top 50% 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

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

https://envs.net/~volpe/blog/posts/reduce-slop.html

2 months ago

The Future of Email

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-future-of-email/

2 months ago

A dumpster arrived behind my university's library

https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-liming-the-end-of-books

2 months ago

Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/

2 months ago

A PDF that changes based on who is reading

https://sgaud.com/texts/pdf

2 months ago

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-its-about-time

2 months ago

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/

2 months ago

European sunscreens are safer than American

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sunscreen-united-states-fda-ingredients-rcna153526

2 months ago

Maxproof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13473

2 months ago

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-earth-get-its-oceans-maybe-it-made-them-itself-20260612/

2 months ago

Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506850

2 months ago

EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/business/renault-electric-vehicle-orders-have-surged-since-start-iran-war-says-ceo-2026-06-10/

2 months ago

Meta Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504034

2 months ago

Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video

https://politiken.dk/danmark/forbrug/biler/art10875514/Allerede-12-sekunder-inde-i-PR-videoen-beg%C3%A5r-selvk%C3%B8rende-Tesla-f%C3%B8rste-fejl-i-k%C3%B8benhavnsk-gade-%E2%80%93-men-det-bliver-v%C3%A6rre-endnu

2 months ago

Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit

http://ernesernesto.github.io/writes/portingmatchmorphosistowasm/

2 months ago

Report on an Unidentified Space Station

https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

2 months ago

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

https://blog.yadutaf.fr/2026/06/12/introduction-to-uefi-https-boot-qemu-ovmf/

2 months ago

Keygen.music

https://keygen.music

2 months ago

David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/design/david-hockney-dead.html

2 months ago

Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem

https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-128/law-enforcements-warrior-problem/

2 months ago

/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds

https://github.com/DanMcInerney/architect-loop

2 months ago

★ 512 HTML MIT

A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/

2 months ago

AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty

https://www.gadgetreview.com/amd-stiffs-researcher-10000-bug-bounty-after-critical-security-flaw-takes-124-days-to-fix

2 months ago

New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

https://www.politico.com/www.politico.eu/article/new-privacy-frontier-europe-eyes-crackdown-smart-glasses/

2 months ago

Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan

https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/foreign-business-owners-are-scrambling

2 months ago

Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/12/factoring-short-sleeve-rsa-keys-with-polynomials/

2 months ago

Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

https://worldofclaudecraft.com/

2 months ago

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/06/python-3-14-garbage-collection-rigamarole.html

2 months ago

I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYsSFY4l18

2 months ago

Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19360307.2.43

2 months ago

Encrypted Spaces An architecture for collaborative applications

https://encryptedspaces.org/

2 months ago

Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/161/building-a-tiny-fuse-filesystem/

2 months ago

The World Has Moved On

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

2 months ago

Prove you're human by winning a claw machine

https://feralui.vercel.app/#/captcha

2 months ago

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/11/euro-office-open-standards-and-native-odf/

2 months ago

I Won't Buy You a Coffee

https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/

2 months ago

SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading

https://qz.com/spacex-tesla-merger-gwynne-shotwell-ipo-061226

2 months ago

500-year-old monasteries outperform at digital transformation (U. of Zurich)

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-historic-monasteries-digital-countries.html

2 months ago

Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine

https://github.com/YusufB5/ASCILINE

2 months ago

★ 2k Python

Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship

https://stackscope.dev/

2 months ago