top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-11

If You Are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/

4 months ago

Homebrew 6.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/

4 months ago

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

4 months ago

MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode

4 months ago

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

4 months ago

Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

https://fablepool.com

4 months ago

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrail

4 months ago

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal

4 months ago

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416

4 months ago

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571

4 months ago

Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist

https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/

4 months ago

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype

4 months ago

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/

4 months ago

Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items

4 months ago

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd2/

4 months ago

Software Is Made Between Commits

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-deltadb

4 months ago

Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers

4 months ago

Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul

4 months ago

Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

https://www.businessinsider.com/botsitting-ai-hidden-human-labor-at-work-2026-6

4 months ago

Bitsy

https://bitsy.org/

4 months ago

Codex for Open Source

https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/

4 months ago

Lisp's Influence on Ruby

https://blog.tacoda.dev/lisps-influence-on-ruby-6a54f1a7740e

4 months ago

Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1

4 months ago

★ 26.3k Python Apache-2.0

Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/06/waymo-premier/

4 months ago

Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations

https://www.kennethpayne.uk/p/shall-we-play-a-game

4 months ago

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

https://planetscale.com/blog/the-only-scalable-delete

4 months ago

MapComplete – Contibute to OpenStreetMaps

https://mapcomplete.org/

4 months ago

Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-italian-teenagers-stayed-overnight-at-their-school-they-found-ancient-roman-ruins-hidden-in-the-basement-180988917/

4 months ago

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/11/arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-plant-life-climate-global-mapping-study

4 months ago

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers

4 months ago

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

https://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html

4 months ago

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon

4 months ago

★ 220 C GPL-3.0

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water from Thin Air

https://news.utexas.edu/2026/06/11/this-jacket-pulls-drinking-water-from-thin-air/

4 months ago

Cohere's First Model for Developers

https://cohere.com/blog/north-mini-code

4 months ago

A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

https://www.fabianhemmert.com/opinions/a-greyscale-iphone-setup-that-works-in-everyday-life

4 months ago

FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL

https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob

4 months ago

★ 91 COBOL Apache-2.0

OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html

4 months ago

BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

https://electrek.co/2026/06/10/byd-flash-charging-canada-5-minute-ev-charging-network/

4 months ago

War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-crimes-seem-to-be-official-us

4 months ago

US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/clyrvrde160o

4 months ago

Driving in America Is Headlight Hell

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/car-headlights-too-bright-adaptive-beams/687488/

4 months ago

Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-spring/

4 months ago

Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

https://fata.dev

4 months ago

Travel Locally, Where You Are

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/travel-where-you-are/

4 months ago

Tailwind and Slop Apps

https://briandouglas.ie/llm-tailwind-template/

4 months ago

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/

4 months ago

Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01796-y

4 months ago

Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm

4 months ago

Making a vintage LLM from scratch

https://crlf.link/log/entries/260525-1/

4 months ago

There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)

https://www.fractalkitty.com/there-is-3-such-that/

4 months ago

Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492118

4 months ago

Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

https://github.com/coder/boo

4 months ago

★ 648 Zig MIT

There Is Life Before Main in Rust

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/11/life-before-main/

4 months ago

US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/11/fisa-section-702-expiration-pulte-trump-johnson

4 months ago

Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good

https://protonprivacy.substack.com/p/google-is-finally-killing-ublock

4 months ago

Why Thermodynamics Rules Future Orbital Data Centers

https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat

4 months ago

Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-First-version-of-the-open-source-web-office-is-here-11322160.html

4 months ago

Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/

4 months ago

Not mine, but it's a website where you can use a segment display

https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/

4 months ago

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

4 months ago

I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/i-stopped-tracking-my-time-now-i

4 months ago

Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger

https://github.com/vanyapr/makaroshki

4 months ago

★ 91 HTML WTFPL

The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-u.s.-is-terrorizing-cuba-to-make-rich-men-richer

4 months ago

A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/a-short-history-of-cerro-torre/

4 months ago

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' Researchers Using Claude

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-on-claudes-secret-sabotage-on-ai-research/

4 months ago

MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play Magic

https://mtgautodeck.com/articles/mtg-bench/

4 months ago

USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits

https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/article/usb-power-delivery-plugging-into-the-benefits

4 months ago

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/biological-evolution-and-information

4 months ago

Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/cheap-iranian-drone-downed-25-million-us-army-helicopter-maybe-by-chance/

4 months ago