Archive
Jun 2026
- Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
- Mechanical Watch (2022)
- SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
- Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
- Commodore Releases Flip Phone
- I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
- The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
- Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
- Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
- Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
- Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
- US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
- I Love the Computer
- What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
- A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
- Claude Corps
- TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
- How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
- Iroh 1.0
- Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins
- Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
- Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
- CrankGPT
- Hetzner Price Adjustment
- Fox to buy Roku
- Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
- Anthropic's Safety Superpower
- What happened to nerds?
- Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
- Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
- Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
- Apple Foundation Models
- Even more batteries included with Emacs
- US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
- Your ePub Is fine
- Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
- Did Anthropic ask for this?
- Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
- Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
- AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
- Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust
- Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
- Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
- Linux 7.1
- Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
- I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
- Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress
- UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
- Not everyone is using AI for everything
- A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
- EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision
- The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
- Formal methods and the future of programming
- How to earn a billion dollars
- Don't trust large context windows
- The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]
- Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
- Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity
- Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
- AI coding at home without going broke
- GLM 5.2 Is Out
- Orthodox C++ (2016)
- Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
- New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times
- AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
- Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
- Every Frame Perfect
- RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
- A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
- Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
- Leaving Mozilla
- Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable
- There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
- Open source AI must win
- Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
- Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game
- Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
- Electric motors with no rare earths
- Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
- Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5
- Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
- I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
- "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
- How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
- Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)
- CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
- Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
- A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
- A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
- What the fuck happened to nerds
- SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading
- Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
- Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
- The Future of Email
- AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
- Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
- AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
- Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
- Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
- If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
- Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
- Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
- Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
- Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
- Software is made between commits
- Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
- Waymo Premier
- The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix
- Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
- Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?
- Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
- Car headlights don't have to be this blinding
- MiMo Code is now released and open-source
- US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance
- Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers
- Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
- Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
- Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May
- Lines of code got a better publicist
- Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
- BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
- Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
- Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
- Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
- Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
- OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
- AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
- Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee
- What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
- Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
- πFS
- Policy on the AI Exponential
- Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
- Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)
- Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
- Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
- Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
- Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
- US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
- Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
- I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
- Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi
- Notes on DeepSeek
- PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
- Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
- A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
- I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
- Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
- Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
- Port React Compiler to Rust
- European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low
- AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
- Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
- Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
- Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
- Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
- German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
- macOS Container Machines
- RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
- Surprise, pay $1000
- If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
- Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
- Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
- Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
- Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
- CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
- GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)
- Where is the AI jobs crisis?
- What it feels like to work with Mythos
- Claude Fable 5
- Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
- FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
- Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
- WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
- Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
- Making Graphics Like it's 1993
- The iPhone's Last Stand?
- Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
- Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
- Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
- Job: Head of Stonehenge
- We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
- Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee
- Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
- Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
- I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet
- Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
- Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
- Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
- Apple Core AI Framework
- Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
- Siri AI
- Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
- Apple WWDC 2026
- New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds
- Stop the Apple Music app from launching
- Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
- EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
- Why are so many young people getting cancer?
- AI is slowing down
- MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
- A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
- xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
- Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO
- Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
- Zig by Example
- Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?
- Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
- Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
- OneDrive data now has an expiry date
- The EU Open Source Strategy
- Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
- 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
- Dopamine Fracking
- Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
- DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
- 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
- APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
- The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
- Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
- How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
- If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
- Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
- Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
- The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
- The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
- Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
- LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
- Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
- I design with Claude more than Figma now
- Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
- How liminalism became the defining aesthetic
- An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
- New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
- Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
- Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
- Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
- Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
- Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
- Moving beyond fork() + exec()
- Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
- Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
- The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
- GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
- S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
- Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
- Hacker News, Sans AI
- Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
- Three of our worst VC stories
- Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
- Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump
- Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
- The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go
- Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
- pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
- Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
- Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
- New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
- Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
- New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
- India's surprise baby bust
- Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
- Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
- Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
- Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
- Do we need billionaires?
- Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
- Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
- Changing how we develop Ladybird
- Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
- The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America
- C++: The Documentary
- Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
- The Causes of Long Covid
- What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
- Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
- South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
- Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
- SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
- IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
- Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
- Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
- Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
- WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
- The desperation of NYTimes
- Sagrada Família Lego set
- When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
- Retro-Tech Parenting
- Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
- The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
- Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
- Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week
- VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
- French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
- Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
- Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
- UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
- The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century
- American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
- I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
- U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
- The ways we contain Claude across products
- Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
- They’re made out of weights
- A Man Who Reads Books for a Living
- Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
- Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
- The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
- If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?
- MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
- ESP32-S31
- Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
- A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
- DaVinci Resolve 21
- I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
- 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
- Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
- Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
- Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?
- Every Byte Matters
- Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
- Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
- It is an amazing time for programmers
- The American Missile Crisis
- My Students Can't Read
- AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
- Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
- CT scans of BYD car parts
- My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month
- Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
- HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C
- MAI-Code-1-Flash
- Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target
- Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
- Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
- Coreutils for Windows
- Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
- Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers
- Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans
- Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
- Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
- A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
- Expanding Project Glasswing
- Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
- Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
- Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
- Stop Ruining It
- Why Janet? (2023)
- Love systemd timers
- Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system
- macOS needs its grid back
- What's gonna happen to software engineers?
- Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
- Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
- OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
- Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
- Debug Project
- GitHub and the crime against software
- Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
- Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
- AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
- DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
- The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
- Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
- Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
- What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
- Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz
- KDE at 30
- The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
- Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers
- Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
- When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident
- Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
- Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
- Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
- A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
- Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests
- Nvidia RTX Spark