hcker.news — week

Running local models is good now

2026-06-16T14:36:57Z

1586 points by jfb | 605 comments

Article: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48555993

Steam Machine launches today

2026-06-22T17:09:51Z

1526 points by theschwa | 1333 comments

Article: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/45479024/view/685257114654870245
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48632884

Midjourney Medical

2026-06-18T01:59:51Z

1369 points by ricochet11 | 875 comments

Article: https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48579650

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

2026-06-17T14:30:27Z

1272 points by regnerba | 679 comments

Article: https://lore.org/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48571081

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

2026-06-16T10:44:24Z

1150 points by itsmarcelg | 1699 comments

Article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48553224

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

2026-06-17T12:11:27Z

1080 points by thm | 575 comments

Article: https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48569278

Deno Desktop

2026-06-22T05:38:40Z

1062 points by GeneralMaximus | 385 comments

Article: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48626137

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

2026-06-16T20:34:35Z

1018 points by Cider9986 | 617 comments

Article: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48561654

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

2026-06-18T11:45:43Z

980 points by theorchid | 247 comments

Article: https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48583928

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

2026-06-19T16:28:20Z

966 points by ck2 | 398 comments

Article: https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48600312

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

2026-06-17T09:12:00Z

910 points by himata4113 | 444 comments

Article: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48567759

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

2026-06-16T16:12:06Z

898 points by neilfrndes | 270 comments

Article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48557530

U.S. science is in chaos

2026-06-17T09:54:21Z

878 points by presspot | 1105 comments

Article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48568058

Identity verification on Claude

2026-06-21T12:44:13Z

850 points by bathory | 708 comments

Article: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48618455

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

2026-06-19T16:03:15Z

812 points by ilreb | 588 comments

Article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48600093

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

2026-06-21T21:40:53Z

811 points by advisedwang | 404 comments

Article: https://david.newgas.net/did-my-old-job-only-exist-because-of-fraud/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48622867

Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

2026-06-18T14:17:07Z

810 points by leonidasrup | 1011 comments

Article: https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48585746

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

2026-06-17T15:04:47Z

785 points by microtonal | 478 comments

Article: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48571526

Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

2026-06-22T13:43:01Z

772 points by tosh | 260 comments

Article: https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48630020

Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly

2026-06-18T12:19:05Z

755 points by Adam-Hincu | 521 comments

Article: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classic-does-instantly-on-windows/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48584207

Mechanical Watch (2022)

2026-06-16T11:26:27Z

742 points by razin | 128 comments

Article: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48553550

Never Give Them Your Face

2026-06-22T13:45:48Z

711 points by audiodude | 396 comments

Article: https://nevergivethemyourface.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48630066

Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

2026-06-16T16:42:32Z

665 points by throwarayes | 616 comments

Article: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48558045

Want your images back? That'll be $5

2026-06-17T13:05:03Z

663 points by lutr | 266 comments

Article: https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48569954

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

2026-06-19T06:35:57Z

653 points by philonoist | 443 comments

Article: https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48595511

Hacker News but for independent blogs

2026-06-17T07:49:44Z

630 points by headalgorithm | 218 comments

Article: https://bubbles.town/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48567155

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers

2026-06-16T09:26:09Z

611 points by _tk_ | 360 comments

Article: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-code-prompt-not-jailbreak-says-researcher/5255827
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48552687

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

2026-06-18T10:29:20Z

594 points by FergusArgyll | 174 comments

Article: https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48583356

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

2026-06-19T16:11:25Z

574 points by oshrimpton | 292 comments

Article: https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48600167

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

2026-06-16T15:44:44Z

559 points by pseudolus | 244 comments

Article: https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48557079

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

2026-06-16T16:40:58Z

545 points by mrshu | 238 comments

Article: https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48558018

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

2026-06-19T16:30:49Z

543 points by birdculture | 185 comments

Article: https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48600345

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

2026-06-20T12:08:23Z

540 points by Cider9986 | 239 comments

Article: https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48608645

CSSQuake

2026-06-20T10:49:53Z

538 points by msalsas | 114 comments

Article: https://cssquake.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48608223

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

2026-06-17T03:55:16Z

536 points by giuliomagnifico | 602 comments

Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48565498

There are no instances in ATProto

2026-06-19T15:10:02Z

536 points by danabramov | 312 comments

Article: https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48599515

Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

2026-06-21T16:08:23Z

531 points by rafaepta | 339 comments

Article: https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48620090

Court Records Should Be Free

2026-06-19T17:34:18Z

530 points by hn_acker | 142 comments

Article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48600946

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

2026-06-16T18:37:21Z

527 points by SXX | 344 comments

Article: https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48559935

Help I accidentally a wigglegram

2026-06-20T01:55:16Z

527 points by gregsadetsky | 122 comments

Article: https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48605561

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

2026-06-21T21:29:43Z

523 points by T-A | 180 comments

Article: https://apertvs.ai/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48622778

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

2026-06-22T07:22:03Z

504 points by ritzaco | 327 comments

Article: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48626866

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

2026-06-22T19:13:46Z

500 points by jhonovich | 212 comments

Article: https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48634694

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

2026-06-19T13:51:36Z

499 points by abnry | 554 comments

Article: https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48598586

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

2026-06-21T11:38:01Z

495 points by mosiuerbarso | 306 comments

Article: https://www.beyondallreason.info
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48617990

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

2026-06-18T06:17:40Z

495 points by RIshabh235 | 204 comments

Article: https://chat.deepseek.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48581458

Stop Using JWTs

2026-06-16T16:49:46Z

492 points by dzonga | 318 comments

Article: https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48558147

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

2026-06-18T03:04:20Z

491 points by alphabettsy | 253 comments

Article: https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48580209

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

2026-06-22T07:30:17Z

484 points by vantareed | 264 comments

Article: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48626930

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

2026-06-20T03:36:49Z

483 points by moultano | 130 comments

Article: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48606140