top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-12

AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/

2 months ago

CRISPR Tech Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including "Undruggable" Cancers

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/

2 months ago

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2002) [pdf]

https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf

2 months ago

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/

2 months ago

Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/

2 months ago

How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos

2 months ago

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

https://correresmidestino.com/dont-you-just-upload-it-to-chatgpt/

2 months ago

Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code

2 months ago

Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979

2 months ago

A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime

https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/

2 months ago

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/

2 months ago

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

https://putt.day/

2 months ago

AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577

2 months ago

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg

2 months ago

Write for One Person

https://wizardzines.com/comics/write-for-one-person/

2 months ago

I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur

2 months ago

WASI 0.3.0 Released

https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0

2 months ago

★ 5.6k Rust

Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher

https://blog.osull.com/2026/06/12/ryanair-dark-ux-patterns-summer-2026-refresher/

2 months ago

Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

https://www.korte.co/2026/06/11/digital-sovereignty-becomes-an-imparative-as-the-us-reads-dutch-emails/

2 months ago

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/

2 months ago