top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-14

Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/

2 months ago

How to Earn a Billion Dollars

https://paulgraham.com/earn.html

2 months ago

Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing

https://github.com/tamnd/kage

2 months ago

★ 2.2k Go MIT

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-users-are-tired-of-microsoft-account-requirements-and-workarounds

2 months ago

No, everyone is not using AI for everything

https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they

2 months ago

I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528029

2 months ago

10th Gen Honda Civic Updates Are Signed with AOSP Test Keys

https://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/

2 months ago

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4

2 months ago

★ 316

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1

2 months ago

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

https://sqltoerdiagram.com/

2 months ago

Linux 7.1

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4BF4bMhZNZ1tqs+FFV4OuZRe3ZqdWB+LxRLmRweUzQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

2 months ago

Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779

2 months ago

Don't trust large context windows

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-05-06-dont-trust-large-context-windows

2 months ago

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

https://johnowhitaker.github.io/inkwash/about

2 months ago

The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

2 months ago

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/climate/cold-blob-atlantic-amoc-ocean-circulation

2 months ago

Pac-Man, but You're the Ghost

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-06-13-pac-man-but-you-re-the-ghost

2 months ago

Image Compression

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression

2 months ago

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

https://twitter.com/maattttbrown/status/2066215255987163246

2 months ago

Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

https://su3.io/posts/zeroserve-caddy-compat

2 months ago

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-ten-million/91548146

2 months ago

Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1-2-released

2 months ago

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-era-soviet-union-pictures-martin-manhoff/

2 months ago

Did Anthropic Ask for This?

https://www.verysane.ai/p/did-anthropic-ask-for-this

2 months ago

The Magic Roundabout of Seattle Area

https://kirklandroundabouts.com

2 months ago

Extinction-Level Capitalism

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

2 months ago

UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-set-announce-social-media-34119132

2 months ago

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/14/ai-is-code-and-cant-be-prompted-into-being-smarter/5254141

2 months ago

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

https://airfields-freeman.com/

2 months ago

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/

2 months ago

Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

https://github.com/ArcaEge/capacitor-alarm-clock

2 months ago

★ 88 C MIT

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed

https://friedkielbasa.substack.com/p/rome-fell-and-nobody-noticed

2 months ago

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/1/

2 months ago

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks

https://twitter.com/zenmagnets/status/2065796012820848699

2 months ago

Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

https://www.orangecrumbs.com/

2 months ago

Perlisisms

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

2 months ago

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15897903/measles-surge-utah-US-elimination-status.html

2 months ago

FarOutCompany

https://faroutcompany.com/

2 months ago

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

https://bramcohen.com/p/why-is-claude-turning-into-an-asshole

2 months ago

Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust

https://github.com/joske/yserver

2 months ago

★ 411 Rust MIT

How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/06/14/how-did-atari-apply-side-art-to-arcade-cabinets/

2 months ago

Chaosnet

https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/amber.html

2 months ago

US and Iran announce deal to end military operations

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj0grpyg4v1t

2 months ago

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/13/nx-s1-5856385/sunscreen-skin-protection-bemotrizinol

2 months ago

Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

2 months ago

★ 45.4k JavaScript MIT

Software Architecture Guide

https://martinfowler.com/architecture/

2 months ago

Making Claude a Chemist

https://www.anthropic.com/research/making-claude-a-chemist

2 months ago

Tribblix: the retro illumos distribution

http://tribblix.org/

2 months ago

The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]

https://www.rhawa.org/file/secure/shs-the-impact-of-rent-control-in-st-paul.pdf

2 months ago

Abu Fanous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Fanous

2 months ago

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

https://yusufaytas.com/vibe-coder-vs-software-engineer

2 months ago

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/breast-milk-research-chemicals

2 months ago

'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/

2 months ago

Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU

https://github.com/alebal123bal/khadas_yolov8n_multithread

2 months ago

★ 59 C++ Apache-2.0

EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/eu-commission-looking-practical-consequences-anthropic-decision-spokesperson-2026-06-14/

2 months ago

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/weave/

2 months ago