top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-16

Running local models is good now

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/

2 months ago

SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/

2 months ago

GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 and official releases are coming soon

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon

2 months ago

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226

2 months ago

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work

2 months ago

Mechanical Watch

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

2 months ago

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering

2 months ago

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-code-prompt-not-jailbreak-says-researcher/5255827

2 months ago

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of

2 months ago

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/

2 months ago

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/

2 months ago

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419

2 months ago

Stop Using JWTs

https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452

2 months ago

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1

2 months ago

U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El NiƱo nears

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/us-pulling-ocean-sensors-a-shock-for-canadian-research-as-el-nino-nears-12422874

2 months ago

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/

2 months ago

Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

https://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/

2 months ago

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in <1s

https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra

2 months ago

I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack

2 months ago

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/

2 months ago