top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-06-17

Epic Games announces Lore version control system

https://lore.org/

2 months ago

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/

2 months ago

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index

2 months ago

U.S. Science Is in Chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/

2 months ago

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3

2 months ago

Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars

2 months ago

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

https://bubbles.town/

2 months ago

US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/

2 months ago

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline

2 months ago

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

2 months ago

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/

2 months ago

Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impact-on-society-a-new-study-shows/

2 months ago

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 months ago

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/

2 months ago

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/

2 months ago

A Robot Is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want It Running on Claude or Grok?

https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/

2 months ago

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch

2 months ago

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

https://github.com/rxi/microui

2 months ago

★ 6.4k C MIT

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook

2 months ago

How Madrid built its metro cheaply

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/

2 months ago