top 20 hacker news stories for today

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/

2 hours ago

85 upvotes – 15 comments

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review

2 hours ago

★ 1.4kGoApache-2.0
55 upvotes – 12 comments

Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners

https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/06/04/bricks-and-minifigs-salem-joshua-johnson-brandon-best-resignation/

2 hours ago

14 upvotes – 4 comments

US adult cigarette smoking rate hits another all-time low

https://apnews.com/article/adult-smoking-cigarette-decline-survey-3dfc9d82fcc106e49a5706819d438239

2 hours ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

Only favors Indian-origin candidates: Chinese-American professor sues Texas univ

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/only-favors-indian-origin-candidates-chinese-american-professor-sues-university-in-texas-accuses-hemang-desai-of-bias/ar-AA22WbD0

2 hours ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

Smart drug strips cancer cells of 'invisibility cloak' can shrink tumours 30%

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/01/cancer-smart-drug-cells-invisibility-cloak-shrink-tumours-trial

50 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Bumblebees show advanced problem-solving skills in new experiment

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/science/bumble-bees-insight-problem-solving

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Medicare to launch weight loss drug option in July with $50 copay

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5812662/medicare-bridge-glp1-drugs-copay

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

https://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.html

1 day ago

738 upvotes – 719 comments

U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/trump-ooi-amoc

1 day ago

610 upvotes – 452 comments

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

13 hours ago

581 upvotes – 259 comments

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

15 hours ago

519 upvotes – 199 comments

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56

15 hours ago

407 upvotes – 115 comments

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/

1 day ago

380 upvotes – 208 comments

In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

https://electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-wind-solar-generated-more-power-than-gas-globally-april-2026/

12 hours ago

369 upvotes – 330 comments

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

18 hours ago

361 upvotes – 199 comments

When AI Builds Itself

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

10 hours ago

348 upvotes – 465 comments

The Desperation of NYTimes

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/16

9 hours ago

325 upvotes – 290 comments

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

6 hours ago

★ 1.1kPython
287 upvotes – 96 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html

10 hours ago

258 upvotes – 177 comments
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