top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-06-15

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/

2 months ago

Iroh 1.0

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1

2 months ago

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100

2 months ago

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

https://tinywind.io

2 months ago

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/

2 months ago

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

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

2 months ago

CrankGPT

https://crankgpt.com

2 months ago

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

2 months ago

Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/#cloud-servers

2 months ago

Apple Foundation Models

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libraries/apple-foundation-models

2 months ago

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/

2 months ago

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operating-system-0610

2 months ago

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

https://karthinks.com/software/even-more-batteries-included-with-emacs/

2 months ago

Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9

2 months ago

Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins

2 months ago

Typst 0.15.0

https://typst.app/docs/changelog/0.15.0/

2 months ago

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10

2 months ago

Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/06/15/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-fin/?bc=HL

2 months ago

I Love the Computer

https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/

2 months ago

The Dead Economy Theory

https://gmalandrakis.com/writings/ad-economicum.html

2 months ago

Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542064

2 months ago

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

https://notnotp.com/notes/what-job-interviews-taught-me-about-kubernetes/

2 months ago

Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month

https://www.ns.nl/producten/abonnementen/nederland-dal-vrij

2 months ago

Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen

https://forgottenbytes.net/commander_keen.html

2 months ago

US battery manufacturing output continues to break records

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPG33591S

2 months ago

Why I Email Complete Strangers

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/

2 months ago

Successful Psilocybin Treatment of Alzheimer

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1813281/full

2 months ago

Openrouter Fusion API

https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/fusion

2 months ago

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-15-gribouille-0-3/

2 months ago

Anthropic's Safety Superpower

https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropics-safety-superpower/

2 months ago

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

https://roszigit.com/en/blog/timescaledb-compression-hypercore

2 months ago

Claude Corps

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps

2 months ago

American Express: Cell-Based Architecture for Resilient Payment Systems

https://americanexpress.io/cell-based-architecture-for-resilient-payment-systems/

2 months ago

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html

2 months ago

The rich aren't your role models

https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/the-rich-arent-your-role-models-theyre-your-oppressors/

2 months ago

Emacs, how it all started (for me)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/emacs-start.html

2 months ago

Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI

https://github.com/themartiano/luz

2 months ago

★ 343 C++ MIT

Google Flight Simulator

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/earth/flight-simulator

2 months ago

Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master

https://akse3d-en.skaperiet.no

2 months ago

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/

2 months ago

Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?

https://github.com/sammysltd/euromesh

2 months ago

★ 41 Python

Boot Naked Linux

https://nick.zoic.org/art/boot-naked-linux/

2 months ago

Memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/15/how-memory-safety-cves-differ-between-rust-and-c-cpp.html

2 months ago

Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sundar-pichai-stanford-commencement-22304888.php

2 months ago

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/a-brief-tour-of-the-pdp-11-the-most-influential-minicomputer-of-all-time/

2 months ago

Egyptian Fractions

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html

2 months ago

Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students

https://github.com/c0rRupT9/STEPLA-1

2 months ago

★ 68 Python MIT

US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-air-force-b-52-bomber-crashes-after-takeoff-edwards-air-force-base-says-2026-06-15/

2 months ago

Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

https://machine0.io

2 months ago

Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator

https://sogen.dev/

2 months ago

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

https://psychedelics.co.uk/news/a-mushroom-genus-that-gets-people-high-but-not-the

2 months ago

This 1976 University Experiment Spun Up the U.S. Wind Industry

https://spectrum.ieee.org/william-heronemus-wind-energy

2 months ago

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/on_vinyl_cache_and_varnish_cache.html#org-vinyl-varnish

2 months ago

Fox Is Buying Roku

https://www.fastcompany.com/91559558/fox-corp-buying-roku-stock-prices-fall-on-tv-streaming-merger

2 months ago

Show HN: Vet turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

https://grassdx.com/

2 months ago

San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs

https://www.kqed.org/news/12081882/san-francisco-has-been-trying-to-leave-pge-for-100-years-will-this-time-be-different

2 months ago