top 20 hacker news stories for today

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/

2 hours ago

44 upvotes – 8 comments

France to ditch Palantir's AI data tools in favour of domestic provider

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/16/france-ai-data-tools-palantir-chapsvision

3 hours ago

20 upvotes – 0 comments

2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation

https://layoff-translator.pages.dev/layoffs/2026-06-16-robinhood

3 hours ago

18 upvotes – 2 comments

Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trump-admin-helps-xai-fight-pollution-lawsuit-says-military-needs-grok-for-war/

3 hours ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/us-approval-of-paramount-warner-bros-deal-surprised-doj-lawyers-report-says/

30 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Amazon Faces Billions in Penalties from Potential FTC Ad Suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-16/amazon-faces-billions-in-penalties-from-potential-ftc-ad-suit

2 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564191

3 hours ago

5 upvotes – 9 comments

A rat sighting in New Zealand can trigger an urgent response

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/rat-hunters-catchers-predator-free-new-zealand-wellington-rats-problem

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn

https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn

53 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 4 comments

Cursor Says 1.5T Parameter Coding Model Is Training on 100k GPUs

https://runtimewire.com/article/cursor-1-5t-model-100000-gpus-compile

53 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

DIY crane bot that tidies up a room

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/15/building-a-ceiling-based-crane-robot-to-keep-a-room-clean/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

GE-265 / Dartmouth Time-Sharing System Revisited

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=564

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Running local models is good now

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

13 hours ago

1083 upvotes – 444 comments

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/

16 hours ago

923 upvotes – 1405 comments

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

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

22 hours ago

867 upvotes – 426 comments

Mechanical Watch

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

16 hours ago

644 upvotes – 115 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

618 upvotes – 197 comments

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

18 hours ago

552 upvotes – 326 comments

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

7 hours ago

486 upvotes – 199 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

479 upvotes – 158 comments
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