top 50% 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 Niño 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

But yak shaving is fun

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html

2 months ago

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/15/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers/

2 months ago

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd5g7d7gyo

2 months ago

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning

2 months ago

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl/

2 months ago

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

https://www.fastcompany.com/91558427/ghost-jobs-could-soon-be-illegal-in-new-york

2 months ago

Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality/

2 months ago

OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

2 months ago

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite

2 months ago

Notes from Tired Egyptian Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/notes-from-a-tired-egyptian-guy-whose-job-is-explaining-that-humans-built-the-pyramids

2 months ago

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/06/10g-ethernet-switching-to-broadcom-sfp-plus

2 months ago

Data Compression Explained

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html

2 months ago

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/15/humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-coming-intelligence-explosion

2 months ago

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/xmhsglsz3h3w

2 months ago

Nobody clicks your share buttons

https://ankursethi.com/links/nobody-clicks-your-share-buttons/

2 months ago

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/

2 months ago

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

2 months ago

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/

2 months ago

Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

https://runtimewire.com/article/microsoft-github-aws-ai-capacity-crunch

2 months ago

I Fired Google

https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/i-fired-google/

2 months ago

Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrzd5g6k2o

2 months ago

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers

2 months ago

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space

2 months ago

NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects

https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260616-67-new-projects.html

2 months ago

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers

2 months ago

The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/the-uks-teen-social-media-ban-is-political-theater-not-child-safety-policy/

2 months ago

Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small

https://subq.ai/subq-1-1-small-technical-report

2 months ago

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415

2 months ago

Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri

https://www.narracomm.com/amazon-announces-multibillion-dollar-data-center-in-missouri/

2 months ago

Never talk to the police

https://www.campolalaw.com/why-you-should-never-talk-to-the-po

2 months ago

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

https://www.unicorn-engine.org/

2 months ago

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

https://reflex.dev/blog/why-ast-walk-when-you-can-ast-sprint/

2 months ago

Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-jailbreak/

2 months ago

Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust

https://github.com/nvlabs/cutile-rs

2 months ago

★ 633 Rust Apache-2.0

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/

2 months ago

New way of making espresso with ultrasound

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/06/New-way-making-espresso

2 months ago

After AI Takes Everything

https://ursb.me/en/posts/after-ai-takes-everything/

2 months ago

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

https://trinket.strivemath.org/

2 months ago

'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later

2 months ago

Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5924963-vance-iran-300b-reconstruction-fund/

2 months ago

Inference cost at scale with napkin math

https://injuly.in/blog/napkin-inference-cost/index.html

2 months ago

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/

2 months ago

Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

http://ishmeetbindra.com/posts/reviews-have-become-expensive-rewrites-have-become-cheap/

2 months ago

The 2-Year Apartment Rule

https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/the-2-year-apartment-rule/

2 months ago

Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

https://san.com/cc/peter-thiels-dialog-network-was-super-secret-a-data-leak-changed-that/

2 months ago

Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air

https://spectrum.ieee.org/phoenix-semiconductors-legacychips-oems

2 months ago