314002Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRThttps://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282180